NRRP intervention area: Mission 4 – Education and Research
Component: 2 - From research to business
Investment: 1.3 - Extended partnerships with universities, research centres, businesses and research project funding
Duration: the project will end on 31/12/2025
Total project funding: €114,700,000
Proposer: Università degli Studi di Firenze
Italy as an international scientific centre for research on ageing
Age-it represents the first integrated and interdisciplinary effort at national level and aims to make Italy a leader in ageing research, by bringing together researchers from social, biomedical and technological sciences.
The project analyses and offers new solutions to make the lives of elderly people more inclusive and of higher quality, by examining all the areas involved, from demography to health care, from technology to social policy.
Project structure and participation
Foundation Composition
Universities and research institutes
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Università degli Studi di Firenze
- Università degli Studi di Milano
- Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro
- Università degli Studi di Padova
- Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
- Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
- Università di Roma La Sapienza
- Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II"
- Università degli Studi del Molise
- Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro"
- Università della Calabria
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR (National Research Council)
- Istituto Nazionale di Statistica - INS (National Institute of Statistics)
- Istituto Nazionale di Ricovero e Cura per gli Anziani - INRCA (National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing)
- Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
- Istituto Nazionale di Previdenza Sociale - INPS (National Social Security Institute)
Private actors
- Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
- Università Vita - Salute San Raffaele
- Istituto Neurologico Mediterraneo Neuromed
- Tech4Care srl
- Generali Italia S.p.A.
- HealthWare Group
- Beta 80 S.p.A Software e Sistemi
- Municipia S.p.a.
Project areas
- Spoke 1 - The demography of ageing. A Data Science approach to decision-making (leader: Università degli Studi di Firenze)
- Spoke 2 - Improving the understanding of the biology of ageing (leader: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR (National Research Council)
- Spoke 3 - Clinical and environmental factors, functional status and multimorbidity: Stratifying progression and
- prognosis of diseases, frailty and disability (leader: Istituto Nazionale di Ricovero e Cura per gli Anziani - INRCA (National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing)
- Spoke 4 - Trajectories for active and healthy ageing (behavioural and psychological determinants) (leader: Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II")
- Spoke 5 - Care sustainability in an ageing society (leader: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna)
- Spoke 6 - Silver economy. Work, participation, retirement and welfare (leader: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
- Spoke 7 - Cultural and political dimensions of ageing societies (leader: Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi)
- Spoke 8 - Interventions to reduce the burden of age-related diseases, disorders and disabilities (Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca)
- Spoke 9 - Advanced Gerontechnologies for active and healthy ageing (leader: Università degli Studi di Firenze)
- Spoke 10 - Mainstreaming ageing by building institutional mechanisms for better and future-oriented policy making (leader: Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro)
The University of Bologna participates in Spoke 1, 3, 5, 7, 10. It is the coordinator for Spoke 5.
University of Bologna participants
Scientific coordinator
Professor Marco Albertini
Assistant professors
7
Research fellowships
13
PhD scholarships
1
Departments involved
- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences - BiGeA
- Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences - DIBINEM
- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences - DIMEC
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering – DISI
- Department of Economics - DSE
- Department of Psychology "Renzo Canestrari" - PSI
- Department of Sociology and Business Law - SDE
- Department of Political and Social Sciences - SPS
- Department of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati" – STAT
The work carried out to date by the university research teams in this project includes:
- in-depth study of the demographic dynamics of population ageing, examining factors such as longevity, fertility, family life and migration
- developing prototypes for monitoring the ageing of the population, useful for guiding future policies and making demographic projections in terms of households, labour force participation and care needs
- conducting biomedical research to identify biomarkers of ageing, contributing to the understanding of frailty and age-related diseases
What activities are in progress?
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on the care front, technological solutions are being developed to support caregivers: a platform is being developed to monitor the well-being of caregivers and provide training on how to improve care for the elderly
- in terms of demographic research, the analysis of ageing trends will be continued Find out more