Institutional Change in Long Term Care in Europe
November 2010 – February 2012 Working group: Costanzo Ranci (Politecnico di Milano) e Emmanuele Pavolini (Università Politecnica delle Marche): coordinamento scientifico August Oesterle (University of Economics and Business, Vienna), Viola Burau (University of Aarhus) e Hanne Marlene Dahl (University of Roskilde), Claude Martin (University of Rennes and CNRSFrance) Blanche Le Bihan (Ecole des Hautes Etudes […]
WILCO
December 2010 – December 2013 Working group: Costanzo Ranci, Giuliana Costa, Stefania Sabatinelli The general objective of the project is to comparatively analyse how local welfare systems can favour social cohesion, with particular reference to three target groups: precarious young adults; single mothers; migrants. The research forsees the analysis of three policy areas – employment, […]
FLOWS
Jan 2011 – June 2014 Working group: Costanzo Ranci, Roberta Cucca, Lara Maestripieri The project aims to investigate how the local welfare systems affect women’s participation in the labor market and, conversely, how women’s employment can affect the course of life (both men and women), on the structures of inequality, social cohesion and ultimately on […]
Social cohesion and economic development in Industrial Districts
September 2006 – july 2008 Working group: Stefania Cerea, Roberta Cucca, Marina Rago For a long time, the industrial districts have been able to combine satisfactory levels of economic development and social integration. Since the eighties this ability has been put under pressure by a series of transformations that have affected so much the world economy, as […]
PRIN – The policy of social investment in six italian cities
2011 – 2013 Working group: Giuliana Costa, Costanzo Ranci Funding: MIUR – PRIN Partners: Politecnico di Milano www.polimi.it (capofila del progetto) Università Politecnica delle Marche www.univpm.it Università degli Studi di Bari www.uniba.it Università La Sapienza di Roma www.uniroma1.it Università degli Studi di Napoli www.unina.it Università di Urbino www.uniurb.it
Social sustainability
Starting from the Nineties, the sustainability paradigm has been conceived as the achievement of a balance among the ecologic, economic and social dimensions of the development, through a process of equal redistribution of resources in an intra-and post-generational perspective. However, in recent times, the paradigm of the “green economy” seems to have gradually “colonized” the […]
Social sustainability
Starting from the Nineties, the sustainability paradigm has been conceived as the achievement of a balance among the ecologic, economic and social dimensions of the development, through a process of equal redistribution of resources in an intra-and post-generational perspective. However, in recent times, the paradigm of the “green economy” seems to have gradually “colonized” the […]
Welfare locale
L’attenzione nei confronti dei sistemi locali di welfare è dovuta a diversi fattori. Alle tradizioni analitiche proprie dei contesti, come l’Italia, caratterizzati da spiccate differenziazioni territoriali, e da specificità locali in ambito storico, politico-istituzionale, socio-economico. Ai complessi processi di riconfigurazione scalare delle responsabilità e competenze relative alle politiche sociali, soprattutto a partire dagli anni 1990. […]
Local welfare
The effort to strengthen social cohesion and lower social inequalities is among the main policy challenges of Europe. These great challenges become visible and tangible at the urban level, which makes cities a microcosm of society. It means that local welfare systems are at the forefront of the struggle to address this challenge – and […]
Local Welfare
Local welfare systems have come to the fore of welfare studies in recent years for a variety of reasons. To start with, countries like Italy have always featured significant geographical differentiation and local historical, social, economic, political and institutional peculiarities. On the other hand, complex rescaling of social policies has taken place since the 1990s. […]