Overview

Key information

• _{Start Date: October 2006}
  

• _{Duration: 5 years}
• _{EC Contribution: 4.000.000€}
• _{29 Research Partners}

• _{18 universities and 11 other institutions}
• _{180 researchers and 80 PhD students}

• _{17 countries: Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and The United Kingdom}

• _{Coordinator: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Ange Guépin-Nantes (France)}
  

Project summary

_{The paramount objective of RECWOWE is to create a European research network capable of overcoming the fragmentation of existing research on questions of work and welfare in Europe.}

_{RECWOWE integrates existing research activities on the various tensions that characterize the relationships between work and welfare, The ultimate aim is the constitution of a ‘virtual institute’ promoting the research excellence required in identifying and understanding the multiple tensions between work and welfare, as well as strategies for managing or resolving them.}

_{RECWOWE is aimed at encouraging innovative research in the fields of labour market and social protection research. The common focus on tensions gives rise to perspectives and questions for research that are currently lost in the ‘void’ between existing research domains and academic disciplines. The activity of the network promotes new institutional and individual partnership, based on novel combinations of disciplinary and geographical expertise.}

_{RECWOWE seeks to effectively share the new knowledge that is built up through its activities. It organises specific training schemes for students and professionals. It centralises and publicises existing and new sources of data on work and welfare, and disseminates its analyses and findings through a particular structure.}

Key Annual Events

^{_{Annual RECWOWE Integration Weeks will provide landmarks for the programme and a general tempo of activity. Workshops on the different actions will be held during the plenary conferences. These joint meetings are efficient because they can benefit from economies of scale and reduce the cost of travels. They also facilitate better linkages between horizontal and vertical activities. In addition, plenary conferences will be crucial for the management activities, since they will host meetings for the decision-making bodies (the advisory committee and governing committee just before or after the plenary conferences).}}

^{_{2006, December 18}th _{and 19}th_{: kick-off Conference Paris}}

^{_{2007, June 12}th_-16 th_{: Warsaw Conference}}

^{_{2008, June 10}th_-14th_{: 2nd Annual RECWOWE Integration Week - Oslo}}