JPI More Years Better Lives workshop: Integrating policies, programmes and services in an ageing society (30 October 2019) https://thl.fi/en/web/thlfi-en/whats-new/events/thl-s-eu-2019-side-events/demographic-change-equality-and-wellbeing

1. © ACADEMY OF FINLAND1
Workshop “Demographic
Change, Equality and
Wellbeing – Integrating
policies, programmes and
services in an ageing
society”
Opening words
Professor Riitta Maijala,
Vice President of Research,
Academy of Finland

2. What we do
2
Review funding applications,
make funding decisions based
on international peer review
Foresight science and
research, analyse impact
Actively engage in national and international
collaboration and networks
Fund scientific research, act as
influential force in science policy
• to support scientific research
• to support framework conditions
for research
2019
funding budget
€458m
Support and strengthen
research environments
and knowledge clusters
© ACADEMY OF FINLAND 2019 | FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE

3. ACADEMY OF FINLAND AND MYBL
© ACADEMY OF FINLAND 2019 | FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE3
WE FUNDED 11 PIs WITHIN THE
FOLLOWING THEMES
• Social inequality in an ageing workforce,
• Mental wellbeing in later life,
• Modelling the impact of welfare models,
• Robots in welfare services,
• Dealing with dementia at the work place,
• Digital literacy in later life
WE...
• … are part of MYBL since the launch of MYBL 2011
• … have been part of all 3 calls
• … have invested more than 1,5 million euros
WHY?...
BECAUSE IT STRENGTHENS
• Internationally attractive research environments
• Finnish and international research infrastructure activities

4. CENTER OF EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH ON AGEING AND CARE (AgeCare)
© ACADEMY OF FINLAND4
• One of 12 CoEs that Academy of Finland funds for the period 2018-2025.
• Expected to find new avenues for research, develop creative research
environments and train new talented researchers.
• Combines scholarship from social policy, sociology and gerontology.
• Analyzes older people’s care needs, agency and equality as well as the
changing character of care work in the context of renationalization and
digitalization of the ageing society.

5. • Research that has great societal relevance and impact
• High scientific quality and solution orientation
• Continuous dialogue between researchers and
• end-users and beneficiaries during the whole funding
period
Strategic Research Council (SRC)
© ACADEMY OF FINLAND 20195
• Example project:
• Inclusive Promotion of Health and Wellbeing (PROMEQ)
• The PROMEQ project develops evidence-based and cost-effective models of health and wellbeing
promotion that are able to talk to and assimilate vulnerable groups and motivate and empower positive
transitions in peoples health and wellbeing. http://www.collaboration.fi/EN/
• Example project:
• Inclusive Promotion of Health and Wellbeing (PROMEQ)
• The PROMEQ project develops evidence-based and cost-effective models of health and wellbeing
promotion that are able to talk to and assimilate vulnerable groups and motivate and empower positive
transitions in peoples health and wellbeing. http://www.collaboration.fi/EN/
More SRC projects: https://www.aka.fi/en/strategic-research-funding/

6. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme under grant agreement No 733274.
Towards a joint European
research programme
on health services and systems
Current challenges
Ageing population
Increasing cost of healthcare
Shortages and uneven distribution of health professionals
Inequalities in health and access to healthcare
28 PARTNERS
20 COUNTRIES

7. © ACADEMY OF FINLAND 20197
I wish you
an interesting and
productive
workshop!