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Article: News

Co-producing fair transformative pathways towards climate and biodiversity goals

27 March 2023
Horizon Europe project RAINFOREST kick-off meeting
Integrated Biosphere Futures (IBF) Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Equity and Justice (EQU) Brazil Germany Netherlands Norway Peru
Article: News

Increasing education opportunities for girls could help reduce preventable deaths in children under five

24 March 2023
An IIASA study shows that maternal education, and particularly secondary education, plays a significant role in reducing deaths in newborns and children under five years of age in both rural and urban areas of India.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Multidimensional Demographic Modeling (MDM) India
Article: News

Wolfgang Lutz awarded the Science Prize of the Austrian Research Association

21 March 2023
IIASA Interim Deputy Director for Science, Wolfgang Lutz, has received the Austrian Research Association’s 2023 Science Prize for his excellent scientific achievements and the scientific-political relevance and high topicality of his research.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Austria
Article: News

Master's Programme "Global Demography"

01 March 2023
The Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, OeAW, University of Vienna) will start Master's Programme "Global Demography" at the University of Vienna with its third cohort of students in October 2023.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS)
Article: News

What makes people care about the environment?

08 February 2023
A new study analyzes the factors that drive environmental concern among Europeans in an effort to understand how we can bolster popular support for combatting climate change.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Equity and Justice (EQU)
Article: News

Exceptional young scientists awarded

03 February 2023
IIASA is proud to announce the winners of the 2022 Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) awards. The awards provide financial support for three exceptional young scientists to return to IIASA for an additional three months of research.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Strategic Initiatives (SI)
Article: News

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected immigration?

24 January 2023
New research finds a high variation between how pandemic mitigation measures affected immigration to different destination countries, from a slight increase to huge reductions.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Multidimensional Demographic Modeling (MDM) Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG) Australia Austria Canada Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Spain Sweden Switzerland United States of America
Article: News

Austrian Federal Minister for Education, Science, and Research visits IIASA

20 January 2023
IIASA recently welcomed Austria's Federal Minister for Education, Science, and Research, Martin Polaschek, to discuss ongoing research projects and explore potential collaborations between the institute and the Austrian government.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Economic Frontiers (EF) Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Strategic Initiatives (SI) Austria
Article: News

How COVID-19 school closures will affect inequalities in adult skills

24 November 2022
School closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic affected learning to varying degrees in different countries. A new study sheds light on what this learning loss will mean for countries' human capital in the decades to come.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG) Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing (SHAW)
Article: News

What was the true human cost of the pandemic in Russia?

23 November 2022
A new study assesses the number of lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia and introduces a novel methodology that will help to get a clearer view of pandemics in the future.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing (SHAW) Russian Federation
Article: News

Global distributive justice and systemic transformations are key to planetary stability

14 November 2022
In a new study just published in the journal Nature Sustainability, an international team of scientists from the Earth Commission, convened by Future Earth, investigated the Earth system impacts of escaping poverty and achieving a dignified life for all. The research was inspired by discussions on potential trade-offs between achieving social and environmental goals.
Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS) Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Equity and Justice (EQU)
Article: News

Wolfgang Lutz receives prestigious honorary doctorate

11 November 2022
On Thursday, 10 November 2022, Interim IIASA Deputy Director General for Science, Wolfgang Lutz, received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts in Demography from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of demography.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Thailand
Article: News

Demography matters: the human life from birth to death

28 September 2022
IIASA researchers participate in a seminar titled "Demography matters: the human life from birth to death", organized by Vienna Institute of Demography and Wittgenstein Centre.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Multidimensional Demographic Modeling (MDM) Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG) Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing (SHAW)
Article: News

IDRiM 2022 Young Scientist Session Award

28 September 2022
Alberto Fresolone winner of IDRiM 2022 Young Scientist Session Award.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT) Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM) Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Equity and Justice (EQU)
Article: News

Weak handgrip strength may signal serious health issues

25 July 2022
Muscle strength is a powerful predictor of mortality that can quickly and inexpensively be assessed by measuring handgrip strength. In a new study, researchers developed cut-off points that apply to the general population, while also considering the correlation of handgrip strength with gender, body height, and aging to be used in medical practice.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing (SHAW)
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POPNET Newsletter is out!

08 July 2022
A new issue of the POPNET Newsletter of the Wittgenstein Centre is now available.
Economic Frontiers (EF) Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Multidimensional Demographic Modeling (MDM) Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG) Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing (SHAW)
Article: News

Fact Sheet Demographic Aspects of COVID-19

05 July 2022
COVID-19 showed that the ability to cope, recover and adapt to the pandemic and its social and economic consequences varies across population subgroups as well as institutional and geographical contexts. Researchers from IIASA and Wittgenstein Centre published the Fact Sheet that sheds light on the impact of the pandemic on people’s health, family dynamics, economies and migration.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing (SHAW)
Article: News

Fact Sheet Longevity, Health, Well-being

27 June 2022
POPJUS researchers contributed with their pioneering work on new measures of aging, healthy life expectancy, and a well-being indicator to measure the quality of life to the Fact Sheet Longevity, Health, Well-being recently published by Wittgenstein Centre.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing (SHAW)
Article: News

Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz elected as a new member of the Academia Europaea

20 June 2022
IIASA Population and Just Societies Program Research Scholar Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz has been elected to the Academia Europaea
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing (SHAW)
Article: News

Fact Sheet Migration

13 June 2022
Migration is a highly complex social phenomenon and migration decisions depend on a variety of social, political and economic factors. Researchers from IIASA and Wittgenstein Centre published the Fact Sheet Migration, providing information about the challenges, that might be confronted for a successful adaptation.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG)

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