The programme will start with its fifth cohort of students in October 2025. The application period runs from 3 March to 7 April 2025.

Education level plays a less significant role when differences in access to resources like money, networks, and power are eliminated.

Marc Luy discusses the 'Blue Zones' in an interview and shares insights on how to live as long and healthy as possible. (Interview in German)

Egg freezing enables late pregnancies, but risks and success rates are often understated, warns Lucy van de Wiel at the WIC Conference 2024. (Interview in German)

VID Working Paper 03/2024 Isabella Buber-Ennser, Caroline Berghammer and Maria Winkler-Dworak

Isabella Buber-Ennser will present latest insights on "Old and New Determinants of Low Fertility." (Event in German).

Marc Luy will participate as a speaker and panelist at the symposium dedicated to the global revival of religious life

In a recent study, VID researchers analysed the fluctuations in birth rates across 26 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic and identified key factors that influenced these trends. Unlike previous historical events, where there was no recovery in…

In this issue A. Fürnkranz-Prskawetz explains, how different reforms could lead to more equitable pension systems (in German).