Research project
International Expertise for life in old age - AGE-INT
International Expertise from Switzerland for Innovative Solutions for an Ageing Society
AGE-INT is the largest national research project dealing with the challenges and opportunities of demographic change in a practice-oriented manner with a trans- and interdisciplinary project team in the three largest language regions of Switzerland.
AGE-INT is the largest national research project dealing with the challenges and opportunities of demographic change in a practice-oriented manner with a trans- and interdisciplinary project team in the three largest language regions of Switzerland. The aim of the project is to identify knowledge and best practice examples in selected priority areas, both nationally and internationally, and to make them visible and accessible to a broad public and decision-makers.
The thematic focal points of the network are:
- Technologies for people in old age (Lead IAF, OST - University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland, project partner University of Geneva)
- Dementia: prevention and care (Lead Dementia Competence Centre, OST - University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland, project partners University of Geneva and University of Zurich, Centre for Gerontology)
- Employment in retirement (Lead Bern University of Applied Sciences)
- Social inclusion (lead La Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana)
- Cross-sectional topic: longevity and very old people
Scientific Advisory Board
- Hans Altherr, Startfeld
- Michael Auer, OST - Ostschweizer Fachhochschule
- Bea Heim, Schweizerischer Seniorenrat SSR
- David Hess-Klein, BAG
- François Höpflinger, Universität Zürich, Zentrum für Gerontologie ZfG
- Rolf Maegli, Innovage
- Delphine Roulet Schwab, Institut et Haute Ecole de la Santé La Source - HES-SO - Lausanne
- Werner Schärer, ehemals Direktor Pro Senectute
Duration: 01.01.2021 - 30.06.2025
Funding:
- SERI (The State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation)
- Eigenleistungen Projektpartner
Partner:
- OST, Institut für Angewandte Pflegewissenschaft (IPW)
- Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH)
- La Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI)
- University of Geneva
- University of Zurich, Center for Gerontology
Project Lead and Project Team IAF
Angelika Inge Studer
IAF Institut für AltersforschungWissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin/ Projektkoordination AGE-INT
+41 58 257 14 85angelika.studer@ost.ch
Cora Pauli
IAF Institut für AltersforschungWissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
+41 58 257 18 86cora.pauli@ost.ch
Samira-Salomé Hüsler
IAF Institut für AltersforschungWissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
+41 58 257 16 23samirasalome.huesler@ost.ch
Cornelia Ursprung
IAF Institut für AltersforschungWissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
+41 58 257 13 13cornelia.ursprung@ost.ch
Monika Freund Schoch
IAF Institut für AltersforschungWissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
+41 58 257 17 04monika.freund@ost.ch