12. 12.09:
Addictions and Lifestyles - new trends
QeC- European Regeneration Areas Network are looking for a partnership of 6 cities/regions LINKED to 6 universities. The aim is that the work package will bring together 6 localities and 6 transnational and multi disciplinary research teams under the 7th Framework Programme.
The proposed work packages will form part of an overall project on Addictions and Lifestyles led by the university of Leeds, UK. The key characteristics of the proposal are:
• a focus on the IPOD generation (those who are now 26 years old). This is a generation which is living lifestyles and developing wider forms of addiction, or rather ''excessive appetites''. It is also a generation which''lives''diversity rather than previous generations which essentially ''consumed'' diversity. It is also a generation which is experiencing very different paths in terms of "transition". It is also a generation which is largely focused on ''me''.
• A focus on new forms of ''addiction'' in terms of research
• A focus on drugs BUT from a new focus in which certain drugs have become far more commonly consumed and a consumption that is linked to lifestyle.
• A focus on "action research". Our overall goal is to generate new research, new studies etc, but linked to informing and improving local/regional /national policy and actions relating to these new addictions and new patterns of drug consumption.
Isabella Haaf, QeC- European Regeneration Areas Network
: isabellahaaf@qec-eran.org
