Stimulating collaboration and fostering scientific exchange

Facilitating comparisons with SHARE sister studies

Administrative data linked up to SHARE Wave 9

Presenting final results and policy recommendations of the SHARE-COVID19 project

Administrative data from Finland linked up to SHARE Wave 9

SHARE-Gateway User Conference 2024

First release offers seven blood biomarkers as additional objective measures of health

Danish administrative data linked up to SHARE Wave 9

New data set includes Wave 9

“From the SHARE Corona Survey 2 to the SHARE Main Wave 9 Interview” now available.

Number of scientific SHARE-based publications surpasses new threshold and is steadily increasing.

The entire SHARE family is deeply saddened by the sudden death of Joris Voskuilen who passed away on January 5th 2024, at the age of 61.

PhD Opportunity in Aging and Health Research at the University of Lausanne

„Social, health, and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the epidemiological control measures“

"Effects of sampling and non-sampling errors on the collection of survey data on the physical and mental health status of the elderly population"

Invitation to the 2023 User Workshop on September 27 & 28 in Berlin

The 7th SHARE User Conference has started today in Bled, Slovenia

SHARE-ERIC Council adopts extension of SHARE after 2024

SHARE will hold its 7th User Conference in Bled, Slovenia, 5-7 October 2022. The conference theme is Ageing Societies Facing Health, Social and Economic Crises.

The SHARE group at University of Southern Denmark (SDU) is looking for excellent and highly motivated researchers.

German leading research institutions bring Europe's largest social science panel study to Berlin

Administrative data linked up to SHARE Wave 8

In the light of the current attack of the Russian Federation on Ukraine, SHARE expresses its deepest concern about the safety of Ukrainians and the integrity of Ukraine. 

New Objective health measures in SHARE introduced in Wave 8

During the COVID-19 pandemic, access to healthcare has been reduced especially for economically deprived and patients with poor or worsening health status, making older patients increasingly vulnerable

New data set includes SHARE Corona Survey 2

“Collecting Cross-National Survey Data in Times of COVID-19” now available

International Coordinator (full time, m/f/d) to be filled as early as possible in 2022.

Researchers analyzed the willingness to get vaccinated against the background of demographic, socio-economic and health factors of people in Europe and Israel

Updated SHARE flyer available

SHARE completed its fieldwork of the second Corona Survey successfully in all 28 countries.

The SHARE-ERIC Annual Activity Report 2020-21 can now be accessed on our website

Release version 1.0.0 of Wave 8 data is now available!

After successful field rehearsal in spring, the main fieldwork for the second SHARE Corona Survey has started

A new study based on data from the SHARE Corona Survey examines the medium-term consequences of COVID-19 on mental well-being by shedding light on feelings of sadness, depression and loneliness after the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Submit your abstract by 30 April 2021

A new study based on data from the SHARE Corona Survey investigates how private care networks were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and provides new insights on the care situation across Europe.

SHARE-ERIC is celebrating its 10th anniversary as the first European Research Infrastructure Consortium

Number of scientific SHARE-based publications surpasses new threshold and is steadily increasing.

Early release of SHARE Wave 8 COVID-19 data

The EU Commission accepted the proposal of the SHARE-COVID19 research project to investigate the health, behavioural, social and economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak

Call for Abstracts

SHARE Release 7.1.0 is now available!

The SHARE-ERIC Annual Activity Report 2019-20 can now be accessed on our website

SHARE resumes Wave 8 fieldwork via telephone interviews including a special SHARE Corona questionnaire

Learn from experienced leaders in research infrastructures through our series of webinars

Fieldwork of Wave 8 data collection paused in affected countries

23 ERIC and ERIC-to-be came together with EU and ESFRI representatives in Brussels

Directors of the ERIC Forum members met in Amsterdam to discuss governance

Call for applications extended until October 31

SHARE data can now be linked with administrative data from the Netherlands

The SHARE family has grown to five digits

The joint SHARE User Conference and Budapest Pension Seminar has kicked off in Hungary

The “Social Policy and Law Shared Database” (SPLASH) is online now!

Submit your proposals!

New call for applications open now!

“Panel Innovations and Life Histories” is now available online.

Registration closed

On June 25, SHARE brought together actors from research and policy in Brussels for the release of its new First Results Book.

The SHARE-ERIC Annual Activity Report 2018-19 can now be accessed on our website

First results of SHARE Wave 6 and 7 - Health and socio-economic status over the life course

Read up on the latest SHARE news

We are very happy to announce SHARE Release 7.0.0!

May 16th, 2019 in Cologne, Germany

We are looking for a colleague to join our Munich team!

