MOVE-AGE

The Joint Doctorate Program ‘MOVE-AGE’, is funded by the European Commission as part of the Erasmus Mundus program. In the MOVE-AGE program approximately 50 PhD students will receive a fellowship to study how mobility can be maintained during ageing. Loss of mobility with ageing is a vast and rapidly growing social and economic problem worldwide. Within MOVE-AGE we will perform translational research to generate knowledge and to train a new generation of scientists to address this problem.

Each fellow will be supervised by top-level researchers from at least two of the three participating institutes: MOVE of VU University Amsterdam, the Institute for Biomedical Research into Human Movement and Health of Manchester Metropolitan University and the Doctoral School Exercise and Physical Activity in Health and Disease of the K.U. Leuven.

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MOVE-AGE annual conference

The first annual MOVE-AGE conference will be held in Leuven on July 3rd. The conference will function to inform participants in the program and others interested on the progress in the ongoing MOVE-AGE projects. In addition, Dr. Stephen Lord, from Neuroscience Research Australia, will be our keynote speaker. Stephen Lord is a world leading expert on physiological determinants of fall risk in the elderly and we are delighted that he has accepted our invitation.For MOVE-AGE participant, this conference will be an excellent opportunity to meet partners and associate partners to team up for the call for proposals that will follow soon.

For more information, please contact us through moveage@fbw.vu.nl

fellowship selection and self-funded PhD students

The ranking of applicants has been forwarded to the EU agency in due time to obtain approval of the selected fellows. We expect the approval before May 1st. A limited number of self-funded PhD students can also be enrolled into the programme, click here for more information.

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Application PhD Vacancies MOVE-AGE

Go directly to the online application form to apply for PhD Vacancies.