Max Planck Workshop on Ageing and Health of Older Persons in Sub-Saharan Africa 2022 (Funded to Entebbe, Uganda)
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When is Application Deadline?
28th September 2022
Tell Me About Award:
The workshop aims to increase the scientific and political attention paid to the challenges associated with changes in the age composition of SSA societies and to foster comparative and multi-disciplinary research across SSA countries. Researchers will be given the opportunity to share state-of-the-art research on ageing, to discuss new and existing data sources for comparative studies, and to reflect on the state of the field of SSA-ageing-research with leading scientists and policy makers.
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Junior researchers from SSA countries are the backbone of this workshop and are particularly encouraged to apply. The workshop is a collaboration between the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany, the Department of Population Studies of Makerere University in Uganda, the Federal Institute for Population Research in Germany, and the Faculty of Spatial Sciences at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
What Will the Workshop Look Like?
The year 2022 marks the 20th anniversary of the Madrid International Action Plan on Ageing (MIPAA) which addresses the challenges of individual and population ageing and provides an agenda focused on three priority areas: older persons and development, advancing health and well-being into old age, and ensuring the existence of enabling and supportive environments. Each day will be dedicated to one of the three priority areas and will start with a keynote address by an invited senior speaker followed by junior researchers presenting their work. The workshop intends to establish long-term research collaborations, therefore the afternoons will be dedicated to debriefing sessions about datasets and networking opportunities. The working language at the workshop will be English.
What Type of Award is this?
Workshop
Who can apply?
The workshop is predominantly aimed at PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and researchers at early career stages from SSA countries from a broad range of disciplines (e. g. demography, public health, economics and sociology) who work on ageing in SSA. A limited number of spaces will also be allocated to young researchers from outside SSA who work on ageing in the region.
Which Countries are Eligible?
sub-Saharan African countries
Where will Award be Taken?
Entebbe, Uganda
How Many Positions will be Given?
Not specified
What is the Benefit of Award?
The workshop is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation’s program “Knowledge for Tomorrow”. In case of acceptance, the costs for travel and accommodation including return airport transfers from Entebbe Airport to the Hotel and conference venue as well as the catering during the workshop will be covered.
Additional costs like Visa fees, return transfers from the home institution to the airport or COVID19 tests cannot be covered by the workshop. Please contact the workshop organizers via email, [email protected], in case of further questions.
How Long is the Program?
February 19-23, 2023
How to Apply for Program?
Submissions can include but are not limited to the following topics:
- Health and well-being
- Cross-country and regional health differences
- Inequalities at older ages
- Changing family dynamics in ageing societies
- Living environments in ageing societies
- Public and private support needs and provision
- Comparative research with new datasets
Please submit your abstract (maximum 250 words, as PDF) and extended abstract (2-4 pages including key references, as PDF) which presents introduction, objectives, data & methods and results in more detail. Both documents shall be submitted via email at [email protected], specifying your name in the file name.