SHARE ERIC is workpackage leader

Submit your abstract by February 28, 2019

4th “Transforming Care Conference” in Copenhagen

Meat and fish consumption of the European population aged 50 and older

New web interface for browsing and searching the SHARE (meta)data

SHARE-ERIC Position Paper on Long-Term Financial Sustainability

Team members of SHARE-ERIC met with CERIC-ERIC in Trieste/ Italy to exchange about communication and managerial topics.

Prof. Börsch-Supan meets with Federal Minister of Education and Research and Bavarian Minister for Science and Arts

Extension of SHARE study allows for EU-wide country-comparisons

The SHARE-ERIC Annual Activity Report 2017-18 can now be accessed on our website

New call for applications open now!

New blog presents scientific analyses based on SHARE data

BBC Article on a New Study with SHARE data

Check out our SHARE News in a nutshell!

SHARE Release 6.1.0 is now available!

BBC Article on a New Study with SHARE data

Procurement for Wave 8 has started on January 29, 2018

Management and leadership expertise directly from leading research infrastructures

Submit your abstracts or full papers until February 5, 2018.

"Survey Participation in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), Wave 1-6"

Questionnaire innovations, methodological advancements and new procedures of Wave 6

Check out our SHARE News in a nutshell!

New Data Release

Visit us at the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) 2017 conference in Lisbon, Portugal

13 ERICs sign Memorandum of Understanding and establish the ERIC forum

SHARE is very happy to announce the release of Wave 6 data!

Please enjoy reading our Newsletter No. 20.

The Memorandum of Understanding signed on 25th October 2016 between the two European Research Infrastructure Consortia, CERIC-ERIC and SHARE-ERIC – having their seat in Trieste and Munich respectively – strengthens scientific collaboration between Friuli Venezia Giulia and Bavaria.

We are very happy to integrate eight new countries into SHARE.

Harmonised net income measures in SHARE Wave 1

Learn how to get more out of the SHARE data and get your work known to other data users!

SHARE research findings

The use of SHARE data is increasing all over the world. Read more in our current SHARE Newsletter No. 18.

This new release is a major data update of all waves released by SHARE so far (Waves 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5)

SHARE – Switzerland - September 5-6, 2016 - University of Lausanne

New SHARE flyer available

SHARE Wave 7 Post-Pretest Meeting, 16 to 18 March 2016, Vilnius, Lithuania

Three SERISS research infrastructures become ESFRI Landmarks

The first Swedish workshop about SHARE took place on February 25th at the Aging Research Center in Stockholm.

We are happy to present our new SHARE Newsletter No.17

From 12-13 November 2015 the 5th International SHARE User Conference took place at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-economic Research (LISER) in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.

Ageing in Europe: A new book presents evidence on how to reinforce social and economic inclusion in spite of population ageing

Release event 29th October in Brussels

12-13 November 2015 -

Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

SHARE Newsletter No.16 – September 2015

Synergies for Europe’s Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences (SERISS)

Call for Papers

Major data update of Waves 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 to be published

Release 2.0.0 of easySHARE is now available

The SHARE Wave 5 data release 1.0.0 is now available

For an overview of what has been going on in the past months, we have just sent out the newest edition of our newsletter.

For almost ten years the number of SHARE publications has been steadily increasing.

We have just uploaded the SHARE Compliance Profiles for Wave 5.

Poland joined SHARE-ERIC on 22nd Oct., 2014.

For an overview of what has been going on in the past months, we have just sent out the newest edition of our newsletter.

The job episodes panel is a generated dataset that rearranges information taken from waves 1 to 3 of SHARE in order to create a ready-to-use “long panel”.

easySHARE is now available for the statistical program R.

In March 2011, SHARE became the first European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC).

Please refer to the PDF files for detailed info.

For an overview of what has been going on in the past six months, we have just sent out the newest edition of our bi-annual newsletter.

If you are interested in using easySHARE for your analysis, take a look at the freshly released working paper.

From November 28-29 the 4th international SHARE User Conference took place at the HEC Business School in Liège, Belgium.

The Austrian Ministry of Science is organizing a joint conference of Austrian ESFRI projects of human and social sciences held on October 24th, 2013, in Vienna.

As a partner of the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) "More Years, Better Lives - The Potential and Challenges of Demographic Change" information about SHARE has now been included in the JPI Data Mapping Project.

From February 13th to 14th 2014 a SHARE data workshop will take place in collaboration with Gesis.

If you have general questions concerning SHARE, the frequently asked questions provide a perfect starting point.

On October 24th a conference on the topic of research infrastructures will take place in Vienna.

For young researchers the German RatSWD is organizing a poster presentation.

The Austrian Ministry of Science is organizing a joint conference of Austrian ESFRI projects of human and social sciences held on October 24th, 2013, in Vienna.

