Economic Change, Quality of Life, and Social Cohesion

EQUALSOCEQUALSOC

Research Area 2.1.2: Social Cohesion in a Knowledge-based society

Coordinator: Robert Erikson (SOFI, Stockholm)

Participants

• Follow-up on CHANGEQUAL: originally 5 participants

• 14 institutes from 11 countries

• Associated Experts from 12 countries

• Total: 16 countries

• Approx 155 researchers; approx. 60 students

Participants

• SOFI Stockholm• AIAS Amsterdam• CNRS Paris• U. di Trento• ESRI Dublin• HAS Budapest• MZES, Mannheim

• Nuffield College, Oxford• Unimib Bicocca Milano• UPF Barcelona• U. Torino• U. Tartu• WZB Berlin• CSB Antwerp

Theme

• Social cohesion in the knowledge-based society:– Employment and the labour market (EMPLOY)– Income distribution, consumption, and income

mobility (INCDIS)– Education, social mobility and social cohesion

(EDUC)– Family and social networks (FAMNET)– Cultural and social differentiation (SOCCULT)– Trust, associability and legitimacy (TRALEG)

Activities

• Within-group: – Group-specific workshops– Visitorships

• Across groups:– Thematic cross-cutting

workshops– Large network

conferences– Data support and

coordination

• Training:– Summer school– Methodology

workshops– Student exchanges

• Dissemination:– Policy workshops– Website– Newsletter