VIU Summer Institute on Ageing | 9th Edition

June 13, 2022 - June 17, 2022

The VIU Summer Institute on Ageing provides students and early-career researchers with a multidisciplinary and rigorous understanding of the ageing process, ranging from some basic notions of the medical and epidemiological literature, to key concepts in the economics and sociology of ageing.
A special focus is the use of large micro-data sets from the international family of health and retirement studies (SHARE, HRS, ELSA, CHARLS, MHAS, etc.).

This edition of the Summer Institute, the 9th, will have a focus on Global Ageing: Low- and Middle-income Country Challenges.

As the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing, VIU will continue to monitor the situation. Should the COVID-19 situation prevent international travel or the confirmation of the program on campus as scheduled, other practicable solutions will be evaluated. Applicants and confirmed participants will be informed of any changes.

The VIU Summer Institute on Ageing will:

  • provide students and trainees with a thorough understanding of the ageing process, offering notions of the medical and epidemiological recent literature to the socio-economic advances in this research area;
  • enhance the multidisciplinary approach for researchers who work on ageing;
  • provide “hands on” experience on the micro data-sets;
  • increase the mobility and the interconnectivity of PhD students, researchers, teaching staff and policy makers, hence favouring the creation of research networks.

  • participants will gain special insight into the recent advances of the ageing process from a theoretical and practical point of view and will be able to perform impact evaluation (e.g. health care costs);
  • participants will learn how to use the data in this area of research;
  • participants will be offered the opportunity to share their ideas in a poster-sessions and during social events;
  • participants will develop transversal competences based on a multidisciplinary approach. Specific training sessions, such as “mentoring sessions”, will take place;
  • policy makers and people involved in public policy and public services will be able to learn how to connect issues between the health dimension of ageing and the socio-economic dimension of ageing.

The Summer Institute is addressed mainly to:

  • Graduates, PhD students, and post-doc scholars in social sciences (statistics, economics, sociology, demography, political science);
  • MDs, particularly geriatrics, students in epidemiology and public health;
  • professionals active in the field of ageing.

Policy makers and high-level officials in public and private institutions will be admitted if their background is adequate.

The Program will admit from a minimum of 12 to a maximum of 30 participants.

The Summer Institute will consist of three blocks of activities:

  • Lectures from leading researchers addressing the most recent advances in the area. Presentations in the fields of biomedicine, geriatrics, genetics, epidemiology, patient care, psychiatry, as well as economics of ageing, pension economics and finance, health economics, public health, demography and sociology.
  • Hands-on sessions. Provide students a thorough presentation of the survey data on ageing available to the scientific community.
  • Poster sessions and mentoring sessions.

Students will have the opportunity to discuss their own research with the senior scholars.

Mauricio Avendano, University of Lausanne & Harvard University, CH
Lisa Berkman, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA
Axel Boersch-Supan, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, DE
Agar Brugiavini, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & Venice International University (VIU), IT (Scientific Coordinator)
Luigi Ferrucci, National Institute on Ageing, USA
John Giles, World Bank Group, USA
Mickael Hiligsmann, Maastricht University, NL
Arie Kapteyn, University of Southern California, USA
Hans-Peter Kohler, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Jinkook Lee, University of Southern California, USA
Stefania Maggi, Institute of Neuroscience, National Research Council of Italy, IT
Jürgen Maurer, University of Lausanne, CH
Owen O’Donnell, Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL
Giacomo Pasini, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, IT
Ritu Sadana, WHO, CH
Guglielmo Weber, University of Padua, IT

Applications via VIU website: closed.

Applicants must submit: the application form, a brief research statement including candidate’s interests, and a curriculum vitae with photo.

Applicants from VIU member universities: € 200 incl.VAT
Other applicants: € 400 incl. VAT

2 full scholarships available for students coming from low-income countries; other scholarships may be available to cover part of the fee.

The fee will cover tuition, teaching materials, lunches in the VIU cafeteria and social events.
Student participants will be responsible for covering their own travel expenses to and from Venice, local transportation, and evening meals.

Venice International University offers its support to book accommodation on San Servolo Campus, in multiple rooms with other participants for the duration of the Summer School: further information about the costs are available in the Brochure.

This event is supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Swiss National Science Foundation through the Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development (r4d programmed) by the grant “Inclusive social protection for chronic health problems” (Grant number: 400640_160374 PI: Jürgen Maurer). For further details on the initiatives see: http://www.r4d.ch and https://r4d-ncd.org

The event is co-financed by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 project “SHARE-COHESION”(Grant number: 870628).

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