Time: 10-12 June Venue: Departament de Sociologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona Organizers: The course has been organized by four FP 7 projects, i.e. Localise, Cope, Wilco and Flows in collaboration with the Doctoral School of Social Science, Aalborg University. The local welfare state plays a major role in the delivery of services to welfare…
LOCALISE midterm workshop
LOCALISE is now halfway through the project period and we would like to cordially invite everyone interested in the project to participate in our midterm workshop! The workshop is to be held in Brussels on March 1st 2013 and aims at reflecting the implications of our research for policy-making. We will discuss comparative results of…
Milan Workshop on ‘Integrated Employment and Activation Policies’
In the framework of the LOCALISE Workshop on ‘Integrated Employment and Activation Policies’, researchers from all over Europe met in Milan from August 30-31. They contributed to the workshop with extremely interesting presentations and very fruitful discussions on a ‘second wave of activation studies’. Participants can find here papers and presentation slides (password protected). For…
2nd Progress Meeting
The aim of the Second Progress Meeting was: 1) to present the WP2 Comparative Paper and the plans for an edited volume; 2) to present WP4 National Reports and discuss the WP4 National Comparative Paper template; 3) to discuss and agree on the WP5 analytical framework; 4) to agree on a common methodology for developing…
Protected: Papers and slides of the Milan Workshop on “Integrated Employment and Activation Policies”
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Field work started – National Stakeholder meetings successful
All project partners now have started with the field work for their first case study in work package 4. In Sweden, Poland, France, UK, Italy and Germany, researchers are currently conducting a high number of interviews with actors involved in the local organisation of integrated social and employment policies. Together with various doucuments, these interviews…
2nd LOCALISE Newsletter
The second newsletter of our project is now available. It gives an update on current research activities, changes in project organisation and other events.
1st Progress Meeting
The 1st Progress Meeting was judged as a very fruitful and successful event by all partners. Detailed theoretical and practical results were achieved and a clear working plan for the coming weeks and months until the Second Progress Meeting at the end of August in Milan was agreed upon. The aim of the First Progress…
LOCALISE kicked off
On August 30- 31st, 2011, the European Research Project LOCALISE was kicked off in Oldenburg, Germany. During two days of intensive work and fruitful discussions, 12 researchers from six European countries developed a detailed working plan for the next three years. The meeting started on Tuesday morning with an initial statement by Heiko Prange-Gstöhl from…
CETRO Summer School 2011: successful and enjoyable
During two intensive days with appealing presentations and fruitful debates, ten PhD students and young researchers had the chance to discuss their current work with lead researchers in the field of European employment and activation policies. Topics like „From Alimentation to Activation? Continuity and Change in Labour Market Policies in Europe”, “The impact of activation…