Budget for 2026 Approved:Main Activities

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The COST Association has officially approved the 2025 budget for the GREATLEAP project, enabling the team to move forward with its planned activities for the year. This milestone marks an exciting phase for GREATLEAP, as the approved funding will support a range of impactful initiatives across the network.

The overview of the confirmed activities can be seen below: 
What When Where Deadline  Call
Virtual Lecture Series ‘Introduction in Inequality in health’ modules on methods November 2025-October 2026 Online Open for everyone
Virtual Searchaton with Archives Portal Europe Homepage To be planned 2026 Online  
WG1 Virtual Workshop  (I) ‘Transcribing the Past: Citizen Scientists and Automation in Historical Demography’ 29 January 2026 Online 15 November 2025
Masterclass Inequalities in health at Young Demographers Conference 4-6 February 2026 Prague, Czech Republic 27 October 2025
WG1 Workshop ‘Towards a refined social history of disease: contextualizing the rise and fall of social inequalities in cause-specific mortality’ (Sean Clouston) 27 February 2026 Wageningen, NL 1 October 2025
WG1 Workshop ‘Accuracy of Cause-of-Death Registration: Everyday Conditions, Crises, and Epidemics’ 18-19 March 2026 Barcelona, Spain 10 December 2025
WG1 Hands-on Workshop (II) ‘Transcribing the Past: Citizen Scientists and Automation in Historical Demography’ 26 March 2026 Gent, Belgium Invites on the basis of workshop (I)
Thematic Workshop ‘The deep roots of persistent health inequalities: Socioeconomic and epidemiological drivers since the 19th century’ 6 May 2026 Glasgow, UK Being prepared
GREATLEAP Meeting WG1-5  11-13 May 2026 Cluj-Napoca, Romania Being prepared
Thematic Workshop “One Epidemic, Many Estimates: Uniting Methods to Measure Excess Mortality” 21-22 May 2026 London, UK 15 March 2026
Summer Training School ‘Health Inequalities, from Sources to Statistical Models’ 8-19 June 2026 Barcelona, Spain 15 January 2026
ESHD Summer Training School ‘Historical households, health and fertility using micro-census data’ 6-17 July 2026 Cambridge, UK Being prepared (2 February 2026)
WG3 Workshop/Meeting ‘Spatial analyses using cause of death data’ 20-21 August 2026 Copenhagen, Denmark Being prepared (1 February 2025)
WG5 Masterclass ‘Communicating Inequality in Health Research’ 24–28 August 2026 Riga, Latvia’ Being prepared
These activities reflect GREATLEAP’s ongoing commitment to advancing research into the study of historical inequalities in health and fostering collaboration across disciplines. Regular virtual meetings of the working groups will continue to supplement these activities, though they are not included in this overview.
Stay tuned for detailed announcements regarding dates and participation opportunities!
 
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