Current Projects

Analysis of persons not covered by health insurance in Austria – NKV 2025

01/04/2025 - 31/01/2026

The project – as a follow-up to our studies in 2003 and 2015 – aims at the quantitative and qualitative re-assessement of people not covered by health insurance in Austria. It focuses on an estimation of the number of people concerned, their socio-demographic characteristics, causes for non-coverage and their coping behaviour in case of illness.

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European Community of Practice on Partnership – ECoPP

06/10/2021 - 31/12/2025

The European Community of Practice on Partnerships is set up to review the existing European Code of Conduct and prepare proposals for its update for 2021-2027 period. 

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Good practices in supporting informal carers – InfoCare

17/02/2025 - 31/12/2025

InfoCare aims to provide the Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs with an overview of the challenges faced by informal carers and the policies implemented to support them in countries with well-developed formal long-term care (LTC) systems, i.e. countries comparable to Sweden in this regard. To achieve this, the project will use a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods and identify good-practice examples of supporting informal carers. The findings can help inform targeted and effective support measures for informal carers in Sweden.

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Sustainable and socially just transnational sectoral labour markets – JUSTMIG

01/11/2023 - 31/10/2025

The JUSTMIG project combines innovative research and data collection on labour market dynamics in both service and manufacturing sub-sectors across 6 EU Member States where fixed-term contracting of migrant workers occurs, and 3 candidate countries as source countries for workers. Besides sectoral labour market and employment relation analysis, the 8 experienced consortium partners will also develop expertise on the adjustment of industrial relations structures in the selected countries in response to increased employment of migrant workers on fixed-term or outsourced temporary contracts. Starting from the development and application of innovative participatory methodology, the project addresses and involves social partners and labour market institutions throughout the project.

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Diversity-sensitive care of older people with migration background – DISCOPMB

01/10/2022 - 30/09/2025

The project aims to improve person-centred and diversity-sensitive care for older people with migration background through the development of a training program, open educational resources and policy recommendations.

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