The study „Policy measures for disadvantaged youth“ has been published and is available for download from DG Employment’s website. It can be downloaded from http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/social_inclusion/docs/youth_study_en.pdf. A permanent link to the PDF is http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2013011217002 More on the project…

YOYO – Youth Policy and Participation „Youth Policies and Participation“ (YOYO) is an EGRIS (European Group for Integrated Social Research) project, coordinated by IRIS e.V. (Institut für regionale Innovation und Sozialforschung) Tübingen and funded the European Commision’s 5. Framework Programme for Research.

Comparative analysis on the changed role of the family against the background of longer and more complicated transitions of young women and men into work an economic independency. The ‘Families and Transitions in Europe’ research project has been funded under the Improving the Human Potential key action of the European Commissions Fifth Framework Programme. It was developed and carried out in the framework of the European research network EGRIS and has been coordinated by the School of Policy Studies at …

The European research project FATE Weiterlesen »

European Conference for researchers, policy-makers and practitioners on the experiences of young people with support measures for transitions to work, 6-8 June 2002 in Madrid. From 6 to 8 June 2002 IRIS together with AREA (Asociácion Regional y Europea de Análisis, Valencia) and in collaboration with the Spanish Youth Institute organised a European conference on „Young People and Transition Policies in Europe“. The conference addressed policy makers, institutional representatives and researchers. The project started from the observation that existing policies …

Young People and Transition Policies in Europe Weiterlesen »

“Sackgassen – Umleitungen – Überholspuren?” – Risks of exclusion and new perspectives in transitions to work Transnational Knowledge Transfer Project I. Objectives This project aimed at improving the situation of young people in their transitions to work by furthering the dialogue between research, practice and policy-making. For this aim, regional conferences were held in four European partner regions to discuss the outcomes of the TSER-funded research network “Misleading Trajectories”). In Baden-Württemberg there were the following events held: a regional symposium on 20.10.99 …

1999-2000 Dead end streets… Weiterlesen »