PROJECT EXAMPLES EUR 23478 Eu an De d m rope I n o t gr eg ap ra an hy, ti on Mi grat R esea io n, rc C h ohe on si on S ocial T re nds Interested in European research? RTD info is our quarterly magazine keeping you in touch with main developments (results, programmes, events, etc.). It is available in English, French and German. A free sample copy or free subscription can be obtained from: European Commission Directorate-General for Research Information and Communication Unit B-1049 Brussels Fax (32-2) 29-58220 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: http://ec.europa.eu/research/rtdinfo/index_en.html
EUROPEAN COMMISSION Directorate-General for Research Directorate L – Science, economy and society Unit L.2 – Research in the economic, social sciences and humanities - Prospective Contact: Domenico Rossetti di Valdalbero European Commission Office SDME 7/34 B-1049 Brussels Tel. (32-2) 29-62811 Fax (32-2) 29-62137 E-mail: [email protected] http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ssh/ EUROPEAN COMMISSION
European Research on Social Trends
Demography, Migration, Cohesion and Integration
Seventh Research Framework Programme "Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities" (2007 – 2008)
Directorate-General for Research 2008 Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities EUR 23478 EUROPE DIRECT is a service to help you find answers to your questions about the European Union
Freephone number: 00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11
LEGAL NOTICE: Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission is responsible for the use which might be made of the following information. The views expressed in this publication are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.
A great deal of additional information on the European Union is available on the Internet. It can be accessed through the Europa server (http://europa.eu). Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2008 ISBN 978-92-79-05201-9 ISSN 1018-5593 DOI 10.2777/9015 © European Communities, 2008 Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged. Printed in Belgium
PRINTED ON WHITE CHLORINE -FREE PAPER
EUROPEAN RESEARCH ON SOCIAL TRENDS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Demographic changes and migrations
PROPOSAL TITLE PROJECT COORDINATOR
216289 Activating senior potential in ageing Europe Prof. Joop SCHIPPERS 4 ASPA
216865 Demographic change and housing wealth Prof. John DOLING 6 DEMHOW
217523 How demographic changes shape Prof. Pearl DYKSTRA 8 MULTILINKS intergenerational solidarity, well-being, and social integration: A multilinks framework
217173 Reproductive decision-making in a macro- Prof. Dimiter PHILIPOV 10 REPRO micro perspective
217206 Migration between Africa and Europe Mr Cris BEAUCHEMIN 12 MAFE
217226 Transnationalisation, migration and Prof. Pirkko PITKANEN 14 TRANS-NET transformation: Multi-level analysis of migrant transnationalism
216065 Gender, migration and intercultural Dr Maria STRATIGAKI 16 GEMIC interactions in the Mediterranean and South East Europe
217194 Enhancing evidence based policy-making in Dr Diassina DI MAGGIO 18 GEMMA gender and migration
216184 Genereting interethnic tolerance and Prof. Maria Lucinda FONSECA 20 GEITONIES neighborhood integration in European urban spaces
217157 Social platform on cities and social cohesion Prof. Frank MOULAERT 22 SOCIAL POLIS
- 1 -
Social cohesion and youth integration
PROPOSAL TITLE PROJECT COORDINATOR
217565 Small area methods for poverty and living Prof Monica PRATESI 24 SAMPLE condition estimates
217314 Faith-based organisations and exclusion in Prof. Jan VRANKEN 26 FACIT European cities
217237 The use of racial anti-discrimination laws: Dr Isabelle CARLES 28 GENDERACE Gender and citizenship in a multicultural context.
217322 Advanced methodology for European Laeken Prof Ralf MUENNICH 30 AMELI indicators
217524 On the margins of the European Community Prof. Ivar FRØNES I 32 EUMARGINS young adult immigrants in seven European countries
216122 Youth, unemployment, and exclusion in Dr Marco GIUGNI 34 YOUNEX Europe: A multidimensional approach
217223 Combating social exclusion among young Ms Thea MEINEMA 36 CSEYHP homeless populations: A comparative investigation
217297 Young people from a public care background: Dr Claire CAMERON 38 YIPPEE Pathways to education in Europe
217384 Ethnic differences in education and diverging Dr Violetta ZENTAI 40 EDUMIGROM prospects for urban youth in an enlarged Europe
217028 Religious education in a multicultural society: Dr Emer SMYTH 42 REMC School and home in comparative context 217311 Scientific indicators of confidence in justice: Prof. Mike HOUGH 44 JUSTIS Tools for policy assessment
217431 Assessment of patient payment policies and Dr Milena PAVLOVA 46 ASSPRO CEE 2007 projection of their efficiency, equity and quality effects. The case of Central and Eastern Europe 217549 European educational research quality Prof. Ingrid GOGOLIN 48 EERQI indicators
- 2 - FOREWORD
Social trends, through the ageing of population, the migratory phenomenon or social cohesion, are key questions for the European Union. The Lisbon strategy for growth and jobs laid down objectives to mitigate the effects of population ageing in the field of employment. The pact on immigration and asylum is subject to an intense European debate. European intercultural dialogue is also at stake. Thanks to the open method of coordination and its common objectives, it is now possible for the European Union to evaluate national strategies on social protection and social inclusion.
Demography, migration, integration and social cohesion are key topics for the present and future of the European Union, both at the economic and social level. This Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities research aims to develop new knowledge, tools, indicators and databases allowing the adoption of policies commensurate with the current socio-economic challenges, in particular for the labour market, social welfare and the fight against various forms of discriminations.
The projects described in this brochure are the result of the first Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities call for proposals (2007-2008) of the Seventh European Union Framework Programme. They concern mostly demographic changes and migration, social cohesion and youth integration.
The first part of this publication includes: • The issues raised by the ageing of population and the determinants of the birth rate in Europe (ASPA, DEMHOW, MULTILINKS, REPRO); • Migrations both inside the European Union and between the European Union and the third countries (MAFE, TRANSNET); • Gender, migration and intercultural interactions (GEMIC, GEMMA); • The city and its social challenges (GEITONIES and the social platform SOCIAL POLIS).
The second part of this brochure (social cohesion and social integration of the young people and other groups) deals with: • Social exclusion, factors, especially in relation to poverty and discrimination, the tools aiming at fighting exclusion and the new indicators (SAMPLE, FACIT, GENDERACE, AMELI); • The exclusion / integration of young people, including homeless and immigrants, and the question of unemployment (EUMARGINS, YOUNEX, CSEYHP, YIPPEE); • The place that education holds in the European societies, its role and its effectiveness (EDUMIGROM, REMC); • The development of new indicators able to measure the questions of justice, patient payment policy and of scientific quality (JUSTIS, ASSPRO CEE 2007, EERQI).
Social sciences research is still needed on subjects such as the question of solidarity between generations, the changing role of family in European society and the potential contribution of immigration to European economic performance. The Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities Programme will continue to address these issues.
Jean-Michel BAER
- 3 - Demographic changes and migrations
Activating senior potential in ageing Europe
ASPA
Proposal: 216289 Project coordinator:
Estimated EC contribution: 1489804 € Universiteit Utrecht Tjalling C. Koopmans Institute Starting date: 2008 NL - Utrecht Duration: 36 months Contact: Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (Small- and medium scale focused research project) Prof. Joop SCHIPPERS [email protected] Unit L.2 Scientific officer: Dominik SOBCZAK [email protected]
The dejuvenation and ageing of Europe's This proposal aims for an ambitious, exhaustive population puts society for some major examination of the forces and mechanisms challenges. behind employers’ and governments’ behaviour and the resulting societal arrangements. The development towards a knowledge-based society requires continuous investment in new To that aim it will use large-scale surveys for knowledge and skills. the analyses of employers’ behaviour and desk research and interviews to map government Given the ageing of the population and low behaviour. fertility rates it also requires high(er) participation rates of females and people over Statistical and focus group analyses will be fifty. used to get insight in the participation and activity rates of people between 50 to 70. So far, employers’ and governments’ policies have focused on human capital investments for Next, the project tries to identify good practices the younger age categories and have stimulated at the company level and at the level of older workers to retire at a relatively early age, (national or local) government policies that instead of investing in sustainable workers contribute to continuous investment in throughout the life course. knowledge and skills throughout the life course, resulting in high activity rates for people between 50 and 70.
