Call for Papers: The GDPoweR (Recovering Workers’ Data to Negotiate and Monitor Collective Agreements in the Platform Economy) research project invites researchers, policymakers, trade unionists, and activists to submit papers for its upcoming final conference. The conference will present the project’s findings and explore how digital platforms collect and use worker data, and how this data can be leveraged for fairer collective bargaining agreements in the gig economy.

In a European Union committed to promoting social cohesion and equality, the evolving dynamics of migration call for innovative solutions in care provision. At the heart of this conversation is Diversity-Sensitive Care for Older People with Migrant Background and their Families, a project aligned with the EU’s core principles of inclusivity and solidarity, as outlined in the European Pillar of Social Rights.

Older people with migrant background represent a crucial intersection of cultural heritage and unique care needs. As migration continues to enrich our societies, there is a pressing need to ensure care strategies address diverse needs while maintaining dignity and equity. Education plays a crucial role in equipping professionals with the skills to provide culturally sensitive and high-quality care, ensuring no one is left behind. This event will explore how EU migration, care, and education policy can work together to address these needs while fostering more inclusive and equitable care practices. By equipping professionals with the tools to deliver diversity sensitive care, we can strengthen social resilience and uphold the EU’s commitment to reducing inequalities.

This event in English language will facilitate policy dialogue to share insights, foster collaboration, and highlight policy recommendations for improving social and health care services for older persons with migrant background in Europe.

Recognising the growing significance of temporary employment of migrant workers in EU labour markets, the JUSTMIG project investigated the impact of temporary migrant employment in 9 countries across 4 sectors (retail services, care, metal, and food production).

In our final conference, research teams will share their findings from the fieldwork with key stakeholders (including social partners, public institutions, and civil society) and researchers in the field. The conference aims to provide an open discussion forum in which transnational dialogue in each sector could be shared, generating invaluable exchanges between policy, society, and research.

In this webinar, different approaches to supporting competences for the care of older migrants were presented. We discussed the transfer of skills for diversity-sensitive care based on the course Transcultural medicine and diversity care at the Meidcal University Vienna and the Erasmus+-funded DI.S.C.O.P.M.B. project. We also launched the e-learning course of the DI.S.C.O.P.M.B. project with this meeting. This was a German language event.

A new study commissioned by the European Labour Authority (ELA) and implemented by the European Centre in collaboration with Milieu Consulting SRL was launched at an event organized by ELA and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights in Brussels on the 20 March 2025 in the premises of the European Economic and Social Committee as well as online. 

In this session, Patricia Yocie Hierofani and Micheline van Riemsdijk (Uppsala University) and Rieke van Dijk (University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam) will discuss collaboration with informal carers of older migrants.

In this session, Sandra Tricas-Sauras (Université Libre Brussels) and Palle Storm (Stockholm University) will discuss transcultural nursing for older migrants.

In this session, Marco Canevelli (Sapienza University, Italian National Institute of Health and Karolinska Institutet) and Saloua Berdai Chaouni (Vrije Universiteit Brussels and Karel de Grote University College) will discuss care for older migrants with dementia..

In this session, Emina Hadziabdic (Linnaeus University) and Meri Kulmala (University of Eastern Finland and University of Helsinki) will discuss language barriers migrants face in accessing services.

In this session, Hakki Demirkapu (Vrije Universiteit Brussels and Medisina medical clinics) and Hanna Carlsson (Radboud University) will discuss barriers older migrants face in accessing health and long-term care.

This webinar presented the GUIDE survey and opportunities for Ausrtia to join the GUIDE survey as a flagship of European research infrastructure.

The working conditions of platform workers are a much discussed topic, not least due to the strong growth of food delivery services in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Against this backdrop, the European Center conducted a survey of over 300 food delivery riders that was funded by the Work 4.0 Digitization Fund of the Vienna Chamber of Labour.

The aim of this webinar is to offer research staff and students of the Central European University, European Centre colleagues and a wider audience, especially interested in the topic of ageing and its implications across the EU to exchange at a practical level about common challenges and necessary policy developments that will ensure sustainability.

Aim of the workshop to explore and discuss the results from the analysis and focus groups at comparative level & to disseminate and share findings within the consortium and beyond.

The POW-BRIDGE (Bridging the gap between legislation and practice in the posting of workers) consortium is pleased to invite you to attend the project’s Final Conference, taking place on 9th November (9.00-13.30 CET) on the ZOOM platform.

Two BB Summer Schools of evaluation in social policies took place online on 25-27 August and 22-24 September 2021 aiming to enhance skills and knowledge in commissioning and/or conducting social policy-oriented M&E projects and programmes. 

