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Welfare state in transition- learning from co-production. Denmark Seminar, 18th April

In the wake of global financial crisis, European countries have experienced reduced public spending on welfare. Global conflicts have triggered migration to Europe. Both crises have deepened the polarization of society, but also triggered multiple actions of solidarity. How important is the collaboration between public administration and civil society organisations in this situation? What is the distribution of roles and tasks between the two types of actors in the delivery of social policy? On 18th April, this seminar, "Welfare state in transition- learning from co-production", will explore such issues. Findings from [...]

By |March 5th, 2018|News|Comments Off on Welfare state in transition- learning from co-production. Denmark Seminar, 18th April

Solidarity in the housing sector was analyzed at the Budapest European Seminar

  On May 30th 2017, it took place the second European Seminar on Solidarity in the Housing Sector at the Central European University (CEU) of Budapest (Hungary). The aim of the seminar was, on the one hand, to present the state of the art and present challenges in the policy area of housing in the European context and, on the other hand, to make visible the contributions developed by different solidarity actions in Europe, which are working for affordable housing access to the most vulnerable collectives. Introduced by Andrew Cartwright [...]

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Discussion of results on Solidarity actions with social impact in Spain

On May 17th 2017, the first results related to the Solidus project have presented to the representatives of some solidarity initiatives, whose actions selected due to their proven social impact. The meeting was held at the Faculty of Economy and Business of the University of Barcelona. The objective was, above all, to discuss and validate with relevant opinion leaders and stakeholders the key to solidarity actions with social impact in order to establish policy recommendations that can be used by policymakers to develop policies and instruments that recognize the potential of [...]

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