- 4 -
Activating senior potential in ageing Europe
ASPA
Institutions/Partners/Country/Town
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) Kène HENKENS NL – The Hague
University of Warwick Warwick Institute for Employment Research Kerry Ann PLATMAN UK - Coventry
Université Paris V Centre d’Etude des Mouvements Sociaux (CEMS) Anne-Marie GUILLEMARD FR - Paris
Hochschule Vechta Research Centre for Ageing and Society Frerich FRERICHS DE - Vechta
Växjö University School of Management and Economics, Centre for Labour Market Policy Research (CAFO) Dominique ANXO SE -Växjö
Aalborg University Economy, Politics and Public Administration Per H. JENSEN DK - Aalborg
Istituto Nazionale Ricovero e Cura Anziani Department of Gerontological Research Giovanni LAMURA IT - Ancona
Jagiellonian University Institute of Sociology Jolanta PEREK-BIALAS PL - Krakow
- 5 -
Demographic changes and migrations
Demographic change and housing wealth
DEMHOW
Proposal: 216865 Project coordinator:
Estimated EC contribution: 1262193 € The University of Birmingham Iass, School of Social Sciences Starting date: 2008 UK - Birmingham Duration: 30 months Contact: Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (Small- and medium scale focused research project) Prof. John DOLING [email protected] Unit L.2 Scientific officer: Dominik SOBCZAK dominik.sobczak @ec.europa.eu
DEMHOW will investigate links between the pension crisis; and financial institutions a demographic change and housing wealth. way to increase business.
Whereas those who rent their homes may have DEMHOW will investigate the ways in which, no housing wealth at all, for many older across Member States, ageing populations and Europeans - perhaps 75% of the total - housing housing wealth are linked, how housing wealth is their single largest item of wealth. But, has been used in the past and how attitudes to increasing numbers do not have children to its use in old age are changing. whom their wealth might be bequeathed. In addition, it will investigate developments in The potential of housing assets is that they policy and in financial markets that may offer: older households a way of increasing encourage its use as a form of pension, and their consumption; governments a way to assess the characteristics of housing assets as a respond to form of pension.
- 6 -
Demographic change and housing wealth
DEMHOW
Institutions/Partners/Country/Town
Hogeschool Gent Research Group Spatial Planning - Departement of Applied Sciences for Engineers Pascal DE DECKER BE - Gent
University of Southern Denmark Department of Business and Economics Morten SKAK DK – Odense
University of Turku Department of Sociology Hannu RUONAVAARA FI - Turku
Agence Nationale pour l'Information sur le Logement (ANIL) Bernard VORMS FR - Paris
Universität Bremen Department of Geography Ilse HELBRECHT DE - Bremen
Metropolitan Research Institute József HEGEDÜS HU - Budapest
Delft University of Technology Otb Research Institute Marja ELSINGA NL - Delft
Centro de Estudos para a Intervenção Social (CECIS) Pedro PERISTA PT - Lisbon
Univerza V Ljubljani Faculty of Social Sciences Mandič SRNA SI – Ljubljana
University of York Centre for Housing Policy Deborah QUILGARS UK – York
Age -The European Older People'S Platform Anne-Sophie PARENT BE – Bruxelles
- 7 -
Demographic changes and migrations
How demographic changes shape intergenerational solidarity, well-being, and social integration: A multilinks framework
MULTILINKS
Proposal: 217523 Project coordinator:
Estimated EC contribution: 1499694 € Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) Starting date: 2008 NL – The Hague Duration: 36 months Contact: Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (Small- and medium scale focused research project) Prof. Pearl DYKSTRA [email protected] Unit L.2 Scientific officer: Dominik SOBCZAK dominik.sobczak @ec.europa.eu
The objective of this project is to investigate b) Multiple linkages across time (measures at how changing social contexts, from macro- different points in time, at different points in the societal to micro-interpersonal, affect social individual and family life course); integration, well-being and intergenerational solidarity across different European nations. c) Multiple linkages between, on the one hand, Debates on ageing societies predominantly national and regional contexts (e.g. policy focus on the circumstances of the old. regimes, economic circumstances, normative climate, religiosity), and, on the other hand, The MULTILINKS approach builds on three individual behaviour, well-being and values. key premises. First, ageing affects all age groups: the young, the middle-aged, and the By identifying intergenerational care regimes old. Second, there are critical interdependencies i.e. combinations of child care provisions and between family generations and between men provisions for the frail old) and their and women. Third, the individual, dyad (parent- shortcomings, MULTILINKS will contribute to child, partners), family, region, historical the substantive understanding of the risks of generation, and country levels should be becoming socially isolated and/or lacking recognized and distinguished. necessary supports.
Building from these premises, the following A consortium of eight partners organized in six aspects will be examined: teams will carry out the project. All partners are involved in the Gender and Generations a) Multiple linkages in families (e.g. transfers Programme, a system of nationally comparative up and down family lineages, interdependencies surveys and contextual databases, which aims at between older and younger family members); improving the knowledge base for policy- making in United Nations Economic Commission for Europe countries. Currently, data are available from twelve countries.
- 8 -
How demographic changes shape intergenerational solidarity, well-being, and social integration: A multilinks framework
MULTILINKS
Institutions/Partners/Country/Town
Vrije Universiteit Brussel Faculty of Economic, Political and Social Sciences, Vakgroep Jan VAN BAVEL BE - Brussels
Universiteit Antwerpen Department of Sociology Dimitri MORTELMANS BE - Antwerpen
Social Science Research Centre Berlin Demographic Development, Social Change, and Social Capital Chiara SARACENO DE - Berlin
Norwegian Social Research Britt SLAGSVOLD NO - Oslo
Utrecht University Social Science Faculty Aafke Elisabeth KOMTER NL - Utrecht
Estonian Interuniversity Population Research Centre Kalev KATUS EE - Tallinn
Universitá Commerciale Luigi Bocconi Carlo F. Dondena "Centre for Research on Social Dynamics" Arnstein AASSVE IT - Milano
- 9 -
Demographic changes and migrations
Reproductive decision-making in a macro-micro perspective
REPRO
Proposal: 217173 Project coordinator:
Estimated EC contribution: 1295152 € Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Vienna Institute of Demography Starting date: 2008 AT - Vienna Duration: 36 months Contact: Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (Small- and medium scale focused research project) Prof. Dimiter PHILIPOV [email protected] Unit L.2 Scientific officer: Marc GOFFART [email protected]
The main objective of the REPRO project is to To this end, we make use of economic, upgrade the existing knowledge and to generate sociological, and cultural theoretical approaches new scientific and policy-oriented knowledge whose application has proved useful. The on the factors that drive changes in the birth analyses at the micro-level are furthered by rates and influence the reproductive decision- inferences based on available qualitative making of contemporary Europeans. surveys. The macro-micro approach integrates the findings reached at the macro and at the REPRO incorporates analyses in macro, micro, micro level using comparable data sets on and macro-micro perspectives. fertility intentions and behaviours available in most European countries and multi-level At the macro level, we describe recent fertility statistical techniques. trends observed across Europe and examine their association with selected macro-level This integrated approach sheds light on the social, economic and institutional indicators. At impact and interrelatedness of diverse factors the micro level we use the social-psychological such as work patterns and employment, family theory of planned behaviour to analyse the formation, housing, gender roles and factors process of reproductive decision-making. related to ideational change, cultural specifics and institutional settings. Finally, the integrated The theory will be developed to fit specific method of research generates knowledge that demographic research on fertility intentions of can be streamed into relevant policy individuals as well as of couples. We also use construction and implementation. panel data to obtain insights into the realisation or non-realisation of fertility intentions. A synthesis of all findings will be performed to serve as a sound basis for drawing valuable policy implications.
