This newsletter provides lots of
information on the forthcoming 25NKG such as keynote speakers and
announcement for prizes and grants, and an exclusive interview of the
oldest Icelander.
You may provide news, reports from
past events, and information on upcoming events etc. to the secretary
of NGF.
The registration and call for abstracts opens 1st October 2019! Deadline for symposia abstracts is 15th December 2019 and for individual abstracts 1st February 2020. The organizing team for the congress consist of seven people
coming from The Icelandic Gerontological Society and The Icelandic
Geriatric Medicine. The President for the 25NKG is Steinunn
Thordardottir. 25NKG has opened a website for the
congress http://www.25nkg.is/.
IAGG-ER congress was organized 23rd-25th May 2019 in Gothenburg, Sweden
For the first time, IAGG-ER took place in a Nordic country. More than 1600 delegates registered to the intense 3-day congress ‘Towards Capability in Ageing – from cell to society‘. Besides acknowledged keynote speakers, the program included symposia, oral, and poster sessions. There were 14 parallel sessions each day. Also a Master Class "Portraying Old Age and Ageing to Counteract Ageism" was organized for PhD students. Please find more information of the congress from the website iagger2019.se/
The 24th Nordic Congress of Gerontology was a great success!There were 794 registered
participants in the congress who mostly came from the Nordic countries
but also from other countries. There were 58 symposia, 103 indivudual
oral presentations and 311 poster presentations. Oral presentation were
given in 16 sessions and overall there were 600 scientific
presentations in the congress. There were two lectures given by the
prizewinners and eight keynote lectures covering a wide range of
gerontological disciplines.
24NKG prize and grant winners
The 2018 Nordic Gerontology Prize (the Sohlberg Prize) was awarded to Professor Taina Rantanen from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. The NGF prize for a promising resercher was awarded to Dr. Ólöf Guðný Geirsdóttir who is an associate professor at the Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland. NGF also provided 9 travel grants for PhD candidates and early career researchers for 24NKG participation
The Nordic Gerontological Federation (NGF) was founded 1974 as an
umbrella organization for the gerontological and geriatric
organizations in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The
primary mission of NGF is to support, organize and expand
gerontological research, development and education within the Nordic
countries. Read more about NGF by clicking the tabs in the left menu.