During the first phase of the NCCR LIVES, 14 individual projects were developed. Most of them continue in the second phase.

• Vulnerability processes in adult life: Cumulative disadvantages, critical events, and socio-psychosocial resources (IP1)

• From youth to adulthood: Descendents of immigrants insertion in the Swiss society (IP2)
• Economic inequalities: Towards pathways out of vulnerability (IP4)
• Overcoming vulnerability to unemployment: Possibilities and limits of the so-called "active" social policies (IP5)
• Vulnerability at the interface of professional and family life: Gender and occupational differentials (IP6)
• Professional trajectories: Impact of individual characteristics and resources, and cultural background (IP7)
• Critical events and family configurations (IP8)
• Facing critical events in early adulthood: A normative approach to vulnerability and life course regulation (IP9)
• Health trajectories and life transitions: A life course approach to health vulnerability (IP10)
• Women facing cancer: Impact of the social suppport (IP11)
• Vulnerability and growth: Developmental dynamics and differential effects of the loss of an intimate partner in the 2nd life half (IP12)
• Behind the democratization of old age: Inequalities within progress (IP13)
• Measuring life sequences and the disorder of lives (IP14)
• Life transitions in context: Towards an integrated methodological framework for studying the impact of critical events (IP15)