Based on the data from the Ageing Survey, cantonal and federal statistics, and results from research and development projects, the School of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geomatics at the FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland will create a digital ageing atlas. This atlas will provide a map of the ageing society, which will depict the demographic change in its socio-spatial and living-situation-specific dimensions in an interactive way that can be easily understood.

The results produced within the context of the Ageing Atlas are to be transferred into practice, implemented and assessed through the procedure for social innovation developed at the School of Social Work at the FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. The results will also be incorporated into teaching (e.g. in the form of research workshops in the Social Work master’s programme, modules for the area of specialisation of Ageing within the Social Work bachelor’s programme, etc.), which means that these results will be made accessible to future social-work professionals as well as to partners in the field.