BRUSSELS: The European Commission has granted European legal status to a major multi-national research databank on population ageing.
The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) will become the first European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC).
“This will give it many of the administrative advantages and tax exemptions enjoyed by major international organisations, with much simpler procedures,” according to a statement on Europa, the European Union’s news website.
“This is the first ever research infrastructure project to enjoy a new European legal status that will make such projects easier to set up and simpler to run.”
SHARE-ERIC is hosted by Tilburg University in the Netherlands and aims to help researchers understand the impact of population ageing on European societies by providing open and free of charge access to data.
Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany and the Netherlands, with Switzerland as an observer, are the founding members of the new consortium.
Source: Europa.eu
