Interdisciplinary Aspects of Healthy Aging

As populations age, we need to understand how to ensure life-course processes that enable older adults to live independently in good health, stay engaged in social relationships within families and communities, and uphold social roles important to well-being.

At this international summer course, you will develop tools for writing a grant application and gain research insight in the field of aging by exploring the aging phenomena through an interdisciplinary lens. Over three weeks in July, you will meet engaged and highly skilled researchers and work with ambitious students from a wide range of academic backgrounds and countries.

The primary objective is to gain interdisciplinary knowledge and research experience in the field of aging to better understand how older people can preserve their vitality and enjoy a robust older age.

The course provides experience with interdisciplinary work and aging research under the supervision of researchers from Center for Healthy Aging at the University of Copenhagen. The course is offered as part of the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) Courses.

Course leader

Rudi Westendorp

Target group

Master

Course aim

The primary objective is to gain interdisciplinary knowledge and research experience in the field of aging to better understand how older people can preserve their vitality and enjoy a robust older age. We will focus on the concept of sustainable aging throughout the course.

Fee info

DKK 4000: EU/EEA citizens

You are enrolled at a Danish university and the course is part of your master's programme. Danish students must provide a pre-approval of credit transfer from their home institution upon application.

You are a student at UCPH enrolled in one of the following programmes, you do not need to apply for pre-approval of credit transfer:

- MSc in Global Health
- MSc in Human Biology
- MSc in Public Health Science

You are an exchange student and attend the course as part of the autumn exchange semester (min. 3 months stay).

You are an exchange student nominated through Nordplus express or Nordlys.

You are a student from an IARU university with a exchange agreement with the University of Copenhagen (UTokyo).
DKK 6250: Non-EU/EEA citizens


You are exempted from payment, if:

You are an exchange student and attend the course as part of your Erasmus+ exchange semester (min. 3 months stay).

You are a student from an IARU university with a exchange agreement with the University of Copenhagen (UTokyo).

Scholarships

You can apply for the Novo Nordisk International Talent Programme (NNITP) scholarship, if you are incoming students from IARU universities, Harvard University, or University of Sydney.

Application deadline is 1 April 2021.