European Interdisciplinary Council on Ageing

VIU Summer Institute on Ageing | 9th Edition

June 13/17, 2022
Venice International University
San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy
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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.

NUMBER OF ECTS EQUIVALENCE: 2

INTRODUCTION

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.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
  • 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.
INFO

CONGRESS VENUE
VIU – Venice International University
San Servolo Island
30133 Venice – Italy
Tel. (+39) 041 2719511
Fax (+39) 041 2719510
Web www.univiu.org