Projet Digi4Age (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The digitalisation of ageing societies is restructuring Europe, raising concerns about social inclusion. Recognizing the gravity of this shift, the EU declared the 2020s 'Europe’s Digital Decade', while the WHO declared it the 'Decade of Healthy Ageing'. Researchers and practitioners typically view digitalisation and societal ageing as separate shifts. Digi4Age breaks with this tradition. Drawing on its members’ recent research, it posits that both are intertwined. They are jointly experienced and integrated into the social fabric – and they need to be jointly addressed. Digi4Age trains 14 doctoral researchers as future leaders with scientific expertise in both digitalising and ageing societies, who can creatively steer academia, the public sector, private sector, and civil society towards solutions benefitting older individuals, European societies, and businesses. To do so, it launches an interdisciplinary, intersectoral and international doctoral research and training programme for excellence in evidence-based leadership in digitalising and ageing societies. The programme explores how digital technologies can (1) support health in old age without compromising identities and self-images; (2) accommodate older individuals’ long-standing habits and preferences in workplaces and consumer markets; and (3) complement social innovation to ensure equality and social inclusion in ageing societies. Digi4Age assembles some of Europe’s foremost researchers in this area as beneficiaries (LUT, OUNL, LSMC, TUDO, URJC, KLPU) and influential researchers and widely recognized stakeholders from civil society, policymaking, and businesses as associated partners (LRS, VILANS, UH, VICESSE, AGE, vdSHOP, HZG, OEI, VTT, TUWIEN, NIPH, SENIORWORLD, EUROCARERS) across 9 countries. It addresses the UN Sustainable Development Goals 'No poverty', 'Good health and well-being', 'Gender equality', 'Decent work and economic growth', and 'Reduced inequalities'.

Mots clés : ageing societies digitalisation europe health health care work economy society social structures

Participants :
- Lithuanian Social Research Centre (Lituanie) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 807587.28 €
- Centre de recherche technique de Finlande (Finlande) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- AGE Platform Europe (Belgique) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut norvégien de santé publique (Norvège) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Roi Juan Carlos (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 564376.32 €
- Université de Dortmund (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 580544.64 €
- Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences (Autriche) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 605085.84 €
- Université de technologie de Lappeenranta-Lahti (Finlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 943574.4 €
- Vilans (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Open University of the Netherlands (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 610571.52 €
- Vdshop redcom, s.l. (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Organizacion de estados iberoamericanos para la educacion la ciencia y la cultura (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Haïfa (Israël) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Lietuvos respublikos socialines apsaugos ir darbo ministerija (Lituanie) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Vienna Centre for Societal Security (Autriche) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Eurocarers-association europeenne travaillant avec et pour les aidants non-professionnels (Belgique) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Zittau Görlitz University of Applied Sciences (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Senjoru pasaulis, vo (Lituanie) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université technique de Vienne (Autriche) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €