Funding, News and Announcements

The European Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) “More Years Better Lives” recently published its second call’s pre announcement, Welfare, Wellbeing and Demographic Change: Understanding Welfare Models. This call will enable a better coordination of national, European and Canadian R&D programs and activities relevant to Demographic Change in order to address urgent and demanding challenges. 

Together with SSHRC and CIHR in Canada, funding organizations from Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Israel, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain and The Netherlands have indicated their commitment to participating in this call.

The aim of the call is to support research which will improve the understanding of how different approaches to welfare secure the quality of life, especially on older people. The objective is to develop comparative perspectives on “welfare models”, and the ways in which they are changing, drawing on the great diversity of approaches to welfare across Europe and Canada.

The call for research proposals for this JPI is expected to be launched on 18 January 2016.  Download the complete and detailed full version of the pre-announcement here.

Interested faculty are invited to contact the International Research Facilitator (jennifer.morawiecki@dal.ca) in Dalhousie Research Services.