FAMILYPLATFORM gathered a consortium of 12 organisations working together to help increase the wellbeing of families across Europe. It did this by encouraging dialogue between stakeholders about family life, ultimately providing input into the EU’s Socio-Economic and Humanities Research Agenda on Family Research and Family Policies.

There were four key stages to the project. The first was to chart and review the major trends of comparative family research in the EU. The second was to critically review existing research on the family. The third was to build on our understanding of existing issues affecting families and predict future conditions and challenges facing them. And the fourth was to bring the results and findings of the previous three stages together to propose key scientific research questions about families to be tackled with future EU research funding.

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***UPDATE 05/07/2011: The project has now ended. Occasional emails may be sent to our email list about future projects, visitors who wish to receive them should register. Please note that all academic and other references should refer the permanent FAMILYPLATFORM repository hosted by Technical University Dortmund and not this website.***

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