Third FLARE Summer School a success

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The third FLARE Summer School took place last week in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, near Madrid in Spain.  In total 32 early career post-doctoral researchers from 14 countries attended the event between 5-8 September including – for the first time – FLARE 1 alumni, new FLARE 2 Fellows and Associate Fellows, as well as a number of nominated post-docs from other EU countries.

Guest speakers, who generously gave their time to help in training a future generation of researchers in the ageing field, included:

• Professor Rocio Fernandez-Ballesteros, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
• Dr Günter Lepperdinger, Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Dr Sibila Marques, CIS/ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
• Professor Vicente Rodriguez, MICINN/CSIC, Spain
• Dr Faiza Tabassum, University College London, UK
• Professor Alan Walker, University of Sheffield, UK
• Professor Tony Warnes, University of Sheffield UK
• Dr Asghar Zaidi, European Centre for Social Welfare, Policy and Research, Austria

 

A number of FLARE 1 and FLARE 2 Fellows also generously contributed to the programme:

• Dr Chengxuan Qiu, Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
• Dr Hans-Joerg Ehni, Institute for the Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Tuebingen Germany
• Dr Antje Heinrich, Medical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research, UK
• Dr Kathrin Komp, Umea University, Sweden
• Dr Blossom Stephan, Cambridge University, UK
• Dr Birgit Trukeschitz, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

 

The final programme is now available and a full event report will soon be available here.   Please check back in a few weeks for more details.