Projects at the European level

Starting period: January 2003
End period: June 2006
Project financed by: European Union 5^th Framework Research Programme
Coordinator: INED (Institut national d'études démographiques)
GéDAP's members invloved: Michel Poulain, Nicolas Perrin, Jamel El Makrini, Xuto Naïto, Christel Lecomte, Gisèle Vandervelpen, Luc Dal, Laetitia Simar Partners: LSHTM, LSE, MPIDR, NIDI , Università degli Studi di Firenze, FCSH/UNL, UHDS, KDGD, FNG

The goal of this project is to forecast the living arrangements of people aged 75+ in the next thirty years. Il will result in an estimate of their needs, through an evaluation of the future demand for nursing homes and for informal and formal care. The core of the project is a 2000-2030 forecast of needs of the population aged 75 +, trough demographic methods. Three methods (static/dynimic, multi-state and the most complete micro-simulation methods) will be considered; all are based on a birth cohort approach.

THESIM (Towards Harmonised European Statistics on International Migration)

Starting period: April 2004
End period: August 2005
Project financed by: the European Union in the framework of the 6^th Framework Research Programme
Coordinator: GéDAP
GéDAP's members involved: Michel Poulain, Nicolas Perrin, Laetitia Simar, Luc Dal
Partners: CEFMR, ICstat, INED, ICMPD, NIDI

AKEA (Health aging : Increasing longevity and gender issuses. A challenge for tomorrow’s European population)

Starting Period: août 2002
End Period: juillet 2004
Project financed by: the European Union in the framework of the 5th Framework Research Programme
Coordinator: GéDAP
GéDAP's members involved: Michel Poulain
Partners involved:

AKEA is derived from the expression " a kent'annos", a traditional greeting in Sardinia that means "health and life till 100 years. This wish is becoming real as one out of two Europeans born today will probably live 100 years. Elderly females are more and more numerous but surviving males are on average more healthy. These well established scientific facts are the starting point of this proposal. A population  with scientifically proved extraordinary longevity and a sex ratio close to one among the oldest will be studied by incorporating the efforts of European scientists from various disciplines. Thereafter these results will be implemented in the whole European population. Appropriate scenarios and forecasts will be developed in order to involve policy-makers, elderly associations and health and social care institutions in a fruitful debate during a European Forum.

Scientific support of the Belgian Contact Point of the European Migration Network

Starting Period: août 2002
End Period: juillet 2004
Project financed by: SPF Intérieur
Coordinator: GéDAP
GéDAP's members involved: Michel Poulain, Nicolas Perrin
Partners involved: Belgian National Contact Point of the European Migration Network - SPF Intérieur - Alain Schmitz