ERA-AGE 2

Co-funding

12 funders in nine countries have committed a total of €4.2 million to fund research projects of up to three years (see ERA_AGE2 website in external links for further details).

Our funding total

Our maximum contribution across all projects will be £500K.

No. of projects funded

Not yet awarded.

Purpose

To support high quality multinational and multidisciplinary research applications on 'Active and Healthy Ageing Across the Life Course'. We will fund the UK partner of any successful transnational application that falls within our remit with high quality biological science contributions and which demonstrate excellence with impact (see 'Our impact' in related links).

Key aims

Applications were invited from multidisciplinary research groups representing participating funding countries in areas relating to the three objectives of the call:

Generate new knowledge on the biological, clinical, behavioural, social and environmental factors that enable individuals to live actively and healthily into later life
Explore comparatively different models, methods, approaches and good practices in societal responses to increased longevity which emphasise both social inclusion and sustainability
Engage in effective knowledge exchange activities that will assist European and other countries to achieve the goal of increasing healthy life expectancy by 2 years by 2020

Contact

Louisa Jenkin
louisa.jenkin@bbsrc.ac.uk
tel: 01793 413352
fax: 01793 413234