EUROSHIP – Closing Gaps in Social Citizenship. New Tools to Foster Social Resilience in Europe

EUROSHIP will combine diverse methods, data and disciplines (covering economics, political science, social policy and sociology) in innovative ways: 

1. coordinated lifecourse interviews with low-skilled and low-income women and men
2. focus forums with national stakeholders
3. policy analyses based on document review and semi-structured expert interviews
4. quantitative analyses of comparative micro-data.

Linking the analyses of these data and four key concepts (social citizenship, social resilience, capability and active agency) will give original insights on how social rights mitigate risks across the life-course and affect the scope for exercising social citizenship by vulnerable persons within a multi-level governance system. This will add to the knowledge base for further implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, Agenda 2030/SDGs, and through this, upward social convergence between Member States.

A trans-disciplinary consortium of nine research institutions from eight countries (DE, EE, ES, HU, IT, NO, CH, and the UK) and one European CSO will implement EUROSHIP. The Consortium has a balanced composition of women and men, senior and junior researchers.

• OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University (Norway)
• University of Milan (Italy)
• University of Tallinn (Estonia)
• University of Hamburg (Germany)
• TÁRKI Social Research Institute (Hungary)
• University of Florence (Italy)
• Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain)
• Swiss Paraplegic Research (Switzerland)
• University of Sussex (UK)
• Social Platform (Belgium)

• COFACE – FAMILIES Europe
• European AGE Platform Europe
• European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN)
• European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)
• European Youth Platform
• International Labour Organization (ILO)

• Dominique Anxo, Professor in economics, Department of Economics and Statistics, Linnæus University, Kalmar (SE)
• Bea Cantillon, Professor of Sociology, University of Antwerp (BE)
• Mark Dawson, Professor of European Law and Governance, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin (DE)
• Guðný Björk Eydal, Professor at the Faculty of Social Work, University of Iceland (IS)
• Olli Kangas, Professor of Sociology, University of Turku (FI)
• Caroline de la Porte, Professor MSO, Department of International Economics, Government and Business, Copenhagen Business School (DK).
• Chiara Saraceno, Professor emerita in Sociology, has had positions at the University of Turin (IT) and Wissenschaft Zentrum, Berlin (DE).
• Maria Symeonaki, Associate Professor of Social Statistics, Department of Social Policy, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens (GR)
• Fiona Williams, OBE, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, Honorary Professor at the Social Policy Research Unit, University of New South Wales, Australia, and Research Affiliate at COMPAS (Centre on Migration, Policy and Society) at the University of Oxford.