Other European Research

Selection of Other European Research

An array of other European social science and humanities research, much of it funded by the European Commission DG Research, is available on the internet. FAMILYPLATFORM has drawn on a number of these research projects in its own work. A selection of this research is listed below, though more can be found by navigating through project websites.

CivicWeb - Young People, the Internet and Civic Participation (2006-2009).

CSEYHP - Combating social exclusion of young homeless people (2008-2011).

DYNSOC - Understanding the long-term changes in people’s lives in Europe (2000-2003).

EDUMIGROM - Ethnic Differences in Education and Diverging Prospects for Urban Youth in an Enlarged Europe (2008-2011).

EGRIS - European Group for Integrated Social Research is a research network considering the changing structures and processes of social integration in the context of new trajectories between youth and adulthood as well as the consequencies for education and welfare.

EQUALSOC - Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion (2005-2010).

EUMARGINS - On the Margins of the European Communioty - Youth adult immigrants in seven European countries (2008-2011).

EU Kids Online I & II - Enhancing Knowledge Regarding European Children’s Use, Risk and Safety Online & European Research on Cultural, Contextual and Risk Issues in Children's Safe Use of the Internet and New Media (2006-2011).

FEMAGE - Needs for Female Immigrants and their Integration in Ageing Societies (2006-2008).

FEMCIT - Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: The Impact of the Contemporary Women's Movements (2007-2011).

FEMIPOL - Integration of female immigrants in labour market and society. Policy assessment and policy recommendations (2006-2008).

FUTURAGE - Create the definitive road map for ageing research in Europe for the next 10-15 years (2009-2011).

GEMMA - Enhancing policy through European Research in Gender and Migration (2008-2010).

IMISCOE - Network of Excellence on International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion (2004-2010).

INCLUD-ED - Strategies for inclusion and social cohesion in Europe from education (2005-2010).

IPROSEC -  Improving Policy Responses and Outcomes to Socio-Economic Challenges: changing family structures, policy and practice (2000-2003).

JobMob & FamLives: Job Mobilities and Family Lives in Europe: Modern Mobile Living and its Relation to Quality of Life (2006-2008)

LLL2010 - Towards a Lifelong Learning Society in Europe: The Contribution of the Education System (2005-2010).

MAGGIE - Major Ageing and Gender Issues in Europe (2006-2009).

Platon Plus - Translating, interpreting and disseminating re-search findings from SSH for the benefit of policy and business stakeholders, and building interdisciplinary research teams to support participation of SSH researchers in other scientific fields' research projects (2008-2010).

QUING - Quality in Gender Equality Policies (2006-2011).

RECWOWE - Network of Excellence on Reconciling Work and Welfare in Europe (2006-2011).

Social Polis - The Social Platform on Cities and Social Cohesion (2007-2009).

SOCCARE - Comparative European research project that studied informal and formal social care arrangements for young children and older people (2000-2003).

SPREW - Generational Approach to the Social Patterns of Relations to Work (2006-2008).

Study on Child Poverty and Child Well-Being in the EU (2010).

Technological Responsibility - Looking at the social elements of technological research (2006-2009).

TRESEGY - Towards the social construction of a European Youth: The experience of inclusion and exclusion in the public sphere among second generation migrated teenagers (2006-2009).

UP2YOUTH - Youth - Actor of Social Change (2006-2009).

WORKCARE - Social quality and changing relationships between work, care and welfare in Europe (xx).

YIPPEE - Young People from a Public Care Background - Pathways to Education in Europe (2008-2010).

YOUNEX - Youth, unemployment, and exclusion in Europe - A multidimensional approach to understanding the conditions and prospects for social and political integration of young unemployed (2008-2011).

Full details of many of these projects can also be found on the Social Sciences and Humanities (DG Research) website.