During the next weeks SHARE will be represented on two major international conferences, the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York and the 27th International Population Conference IUSSP in Busan, Korea.

On June 27th 2013 the publication of „Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations. First Results from SHARE after the Economic Crisis” as well as the official launch of Wave 4 have been celebrated in Brussels.

The 4th International SHARE User Conference will take place November 28-29, 2013 at the HEC Business School in Liège, Belgium.

The Israeli country team published the country specific First Results Book “Changes in the Second Half of Life. Recent Findings from SHARE-Israel: The Longitudinal Survey of People Aged 50 and Older, 2005-2010”, edited by Leah Achdut & Howard Litwin.

The renowned International Journal of Epidemiology just published the article entitled "Data Resource Profile: The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)".

The Swiss country team of SHARE at IMES and FORS is organizing a workshop about the role of biomarkers at the University of Lausanne. It will take place September 6-7.

The SHARE Wave 4 data release 1.1.1 is now available for download.

You can download these flyers in several different language versions.

The compliance profiles have been released and can be downloaded.

We have just released another volume which gives a detailed account of the innovations and methodology of SHARE Wave 4.

For an overview of what has been going on in the past six months, we have just sent out the newest edition of our bi-annual newsletter.

The German Pension Insurance and the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) organized a workshop about linking survey and social security data. The workshop was held November 22th-23rd 2012 at the German Pension Insurance Office, Berlin.

We are very happy to announce an updated release of SHARE wave 4 data.

The Research Data Center of the German Pension Fund and MEA, the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging organize a workshop on “Linking survey and social security data”.

SHARE will be represented with an exhibition stand on the 36th Congress of the German Society for Sociology (DGS). The congress takes place October 1st-5th in Bochum and Dortmund.

For the past 6 months we have been working on improving our facebook page and we continuously try to provide up to date information about SHARE.

We have updated our user statistics and since the beginning of this year almost 400 new users joined, amounting to 2700 in total.

As previously announced, SHARE traveled to Denver, CO as a part of the Research in Germany initiative in late August.

As a part of the "Research in Germany" activities at the 2012 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting SHARE will travel to Denver.

We have updated our SHARE brochure. The content has been revised and updated with two new articles and additionally the brochure has been redesigned.

You can now find policy papers as well as miscellaneous papers in the reorganized publications section.

SHARE will take part in a two day data workshop at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing on June 25th and June 26th.

Am 22. Mai wird Dr. Martina Brandt im Haus der Europäischen Union in Wien einen Vortrag zu dem Thema "Transfer zwischen den Generationen" halten.

A new SHARE Working Paper "Two measures of lifetime resources for Europe using SHARELIFE" by Christoph T. Weiss is now online.

The first Italian SHARE Users’ Conference will take place on June 28-29, 2012, at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

The Danish EU presidency opened the "Year of active ageing and solidarity between generations" on 18 January 2011 in Copenhagen with a presentation by the SHARE coordinator showing how SHARE teaches us that many myths about ageing are wrong.

Information and Downloads can now be found.

In August 2011, SHARE was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) in Las Vegas.

In November 2010, retrospective life history data from the third wave of SHARE, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe were made available to the scientific community (www.share-project.org/sharelife).

Please note that the terms and conditions of SHARE data usage have changed.

September 1-2, 2011, Tallinn, Estonia

The Individual and the State: One Century of Life Histories in Europe.

SHARE release 2.3.1 provides updated imputations, other modules remain unchanged. Please see SHARE Release Guide 2.3.1 for more information.

Das Wissenschaftsportal für die Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar. Die besten Ideen und Innovationen live erleben!

Altern in Europa: SHARE veröffentlicht die SHARELIFE-Lebenslaufdaten.

The Individual and the State: One Century of Life Histories in Europe.

Über 60 Forscher aus ganz Europa und den USA trafen sich in Mainz um ihre Resultate auf Basis des SHARE und der Schwesterstudien ELSA und HRS vorzustellen und zu diskutieren.

The Journal of European Social Policy has published a Special Issue on SHARE (Vol. 19, No. 4), covering a variety of topics such as changes in older European's health, social relations in the older population, and elders' economic situation.

More than 60 researchers from all over Europe and the US met at the second SHARE User Conference in Mainz to discuss their results based on SHARE as well as the ELSA and HRS sister surveys.

Retraite & Societé is a specialized interdisciplinary journal devoted to questions of retirement and ageing

says the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, represented by its State Secretary Prof. Dr. Frieder Meyer-Krahmer.

„Wir wollen mehr über das Alter lernen“, sagt Prof. Dr. Frieder Meyer-Krahmer, Staatssekretär im Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung.

Special Issue of Retraite & Société based on SHARE data