The LIVES Center is composed of seven major interdisciplinary research projects (IP), co-directed by professors from the Universities of Lausanne, Geneva, Fribourg and Zurich.

• IP1. Meso-level and policy mechanisms of vulnerability (meso-level)
  Co-directed by Leen Vandecasteele, Jean-Michel Bonvin

• IP2. Health in vulnerable groups: Patterns of resources (health)
  Co-directed Caudine Burton-Jeangros, Daniela Jopp

• IP3. Life-course mechanisms of vulnerability in old age: The role of multidomain reserves (ageing)
  Co-directed by Matthias Kliegel, Jürgen Maurer

• IP4. Vulnerability through lack of employment: Firms, inequality, and job loss (employability)
  Co-directed by Daniel Oesch, Michele Pellizzari

• IP5. Family ties and vulnerability processes: Network-wide properties, agency and life-course relational reserves (family)
  Co-directed by Clémentine Rossier, Laura Bernardi

• IP6. Gender, mobility and vulnerabilities (gender and mobility)
  Co-directed by Nicky Le Feuvre, Eric Davoine

• IP7. Resource dynamics to overcoming career and work-related vulnerabilities (career paths)
  Co-directed by Jérôme Rossier, Willibald Ruch