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among people in the region. The Fund provides funding for common cultural, scientific, research a... more among people in the region. The Fund provides funding for common cultural, scientific, research and educational projects, youth exchanges, promotion of tourism and cross-border cooperation. Most of the grant recipients are non-governmental organizations, municipalities and local governments, universities, schools and other public institutions and also individual citizens. The Fund also awards individual scholarships and artist residencies. By the end of 2009 the Fund has supported more than 2,500 grant projects and awarded almost 800 scholarships and 90 artist residencies.

Population Space and Place

The religious profile of the world is rapidly changing, driven primarily by differences in fertil... more The religious profile of the world is rapidly changing, driven primarily by differences in fertility rates and the size of youth populations among the world’s major religions, as well as by people switching faiths. Over the next four decades, Christians will remain the largest religious group, but Islam will grow faster than any other major religion.

Demographic analysis usually stratifies the population by age and sex. This is important because ... more Demographic analysis usually stratifies the population by age and sex. This is important because fertility, mortality and migration rates vary substantially by these demographic dimensions and because the age and sex structure of the population matters for the society and economy. Recently, demographers have started to add the level of education as a third dimension for the same reasons: demographic rates tend to vary greatly by level of education, and the educational structure of the population has significant consequences for society and economy. Furthermore, educational attainment is a very stable personal attribute over the life cycle for which good empirical data exist. Therefore, it can be projected along cohort lines using standard demographic techniques. The appropriate methodology, the multi-state model of population dynamics including differential fertility, mortality and migration rates, was developed at IIASA during the 1970s.

There have been few attempts at creating data series on levels of educational attainment of the a... more There have been few attempts at creating data series on levels of educational attainment of the adult population consistent across time and space by age and sex. They would be needed to estimate the role played by education and human capital in economic, technological, environmental models as correctly as possible. In 2007, Lutz et al developed a methodology to reconstruct (and project) levels of educational attainment based on the information contained in the base-year source of choice for the most recent period (Lutz et al. 2007a). The methodology was applied again in the framework of a new round of population projections published in 2014 online (www.wittgensteincentre.org/dataexplorer) and in the Oxford University book "World Population and Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century" edited by Lutz, Butz and KC. There, the coverage increased to 171 countries and the number of education categories to six. The back-projection methodology was applied to the updated base-ye...

Population, Space and Place, 2015

Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2015, 2015

Demographic Research, 2015

People who are religiously unaffiliated (including self-identifying atheists and agnostics, as we... more People who are religiously unaffiliated (including self-identifying atheists and agnostics, as well as those who say their religion is "nothing in particular") made up 16.4% of the world's population in 2010. Unaffiliated populations have been growing in North America and Europe, leading some to expect that this group will grow as a share of the world's population. However, such forecasts overlook the impact of demographic factors, such as fertility and the large, aging unaffiliated population in Asia.

ABSTRACT In this study we provide an overview of Global Citizenship Education, focusing on defini... more ABSTRACT In this study we provide an overview of Global Citizenship Education, focusing on definitions, methodological advances and data. We present an assessment of some of the existing initiatives for the measurement Global Citizenship Education, and make suggestions for how to move towards a globally consistent measure. Although there is some disagreement over how to measure global citizenship and global citizenship education, we also find consensus on parts of the concept. We are proposing to construct a composite indicator consisting of three complementary levels – the societal level (e.g., the level of democracy; macro level indicators of openness), the supplier level (e.g., provision of education; availability of training relevant for global citizenship); and the receiver level (civic identity, values, skills and knowledge). We conclude that one potential cost-effective approach could be to integrate evidence from several nationally representative surveys, providing us with world-wide coverage. We also discuss the feasibility and benefits of this measurement approach as well as its challenges.