The EUROMOD-JRC web interface is an online tool that provides a simplified access to the tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD. Users can implement simple tax reforms and analyse their fiscal and distributional effects. The project aim is to populate and update the parameters of the EUROMOD-JRC interface, which can subsequently be modified by users.

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. 

The project builds on the need for mutual learning between countries of the Bridging (BB) Function.The European Centre offers Peer Reviews and Training dedicated to specific topics in social welfare. By implementing mutual learning activities in the BB countries the European Centre collaborates with its National Liaison Officials (NLO's).

The European Centre teams was responsible for conducting the research for the project Better Functioning of the European Construction Labour Market (FELM) implemented by the European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW) and the European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC).

The project aims to improve the evidence base for policy regulating posted work, by collecting and analysing (via focus groups) narratives from posted workers about how their work shapes their lives, and affects their economic security.

Posting.Stat brings together a consortium of universities and research centres from 10 different Member Statesto promote the evidence basis through the collection and analysis of national micro-data. The geographical scope of the project covers the six main ‘sending’ Member States (Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain, Slovenia and Luxembourg) and the six main ‘receiving’ Member States (Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) of posted workers.

This project will identify indicators related to child poverty in European cities for the following dimensions: definition; prevalence; consequences in all areas of life; living conditions of children concerned; measures to combat child poverty.

Armenia and Tajikistan are implementing reforms aiming at improving the public services delivery through integrated employment and social protection policy response. Governments of both countries, in consultation with social partners, are designing national social protection and employment strategies utilising ILO’s technical assistance to integrate international labour standards into these long-term policies, short-term measures, delivery mechanisms and monitoring frameworks.

This project intended to facilitate, stimulate and enhance experiences and expertise amongst ESF stakeholders across the EU, their cooperation, the consolidation of knowledge and know-how as well as the visibility and awareness of the value of transnational cooperation.

The Situation Analysis of children’s rights and wellbeing is a flagship product designed to inform policy dialogue, partnerships, and interventions to improve the lives of children. It is an assessment and analysis of the country situation, with respect to children's rights and critical issues affecting their realization.

The aim of this project was to develop a multi-agency model for the prevention of gang violence based on an indepth-analysis of risk factors, prevention policies and social control mechanisms in recent research projects on youth gangs.

We analyse the impact of an increase in unemployment benefits in Austria in terms of poverty, inequality and employment effects.

The project studied the gap between procedures and practices in the enactment of EU rules on posting, identified challenges, developed and shared effective ways of addressing these for posting companies and implementation agencies in cross-border collaboration.

The reports are 2021 updates of the existing reviews related to the European Pillar of Social Rights in Western Balkan: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Republic of North Macedonia, & Serbia.

ASTAHG established a transnational governance board to help Alpine Space regional governments to implement and monitor policies for active and healthy ageing, local governments to identify most suitable initiatives and social innovators to channel services and products.

This project analyses non-take-up of housing allowance in Upper Austria.

The project looks at the extent to which states uphold and ensure the right to affordable housing, social support and health care. There is a focus on policies and services for older people, persons with mental health- and persons with addiction problems.

UNICEF’s Situation Analysis guides national institutions in promoting human development and fulfilment of human rights. It is used to assess the progress, challenges and opportunities to achieve children’s and adolescents’ rights and their wellbeing in Croatia.

Exchange, cooperation and mutual trust between social workers and police officers are needed to fostering social inclusion of marginalised people in public places. A joint training has been developed and can be integrated in existing training schedules at schools of social work and in police academies.

This study will analyse the current child protection policies in Albania, Armenia, Belarus, North Macedonia and Ukraine and evaluate how a new SOS Children’s Villages Worldwide regional programme will contribute to the human rights of children in these countries.

EUROMODupdate2 draws on the first update round (2009-2011) and aims to further develop and update the EUROMOD microsimulation model. A Policy Update 2012–2020 and subsequent updates to 2010–12–14–15–16–17 and 2018 EU-SILC data (in 2020) are part of this round.

EU Member States sending and receiving ‘third-country nationals’, established cooperation, shared information and conducted research to outline challenges, future scenarios and strategic responses as regards the posting of workers in the EU construction sector.

Better Regulation Guidelines ensure that EU policies and laws are prepared in a transparent manner, informed by best available evidence and backed by comprehensive involvement of stakeholders to achieve the objectives at minimum cost.

EU-28 Member States recognized the need to learn from each other with regard to improvements in capacity-building and better enforcement of policies as well as result in better performing and more inclusive labour markets and social protection systems across the EU.

How do EU-28 Member States fare in terms of intergenerational fairness? To which extent did policy reforms and automatic stabilizers built in the tax and benefit systems have a distributional impact on the income of different age groups and cohorts?

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were discussed with public, private and civil society stakeholders in four workshops 2019 – 2020 in different Austrian cities, each focussing on a specific topic relevant for achieving the SDGs.

This comprehensive analysis captured the status quo of the social situation of specific groups in Austria and included anecdotic evidence of the effects of the COVID-19 crisis and the need for action and research.

This project contributed to research aiming at a better understanding of challenges and opportunities for socially-inclusive companies to include persons with disabilities in the labour market and society in Europe.

This microsimulation analysis related to three different scenarios of the introduction and extension of the “family bonus” by the Austrian Government. Thus, the net distribution effects of the (planned) reforms could be mirrored.

The project proactively addressed the issue of posting of workers by assisting Eastern European countries in implementing the respective Directive in order to prevent social dumping and minimise associated risks for workers.

The European Cenre conducted tailor-made training courses for civil servants of the Bulgarian Ministry of Labour and Social Policy in three selected topics of social welfare: labour market and social policies, future of work, and long-term care.

This Network helps Member States to improve their services for the long-term unemployed and for people’s career development by promoting good practice and mutual learning and exploiting these through various forms of exchange and cooperation.

This project measured and analysed the target efficiency of the minimum income benefit and its predecessor benefit called monetary social assistance, the benefits of last resort in Austria.

While previous research focused on tax avoidance, social benefit frauds and lacking cooperation, here the attention was placed on the assurance of decent working conditions, occupational safety and health, assessment of health-related risks, prevention measures and monitoring.

The project conducted comparative research on public attitudes to welfare, climate change and energy. While economic challenges threaten solidarity in European welfare states, climate change is likely to become the leading driver of geopolitical conflict.

The project aimed at the quantitative and qualitative assessement of people not covered by health insurance in Austria: the number of people concerned, their socio-demographic characteristics, causes for non-coverage and coping behaviour in case of illness.

Using the Austrian EUROMOD module and the SORESI model, an in-depth analysis of planned tax-/benefit reforms in terms of income distribution at the household and individual level was provided.

This country profile of Albanian working life provided an overview of the processes, actors and trends in the fields of industrial relations and working conditions.

The project improved labour market governance through an expansion of institutional capacities of Public Employment Services (PES) and Centres for Social Welfare (CSW) to develop integrated support and outreach to individuals at risk of exclusion in the Western Balkan economies.

The Briefing Note describes and analyses developments in employment and related policies, developments in social affairs and related policies as well as priorities of the Austrian Presidency of the EU (first half of 2018) in the field of employment and social affairs.

The School responded to a need for capacity-building. This regarded research, project acquisition and -development, especially in the areas of youth unemployment, labour market policy, healthy and active ageing and demographic change.

‘Industry 4.0’ is regarded as the 4th Industrial Revolution, with great impact on collaboration between humans and technology. The course covered new forms of work organisation, changes/needs for ‘learning & skills’, diversity, gender and the ageing of the workforce.

To identify socio-economic groups at disadvantage and in need to be targeted by policies, we analysed living conditions and their determinants, e.g. income, wealth, poverty, taxes and benefits, access to health, long-term care, social mobility, social inclusion.

The project compared fruitful frameworks for social enterprises in Macedonia within existing active labour market programmes across the European Union, to build a strong pillar for the development of social entrepreneurship.

MOPACT provided the research and practical evidence upon which Europe can begin to make longevity an asset for social and economic development.

The network provided a space for learning about partnership in order to assist Managing Authorities, Intermediate Bodies and wider stakeholders across the European Structural and Investment Funds in improving their partnership practice.

This study aimed at identifying thematic key areas to be covered by benchmarking processes during the next upward policy convergence to strengthen the social dimension of the EU. It suggested potential benchmarking indicators and discussed their pros and cons.

To study public employment hiring and joining decisions in the German states, the orientation of business administration as compared to public administration students towards social norms such as altruism, fairness, and trustworthiness, free-riding and risk aversion, was examined.

EU-SILC survey data were used to identify household types and explore working patterns and work arrangements of parents. The main lessons learnt were synthetized and conclusions drawn for family policy design and family welfare during and after crisis periods.

Against this background the project sets up corridor studies as an instrument of knowledge gathering and result analysis.The two bilateral social security agreements between Austria/Turkey and Germany/Turkey may bring substantial experiences, as they have existed for many years in migration intensive corridors.

The European Centre analysed minimum income regulations in selected European countries.

In the course of the consultancy, the European Centre team explores how poverty and income inequality have changed in Latvia during the financial and economic crisis also drawing on comparison with other EU Member States. In particular, we aim to identify the specific social groups which were most affected by the crisis in order to raise awareness among policy makers.

The European Centre participates in the network of Social Inclusion & Income Distribution (coordinated by Applica), which monitors and reports on trends in income distribution and social inclusion, i.e. the overall inclusiveness of European society

Pieter Vanhuysse has been appointed for 2012-2013 as External Expert on the Central European Ageing Strategy developed by the Central European Knowledge Platform for an Ageing Society.

The index measures the extent to which older people can realise their full potential in terms of total and healthy life expectancy, participation in the economy, in social and cultural life and in terms of independent living.The project team also analyses the gap between the actual situation and an ideal state, where the latter would be based on empirical observations of best performing countries.

The project will evaluate the effects of the different benefit types based on targets and their degree of realization as well as intended and non-intended outcomes.The study will comprise of three main parts: an international literature analysis on theoretical and empirical backgrounds, the development of a comparative framework of the effects of monetary benefits and benefits in kind, and the detailed analysis of benefits in the long-term care sector offered by the City of Vienna.

The key objective to improve and extend EUROMOD’s usefulness as a tool for policy-relevant research and policy monitoring. The European Centre is responsible for establishing contacts and working relationships in the New Member States in order to explore the feasibility of bringing them into EUROMOD. In addition, the European Centre's team is modeling the policy systems for Austria.