About Civex

CIVEX (Exclusion from civic engagement of a diverse older population: Features, experiences and policy implications) is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary research project funded under the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) “More Years, Better Lives”.

CIVEX aims to investigate features of exclusion from multidimensional civic engagement in later life and older adults’ experiences of such exclusion, and to identify evidence-based policy responses to address exclusion from civic activities.

CIVEX includes research teams from four European countries selected to represent Continental (Belgium), Southern (Spain), and Nordic (Finland and Sweden) welfare state regimes and cultural contexts. The national teams are supported by the following grants: Belgium (BELSPO, B2/21E/P3/CIVEX), Finland (Academy of Finland, 345022), Spain (Spanish State Research Agency, PCI2021-121951), and Sweden (Forte, 2020-01535). 

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Objectives

1. Examine and compare micro-level variables associated with older people’s exclusion from multidimensional civic engagement.
2. Explore the influence of constrasting meso-level contexts on older people’s exclusion from mutlidimensional civic engagement.
3. Examine the influence of contrasting macro-level contexts on older people’s exclusion from multidimensional civic engagement.
4. Explore the experiences of inclusion/exclusion from multidimensional civic engagement of potentially marginalised groups.
5. Study the ways in which conditions earlier in life and at key stages in older adults’ life courses affect their opportunities for multidimensional civic engagement in later life.

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Team

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Publications