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The Impact of Privatization on the Mortality Crisis in Eastern Europe (PrivMort)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

After the collapse of Communism 3 to 7 million ¿excess deaths¿ occurred, comparable to the toll exacted by Stalin. While public health research has uncovered a great deal about the proximal causes of these deaths, identifying alcohol and psychosocial stress as key causes, incredibly few studies have attempted to address the variation in these proximal causes. Why did people in some countries star ...
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Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe (STYLE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The overriding aim of this project is to conduct a comparative EU wide analysis on youth unemployment that is sensitive to gender, ethnic and class differences and the historical legacies of multi-level institutions shaping relevant policies.This aim will be achieved through 10 objectives organized around 12 research, management, dissemination and scientific coordination work packages.There are th ...
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Inclusive Growth Research Infrastructure Diffusion (INGRID)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Referring to the increasingly challenging EU2020-ambition of Inclusive Growth, the objectives of the InGRID project are to integrate and to innovate existing, but distributed European social sciences research infrastructures on ‘poverty and living conditions’ and ‘working conditions and vulnerability’ by improving the transnational data access, organising mutual knowledge exchange and improving me ...
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Poverty Reduction in Europe: Social policy and innovation (ImPRovE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

This research proposal takes as its starting points: (a) the long standstill in poverty reduction, especially for people of working age, (b) the complementarity between employment, economic growth and social inclusion that is focal in the EU 2020 strategy, and, (c) the emergence of socially innovative policies and actions in the margins of the European welfare states. It aims at the evaluation of ...
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European Regions, EU External Borders and the Immediate Neighbours. Analysing Regional Development Options through Policies and Practices of Cross-Border Co-operation (EUBORDERREGIONS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

EUBORDERRREGIONS will investigate the manifold consequences of increasing cross-border interaction for the development of regions at the EU’s external borders and, in this way, contribute to scientific and policy debate on the future of economic, social and territorial cohesion within the EU. Importantly, the project will contextualise development issues in selected EU “Borderlands” with regard to ...
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Growing Inequalities' Impacts (GINI)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

"The project focus are inequalities in income/wealth and education and their social/political/cultural impacts. It combines an interdisciplinary approach, improved methodologies, wide country coverage, a clear policy dimension and broad dissemination. It exploits differences between and within countries in inequality levels and trends to understand impacts and tease out implications for policy and ...
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Assessing Needs of Care In European Nations (ANCIEN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

"The large post-war baby boom is now turning into a grandparent boom, putting a triple stress on long-term care (LTC) provisions: increased numbers of elderly, increased survival of these elderly and increased survival of frail, disabled elderly through improved care and health care. Increasing body weights, through increasing disability and care dependence among the obese, further add to numbers ...
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WORKCARE SYNERGIES - Dissemination of Synthesized Framework Programme Research Findings (WCS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"WORKCARE SYNERGIES is a support action with the aim of disseminating research findings of previous EU Framework Programme projects in the field of work-care. Our dissemination scheme is based on the concept of local key mediator teams, which are based in each of the seven countries where dissemination will take place and the mediator teams consist of local researchers, knowledge transfer and comm ...
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Interplay of European, National and Regional Identities: nations between states along the new eastern borders of the European Union (ENRI-East)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

The proposed research project is aimed at an in-depth understanding of the ways in which the modern European identities and regional cultures are formed and inter-communicated in the Eastern part of the European continent. The project is an inter-disciplinary effort (sociology, political science, history, ethnography). Its methodological thrust is empirical and comparative; new data complementing ...
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Higher Education as a Generator of Strategic Competences

Start date: Oct 1, 2007,

Higher education institutions are increasingly focused on the positions their graduates attain in the world of work and society. The potential for competence development reveals itself as a very important issue in this search, but higher education institutions will not be able to encourage competence development if they do not rely on empirically-based answers to the questions posed by competence ...
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Higher Education as a Generator of Strategic Competences

In the knowledge-based society the attention of Higher Education (HE) Institutions is increasingly focused on the positions their graduates attain in the world of work and society. This opens up a number of issues. One of the most important is the potential for competence development in HE. It is important to know what competences are needed for successful entry into the labour market, better empl ...
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