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About the ECPD

The Einstein Center Population Diversity (ECPD) – Unfolding unequal life courses within diverse families in aging societies – is an interdisciplinary research hub based in Berlin, Germany. The research is carried out by a consortium of seven partner sites that will study the prerequisites and consequences of increasing population diversity for social inequality and health disparities. The specific focus will be on the growing diversity of families within the context of healthy aging, including changing conceptions and boundaries of the family itself.

Latest News:

Call for Papers: 22nd Conference of the European Divorce Network

The European Divorce Network has been organising annual conferences since 2002. This year’s divorce conference will take place from 10-11th October 2024 in Berlin, Germany, and is organised by the Einstein Center Population Diversity, the Hertie School and the University of Duisburg-Essen. The submission deadline is 15.05.2024. More information about the call for papers and the conference can be found here.

The ECPD has officially launched!

On April 9, 2024, the ECPD officially launched its activities with a kick-off event at the Festsaal of Humboldt University Berlin. The event featured an opening talk by Martin Rennert, Executive Board Chair of the  Einstein Foundation, and marked the beginning of an exciting new chapter in family and health research, as dozens of researchers from the ECPD network came together to celebrate the start of six years of cutting edge family and health research.

Home Care and Digitalization: Where We Get Stuck – and How We Can Make Progress

Join us for a new edition of the ECPD’s Tuesday Dialogues on June 4, 2024, where Dr. Johanna Schütz, Head of the Department of “Informal Care and Research Data” at the Bavarian Center for Digital Health and Social Care, will discuss the challenges and opportunities of digitalization in home care. Simultaneous translation German-English will be provided throughout the event. Sign up to the event here.

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