Dialogue Centre (DIACwowe)

^Coordinators

PALIER Bruno email	POCHET Philippe email
P02 - Sciences-Po Paris	P11 - Observatoire Social Européen

^Objectives

^{The Dialogue Centre pursues one main goal: sharing and debating the results emanating from the network of excellence with European scientific, political and social audiences.}

^{It works to create an on-going dialogue between the research community gathered within RECWOWE, the policy community in charge with labour market and welfare policies and the practitioners with a stake in employment and social policy.}

^{The aim of the Dialogue Centre is to make research accessible to interested actors. Moreover, by installing a reciprocal dialogue between the research and the policy communities, RECWOWE intends to facilitate the relationships between them and improve the sensitivity of each to the other’s activities and concerns.}

^{The topics dealt with in RECWOWE are of crucial importance for European citizens, European governments, social partners and NGOs. The Dialogue Centre is aimed at better informing members of the policy community about the various economic, social and political implications of their reforms, it is also aimed at supporting NGOs and social partners with the new challenges they face.}

^{One of the central aims of RECWOWE is to ensure that its activities will be useful to the interested actors:}

^{- by being sure that they get to know the data being gathered and research being integrated thanks to RECWOWE activities,}

^{- by organizing a permanent dialogue between researchers and political and societal actors so that new research projects developed are closely linked to the main preoccupations of actors.}

^{Publication-Diffusion}

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^{Meetings-Events}

 
^{DIAC organises “Exchange Meetings for Dialogue” to present the ongoing research work to actors involved in the European processes (i. e. the European Employment Strategy and the Open Methods of Co-ordination) on welfare issues. These meetings gather researchers involved in RECWOWE and interested civil servants, experts, politicians and various actors working in Brussels. The “Exchange Meetings for Dialogue” are hosted at the Observatoire Social Européen in Brussels.}

^{DIAC organises an “Agenda meeting” which will be held in Warsaw during RECWOWE’s first general conference (June 12-15, 2007). It is aimed at materializing the reciprocal dialogue between the research community and the policy community. Actors who participate in elaborating, deciding, negotiating and implementing public policies in the field of labour market, employment and social protection on the one hand and members of RECWOWE on the other hand, will present and discuss their own policy and research agendas concerning employment, labour market and welfare reforms.}

^{The session will be an opportunity to confront the various preoccupations and agendas from researchers and actors from the policy community.}

^{DIAC also organises a public debate on:}

_{The debate will be presented by Prof. dr. Ton Wilthagen, Tilburg University, Member of the European Expert Group on Flexicurity, and will be held in Brussels , May the 3^rd 2007 - 12.30 - 15.30.}

_{You can download the invitation here}

_Participants

^Contact:

^{JACQUOT Sophie email
P02 – Sciences-Po Paris}