We are pleased to announce that Louise Beltzung will be presenting a paper at the International LSE-Conference on Evidence-Based Policy in Long-Term Care on September 10, 2010 (written together with Susanne Mayer, Research Assistant at the University of Economics in Vienna). The paper ‘Support for informal caregivers beyond mobile care: policy approaches to market failure phenomena’ is based on research done for a Master Thesis at the Institute for Social Policy of the University of Economics in 2009. The 2010 conference at the London School of Economics aims to provide a forum for exchanging the latest international evidence on key long-term care policy topics such as how to organise, deliver, fund and regulate services. The emphasis is therefore on evaluative research with clear impact on policy.

On Sunday 18 April 2010, four ICCR staff members took part in the team competition at the traditional Vienna City Marathon. Bernadette Allinger, Louise Beltzung, Jérôme Segal and Michael Schmidt completed the 42.195km in 3 hours and 23 minutes and thus came 72nd out of the 1,435 finishing teams in the “Mixed” class. The real hero of the team was Jérôme, who ran the full marathon distance despite an injury and the fact that he had completed the Paris marathon in 2 hours 49 minutes just seven days before!

Thanks to the beautiful spring weather, the event once again attracted tens of thousands of spectators and the ICCR team will surely be back to set a new team record next year.

We regret to announce that three members of the ICCR left the institute at the end of August 2009.

Katherine Dolan, who worked on the ECO-BUILD project, is taking up an internship at the European Commission in Brussels.

After very many years at the institute, Niki Rodousakis has taken leave of absence to continue her private further education studies.

After receiving a scholarship from the Austrian Institute for Higher Studies, Andreas Schadauer will be devoting all his time to completing his Ph. D. thesis in the field of sociological theory.

We send these colleagues and friends our very best wishes on their respective career paths.