Research ProjectsPNRRAge-It – Ageing Well in an Ageing Society

Age-It – Ageing Well in an Ageing Society

Description

The Age-It project aims to transform Italy into an international scientific hub for research on ageing, an "empirical laboratory" that represents the reference standard in the socio-economic, biomedical and technological fields to build an inclusive society for all ages.

Through a holistic, transdisciplinary, and problem-solving approach, Age-It overcomes the fragmentation of different perspectives on ageing research, involving a critical mass of partners, including research institutions, education and training, medical and care centers, civil society associations, businesses, and industries.

Age-It is based on three cross-cutting theoretical principles to address ageing, which require a holistic, interdisciplinary and problem-solving approach. Age-It recognises the dynamic nature of ageing by adopting a life-course-based approach at the individual, family, and societal levels. In particular, three principles of life course theory form the basis of this holistic approach:

• Cumulative experiences: Individuals' past experiences and exposures influence their current condition in different areas of life;
• Linked lives: events in one area of life can affect all the others;
• Period and context: The geographical context and historical period in which people live influence the probabilities, times, and sequences with which the main stages of the life course are experienced.

Age-it addresses three levels of analysis: micro (individuals), meso (families, care and assistance institutions, voluntary associations, and businesses), and macro (societies, institutions). All three levels of analysis, individually and in their interactions, are fundamental to address the challenges of ageing in contemporary societies.

DiSIA Faculty

Daniele Vignoli, coordinator
Giammarco Alderotti
Gustavo De Santis
Raffaele Guetto
Elena Pirani

Partnership

Coordinator
Università degli Studi di Firenze - UNIFI
Partner
Università di Milano Bicocca - UNIMIB
Università del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro” – UNIUPO
Università di Padova – UNIPD
Università Ca’Foscari di Venezia – UNIVE
Università di Bologna – UNIBO
Università di Roma “La Sapienza” - UNIROMA1
Università di Napoli Federico II – UNINA
Università del Molise – UNIMOL
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro – UNIBA
Università della Calabria – UNICAL
Università commerciale "Luigi Bocconi" – UNIBOCCONI
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – UNICATT
Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele – UNISR
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – CNR
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati – SISSA
Istituto Nazionale di Statistica – ISTAT
Istituto Nazionale Previdenza Sociale – INPS
Istituto Nazionale di Ricovero e Cura per gli Anziani - INRCATech4Care
Generali Italia
HealthWare Group
Beta 80 S.p.a. Software e Sistemi
Municipia Spa
Confcooperative
Sanofi

web site

https://ageit.eu/

 

Progetto finanziato nell’ambito del Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza - Missione 4 “Istruzione e ricerca” – Componente 2 “Dalla ricerca all’impresa” – Investimento 1.3 “Partenariati estesi a Università, centri di ricerca, imprese e finanziamento progetti di ricerca”, dall’Unione europea – NextGenerationEU, Avviso n. 341/2022 del 15.03.2022. CUP: B83C22004800006