Focus Areas
Digitisation & Technology - Coordinated Care - Life Course & Social Inequality
Welcome to the website of the NRW Graduate School GROW
The aim of the Graduate School is to identify practice-relevant resources and barriers influencing well-being into old age and to develop measures to maintain or improve the well-being of older people in North Rhine-Westphalia. GROW started in 2015 with eleven PhD projects and was successfully evaluated externally in 2018. After positive evaluation of the subsequent application and approval of a second funding phase, GROW II started in February 2019 with ten PhD candidates* with the aim of continuing to make important contributions to transdisciplinary research for well-being into old age.
The NRW Graduate School GROW is a joint graduate school of the Faculties of Humanities, Economics & Social Sciences and Medicine at the University of Cologne. It is assigned to the thematic focus of Ageing and Demographic Change at the ceres - Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics, and Social Sciences of Health.
The spokesperson for GROW is Prof. Dr. Susanne Zank.
Focus on
Introducing the Ph.D. Candidates
10 faces and projects
Results of GROW I
The results of the first funding period summarised in the final report of 2018 (available in German)