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 the social sustainability of the European model. The analysis focuses on two fundamental aspects: the treatment (for young children and seniors) and investments in human capital (life-long learning paths professionalization). The project examines the political autonomy of local actors in relation to the national and European policy-making, with particular attention to the cultural dimension. This will make it possible to focus on new conceptual tools for understanding the mechanisms that underlie the activation of the female labor market and define how culture can restrict / facilitate the transferability of best practices between different countries and between different localities  www.flows-eu.eu.

Funding: European Commission – Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) 2007-2013

Partners:

Aalborg Universitet  www.en.aaau.dk – Denmark

Universität Hamburg www.uni-hamburg.de – Germany

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona www.uab.es – Spain

Jyväskylä Yliopisto  www.jyu.fi – Finland

Trinity College Dublin  www.tcd.ie – Ireland

Masarykova Univerzita  www.muni.cz – Czech Republic

Közép-Európai Egyetem  www.ceu.hu – Hungary

Tartu Ülikool  www.ut.ee – Estonia

University of Leeds  www.leeds.ac.uk – United Kingdom

Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Ange-Guépin  www.msh.univ-nantes.fr – France

Dansk Røde Kors  www.rodekors.dk – Denmark

Newsletter:

• Find in attach the first results of WP1 and WP2 in the project together with a list of publications of our partners connected to FLOWs’ themes. download newsletter