This project integrates into modern dynamic macroeconomics a biologically founded process of individual ageing, i.e. ageing understood as the gradual deterioration of the functioning of body and mind.

In recent years, Foresight has emerged as a key instrument for the development and implementation of research and innovation policies with long-term perspectives. Much futures work and Foresight exercises are little more than extrapolationsImplementation period: 2008.11.01 - 2011.04.30

The aim of this project is to pilot the use of foresight to align strategic and applied research with longer-term policy needs in Europe