- 10 -
Reproductive decision-making in a macro-micro perspective
REPRO
Institutions/Partners/Country/Town
Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques (INED) Olivier THEVENON FR - Paris
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) Aat LIEFBROER NL – The Hague
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi Carlo F. Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics Jane KLOBAS IT - Milano
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Independent Research Group Culture of Reproduction Laura BERNARDI DE - Rostock
Demographic Research Institute Zsolt SPÉDER HU - Budapest
Statistics Norway Division for Social and Demographic Research Trude LAPPEGARD NO - Oslo
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Coordination Research Council for Social Development and Social Eurointegration Atanas ATANASSOV BG - Sofia
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Population Activities Unit Andres VIKAT CH - Geneva
University of Essex Institute for Social and Economic Research Maria IACOVOU UK - Colchester
- 11 -
Demographic changes and migrations
Migration between Africa and Europe
MAFE
Proposal: 217206 Project coordinator:
Estimated EC contribution: 1498954 € Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques FR - Paris Starting date: 2008 Duration: 42 months Contact:
Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (Small- Mr Cris BEAUCHEMIN and medium scale focused research project) [email protected]
Unit L.2 Scientific officer: Giulia AMADUCCI [email protected]
African migration has become a major concern project will employ methods of longitudinal for European policy makers. data analysis to provide policy makers with new insights on the changing patterns and New policy measures are engaged, but they rely determinants of migrations between Africa and on a poor understanding of the underlying Europe, as well as on the socioeconomic causes and consequences of African migration. changes associated with international migration.
The MAFE project aims to overcome this lack c) To foster a policy dialogue. MAFE fully of understanding by pursuing three interrelated integrates a process of policy dialogue in its objectives: design. Various stakeholders have already been consulted and will follow the development of a) To create a unique data set on Afro-European the project. Research findings will be migration. Comparable data will be collected in disseminated through various channels to reach both sending and receiving countries, i.e. in a large audience (working papers, policy briefs, sub-Saharan Africa and Europe. The project etc.). The MAFE database will be made aim is to replicate a survey applied to study available for the research community at the end Senegalese migration on new populations, i.e. of the project. Congolese and Ghanaians. The methodology used in the project is built upon keys studies on The overall idea underpinning the project is that international migration in the world. The data migration must not be seen only as a one-way will be representative, longitudinal and flow from Africa to Europe. We rather argue multilevel. that return migration, circulation, transnational practices are significant and must also be b) To provide new analyses through innovative understood in order to correctly design techniques. Using this new data, the MAFE migration policies.
- 12 -
Migration between Africa and Europe
MAFE
Institutions/Partners/Country/Town
Université Catholique de Louvain Institute of Demography Bruno SCHOUMAKER BE - Louvain-la-Neuve
Universiteit van Amsterdam Amidst Valentina MAZZUCATO NL - Amsterdam
Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar Ipdsr Papa SAKHO SN – Dakar Fann
University of Kinshasa Département des Sciences, de la Population et du Développement Jose MANGALU CD - Kinshasa
University of Ghana Centre for Migration Studies Peter QUARTEY GH - Legon
University Pompeu Fabra Department of Political and Social Sciences Amparo GONZALEZ-FERRER ES - Barcelona
Forum Internazionale ed Europeo di Ricerche sull'Immigrazione (FIERI) Giovanna ZINCONE IT - Torino
University of Sussex School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies Richard BLACK UK - Brighton
- 13 -
Demographic changes and migrations
Transnationalisation, migration and transformation: Multi-level analysis of migrant transnationalism
TRANS-NET
Proposal: 217226 Project coordinator:
Estimated EC contribution: 1499920 € Tampereen Yliopisto, University of Tampere Department of Education Starting date: 2008 FI - Tampere Duration: 36 months Contact: Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (Small- and medium scale focused research project) Prof. Pirkko PITKANEN [email protected] Unit L.2 Scientific officer: Giulia AMADUCCI [email protected]
The objective of this project is to clarify and The focus lies on their transnational networks compare the complex process of and political, economic, and socio-cultural transnationalism. activities. Moreover, the topic of transnational empowering is of central importance. During the past few years, transnationalism has attained ever greater importance and topicality The following transnational spaces will be due to the increase in transnational mobility of taken as the main units to analyse the border- people. In order to attain a comprehensive and crossing relationships: valid insight into the topic in question we adopt a) Estonia/Finland; a multi-level approach. b) India/UK; c) Morocco/France; The research conducted in Estonia, Finland, d) Turkey/Germany. France, Germany, India, Morocco, Turkey, and the United Kingdom addresses both policy Research data will be gathered through content documents and individual migrants, including analysis of policy documents and semi- labour migrants; posted workers; family-based structured and life-course interviews among a migrants; humanitarian migrants, and foreign selected sample of respondents in each degree students. participating country.
- 14 -
Transnationalisation, migration and transformation: Multi-level analysis of migrant transnationalism
TRANS-NET
Institutions/Partners/Country/Town
Tallinn University Faculty of Social Sciences Rein RUUTSOO EE - Talllinn
University of Paris 8 Département Euro-Méditerannée Aïssa KADRI FR – Saint-Denis
Universität Bielefeld Faculty of Sociology Thomas FAIST DE - Bielefeld
Centre for Development Studies Research Unit on International Migration Irudaya Rajan SEBASTIAN IN – Kerala
University Moulay Ismail Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences Noureddine HARRAMI MA - Meknès
Migration Research Program at the Koç University Mirekoc Ahmet ICDUYGU TR – Istambul
University of Sussex School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies Filippo OSELLA UK – Brighton
- 15 -
Demographic changes and migrations
Gender, migration and intercultural interactions in the Mediterranean and South East Europe
GEMIC
Proposal: 216065 Project coordinator:
Estimated EC contribution: 1019280 € Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences Starting date: 2008 Center for Gender Studies Duration: 36 months EL - Athens Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (Small- Contact: and medium scale focused research project) Dr Maria STRATIGAKI Unit L. 4 [email protected] Scientific officer: Alessia BURSI
alessia.bursi @ec.europa.eu
GEMIC will study “Cultural Interactions in a The organization of work will reflect the inter- European Perspective” through a tripartite ethnic and interdisciplinary character of the conceptual and methodological approach, consortium focusing both fieldwork and whose aim will be to identify links between analysis on six thematic areas of study, rather migration, gender and intercultural interaction, than on national case studies: representations of as it is in the meeting place of these three national identity and the media, education, dimensions that some of the most important urban social spaces and movements, religion, cultural developments in Europe take place. violence, and the family.
GEMIC will approach these questions from a GEMIC will generate new and important critical perspective emphasizing in particular insights in these thematic areas, taking the impact of migrant mobility and cultural advantage of the diverse areas of expertise of diversity on gender relation in host, transit and different researchers and their mutual sending societies. commitment to studying gender and addressing issues of gender equality as a central aspect of Research will be of an interdisciplinary nature research. in accordance with the broad range of expertise of the researchers collaborating in the project.
- 16 -
Gender, migration and intercultural interactions in the Mediterranean and South East Europe
GEMIC
Institutions/Partners/Country/Town
International Center for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations International Projects Marko HAJDINJAK BG - Sofia
University of Cyprus Department of Education Zelia GREGORIOU CY - Nicosia
Università di Bologna Dipartimento di Politica, Istituzioni, Storia Sandro MEZZADRA IT - Bologna
Universitatea Dunarea de Jos Din Galati Department of English, Faculty of Letters Gabriela Iuliana COLIPCA RO - Galati
Consorci Institut d'Infància i Mon Urbà Claudia PEDONE ES - Barcelona
Eurobalkan Institute Research Center in Gender Studies Katerina KOLOZOVA FYROM - Skopje
Bilkent University Department of Political Science Dılek CINDOGLU TR - Ankara
- 17 -
Demographic changes and migrations
Enhancing evidence based policy-making in gender and migration
GEMMA
Proposal: 217194 Project coordinator:
Estimated EC contribution: 527378 € Agenzia per la Promozione della Ricerca Europea (APRE) Starting date: 2008 IT - Roma Duration: 28 months Contact: Funding scheme: Coordination and Support action (Support Action) Dr Diassina DI MAGGIO [email protected] Unit L.2 [email protected] Scientific officer: Louisa ANASTOPOULOU
GEMMA’s specific objective is to improve d) Horizontal analysis of the policy briefing access to synthesised European-funded Gender sheet in order to identify horizontal conclusions and Migration (G&M) research results for and recommendations for the European Union, policy-makers and civil society in five researchers, policy-makers and civil society countries. organisations.
