News from the Network

Congratulations to Professor Laura Bernardi at LIVES for being elected President of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the National Research Council!

These awards honor the best research using IPUMS data to advance or deepen our understanding of social and demographic processes. Cash prizes will be awarded for best published work and best graduate student work (published or unpublished) in six categories, for a total of 12 awards

Until 21 April 2021, The European Commission has opened a feedback period to the public and stakeholders alike for their new green paper on ageing in Europe

To acknowledge the outstanding role early career researchers (ECRs) have in promoting research quality, ECRs will be invited to propose projects that foster research quality and value. Projects will be competitively selected for funding and internationally showcased.

The ECSR is calling for applicants for their annual ECSR Dissertation of the Year Award. Deadline: 5 February 2021.

Population Europe was sad to learn about the passing of one of its founding members Professor Dr Anatoly G. Vishnevsky (1 April 1935 – 15 January 2021), Professor emeritus and Director of the Institute of Demography at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

In December 2020, the Centre for Fertility and Health was awarded 40 million NOK by the Research Council of Norway to support the Centre in three new projects: (1) Sickness in the Family, (2) Transitions in the Education System and (3) Women's Fertility.

Population Europe welcomes the Social Research Institute, a centre of the University College London, as the 36th partner in the Network of Europe's leading demographic research centres.

The Comparative Panel File (CPF) is now online! It harmonises the world's largest and longest-running household panel surveys from seven countries. It is developed by Konrad Turek and Matthijs Kalmijn at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI-KNAW) and Thomas Leopold at the University of Cologne.

Congratulations to Eva Beaujouan and Raya Muttarak (Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital), Jennifer Dowd (Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science) and Alessia Melegaro (Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy) for receiving ERC Consolidator Grants.