The Con3Post Conference brings together researchers from five European countries (Slovenia, Austria, Italy, Finland and Poland) to present and discuss the findings of the empirical research on posting of third country nationals.

This expert workshop in German language served to exchange experiences regarding the quality assurance of agencies working in the recruitment of health and care workers as well as of personal carers in Austria and Germany. 

SWaPOL is an education & training project to develop a common vocational training for social workers and police prevention officers. The Austrian team of the project organises a Multiplier Event targeting responsible persons from Social Work and the Police.

The General Assembly Meeting 2020 of the European Centre was dedicated to social policy and research in the time of COVID-19 and beyond.

At this event, we aimed to discuss why a human rights-based approach is needed in long-term care policies across the EU. Due to the restrictive measures related to COVID-19, our event had to be postponed to a later date this year.

The Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection, the government of Salzburg and the European Centre organised a multi-stakeholder workshop on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to reduce poverty and inequality.

Experts from German and Austrian ministries and local administrations with responsibilities for long-term care, researchers and other relevant stakeholders exchanged experiences and models on information, counselling and coordination in long-term care.

The European Centre and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection (BMASGK) jointly organised a workshop on the implementation of the SDGs under the title ‘A Society for People of All Ages’.

The European Centre invites for the International Workshop 'SDGs priorities & challenges in social welfare policy in Eastern Partnership countries' in Vienna, on 14 & 15 Octobre 2019.

The European Centre organised a seminar on the future of posting. It focused on the persistent and under-researched trend of recruiting and posting of third-country nationals to work in the single European market.

The Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection, the European Centre and the Johannes Kepler University Linz organised a multi-stakeholder workshop on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as regards decent work for young people.

The Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection, the European Centre and the Johannes Kepler University Linz organised a multi-stakeholder workshop on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for people with disabilities in Austria.

The 7th Event of the Vienna Evaluation Network evolved around three key questions: Which learning formats exist in the context of evaluations? When and at which point of the evaluation process do we best learn from evaluations? Who learns from evaluations?

The 6th Event of the Vienna Evaluation Network explored how to transfer findings from evaluation studies and how to identify factors to determine the circumstances under which evidence transfer may be appropriate.

The Vienna EUROMOD Workshop comprised sessions on tax-benefit microsimulation in Austria, the Western BalkanMod initiative of the Eastern European Social Policy Network, and new research directions using EUROMOD.

This expert workshop served to present regulatory measures in the area of live-in migrant care in Austria (24-hour care) and to discuss potentials to transfer and adapt these to German legislation.

With theory-based evaluation, evaluators are expected to work on the basis of a programme theory and verify the different causal links. The presentation illustrated how programme theory can be used for planning, managing, monitoring and evaluation

The European Centre organized this workshop on ‘Bridge Building in Social Welfare Policy’ for its National Liaison Officials to strengthen and encourage regional and project cooperation in social welfare policy and research.

A Macedonian delegation comprising experts from public authorities and NGOs visited the European Centre on 22 November 2017 to exchange knowledge on social policies.

The Forum discussed: How can social policies best contribute to more distributive justice? Which strategies are the most promising in the various European regions? How can governments and research from the East and the West contribute to a social and cohesive Europe?

The Summer School contributed to more European cohesion by building capacities of stakeholders across sectors and countries, providing training on innovative approaches, good practices and up-to-date research results, as well as joint development of projects.

Relevant stakeholders were invited to exchange information and experiences related to new developments and recent reforms in long-term care in Austria and Germany, with a special focus on dementia strategies and measures to support informal carers.

The European Centre’s ‘Bridging Function’ is based on the premise of close collaboration with the national governments of European countries, the European Union and other relevant stakeholders at the international, European and national level.

In context with the project AGORA, the research team at the European Centre together with the FH St. Pölten and the FH Campus Wien organized a one-day international workshop. The workshop attracted more than 100 participants from target organisations such as the police, mobile social work, social science, administration and policy.

Bernd Marin and Asghar Zaidi presented findings of the Active Ageing Index (AAI) project. The index measures different dimensions of active ageing and quantify untapped active ageing potentials for each country, thus showing how much progress could still be made.

How and in which direction should long-term care services and facilities be further developed in the Slovak Republic? These and related issues were tackled during a high-level policy seminar with experts from the administration of Slovakia and the Worldbank on 11 December 2012 in Bratislava. The Ministry of Health is in the process of defining its medium term strategy for health and is currently assessing the performance of the health system, the main challenges and how to address these in the future.