Preparation has started for the final conference, May 24-25th 2018, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. The five calls for participants – that follow our five research clusters – will go out shortly. Meet the Programme Committee: Health Claus Wendt, Chair … Lees meer
The Outline Proposal stage of the NORFACE and Belmont Forum programme “Transformations to Sustainability” has finished. The Main Applicants who submitted an Outline Proposal have been informed of the result regarding their application. The 35 teams whose proposal was shortlisted … Lees meer
With 18 million euro from the research programme “Dynamics of Inequality Across the Life-course” (DIAL), NORFACE will fund thirteen transnational research projects that will start in 2017/2018. The thirteen teams with 56 principal investigators will be researching topics ranging from … Lees meer
The Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) recently joined the NORFACE Network. FNR is the main funder of research activities in Luxembourg. It invests public funds and private donations into research projects in various branches of science and the humanities, with … Lees meer
Congratulations to Peter Taylor-Gooby, Benjamin Leruth and Heejung Chung and all members of the WelfSOC project! Their new book “After Austerity” is now in production, and marks the publication of the first book in our Oxford University Press Welfare State … Lees meer
by Jana Fingarova, TRANSWEL Intra-European mobility is directly connected to the transfer of social security rights for mobile EU citizens within the framework of the EU’s social security coordination system. In fact, the portability of social security is a central … Lees meer
In their new WSF Working Paper, Hassan Molana, Catia Montagna and George E. Onwordi from project GlobLabWS examine how labour market and welfare state reforms in the direction of flexicurity affect long-run unemployment and the dynamic response to international shocks … Lees meer
Within the WelfSOC project Our Chidren’s Europe a national conference the ‘Future of the Slovenian welfare state’ was organised on 24th of May 2017 on the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. The goal of the conference was to … Lees meer
During summer semester 2017, the WSF Project TRANSWEL organizes a series of sociological lectures on migration and social security inside the European Union. Three of the four lectures are presentations by the principal investigators of the international and interdisciplinary TRANSWEL … Lees meer
By Dr Lien Nguyen and Ismo Linnosma On the Health Economics Day last month in Finland, there were eight selected health economics presentations in the afternoon, one of which was from the Finnish members of the EXCELC team. Ismo Linnosmaa … Lees meer