Welfare in an Idle Society?

A new book by Bernd Marin, forthcoming 2012

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Welfare in an Idle Society?

ECAB Project Meeting, 24-25 May, Berlin

The third partners’ meeting of the project ECAB (Evaluating Care Across Borders) is going to take place at the Technical University of Berlin from 24th to 25th of May. The main objectives are to review progress in the different parts of the project – ranging from cross-border dentistry care to hospital collaborations and long-term care – and to discuss the most relevant issues of the project’s final stages including dissemination. All thirteen scientific partner institutions from different European countries and other high-level experts, for example from the General Medical Council UK, will be present.

One focus of the meeting will be to discuss the scope and framework, and policy implications of the project. Dissemination of results of this project also aims at contributing to the implementation of the EU’s cross-border patient directive in all EU Member States by late 2013. For example, selected results of the project will be presented at the European Conference on Health Economics in Zurich in July 2012, at the LSE-ILPN Conference on Long-Term Care in September 2012 in London, and at the Conference of the European Public Health Association in Malta in November 2012.

The European Centre is coordinating the work on long-term care, and is involved in several other parts of the project, e.g. a study on mobility of health professionals in Europe, a case-study on cross-border dentistry care between Austria and Hungary, and a study on quality in hospitals in the UK and Austria. Furthermore, the European Centre aims to contribute in important ways to the disssemination of the results of the project.

Read more about: project. For further information please contact: Andrea Schmidt, Maria M. Hofmarcher

Appointment as 'Professor in International Social Policy', Southampton University (UK)

Asghar Zaidi, our Director Research, has been offered a Chair, 'Professor in International Social Policy', in the School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton (UK), which is one of the top British universities, belonging to the Russell Group of universities in the UK. European Centre is very honoured by this news, and our heartfelt congratulations go to Asghar for this well-deserved recognition of his scholarly achievements and the excellent work he has done with us over the years. At Southampton, he will be based at the Centre for Research on Ageing and associated with the ESRC Research Centre for Population Change. He will join them on 1st September 2012, but for the rest of 2012 he will also remain Director of Research, so as to provide continuity in the ongoing and submitted projects.

More details on the Centre for Research on Ageing, click here
More details on the ESRC Research Centre for Population Change, click here

External Expertise awarded: Central European Ageing Strategy

Pieter Vanhuysse has been appointed as External Expert on the CE Ageing Strategy, developed by the Central European Knowledge Platform for an Ageing Society and run by a consortium of 13 partners from 8 CE countries. The expertise is funded to contribute to develop trends and scenarios for the CE region until 2050 and to the ‘CE-Ageing Strategy’ document to be published as a Green Paper in December 2012.

On the CE Ageing Strategy: click here
Contact: Vanhuysse

New Policy Brief: Housing Problems and Access to Basic Local Services in the EU27

The aim of this Brief is to explore (i) housing problems, such as poor housing quality, overcrowdedness, housing cost overburden, and (ii) access to basic local services, including public transport, postal and banking services across the EU27. We also assess whether the population at risk of poverty is exposed to cumulative disadvantage, suffering from both low incomes and housing deprivation. We complete the analysis with a focus on specific social groups in Austria and overall EU27.

For more information click here!

Handy Sex Guide

Der Handy Sex Guide ist für junge Menschen zwischen 13 und 18 Jahren.

Er enthält Informationen über Safe Sex, Verhütung, sexuell übertragbare Krankheiten, HIV/AIDS, Schwangerschaft, den weiblichen und männlichen Körper, Liebe und Beziehungen und vieles mehr. Um den Handy Sex Guide herunterzuladen, gehe mit Deinem Handy auf folgenden Link: http://mgw02.mobile-identity.com/de And join us on Facebook

The Mobile Safe Sex-guide is part of the project "Mobile Sexuality: Towards a New European Strategy in Sex Education and Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (SAFESEX)".

Recent Columns by Bernd Marin

In DER STANDARD, Wien:

Neue Arbeitszeit-Zeiten (26 / 27 / 28 May 2012)
Ein neuer Wohlfahrts-Mix? (28 / 29 April 2012)