The „Berlin Demography Forum“ – a global platform for leading politicians, scientists, economists, and representatives of international organizations and civil society – took place for the fourth time in March 2015. Ursula Staudinger moderated the „International Scientific Panel“ with world leading demographic experts. The international scientists presented their current research and discussed the role of activity and participation in old age. Read more
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Talk at the GCRI
On 28 January, Ursula Staudinger was invited by the German Center of Research and Innovation (GCRI) to speak on cognitive plasticity in adulthood. In her talk, she presented the concept of in vivo (real-life) plasticity and discussed her research focusing on the opportunities and challenges of increases in average life expectancy. Read more
Aging in Chile
Ursula Staudinger visited Chile at the beginning of January. Her visit took place in the framework of the project “When Does Retirement Optimize Health? Causal Effects of Retirement Timing on Health Outcomes and Healthy Behavior of Older Americans and Chileans”, financed by the Columbia-Chile Fund established by Columbia and Chile’s National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT). Read more
Live Talk at the Nobel Week Dialogue
At this year’s „Nobel Week Dialogue“ on 9 December, a selected group of Nobel laureates, world leading scientists as well as politicians and intellectuals discussed the implications of an aging world population. In her plenary contribution „Change and Growth – a Paradox?“ Ursula Staudinger spoke about the opportunities of societies of longer lives. Based on her research, she challenges the notion that aging and shrinking populations put an end to economic growth and innovation. Read more
Award Ceremony in Braunschweig
On 21 November, Braunschweig’s Mayor Ulrich Markurth presented the Braunschweig Research Prize 2014 to Ursula Staudinger at the award ceremony with 120 invited guests. Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil, Professor Jürgen Hesselbach, President of Braunschweig Technical University, and Professor Jörg Hacker, President of the German National Academy Leopoldina, honored her outstanding research on the plasticity of the aging process. Read more