SHARE-ERIC
In March 2011, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) became the first European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). This gives it many of the same advantages and tax exemptions enjoyed by major international organisations.
While SHARE-ERIC has its legal seat in, and is hosted by, Tilburg University/Netspar in the Netherlands, the actual coordination of SHARE takes place at MEA (Munich Center for the Economics of Aging), Max-Planck-Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Germany. The project aims to help researchers understand the impact of population ageing on European societies and thus to help policy makers make decisions on health, social and economic policy.
Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany and the Netherlands are the founding members of SHARE-ERIC, with Switzerland having an observer status. Italy joined in June 2011. Denmark, Spain, France and Portugal are expected to follow soon.
Commission Decision and Statutes of the SHARE-ERIC