This objective responds to the need for national The policy briefing sheet will be disseminated level strategy to promote working cultures to at least twenty civil society organisations in between researchers, policy-makers and civil each of GEMMA’s five Member States. A society organisations and the need to enhance dialogue and networking workshop with civil the quantity and quality of synthesised research society will be organised in the five partner results for policy makers and civil society. countries. A validation workshop in the five partner countries will finalise the civil society The main tasks of GEMMA concern: and research national action plans. a) Design a policy briefing sheet template that The expected results are: Five national will be used to synthesise the research results strategies developed to enhance networking and from twenty projects funded by the fifth and communication between, on one side, sixth Framework Programmes regarding G&M; researchers and, on the other side, policy- makers and civil society organisations in the b) Organise a policy dialogue and networking field of G&M through policy-making / civil Workshop in each country and produce the society and research national action plans; And Policy-Making and Research National Action increased systematic dissemination and Plans; valorisation of synthesised European-funded research results and related policy c) Organise validation workshops for policy recommendations in G&M to policy-makers briefing sheet and national action plan and civil society organisations in five countries finalisation; and national languages.
- 18 -
Enhancing evidence based policy-making in gender and migration
GEMMA
Institutions/Partners/Country/Town
Hungarian Science and Technology Foundation Adam MOLNAR HU - Budapest
Centre for Social Innovation Work and Equal Opportunities Melanie GOISAUF AT - Vienna
Middlesex University Higher Education Corporation Social Policy Research Centre Eleonore KOFMAN UK - London
Université Paris X – Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Mirjana MOROKVASIC FR - Nanterre
- 19 -
Demographic changes and migrations
Genereting interethnic tolerance and neighborhood integration in European urban spaces
GEITONIES
Proposal: 216184 Project coordinator:
Estimated EC contribution: 1462753 € Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa Starting date: 2008 Department of Geography/Centro de Estudos Duration: 36 months Geográficos Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (Small- PT - Lisbon and medium scale focused research project) Contact: Unit L.4 Prof. Maria Lucinda FONSECA Scientific officer: Alessia BURSI [email protected] alessia.bursi @ec.europa.eu
In the context of the growth of diversification issues of integration are pertinent as in the new within European nation states there has been reception countries of the East. Whilst being much debate in public and policy discourse politically important these debates reveal a gap regarding the cultural specifics of immigrant in the evidence base regarding how and in what groups and their descendents. form cultural engagement and communication actually occurs in urban settings and on the As global processes and events have stressed subsequent impacts on integration in social and cultural differences concerns about the cohesion economic terms. of society, related often to a perceived cultural mismatch between immigrant and indigenous This cross-comparative project intends to groups, have propelled multiculturalism and address these issues from a relational integration to the top of the political agenda. perspective through the lens of place, assuming that in contemporary multi-ethnic cities spaces Whilst there has been a trend across several of intercultural communication and engagement European states where a discourse of failing are vital to promote tolerance and cohesion. multiculturalism has been accompanied by fears regarding integration, the republican model in A survey will be administered not only to France has also been criticised due to its failure immigrants but also indigenous individuals in 6 to recognise inequality and diversity. European cities at the neighbourhood level, given this is a place were daily social practises, Both of these perspectives have been further representations and group relations develop. endorsed by recent urban conflicts in different European cities. Furthermore, the role that place or neighbourhood dynamics (in their These policy shifts and debates are also relevant national/urban contexts) play in developing or to the newer destinations of the South where hindering intercultural interaction and tolerance will be deliberated.
- 20 -
Genereting interethnic tolerance and neighborhood integration in European urban spaces
GEITONIES
Institutions/Partners/Country/Town
Universiteit van Amsterdam Institute for Migration qnd Ethnic Studies (IMES) Flip LINDO NL - Amsterdam
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Institute for Urban and Regional Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Josef KOHLBACHER AT - Vienna
Universidad de Deusto / University of Deusto Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology Maria Luisa SETIEN ES - Bilbao
University of Macedonia Department of Economic Sciences Lois LABRIANIDIS EL - Thessaloniki
University of Warsaw Centre of Migration Research, Faculty of Economic Sciences Aleksandra GRZYMAŁA-KAZŁOWSKA PL - Warsaw
- 21 -
Demographic changes and migrations
Social platform on cities and social cohesion
SOCIAL POLIS
Proposal: 217157 Project coordinator:
Estimated EC contribution: 1482228 € University of Newcastle Upon Tyne Global Urban Research Unit Starting date: 2008 UK - Newcastle Upon Tyne Duration: 24 months Contact: Funding scheme: Coordination and Support action (Support Action) Prof. Frank MOULAERT [email protected] Unit L.2 Scientific officer: Giulia AMADUCCI [email protected]
This proposal outlines the organisation and Coordination and support activities will strategic activities of a social platform, ‘Social include: Polis’, for the development of a research agenda a) Surveying relevant literature, starting from and scientific dialogue addressing the role of the conclusions of FP4, 5 and 6 projects, for cities and social cohesion. findings, recommendations, missing topics and methodological shortcomings, to define a future Its central purpose is to engage significant research agenda on ‘Cities and Social stakeholders from the scientific, civil society Cohesion’ in Europe and the world; and governance sectors in establishing key b) Meetings and other forms of consultation scientific and policy issues for the agenda, with different groups of significant informing focussed and coherent FP7-SSH calls stakeholders; for proposals on this theme in March 2008 and c) Synthesising research agendas and set June 2009. priorities; d) Preparing two draft call texts on ‘Cities and Social Polis will mobilise a wide range of Social Cohesion’ (for FP7-SSH-2008 and - relevant findings, recommendations and 2009) scientific/ practi-tioner networks from previous e) Organising a semi-permanent ‘meeting research projects under Framework room’ between significant stakeholders, which Programmes 4, 5 and 6. Building on these will ultimately lead to the establishment of a experiences, Social Polis will organise Social Platform; consultation with a wide network of researchers f) Following developments in international and other stakeholders, including two research, stakeholder and policy debates workshops and one large-scale conference. relating to cities and social cohesion; g) Dissemination and provision of educational resources.
22
Social platform on cities and social cohesion
SOCIAL POLIS
Institutions/Partners/Country/Town
Universiteit van Amsterdam Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDST) Sako MUSTERD NL - Amsterdam
ITER S.R.L. - Centro Ricerche e Servizi Lucia CAVOLA IT - Napoli
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Institut für Regional- und Umweltwirtschaft Andreas NOVY AT -Vienna
Université de Quebec à Montreal Département de Géographie Juan-Luis KLEIN CA –Montreal
Centro de Estudos Geográficos da Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Geográficos Paulo FERREIRA PT - Lisbon
University of Milano Bicocca Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale Serena VICARI IT - Milano
Centre de Recherche et d'Information sur la Démocratie et l'Autonomie (CRIDA) Laurent FRAISSE FR - Paris
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) Institute for Social and Economic Geography Chris KESTELOOT BE - Leuven
Universitat de Barcelona Teoria Sociologica Soledad GARCIA ES - Barcelona
University of Manchester School of Environment and Development Erik SWYNGEDOUW UK - Manchester
- 23 -
Social cohesion and youth integration
Small area methods for poverty and living condition estimates
SAMPLE
Proposal: 217565 Project coordinator:
Estimated EC contribution: 874056 € Department of Statistics and Mathematics Applied to Economics Starting date: 2008 IT - Pisa Duration: 36 months Contact: Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (Small- and medium scale focused research project) Prof. Monica PRATESI [email protected] Unit L.2 Scientific officer: Ian PERRY [email protected]
It is well known that in order to ensure a good c) Appreciate the multidimensional nature of allocation of public funds and to guarantee the poverty and inequality with attention to the non rights of final users of the statistics monetary aspects of it (social exclusion and (government, research institutes and citizens), deprivation); statistical data on monetary and supplementary poverty indicators have to be timely and d) Measure the subjective aspects of poverty as effective. they are perceived by local groups and populations. Effectiveness of statistical data is a function of their spatial relevance and accuracy. Often The aim of SAMPLE project is to identify and official data are referred only to wider domains develop new indicators and models for (e.g. NUTS 2 level) and, sometimes, the finer is inequality and poverty with attention to social the required spatial detail (NUTS3, NUTS4 exclusion and deprivation, as well as to level) the less accurate is the estimate. develop, implement models, measures and procedures for small area estimation of these Local Government has to know accurate data new indicators and models. This goal is referred to local areas and/or small domains achieved with the help of the local (NUTS3, NUTS4 level) to: administrative databases. Local government agencies often have huge amount of a) Ensure monitoring of poverty and administrative data to monitory some of the inequality; actions which witness situations of social exclusion and deprivation (social security b) Focus on special target consisting of claims for unemployment and eligibility for segments of population at higher risk of poverty benefits from any of the programmes Social (elusive populations); Security administers) of households and citizens.
