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This panel presents HOMeAGE, a nine country Marie Skłodowska Curie (MSCA) Doctoral Network Programme on “Advancing Research and Training on Ageing, Place and Home” which is funded by the European Commission. HOMeAGE involves 12 Doctoral Researchers (DRs) on a full-time basis over three years starting in September 2023, to carry out an interdisciplinary, intersectoral and international programme of doctoral training and research that drives the development of new leaders in excellence for the advancement of evidence-based innovation on ageing in place. The Doctoral Researchers will be hosted by one of the beneficiary organizations in the HOMeAGE network, comprising: leading research units; major intergovernmental organisations; international civil society actors; governmental and non-governmental organisations; public advisory agencies and innovation bodies. HOMeAGE delivers a unique employability and skills development process for DRs ensuring that they can lead the response to current research and policy deficits.

Marco Cucculelli currently works at the Dept of Economics and Social Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche. Marco does research in Applied Economics, Financial Economics and Business Economics. His current project is 'investment financing and ownership'.

Kieran Walsh is Professor of Ageing & Public Policy in the Discipline of Economics, and Director of the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology at the University of Galway, Ireland. His research focuses on social exclusion in later life, life-course transitions and trajectories, and place, community belonging and a sense of home. Kieran was the former Chair of the ROSEnet COST Action network on ‘Reducing old-age social exclusion’ (2016-2020), and is currently Scientific Coordinator of the new Marie-Sklodowska Curie doctoral training network on ‘Advancing research and training on ageing, place and home ‘- HOMEAGE.

Lucie Vidovićová, PhD. is a sociologist and social gerontologist. Her long-term research interests include sociology of ageing, gerotechnology, active ageing, ageism and social exclusion. She is also involved in research projects in the field of the environmental gerontology, social policy, labour market, family, lifelong learning. She conducts research for national as well as European bodies and works as a consultant on a number of implementation projects. Lucie also cooperates with different governmental and NGO bodies in the field of senior advocacy. She was part of the UNECE Task Force for Ageing-related statistics, and serves as a Vice-president on the Executive Committee of RC 11 Sociology of Aging at the International Sociological Association. Recent projects she has been involved in as a principal investigator include those on age discrimination, ageing in big cities and in rural areas, the issue of role overload in later life, social exclusion from social relationships, the use of humanoid robots for the active ageing, elder abuse and neglect, and older persons in emergency situations. She is a part of the expert advisory group of the Minister for Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic since 2022.

Marja Aartsen, PhD, works as research professor at NOVA Norwegian Social Research at Oslo Metropolitan University. She is sociologist and social gerontologist and specialized in longitudinal research on social relations, social exclusion, loneliness, and cognitive functioning in the second half of life. She is interested in social issues related to aging in place and active or successful ageing. She is currently co-leading the research project AMASE-A Multidimensional Approach to Social Exclusion – health consequences for ageing populations, together with the University of Bucharest, and the National Scientific Research institute for Labor and Social Protection in Bucharest. Previous research projects and collaborations include social inequalities in ageing (SIA), gendered pathways to exclusion from social relations (GENPATH), reducing old-age social exclusion (ROSENET). She served as one of the Editors-in-Chief of the European Journal of Ageing until the summer 2022.

Marco Arlotti has PhD in Economic Sociology , he is currently a research fellow at the Department of Economic and Social Sciences of the Polytechnic University of Marche. He carries out studies on welfare policies , with particular attention to the Italian case in a comparative perspective.