Which loneliness measures can Europe compare? New study in Collabra
A registered report in Collabra: Psychology tests how well common loneliness questionnaires work in all 27 EU member states.
Maike Luhmann, photo credit: Julia Merkel
Alliance Against Loneliness in Germany
The Alliance Against Loneliness brings together public and private organisations in Germany to reduce loneliness. Maike Luhmann is a founding member.
Country visit Netherlands: getting loneliness work into schools
Our online country visit to the Netherlands asked how organisations working on loneliness can get into schools.
Country visit Sweden: funding projects that work together
Our online country visit to Sweden raised the question of whether loneliness funding should reward collaboration between projects.
Country visit Spain: shorter loneliness protocols for Aragón
Practitioners in Aragón told us that long loneliness protocols are hard to use, and that they need a short, practical guide.
Help shape how Europe measures loneliness
We invite people across the EU to help decide which of 57 candidate categories belong in the new EU Social Isolation and Loneliness Index.
Mapping 2,720 ways to measure social connection
A LONELY-EU review of more than 80,000 articles finds that measures of social connection and loneliness vary widely and rarely overlap.
Milan event links loneliness research to policy
The Italian LONELY-EU partners brought policymakers, researchers, and third-sector organisations together in Milan to discuss loneliness as a social challenge.
Photo: AWK NRW/Engel-Albustin
Maike Luhmann gives keynote at loneliness symposium in Düsseldorf
At a symposium of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, LONELY-EU coordinator Maike Luhmann explained why loneliness concerns us all.
EU Loneliness Explorer maps loneliness data across Europe
Our first research deliverable, the EU Loneliness Explorer, brings hundreds of datasets on loneliness in Europe and the UK into one searchable tool.