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HEDoctoral network2023–2027

HOMeAGE · Advancing Research and Training on Ageing, Place and Home

Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2023-01-01 → 2027-06-30
EU contribution
€2,675,527
Participants
27
Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN

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Results in brief

Advancing Research and Training on Ageing, Place and Home

Ageing in place is critical to the future of ageing societies in Europe and reflects the desire of the majority of people to remain living in their own homes and communities in later life. Yet, critically, almost a third of older Europeans experience neighbourhood deprivation, a fifth encounter a lack of social cohesion, a growing number face homelessness and approximately 3 million people continue to reside in institutional settings. There are thus significant concerns that current efforts are failing to support ageing in place. Despite an increasing body of research, and a growing political interest, the field lacks definition and its development is fragmented across disciplines and sectors with researchers not equipped to tackle this fragmentation. The HOMeAGE Doctoral Network responds to this challenges and aims to institute an international programme of doctoral training and research that drives the development of new leaders in excellence for the advancement of evidence-based innovation on ageing in place. HOMeAGE pursues three strategic objectives: 1. Needs and Systems HOMeAGE will identify flexible and sustainable housing, community-care and mobility systems and critically assess their capacity to support community living needs, across various cultural and structural conditions. 2. Home and Belonging HOMeAGE will identify innovative place-based pathways for engagement as a means to create new channels for building a sense of home and belonging amongst diverse older populations, in diverse places. 3. Rights and Voice HOMeAGE will identify integrative frameworks, that are responsive to the diversity of older people and their places to drive relevant and rights-based policy development on ageing in place.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

Ageing in place is critical to the future of ageing societies in Europe. Older people’s places are recognised as fundamental to long-term health and wellbeing outcomes - a fact that has been magnified during the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet, critically, almost a third of older people in Europe experience neighbourhood deprivation, a fifth encounter a lack of cohesion, a growing number are homeless, and approximately 3 million people continue to reside in institutional settings. There are significant concerns that efforts are failing to support ageing in place. With its development as a field fragmented across disciplines and sectors, and with few researchers equipped to tackle this fragmentation, innovation in research and policy risks stagnation. This is despite the renewed interest and urgency arising from the pandemic in de-institutionalizing later life residential experiences. HOMeAGE will institute an interdisciplinary, intersectoral and international programme of doctoral training and research that drives the development of new leaders in excellence for the advancement of evidence-based innovation on ageing in place. In tackling the three interconnected challenges of (1) needs and systems, (2) home and belonging and (3) rights and voice, HOMeAGE delivers a unique employability and skills development process for doctoral researchers (DRs) ensuring that they can lead the response to current research and policy deficits. HOMeAGE addresses significant demand for DRs who possess essential competencies to overcome challenges concerning Europe’s demographic transition, and ‘sticking points’ in its developing Silver Economy. HOMeAGE directly addresses the critical priority of enabling ‘older people to age in a place that is right for them’ within the WHO’s Global Strategy and Action Plan on Ageing. Crucially, it also addresses strategic themes in the EU Green Paper on Ageing, and key goals within the UN Sustainable Development Agenda concerning equity and sustainability.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY · GalwayCoordinatorIreland
  • AGE ACTION IRELAND LTD · DublinIreland
  • AGE PLATFORM EUROPE · Bruxelles / BrusselBelgium
  • DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH · DublinIreland
  • FACHHOCHSCHULE NORDWESTSCHWEIZ FHNW · WindischSwitzerland
  • Gerontologický institut, o.p.s. · Praha 1Czechia
  • ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI RIPOSO E CURA PER ANZIANI INRCA · AnconaItaly
  • International Federation on Ageing · TorontoCanada
  • JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN · Frankfurt Am MainGermany
  • KENNISCENTRUM WOONZORG BRUSSEL VZW · Bruxelles / BrusselBelgium
  • Masarykova univerzita · BrnoCzechia
  • OPEN UNIVERSITEIT NEDERLAND · HeerlenNetherlands
  • OSLOMET - STORBYUNIVERSITETET · OsloNorway
  • PI CONSULTANCY NL LLP · FelthamUnited Kingdom
  • STICHTING VILANS · UtrechtNetherlands
  • TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR · TampereFinland
  • TECH4CARE SRL · ANCONAItaly
  • THE GREATER MANCHESTER COMBINED AUTHORITY · MANCHESTERUnited Kingdom
  • THE MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY · MANCHESTERUnited Kingdom
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER · ManchesterUnited Kingdom
  • TRANSPORTOKONOMISK INSTITUTT · OsloNorway
  • UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE · GeneveSwitzerland
  • UNIVERSITA POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE · AnconaItaly
  • UNIVERSITEIT HASSELT · HasseltBelgium
  • UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT · UtrechtNetherlands
  • VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL · Bruxelles / BrusselBelgium
  • WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION · GeneveSwitzerland

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union