Education and training
Center for Healthy Aging contributes
If you are a Master student and interested in the field of healthy aging, Center for Healthy Aging hosts an interdisciplinary summer schools which is open for domestic and international students. The summer school is part of the initiative IARU Courses, run by the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) network, and it offers an exciting and educational opportunity for university students across the world to gain international network and experience.
The summer school is rooted in the research and teaching environment of Center for Healthy Aging and it reflects the center's various research projects and interdisciplinary nature. In July 2019, for the 9th time in a row, Center for Healthy Aging will host the summer school - learn more about it below.
IARU Summer School 2021 - Interdisciplinary Aspects of Healthy Aging
The PhD Academy for Interdisciplinary Aging Research (PAIAR) is established with the aim of developing and organizing PhD courses within the field of interdisciplinary aging research.
What the course is about
Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being at all ages are part of the Sustainable Development Goals. Population aging is a major demographic trend across world regions and brings with it complex opportunities as well as challenges for individuals, communities and societies. The current health crisis sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic and its toll in particular on older adults but also on healthcare systems and-, societal resources-, further makes it imperative to define and implement more sustainable approaches to aging.
What is sustainable aging, what shapes it, how do we move towards realizing the goal of healthy lives and well-being at old age for all irrespective of where we live, and what can we learn from taking a global, comparative approach to this phenomenon?
In this online course, leading researchers representing IARU universities give you their perspectives on sustainable aging, inspire you to do your own assessment based on your local context, and provide opportunities for exchanging insights and inspiration with fellow students across the world.
This course offers a series of introductory lectures on aging presented by renowned gerontologists within biology, medicine, public health, social sciences and humanities. The course spans five days, and will have a strong focus on facilitated discussions between presenter(s) and students.
How to participate in the course
The course if offered as an online course. Presentations are offered via live-streaming with input from participating students but are also recorded and offered as streams.
Students are given assignments after each lecture. Students will be divided into work groups depending on time zones. Review of assignments will be done via live streaming in a time slot most optimal for all international students and will be available for streaming afterwards.
Criteria for completion
Completion of course will be based on participation in group work. Course is graded with a pass / non-pass grade. Upon completion an official course certificate will be issued.
No ECTS credits awarded. (5 ECTS Suggested)
Course information
Online venue
Date: 12 - 16 April, 2021
Course program and time schedule will be shared soon.
Register for the course in April 2021
Registration deadline: 22 March, 2021, 23:59 CET.
Course managers
Maria Kristiansen has a background in public health sciences. She is Associate Professor and Research Group Leader at the Department of Public Health and CEHA, University of Copenhagen. Her group conducts interdisciplinary and mix-methods research into person-centered healthcare for older adults. Email: makk@sund.ku.dk.
Claus Desler is a molecular biologist with speciality in aging and immuno-metabolism. He is Assistant Professor at Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, CEHA at University of Copenhagen. Email: cdesler@sund.ku.dk.
If you have any questions please contact course secretary Ida Marie Bergman Rasmussen; idambr@sund.ku.dk.
On a regular basis, Center for Healthy Aging hosts PhD courses arranged or co-arranged by researchers from Center for Healthy Aging.
Upcoming PhD courses
- The good scientific presentation: From attractive posters to inspiring talks
4-6 March 2020 - Ageing and Exercise
11-12 May 2020 - Immunometabolism, from bench to bedside
11-13 May 2020
Previously held PhD courses
- Aging from a cross disciplinary perspective (developed by PhD Academy (PAIAR))
2-4 December 2019 - The complexity of understanding age-related disease (in cooperation with EIT Health)
4-7 November 2019 - The good scientific presentation: From attractive posters to inspiring talks
2-4 October 2019 - The good scientific presentation: From attractive posters to inspiring talks
25-27 February 2019 - How to conduct interdisciplinary research (developed by PhD Academy (PAIAR))
3-5 December 2018 - Multi-methods in Health Sciences Research
6-27 November 2018 - Skeletal muscle: size, signalling, and satellite cells
16-28 september - Determinants for labour market attachment and retirement
29-31 August 2018 - Cellular Bioenergetics
5-8 March 2018
All PhD courses will also be announced in the Graduate School's PhD course catalogue.
Network for Young Scholars (NYS) in Center for Healthy Aging is a network for PhD students and postdocs affiliated with the center. The vision is to build a platform for young researchers to promote research training, educational activities, and social networking in an interdisciplinary context.
Are you interested in accelerating your research and solving future healthcare challenges?
University of Copenhagen is part of an EIT Health Labelled PhD Programme, which is seeking 25 top PhD students who are interested in building competences within innovation and entrepreneurship, to accelerate their research and solve future healthcare challenges.
Are you interested in making either your Bachelor’s, Master’s or Research Year’s assignment on aging-related issues? Then researchers from Center of Healthy Aging can be your supervisors.
Center for Healthy Aging is an interdisciplinary research center closely linked with the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. The center focuses on research into aging for better health and reduced frailty throughout life. The research produce new knowledge on how more people can live healthy lives and enjoy a robust old-age. The multidisciplinary research tracks investigate biomedical, social and psychological causes of healthy aging, and this knowledge will form the basis for new initiatives for both prevention and treatment.
Key research questions at Center for Healthy Aging
- How can we ensure that we live and age well over the course of a lifetime?
- How should we explain the biology of aging?
- How do we minimize age-related diseases?
- How do we encourage people to take care of their health and enjoy more healthy, active years of their life?
The center includes three research tracks and a number of interdisciplinary activities. The three tracks are all seeking new knowledge about how more people can have a healthy life and healthy aging.
Learn more about the involved researchers
Further information
Contact Ida Marie Bergman Rasmussen.
Business Models for Innovative Care for Older People is an interdisciplinary Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) focusing on aging as a major societal challenge. The MOOC provides an introduction to innovative health care in the fields of healthy and active aging, as well as theories, tools, and concepts for analyzing and developing innovative solutions for aging populations. The lectures cover demographic, biological, economic, social, and cultural aspects of healthy aging.
The MOOC has been developed in the context of the EIT Health Summer School Innovating Solutions for Aging Populations. The EIT Health Summer School was a collaboration between Copenhagen Business School and the University of Copenhagen, and it was offered in the years 2016-2018.
In addition, the MOOC is offered in cooperation between Copenhagen Business School and the University of Copenhagen, and it is still available at the Coursera platform.
Business Models for Innovative Solutions for Aging Populations