- 24 -
Small area methods for poverty and living condition estimates
SAMPLE
Institutions/Partners/Country/Town
Cridire - Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Metodi Quantitativi Achille LEMMI IT - Sienna
University of Manchester The Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research Nikolaos TZAVIDIS UK - Manchester
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Departamento de Estadística Isabel MOLINA ES – Madrid
Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche Instituto de Estudios Operativos Domingo MORALES GONZÁLEZ ES - Elche
Warsaw School of Economics Institute of Statistics and Demography Tomasz PANEK PL - Warsaw
Province of Pisa European Politics Department Paolo PROSPERINI IT - Pisa
Simurg Consulenze e Servizi Snc R&D Moreno TOIGO IT - Livorno
Central Statistical Office GUS Józef OLEŃSKI PL - Warsaw
- 25 -
Social cohesion and youth integration
Faith-based organisations and exclusion in European cities
FACIT
Proposal: 217314 Project coordinator:
Estimated EC contribution: 1495980 € Universiteit Antwerpen Oases (Research Group Poverty, Social Exclusion Starting date: 2008 and the City) Duration: 36 months BE - Antwerpen Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (Small- Contact: and medium scale focused research project) Prof. Jan VRANKEN Unit L.2 [email protected] Scientific officer: Manuela ALFE [email protected]
The research concerns the present role of Faith- What is the position of FBOs in combating Based Organisations (FBOs) in matters of poverty and other forms of social distress poverty and other forms of social exclusion cities? How has this role changed over time and (such as homelessness or undocumented how do these activities contribute to combating persons) in cities. social exclusion and promoting social cohesion? What are the implications for policies FACIT defines FBOs as any organisation that and the governance of European cities? refers directly or indirectly to religion or religious values, and functions as a welfare From both scientific and policy perspectives, provider or as a political actor. there is a great need for better empirical and comparative data on what is going on in The central assumption is that FBOs tend to fill European cites in matters of poverty and the gap left after the supposed withdrawal of the exclusion policies and, in particular, the welfare state in several domains of public life, contribution of FBOs in the reduction (or particularly in social welfare and in social deepening) of the problems. FBOs have direct protection. entrance to the ‘poor side’ of cities because of:
At first sight, this looks like a return to the a) Their activities in deprived urban charity of former times, when such associations neighbourhoods and among excluded groups; occupied the fore of social help in many countries. b) As in the case of many FBOs with a non- western background, because their members But it could be the beginning of a new type of often belong to these deprived and excluded welfare regime with a stronger focus on local groups themselves. policies and strategies and new interplays between local authorities and civil society organisations.
- 26 -
Faith-based organisations and exclusion in european cities
FACIT
Institutions/Partners/Country/Town
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Faculty of Spatial Sciences, Urban and Regional Studies Institute (Ursi) Justin BEAUMONT NL - Groningen
Stichting Dr. Hilda Verwey-Jonker Instituut Research Group Youth and Education Trees PELS NL - Utrecht
University of Cologne Research Institute for Sociology Jürgen FRIEDRICHS DE - Cologne
University of Exeter Department of Geography, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources Paul CLOKE UK - Exeter
Middle East Technical University Center for Black Sea and Central Asia (KORA) Ayse AYATA TR - Ankara
Fundación Centro de Iniciativas e Investigaciones Europeas en el Mediterráneo Fundación CIREM Andres WALLISER ES - Barcelona
Örebro University Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURES) Ingemar ELANDER SE - Örebro
- 27 -
Social cohesion and youth integration
The use of racial anti-discrimination laws: Gender and citizenship in a multicultural context
GENDERACE
Proposal: 217237 Project coordinator:
Estimated EC contribution: 952900 € Université Libre de Bruxelles Institute of Sociology Starting date: 2008 BE - Brussels Duration: 30 months Contact: Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (Small- and medium scale focused research project) Dr Isabelle CARLES [email protected] Unit L.3 Scientific officer: Angela LIBERATORE [email protected]
The aim of the research is to evaluate the The evaluation will be carried out through a effectiveness of Racial Discrimination Laws study of case law and filed complaints, around from the point of view of the target group and 200 semi-directive qualitative interviews of in a gender perspective. foreign nationals and members of ethnic minorities and 70 interviews of stakeholders The main hypothesis is that differences can ans social partners, including lawyers dealing exist between the uses made of the law by men with complaints. and women. This is because they develop different The goal of the project is to improve our representations of the legal system and undertanding of the phenomenon of double experience different forms of discrimination. discrimination (race and gender) and to develop practical tools to allow administrations, NGOs The second hypothesis is that intersectional and specialised bodies to better assess the experience of discrimination based on race and effectiveness of policies and practices in the gender is not recognized and treated properly in field of antidiscrimination when faced with legal and institutional frameworks built around cases of double discrimination. single types of discrimination because discriminations are seen as one-dimensional and as affecting all people -men and women- in the same way.
- 28 -
The use of racial anti-discrimination laws: Gender and citizenship in a multicultural context
GENDERACE
Institutions/Partners/Country/Town
Universitat de Barcelona Department of Social Anthropology Olga JUBANY BAUCELLS ES - Barcelona
Middlesex University Higher Education Corporation Social Policy Research Centre Eleonore KOFMAN UK - London
Technische Universität Berlin Hans-Liudger DIENEL DE - Berlin
Kalmar University Institution for Human Sciences Agneta HEDBLOM SE - Kalmar
International Centre for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations IMIR Maya KOSSEVA BG - Sofia
- 29 -
Social cohesion and youth integration
Advanced methodology for european Laeken Indicators
AMELI
Proposal: 217322 Project coordinator:
Estimated EC contribution: 1089041 € University of Trier Economic and Social Statistics Department Starting date: 2008 DE - Trier Duration: 36 months Contact: Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (Small- and medium scale focused research project) Prof. Ralf MUENNICH [email protected] Unit L.2 Scientific officer: Ian PERRY [email protected]
The goal to turn the EU into the most In order to measure social cohesion with competitive and dynamic economy by 2010 Laeken indicators adequately while regarding demands a full benchmarking system to national characteristics and practical monitor policy performance and their impact on peculiarities from the newly created EU-SILC, progress. an improved methodology will be elaborated within AMELI. For this reason, the European Commission has engaged in selecting, collecting and analysing a This will ensure that future political decision in set of indicators that are published each year. the area of quality of life can be based on more adequate and high-quality data and a proper The Stockholm European Council has further understanding of the Laeken indicators by the emphasised the need for effective, timely and users. reliable statistics and indicators. The study will include research on data quality A main challenge is to develop indicators for including its measurement, treatment of outliers the main characteristics and key drivers. An and nonresponse, small area estimation and the utmost important and challenging area to be measurement of development over time. measured is social cohesion. A large simulation study based on EU-SILC Based on a clear definition of social cohesion, a data will allow a simultaneous elaboration of universally-accepted high-quality and robust the methodology focusing on practical issues statistics to adequately measure social cohesion aiming at support for policy. is required. Due to the fact that the Laeken indicators are Further, tools for measuring temporal based on a highly sophisticated methodology developments and regional breakdowns to sub- the project’s outcome may also serve as a populations of relevance will be of great methodological complement for other Seventh importance. Research Framework Project projects in the area of indicators.
