EAPS Award for Population Studies
6 SEP 2016
Based on his exceptional life time achievements, the founding director of the Wittgenstein Centre, Wolfgang Lutz, was awarded with the Award for Population Studies by the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) at the European Population Conference 2016 in Mainz.
EAPS Award for Population Studies
This Award honors groundbreaking original contributions to the study of population with far reaching implications for our discipline and our understanding of population dynamics and their consequences. Unique innovative insights such as expressed in a single or several publications, as well as work which spans a longer period can be nominated for the EAPS Award for Population Studies, as can exceptional life time achievements. (http://www.eaps.nl/scientific-activities/eaps-award-population-studies)
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The Wittgenstein Centre aspires to be a world leader in the advancement of demographic methods and their application to the analysis of human capital and population dynamics. In assessing the effects of these forces on long-term human well-being, we combine scientific excellence in a multidisciplinary context with relevance to a global audience. It is a collaboration among the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the University of Vienna.