University of Oslo
Norway
The Universitetet i Oslo(UiO) is Norway’s largest and oldest institution of higher education and was founded in 1811, when Norway was still under Danish rule. Today the University of Oslo has approximately 30,000 students and 4,600 employees. The university employs Five Nobel Prize winners, two of which are from the Department of Economics.
The Department of Economics is the largest and highest ranked institute for economic research in Norway. The department offers Bachelor and Masters programmes, with 650 students – the doctoral programme has approximately 40 students. The department has approximately 60 staff members (all numbers ultimo 2011). The department hosts a Centre of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway; Centre of Equality, Social Organization and Performance (ESOP).
Key personnel involved in the project
Nico Keilman responsible for Task 2 New probabilistic household projections for Germany and the Netherlands, and updates for Norway, Finland, and Denmark of Work package 2 (Economic consequences of ageing).
Main tasks attributed to them in the project
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Short profile of all personnel and previous relevant experience
Nico Keilman is professor of demography at the Department of Economics of the University of Oslo. He has more than 25 years of experience in research on population forecasting and household forecasting. He is a former editor of the journal Demographic Research, and serves on the editorial board of the book series European Studies of Population. Nico is also on the International Editorial Committee of the journal Population, Paris, and on the Scientific Advisory Council of the Netherlands Demographic Institute, The Hague. He has served on the Mortality Forecasting Panel of the Swedish Social Insurance Board and on the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Panel on Population Projections (results published in the book “Beyond Six Billion”).
At present he participates in;
NORDCORP’s AGHON project and in NORFACE’s IMEM project (“Integrated Modelling of European Migration”). Earlier, he was a participant in EU’s 5th framework research project “Changing population of Europe: Uncertain future” (nr. HPSE-CT-2001-00095).
For more information, Nico Keilman's staff page.