Joint Programming Initiative “More Years, Better Lives” - call now open (Welfare, Wellbeing and Demographic Change : Understanding Welfare Models)

RESEARCH TOPICS:
– Understanding wellbeing: how appropriate are current measures of well being across the changing life course?
– Intergenerational relationships: how can welfare models distribute resources, rights and responsibilities in fair and sustainable ways?
– Welfare models: How can welfare models secure the health and wellbeing for older people confronted to caring needs, subject to frailty and nearing the end of life?
FUNDING ORGANISATIONS:
– Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW), Austria
– Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Belgium (Flanders)
– Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Canada
– Academy of Finland (AKA), Finland
– The French National Research Agency (ANR), France
– The Israeli Ministry of Science Technology and Space (MOST), Israel
– Italian Ministry of Health (MoH-IT), Italy
– Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR), Italy
– The Research Council of Norway (RCN), Norway
– Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal
– Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO), Spain
– National Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), Spain
– The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw), The Netherlands
ELEGIBILITY CONDITIONS: A minimum of three eligible applicants from at least three different countries participating in the call . The maximum number of eligible participants in a project consortium is seven.
DURATION: The duration of the projects can be up to three years.

DEADHLINE: 11 April 2016
CONTACTS:

Ministry of Health (MOH-IT) Italy
www.salute.gov.it
Dr. Gaetano Guglielmi
Phone: (+39) 0659942186
Email:g.guglielmi@sanita.it
Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR) Italy
http://www.istruzione.it/
Gaia Brenna
Email:gaia.brenna@miur.it