{"id":299,"date":"2011-09-19T13:56:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T13:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.localise-research.eu\/?page_id=299"},"modified":"2018-02-28T12:58:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T12:58:21","slug":"wp-5-the-europeanisation-of-local-social-cohesion-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.localise-research.eu\/?page_id=299","title":{"rendered":"WP 5: Europeanisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Europeanisation of Local Social Cohesion Policy<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Work Package Leader: PAM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In WP05 LOCALISE analyses the Europeanisation of inter-organisational, every-day practices in the governance of integrated social cohesion policies on the local level. For achieving the European targets in employment and welfare policy, outlined in the Lisbon strategy, by OMC, the EU builds on an innovative approach of coordinating Member States\u2019 policies (Citi and Rhodes 2007, H\u00e9ritier 2003, Radaelli 2003, Begg and Berghman 2002). Throughout these processes, the concept of \u2018subsidiarity\u2019, and local delivery of services and cohesion policies has taken a crucial role. For example, the Commission suggested to \u201cencourage local and regional authorities to develop strategies for employment (\u2026) and promote partnerships\u201d because \u201call actors at the regional and local levels, (\u2026), must be mobilised to implement the European Employment Strategy\u201d (European Commission 2001). In order to support the regional and local implementation of these European policies, structural funds (\u20ac347 billion from 2007 to 2013) are now concentrated on the objectives defined by the Integrated Guidelines for Growth and Jobs (Mai\u00acrate 2006, European Commission 2005, 2006). The EES guides the European Social Fund (ESF), which spends more than \u20ac75 billion in 2007-2013, facilitating integrated social cohesion policies particularly on the regional and local level. For Member States with lower capacities, structural funds have been an important incentive for institutional reform (cf. Zirra 2010, Mailand 2009, L\u00f3pez-Santana 2006). However, while the Europeanisation of national employment and welfare regimes has attracted much research in recent years (cf. Heidenreich and Zeitlin 2009), the local usage of OMC processes, aligned programmes and structural funds, has rarely been analysed to date. Not accounting for the local usage of European resources one may underestimate the positive dynamics for social cohesion created by Europeanisation. LOCALISE will close this gap in answering three questions in particular:<br \/>\n\u2022 Do EU socio-economic cohesion and employment policy tools, mutual learning processes and resources affect the local governance of social cohesion?<br \/>\n\u2022 If so, how do these programmes and processes contribute to changing the local and regional worlds of social cohesion?<br \/>\n\u2022 Do regions most in need profit or do we see a \u2018Matthew\u2019s effect\u2019? That is to say: are there any institutional and capacities that serve as prerequisites for these policies, programmes and resources (e.g. OMC, ESF and PROGRESS) to be successfully used by local actors?<\/p>\n<p><a><\/a><br \/>\n<a> Please find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.localise-research.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/D5.7-Comparative-Report-Europeanisation.pdf\">here<\/a> the Comparative Report on the Local Usages of Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Europeanisation of Local Social Cohesion Policy Work Package Leader: PAM In WP05 LOCALISE analyses the Europeanisation of inter-organisational, every-day practices in the governance of integrated social cohesion policies on the local level. 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