- 30 -
Advanced methodology for European Laeken Indicators
AMELI
Institutions/Partners/Country/Town
Statistisches Bundesamt Institute for Research and Development Manfred EHLING DE - Wiesbaden
Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz School of Business/Institute for Competitiveness and Communication Beat HULLIGER CH - Olten
Swiss Federal Statistical Office Statistical Methods Unit Monique GRAF CH - Neuchâtel
Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich Register, Classification, Methods Thomas BURG AT- Vienna
Statistics Finland Statistical Methodology R&D Timo Antti ALANKO FI - Helsinki
Helsingin Yliopisto Department of Mathematics and Statistics Risto LEHTONEN FI – Helsinki
Technische Universität Wien Department of Statistics and Probability Theory Matthias TEMPL AT - Vienna
- 31 -
Demographic changes and migrations
On the margins of the European Community young adult immigrants in seven European countries
EUMARGINS
Proposal: 217524 Project coordinator:
Estimated EC contribution: 1498731 € Universitetet i Oslo Department of Sociology and Human Geography Starting date: 2008 NO - Oslo Duration: 36 months Contact: Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (Small- and medium scale focused research project) Prof. Ivar FRØNES [email protected] Unit L.2 Scientific officer: Giulia AMADUCCI
The extents to which different groups of young In every research setting most and less adult migrants are socially included or marginalised immigrant groups will be excluded, and the factors that facilitate investigated in order to provide a comparative inclusion or help cause exclusion is a vital issue framework also at the local level. for young adult immigrants, the nations they have joined, and the European Union whose Major social domain will be education and policies have facilitated large volumes and labour market. These are the most important rapid rates of change in migrant flows. arenas in which young adults have to establish themselves as active social actors in society. The central concept of EUMARGINS is that there are a range of factors that inhibit, or Other relevant areas of young adults’ interest encourage, the abilities of individuals and such as leisure and socio-political activism will groups to make the transition from excluded to also be considered. included within societies. The study focuses upon the experiences of The principal aim of EUMARGINS is to social inclusion/exclusion among young adults identify and prioritise those factors that matter with immigrant background living in Oslo, most (for specific young adult migrant groups Gothenburg, London, Genoa, Metz, Barcelona and in different countries as well as for all and Tallinn. young adult migrant groups and across Europe) and to lay a foundation for recommendations EUMARGINS will be based on a combination that can assist the transitions from exclusion to of biographical and ethnographical data- inclusion, particularly focusing on dominant collection in the above mentioned cities, and in factors of unemployment/jobs and the related addition, analysis of available statistical data on education aspects. relevant
Given these premises the project will focus upon: Young individuals with immigrant origin in seven local urban-metropolitan areas in seven different European countries.
- 32 -
On the margins of the European Community young adult immigrants in seven European countries
EUMARGINS
Institutions/Partners/Country/Town
Göteborgs Universitet Department of Social Work Sernhede OVE SE - Göteborg
Goldsmiths College Department of Sociology Leslie BACK UK - London
Università di Genova Disa - Dipartimento di Scienze Antropologiche Luca QUEIROLO PALMAS IT - Genova
Grup Igia José Oriol ROMANÍ ALFONSO ES - Barcelona
Université de Nancy 2 Association Recherches, Observations, Formations, Enseignements (AROFE) Vincent FERRY FR – Nancy
Institute of Baltic Studies Social Cohesion Policies Department Kristina KALLAS EE - Tartu
- 33 -
Social cohesion and youth integration
Youth, unemployment, and exclusion in Europe: A multidimensional approach
YOUNEX
Proposal: 216122 Project coordinator:
Estimated EC contribution: 1460560 € Université de Genève Laboratoire de Recherches Sociales et Politiques Starting date: 2008 Appliquées (Resop) Duration: 36 months CH - Genève Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (Small- Contact: and medium scale focused research project) Dr Marco GIUGNI Unit L.2 [email protected] Scientific officer: Marc GOFFART
This research aims to advance knowledge on b) A cross-national comparative design that the causes, processes, and perspectives for includes European countries with different change related to the social and political institutional approaches to unemployment exclusion of unemployed youth. (France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden, and Switzerland); The main objectives of YOUNEX are: To generate a new body of data on young c) An integrated methodological approach unemployed (in particular, young long-term based on multiple sources and methods unemployed), but also precarious youth; To (analysis of state and EU policies and practices advance theory and extend knowledge on the towards unemployment, a survey of social and political exclusion of young organizations active in the field, a survey of unemployed; To provide practical insights into young long-term unemployed and precarious the potential paths for the social and political youth, in-depth interviews with young long- integration of young unemployed. term unemployed, and focus groups with stakeholders). The overall design of the research has three main components: Three important features of the proposed research underscore its innovative impact: Its a) A multidimensional theoretical framework comparative approach allowing for bench- that combines macro-level, meso-level, and marking and best-practice analysis; Its micro-level explanatory factors while taking multidimensional approach allowing to into account various dimensions of exclusion consider the mediating impact of (European, (social and political exclusion, individual well- national, or local) public policy on the way being); people cope with their situation of unemployed; Its interactive research process spurring policy- learning by bringing together different expertise and knowledge, and allowing at the same time for the transfer of scientific findings into policy recommendations.
- 34 -
Youth, unemployment, and exclusion in Europe: A multidimensional approach
YOUNEX
Institutions/Partners/Country/Town
University of Siegen Dept. of Sociology - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Christian LAHUSEN DE - Siegen
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi Istituto di Pubblica Amministrazione e Sanità (IPAS) Simone BAGLIONI IT - Milano
Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques Cevipof Manlio CINALLI FR - Paris
Karlstad University Department of Working Life Science - Faculty of Economic Sciences, Communication and IT Birgitta ERIKSSON SE - Karlstad
Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne Center for Scientific Research Slawomir NOWOTNY PL - Warsaw
- 35 -
Social cohesion and youth integration
Combating social exclusion among young homeless populations: A comparative investigation
CSEYHP
Proposal: 217223 Project coordinator:
Estimated EC contribution: 770173 € Movisie – Netherlands Centre for Social Developement Starting date: 2008 NL - Utrecht Duration: 36 months Contact: Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (Small- and medium scale focused research project) Ms Thea MEINEMA [email protected] Unit L.2 Scientific officer: Marc GOFFART [email protected]
Embroided on the Lisbon Strategy, this research Step Programme), and prevent youth project meets the EU guidelines for youth homelessness among those at risk through a policy by focusing on socially excluded youth – cluster of local services (the UK ‘Safe Moves’ homeless young people and those at risk of programme). homelesness - and promoting a dynamic understanding of their life-trajectories. Working with NGOs, CSEYHP will:
It takes into account gender, ethnic minority a) Study the life trajectories of homeless youth and migrant status and its policy outcomes and populations in different national contexts, programme recommendations will also apply to identifying risk, processes of social exclusion those with low education qualifications, and and points of reinsertion; poorer employment and social integration prospects. It involves the active participation of b) Introduce and investigate the use of the ‘8’ young people as co-researchers. step and ‘Safe Moves’ programmes with NGOs working with homeless youth in NL, UK, P and Levels of youth homelessness vary between CZ; European countries in relation to the patterns of support available to young people and within c) Investigate the roles of trusted adults, lead countries in relation to gender, ethnic minority professionals, peer mentors and family group and migrant status. members in delivering reinsertion strategies;
However, even Meditterranean societies, with d) Develop the concepts of risk, social strong family support systems, have begun to exclusion and shelter exclusion both experience youth homelessness amongst local theoretically and practically. as well as migrant populations. Expected impacts include change in the In Northern Europe interventionist programmes working practice of NGOs, empowerment for have been developed designed to structure case young people and national and EU recognition work with hostel dwellers (the Netherlands ‘8 of the issue of youth homelessness.
