International Funding Agencies

The SHARE data collection has been primarily funded by the European Commission through the 5th framework programme (project QLK6-CT-2001-00360 in the thematic programme Quality of Life). Further support by the European Commission through the 6th framework programme (projects SHARE-I3, RII-CT-2006-062193, as an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative, COMPARE, CIT5-CT-2005-028857, as a project in Priority 7, Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge Based Society, and SHARE-LIFE (CIT4-CT-2006-028812)) and through the 7th framework programme (SHARE-PREP (No 211909) and SHARE-LEAP (No 227822)) is gratefully acknowledged. 

Substantial co-funding for add-ons such as the intensive training programme for SHARE interviewers came from the U.S. National Institute on Aging (U01 AG09740-13S2, P01 AG005842, P01 AG08291, P30 AG12815, R21 AG025169, Y1-AG-4553-01, IAG BSR06-11 and OGHA 04-064).

Additional funding for the central coordination of SHARE came from the German Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF).

We thank, in alphabetical order, Giulia Amaducci, Kevin McCarthy, Hervé Pero, Ian Perry, Robert-Jan Smits, Dominik Sobczak and Maria Theofilatou in DG Research for their continuing support of SHARE. We are also grateful for the support by DG Employment, Social Affairs, and Equal Opportunities through Georg Fischer, Ruth Paserman, Fritz von Nordheim, and Jérôme Vignon, and by DG Economic and Financial Affairs through Declan Costello, Bartosz Pzrywara and Klaus Regling.

National Funding Agencies

Some SHARE countries had national co-funding which was important to carry out the study. Sweden was supported by the Swedish Social Insurance Agency and Spain acknowledges gratefully the support from Instituto Nacional de Estadistica and IMSERSO. Austria (through the Austrian Science Foundation, FWF) and Belgium (through the Belgian Science Policy Administration and the Flemish agency for Innovation by Science and Technology) were mainly nationally funded. Switzerland received additional funding from the University of Lausanne, the Département Universitaire de Médecine et Santé Communautaires (DUMSC) and HEC Lausanne (Faculté des Hautes Etudes Commerciales).
Data collection for wave 1 was nationally funded in France through the Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie, Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Vieillesse, Conseil d'Orientation des Retraites, Direction de la Recherche, des Etudes, de l'Evaluation et des Statistiques du ministère de la santé, Direction de l'Animation de la Recherche, des Etudes et des Statistiques du ministère du Travail, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, and Commissariat Général du Plan. INSEE (Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques) co-founded all 3 waves. The SHARE data collection in Israel was funded by the U.S. National Institute on Aging (R21 AG025169), by the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (G.I.F.), and by the National Insurance Institute of Israel. Germany received additional funding from the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) and from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft, DFG) within the programmes for promoting the provision of Scientific Library Services and Information Systems (LIS).