The global trend of rapid population aging has created a host of challenges that countries must address, including decisions related to planning and funding for retirement and long-term care systems. To inform these decisions and contextualize the current demographic transition, more research is needed which investigates cross-country and historical variation in aging, health, and systems supporting older individuals and their families. The Gateway to Global Aging Data and the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) offer crucial resources for conducting such research, providing internationally comparable longitudinal microdata on health, aging, and retirement as well as social and economic characteristics of older adults in 47 countries worldwide, 29 of which are covered in SHARE.

To stimulate collaboration and discussion of research using data from SHARE and the broader international network of health and retirement studies supported by the Gateway, the SHARE Berlin Institute and Gateway to Global Aging Data are organizing an interdisciplinary SHARE-Gateway user conference. We welcome submissions from a range of research areas including disciplines in the social sciences, health, and public policy. A limited number of submissions will be selected. The conference will promote discussion between users on research evaluating a range of topics covered in the international network, especially cross-country work on health, aging, and retirement.

The conference will take place in Berlin, Germany from November 6-8, 2024, with a half-day workshop on November 6 featuring sessions on the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP) and the Gateway’s cross-study harmonized datasets, followed by two full days of parallel sessions presenting work by SHARE users and Gateway users selected by the scientific committee.

Deadlines:

July 15, 2024: Submissions due - submissions can either be a draft manuscript or an extended abstract describing the research question, the data used in the analysis, the research design and preliminary results.
- Submissions can be made through share-gateway.conference@g2aging.org

August 16, 2024: Authors of accepted papers will be notified

September 30, 2024: Conference registration

Scientific Committee:
- Alden Gross, Johns Hopkins University, United States of America
- Stefan Gruber, SHARE Berlin Institute, Germany
- David Knapp, University of Southern California, United States of America
- Emma Nichols, University of Southern California, United States of America
- Anne Nolan, Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland
- Mario Padula, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
- Yuri Pettinicchi, SHARE Berlin Institute, Germany
- Andrej Srakar, Institute for Economic Research, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Cristina Vilaplana Prieto, University of Murcia, Spain
- Melanie Wagner, SHARE Berlin Institute, Germany
- Morten Wahrendorf, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Organizers:
- David Knapp, University of Southern California, United States of America
- Jinkook Lee, University of Southern California, United States of America
- Giacomo Pasini, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
- Yuri Pettinicchi, SHARE Berlin Institute, Germany
- David Richter, SHARE Berlin Institute, Germany
- Michael Upchurch, University of Southern California, United States of America
- Afife Yasemin Yilmaz, SHARE Berlin Institute, Germany