Description du projet
Protéger et renforcer le contrat social européen
Le changement climatique, les conflits et les différentes crises ont considérablement affecté la confiance du public dans l’UE et ses institutions, soulevant des inquiétudes quant à la qualité du contrat social de l’UE avec ses citoyens. