We’re happy to announce that three articles have been published that were cofinanced by the ImPRovE project: Goedemé, T. and Collado, D. (2016) ‘The EU Convergence Machine at Work. To the benefit of the EU’s poorest citizens?‘ in Journal of Common Market Studies:1-17. doi: 10.1111/jcms.12382. Ayllón, S. and Gábos, A. (2016), ‘The Interrelationships between the…
Author: goedeme
Co-coordinator and Consortium Project Manager of ImPRovE. He coordinates the ImPRovE project with Bea Cantillon and, apart from scientific coordination, is responsible for the daily management of the project and Consortium. He holds a PhD in Social Sciences. His central research topic is poverty and minimum income protection in Europe, with a strong methodological focus.
ImPRovE research wins Intersentia/FISS Best Paper Prize 2014
As part of work package 13, six teams of ImPRovE researchers in Belgium, Finland, Hungary, Greece, Italy, and Spain have developed for the first time reference budgets for adequate social participation that should be as much as possible comparable across countries. Recently, a paper describing the first results of this exercise has been awarded the Intersentia/FISS…
New ImPRovE policy brief higlights importance of (often hidden) indexation of benefits and tax thresholds
In a new policy brief, the most salient results of work package 2 are synthetised in a brief note. On the basis of detailed simulations of tax and benefit policies between 2001 and 2011 in 7 European countries, John Hills, Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland and Iva Tasseva have analysed the distributive impact of policy reforms on poverty and…
Mid-Term Conference: Pictures and Presentations now online
All presentations of the ImPRovE Mid-Term Conference can be now downloaded from the conference website. [message_box title=”Downloads” color=”grey”] Click here downloading the conference booklet. Pictures of the conference can be downloaded from here. All presentations can be downloaded from here. [/message_box]
Call for papers: Towards Inclusive Employment and Welfare Systems: Challenges for a Social Europe
Together with 5 other FP7 funded projects, ImPRovE supports the conference ‘Towards Inclusive Employment and Welfare Systems: Challenges for a Social Europe’, which will take place 9-10 October 2014 in Berlin. During the conference, ImPRovE will organisase a workshop entitled ‘Which social policy paradigm for the 21st century?’. All information about the theme of the…
New session added to Conference programme 14 November 2013
We are happy to announce that prof. Alain de Crombrugghe will organise an additional session during the conference ‘Improving poverty reduction in Europe’ 14th November. The session is entitled ‘Macroeconomic stabilization and social policies in Europe‘. In contrast to many other sessions, in this session the reflection on possible policy action at the EU level is…
Conference programme and registration form online
You are kindly invited to participate in the conference ‘Improving poverty reduction in Europe’, which will take place 14 and 15 November 2013 in Brussels. As from today, the programme is online and you can register for participation in the conference. All necessary information can be found on the conference website.
Country selection known for WP8
In Work Package 8, researchers from the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, ISER and Athens University of Economics and Business will contribute to a better understanding of the role of services in the distributional outcomes of European welfare states. The focus of the analysis will be on the impact of childcare services and housing. More in…
Country selection known for WP3
In work package 3, ImPRovE researchers from AUEB and ISER will analyse the impact on poverty and inequality of the crisis and the austerity measures taken since 2007. More in particular, they will extend the available policy scenarios in the European tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD to investigate the social impact of the crisis and austerity measures for at least 7 countries that have…
Stay informed and follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn
As part of our dissemination strategy, earlier this week we have launched an ImPRovE page on several social media. From now on, you can follow us and discuss about ImPRove both on Facebook and on LinkedIn. Both webpages are also accessible using the icons in the top frame of the ImPRovE website. There are also…
European Reference budgets also for Italy
Within ImPRovE we will develop for the first time cross-nationally comparable reference budgets. In June last year, PSiTIC joined ImPRovE as a voluntary partner for developing reference budgets for Spain, in line with the methodology developed in the ImPRovE project. Now, also the Italian team form the University of Urbino has joined work package 13…
Country selection for WP2
In work package 2, ImPRovE researchers from ISER and LSE-CASE, with input from TÁRKI, AUEB and CSB will develop and analyse counterfactual scenarios for estimating the impact of policy reform on the evolution of poverty between 2001 and 2011. More in particular, they will extend the available policy scenarios in the European tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD to investigate what…
New ImPRovE partner
In June 2012 the research group PSiTIC joined the ImPRovE Consortium as a voluntary partner for work package 13. PSiTIC, Research Group of Social Pedagogy and Information and Communication Technologies is based at the Universitat Ramon Llull (Blanquerna) in Barcelona, Spain. With the contribution of PSiTIC, the ImPRovE Consortium will be able to develop cross-nationally comparable reference…
ImPRovE kick-off
ImPRovE was officially launched on 1st March 2012 and in May 2012 we held the ImPRovE kick-off meeting in Antwerp. In total, 35 researchers from all over Europe attended the meeting. After an introduction to the ImPRovE project by the ImPRovE coordinator prof. Bea Cantillon, the meeting started with three keynote speeches. Each of the…