Research

EUROSHIP is an international collaborative research project about ways to strengthen social citizenship in Europe. The project will capture personal narratives and experiences among women and men with low education and low income. It puts into focus the opportunities, challenges and responses individuals encounter in different and rapidly changing institutional and societal contexts, also taking into account the new conditions imposed by the Covid-19 emergency. The project is organised in ten work packages (WPs), covering research on a range of sub-themes, project coordination and a range of dissemination activities.

Research plan

STAGE 1

STAGE 2

STAGE 3

Further develop and operationalise analytic framework to assess gaps in social citizenship across Europe (WP2)

Assess existing poverty and social exclusion indicators (WP3)

Prepare country reports on gaps in national social protection systems
(WP4, WP5, WP6, WP7, WP8)

Examine stakeholder dynamics in reforms of minimum income benefit schemes (WP4)

Examine mechanisms for young adults to avoid in-work poverty (WP5)

Examine mechanisms for work and family life for precarious workers (WP6)

Examine risks of poverty and social exclusion among low income elderly and disabled persons in need of long-term care (WP7)

Examine effects of the digitalised economy for risks of poverty and social exclusion (WP8)

Examine mechanisms to forster upward social convergence across Europe (WP9)

Comparative synthesis: Improve our understanding of the mechanisms behind the historical and cross-national variations in social citizenship over the life-course (WP2)

Examine stakeholder dynamics in reforms of minimum income benefit schemes (WP4)

Develop policy recommendations, a set of alternative scenarios and new social indicators (WP3, WP9)

Impact and dissemination activities (WP10)