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The objective of this project is to construct and validate a general methodology to analyse and describe long-term care (LTC) systems for older people in a European perspective. The individual aspects of the different emerging national models that currently address long-term care needs in Europe will be used to show how the links to health care services, the quality of LTC services, the incentives for prevention and rehabilitation, and the support for informal carers can be governed and financed to enhance structures, processes and outcomes of LTC systems.

Social scientists often use the metaphor of evolution to describe various kinds of transformation processes, e.g. economic. In this context political scientists have shown that newly emerging policy subsystems have a different structure to those that have been around for longer (see Michael Noweski, “Ausreifung von Poltikfeldern – Metapher oder Theorie?” WZB Discussion Paper SPI 2008-304 (> PDF), in German only). This can be seen very clearly in the case of health primary prevention. The expanding network features numerous new players, some of whom are largely unknown. Its structure is complex, polycentric and heterarchic. There is still little consensus about how tasks should be divided up among the participants.

The context within which academics work has been undergoing changes around the world, increasingly intensely over the past two decades as practices from New Public Management and the neoliberal agenda have entered the realm of science policy. To understand the impact of these changes and academics’ responses to them, we are undertaking an intergenerational and international study of why and how people become academics and why and how they leave academia.

Time Stability in Reducing the Risk of HIV Transmission among Homosexual Men in Eastern and Western Germany, 2010

A current challenge facing HIV prevention in Germany is developing appropriate HIV prevention services for vulnerable migrant communities. Meeting this challenge requires a close cooperation between researchers, service providers and migrant communities. This research project is investigating how locally-based participatory processes can be initiated and sustained for this purpose. The project is being conducted in cooperation with the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. and stakeholders in various localities. The primary elements of the project are:

• A quantitative survey of the local AIDS service organisations regarding their prevention activities for immigrant communities, including current services and partnerships with other stakeholders
   

The European Quality of Life Survey is an international comparative survey project initiated by the “European Foundation for the Improvement of Working and Living Conditions”. For the survey’s second round the Foundation was looking for the assistance of experts to improve the survey’s data quality. On the one hand, it was intended to enhance the sampling procedure and the field work, and on the other hand to optimise the questionnaire.