- 36 -
Combating social exclusion among young homeless populations: A comparative investigation
CSEYHP
Institutions/Partners/Country/Town
London Metropolitan University Centre for Housing and Community Research Joan SMITH UK - London
Centro de Investigação e Estudos De Sociologia Iscte Jose CASANOVA PT - Lisbon
Charles University Faculty of Humanies - Department of Civil Society Studies Selma MUHIC CZ - Prague
- 37 -
Social cohesion and youth integration
Young people from a public care background: Pathways to education in Europe
YIPPEE
Proposal: 217297 Project coordinator:
Estimated EC contribution: 1484030 € Institute of Education University of London Tcru Starting date: 2008 UK - London Duration: 32 months Contact: Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (Small- and medium scale focused research project) Dr. Claire CAMERON [email protected] Unit L.2 Scientific officer: Marc GOFFART [email protected]
This project will investigate post-compulsory Specific objectives are to: educational pathways among young people who spent at least one of their childhood years in the a) Map current knowledge about educational care of public authorities or child protection participation among young people from a agencies. public care background;
Young men and women from a public care b) Track and evaluate the educational plans and background are among the most economically pathways of a sample of 19-21 year-olds from a and socially excluded groups in European public care background; nations yet the pathways by which they might overcome their childhood disadvantages c) Identify the conditions within the care and through further and higher education are education systems that facilitate or inhibit entry virtually unknown. to and continuation in post-compulsory education; The high level of social exclusion among young people from a public care background, coupled d) Explore young people’s constructions of with some evidence of their heterogeneity and educational identities and trajectories in terms resourcefulness, makes this discreet group a of class, gender, race, ethnicity and care valuable case for investigating the educational responsibilities both from the perspective of prospects for, achievements of, and barriers young men and women themselves and of facing all socially excluded young people. carers and staff in services designed to support them. The overall aim of the proposed project is to contribute to the knowledge and policy Using a highly experienced five EU country development and changes in practice that may research team, and a combination of lead to the retention of many more young men quantitative and qualitative methods, the project and women from a public care background in will provide a national overview and in-depth education after the end of compulsory analysis. schooling and to open up the prospect of further and higher education to them.
- 38 -
Young people from a public care background: Pathways to education in Europe
YIPPEE
Institutions/Partners/Country/Town
Danish University of Education Inge BRYDERUP DK - Copenhagen
Szocialpolitikai es Munkaugyi Intezet / Institute for Social Policy And Labour International Relations Mihalyne KORINTUS HU - Budapest
Universitat de Girona Research Institute on Quality of Life (IRQV) Ferran CASAS ES - Girona
Goteborgs Universitet Department of Social Work Ingrid HOJER SE - Göteborg
- 39 -
Social cohesion and youth integration
Ethnic differences in education and diverging prospects for urban youth in an enlarged Europe
EDUMIGROM
Proposal: 217384 Project coordinator:
Estimated EC contribution: 1291892 € Central European University Center for Policy Studies Starting date: 2008 HU - Budapest Duration: 36 months Contact: Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (Small- and medium scale focused research project) Dr. Violetta ZENTAI [email protected] Unit L.2 Scientific officer: Marc GOFFART [email protected]
The proposed research project aims to study The project will critically examine the role of how ethnic differences in education contribute education in these processes of ‘minoritisation’. to the diverging prospects for minority ethnic In ethnically diverse urban communities, youth and their peers in urban settings. schools often become targets for locally organised political struggles shaped by a Through a comparative endeavour involving broader political and civic culture of ethnic nine countries from among old and new mobilisation. Member States of the European Union, EDUMIGROM will explore how far existing EDUMIGROM will investigate how schools educational policies, practices and experiences operate in their roles of socialisation and in markedly different welfare regimes protect knowledge distribution, and how they influence minority ethnic youth against marginalisation young people’s identity formation. and eventual social exclusion. The project will also explore how schools Despite great variations in economic contribute to reducing, maintaining, or development and welfare arrangements, recent deepening inequalities in young people’s access developments seem to lead to similar to the labour market, further education and consequences for certain groups of second- training, and also to different domains of social, generation immigrants in the western half of the cultural, and political participation. continent and Roma in Central and Eastern Europe. The results of macro-level investigations, a comparative survey and multi-faceted field Formally citizens with full rights in the research in local settings will provide rich respective States, people affiliated with these datasets for intra- and cross-country groups tend to experience new and intensive comparisons and evidence-based policy forms of involuntary separation, social making. exclusion, and second-class citizenship.
- 40 -
Ethnic differences in education and diverging prospects for urban youth in an enlarged Europe
EDUMIGROM
Institutions/Partners/Country/Town
Masarykova Univerzita Brno Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology Radim MARADA CZ - Brno
Kobenhavns Universitet Department of Media, Cognition and Communication Bolette MOLDENHAWER DK - Copenhagen
Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2 Laboratory for the Analysis of Social Problems and Collective Action (Lapsac) Georges FELOUZIS FR - Bordeaux
Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) Sabine MANNITZ DE – Frankfurt am Main
Hungarian Academy of Sciences Institute of Sociology Maria NEMENYI HU - Budapest
Universitatea Babes-Bolyai Centre for Gender Studies Eniko MAGYARI-VINCZE RO – Cluj-Napoca
Slovak Academy of Sciences Institute for Sociology Zuzana KUSA SK - Bratislava
Stockholms Universitet Department of Sociology Barbara HOBSON SE - Stockholm
University of Leeds School of Sociology and Social Policy Fiona WILLIAMS UK - Leeds
- 41 -
Social cohesion and youth integration
Religious education in a multicultural society: School and home in comparative context
REMC
Proposal: 217028 Project coordinator:
Estimated EC contribution: 833628 € Economic and Social Research Institute IE - Dublin Starting date: 2008 Duration: 24 months Contact:
Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (Small- Dr Emer SMYTH and medium scale focused research project) [email protected]
Unit L.4 Scientific officer: Alessia BURSI alessia.bursi @ec.europa.eu
This study explores the transmission of This research will involve case-studies of religious beliefs and values through the schools selected to capture diversity in school education system and the family across policy and practice. different EU country contexts. Within these schools, interviews will be carried Firstly, it examines the importance of religious out with school principals, teachers, members denomination in school choice. Secondly, it of the board of management, parents and explores how religious beliefs and values are students themselves to provide a holistic picture transmitted in the course of primary education of the interaction between home and school in across different countries. shaping the transmission of religious belief.
The study will use both primary research and The results of the study will be disseminated secondary analysis of existing data sources. The widely through seminars and publications as study will use existing cross-national data to well as a public website. assess the treatment of majority and minority religious groups along with those with secular This innovative project will contribute to the beliefs across different European contexts. This conceptualisation of religious socialisation will identify different models of how religious within multicultural settings and to policy belief is treated in diverse educational systems. development in the educational arena by highlighting the role of religion in school Located within this broad overview, primary choice as well as potential tensions between research will be carried out in primary schools home and school regarding religious formation in Belgium (Flanders), Germany, Ireland, and practice. Malta, and Scotland, countries with very different religious compositions and educational systems.
- 42 -
Religious education in a multicultural society: School and home in comparative context
REMC
Institutions/Partners/Country/Town
The Univeristy of Edinburgh Moray House School of Education Sheila RIDDELL UK - Edinburgh
University College Dublin Equality Studies Centre UCD School of Social Justice Kathleen LYNCH IE - Dublin
European University Institute Social and Political Sciences Jaap DRONKERS IT – San Domenico di Fiesole
Hoger Instituut voor de Arbeid (KUL) Education and Long Life Learning Idesbald NICAISE BE - Leuven
Universität Dortmund Fakultät Humanwissenschaften und Theologie Hubertus ROEBBEN DE - Dortmund
The University of Malta Education Studies, Faculty of Education Mary DARMANIN MT - Msida
- 43 -
Social cohesion and youth integration
Scientific indicators of confidence in justice: Tools for policy assessment
JUSTIS
Proposal: 217311 Project coordinator:
Estimated EC contribution: 1499944 € King's College London Institute for Criminal Policy Research Starting date: 2008 UK - London Duration: 30 months Contact: Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (Small- and medium scale focused research project) Prof. Mike HOUGH [email protected] Unit L.2 Scientific officer: Ian PERRY [email protected]
JUSTIS (Justice Indicators) is a project In the long term, public compliance with the designed to provide EU institutions and law depends on the legitimacy of institutions of Member States with new indicators for justice. assessing public confidence in justice. Institutions command legitimacy if people Member States are making growing use of recognise that they are fair, just and provide social indicators to improve policy and its public security. The project will develop and assessment, but limited progress has been made pilot survey-based indicators of public in criminal justice. confidence in justice – a term used here to embrace issues relating to fairness, trust and Common-sense indicators based on readily insecurity. It will assemble contextual data for available statistics – such as crime trends – have interpreting the indicators – on the assumption been used extensively. Much less attention has that there are close relationships between public been paid to crucial but hard-to-measure perceptions of justice and the substantive indicators about public confidence in justice. quality of justice as reflected in the workings of Without such indicators, there is a risk that the justice process. It will develop tools for crime policies may become over-focussed on presenting and interpreting the indicators in short-term objectives of crime control, at the ways that are intuitive and accessible. expense of equally important longer-term objectives relating to justice. The project will aim not only to develop scientifically credible indicators but also to The project is based on the assumption that an build some consensus across Member States effective justice system must assess itself not about the importance of assessing crime policy only against narrow criteria of crime control, against criteria of public confidence, making but against broader criteria relating to people’s effective dissemination a priority. trust in justice and their sense of security.
- 44 -
Scientific indicators of confidence in justice: Tools for policy assessment
JUSTIS
Institutions/Partners/Country/Town
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Security and Cohesion Department / Research Unit Pacte Sebastian ROCHE FR - Paris
Center for the Study of Democracy Law Program Maria YORDANOVA BG - Sofia
The European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, Affiliated with the United Nations Kauko AROMAA FI - Helsinki
Hungarian Academy of Sciences Institute for Political Science Balázs KISS HU - Budapest
London School of Economics and Political Science Methodology Institute Jonathan JACKSON UK - London
Nusikalstamumo Prevencijos Lietuvoje Centras (Centre for Crime Prevention in Lithuania) Andrejus PILIAVECAS LT - Vilnius
Universitá degli Studi di Parma Dipartimento di Scienze Penalistiche Stefano MAFFEI IT - Parma
University of Sheffield School of Law Joanna SHAPLAND UK - Sheffield
- 45 -
Social cohesion and youth integration
Assessment of patient payment policies and projection of their efficiency, equity and quality effects. The case of Central and Eastern Europe
ASSPRO CEE 2007
Proposal: 217431 Project coordinator:
Estimated EC contribution: 1446496 € Maastricht University Department of Health Organization, Policy and Starting date: Economics; Faculty of Hmls Duration: 60 months NL - Maastricht Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (Small- Contact: and medium scale focused research project) Dr Milena PAVLOVA Unit L.2 [email protected] Scientific officer: Ian PERRY [email protected]
Given the lack of systematic research on the The project results will contribute to the overall assessment of patient payment policies in Europe progress in research focused on the methodology of and worldwide, and the urging need of (re- policy evaluation, as well as in research focused on )evaluating patient payment policies in Central the analysis of the Central and Eastern European and Eastern Europe due to the widely spread health care reforms. informal patient payments, we propose a project focused on these issues. Seven countries will be included: advanced Central European countries (Hungary and Poland), advanced The aim of the project is to identify a former Soviet republics in Europe (Lithuania), less comprehensive set of tangible evidence-based advanced Eastern European countries (Bulgaria and criteria suitable for the assessment of patient Romania), and less advanced Former Soviet republics payment policies and to develop a policy in Europe (Ukraine). projection tool that can be used to analyze the efficiency, equity and quality impacts of these The comparison between these countries will help to polices. establish to what extent the country context influences the evaluation of patient payment policies. The set of assessment criteria and the projection tool that will be developed in this project, will be The project will have a direct relation to Theme 8, validated by their application in Central and but will also address the general objectives defined in Eastern European countries. the work program, of policy harmonization, capacity building, mobility of scholars, strengthening In addition to this, the project aims to assure an competitiveness, international cooperation and extensive dissemination of project results solution to social problems. involving policy-makers, health care professionals and the general public.
46
Assessment of patient payment policies and projection of their efficiency, equity and quality effects. The case of Central and Eastern Europe
ASSPRO CEE 2007
Institutions/Partners/Country/Town
Medical University of Varna Department of Economics and Healthcare Management, Faculty of Public Health Emanuela MOUTAFOVA BG - Varna
Corvinus University of Budapest Department of Public Policy and Management György JENEI HU - Budapest
Public Enterprise “Mtvc” Liubovė MURAUSKIENĖ LT - Vilnius
Institute of Public Health, Jagiellonian University Medical College Health Economics and Social Security Department Christoph SOWADA PL - Cracow
National School of Public Health and Health Services Management Public Health Research Department Silvia FLORESCU RO - Bucharest
National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” School of Public Health and Centre for Health and Social Policy Studies Irena GRYGA UA - Kyiv
- 47 -
Social cohesion and youth integration
European educational research quality indicators
EERQI
Proposal: 217549 Project coordinator:
Estimated EC contribution: 1494654 € European Educational Research Association Institute for International Educational Comparison Starting date: 2008 DE - Hamburg Duration: 36 months Contact: Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (Small- and medium scale focused research project) Prof. Ingrid GOGOLIN [email protected] Unit L.2
Scientific officer: Louisa ANASTOPOULOU [email protected]
EERQI will build an advanced framework for quality assessment will be tested (usage relevance assessment of research documents in assessments, versions available, other statistical educational research based on formal methods, as well as by means of advanced, mechanisms including citation analysis and semantics-based detection of linking, linking, semantically-based full text analysis correlations and referral contexts). and co-occurrence of information items in open access and non-open access repositories, as well The project will also address the complex role as in online journal articles, books, and other of the diversity of scientific languages in freely available scholarly publications. Europe. Different mother tongues are a barrier to the international flow of communication Educational research is chosen as an example of while also being fundamental to expressing socially- and politically-embedded research complex scientific ideas which are often fields within the humanities and social sciences. embedded in a certain cultural back-ground. The resulting prototype framework of quality indicators and methods will provide the base Thus the project will also address the challenge toolset for a European information service for of effectively dealing with multilingualism and the observation and evaluation of educational specific “cultural heritage” of research research publications. The toolset can be traditions in the European countries. applied to other social sciences and humanities fields. EERQI results will also raise visibility and competitiveness of European researchers and Complementary to traditional measurements of contribute to new policy bases for funding, scientific quality (citation analysis, journal hiring, and evaluation decisions in European impact factor), new methods and indicators of academic and research institutions.
- 48 -
European educational research quality indicators
EERQI
Institutions/Partners/Country/Town
Universität Hamburg Symposium Journals Regionales Rechenzentrum (RRZ) Roger OSBORN-KING Stefan GRADMANN UK - Oxford DE - Hamburg Vs Verlag - GWV Fachverlage GmbH British Educational Research Association (BERA) Reinald KLOCKENBUSCH Jeremy HOAD DE – Wiesbaden UK - Macclesfield
Institute for Science Networking Oldenburg GmbH Umeå University Eberhard R. HILF Faculty of Teacher Education DE - Oldenburg Lisbeth LUNDAHL SE - Umeå Xerox SAS Xerox Research Centre Europe University of Maastricht Agnes SANDOR European Association for Research on Learning and FR – La Plaine Saint-Denis Instruction (EARLI) Goele Ine NICKMANS Leibniz University of Hannover NL - Maastricht Regional Computing Centre for Lower Saxony Wolfgang SANDER-BEUERMANN Institut de Recherche et de Documentation DE - Hannover Pédagogique (IRDP) Matthis BEHRENS Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische CH - Neuchâtel Forschung - German Institute For International Education Lunds Universitet Research Lund University Libraries Informationszentrum Bildung Håkan CARLSSON Alexander BOTTE SE - Lund DE – Frankfurt am Main
Eindhoven School of Education Blackwell Publishing Wim JOCHEMS Ssh Journals NL - Eindhoven Vicki WHITTAKER UK - Oxford Stichting Katholieke Universiteit Ton MOOIJ Swiss Society for Research in Education (SSRE) NL - Nijmegen Matthis BEHRENS CH - Aarau Taylor & Francis Ltd Journals Department Graham HOBBS UK - Abingdon
- 49 - European Commission EUR 23478 - European Research on Social Trends Demography, Migration, Cohesion and Integration
2008 — 50 pp. — 21,0 x 29,7 cm Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
ISBN 978-92-79-05201-9 ISSN 1018-5593 DOI 10.2777/9015 How to obtain EU publications
Our priced publications are available from EU Bookshop ( http://publications.europa.eu ) where you can place an order with the sales agent of your choice. The Publications Office has a worldwide network of sales agents. You can obtain their contact details by sending a fax to (352) 29 29-42758 . K I - N A - 2
The ageing of population, the determinants of the birth rate in Europe, the migrations both inside and outside the 3 4
European Union, the gender and cultural interactions, the factors of social exclusion, the integration of homeless and 7 8 immigrants, and the development of new indicators are key policy questions in Europe that researchers are - E answering in the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities theme of the Seventh Framework Programme. N - C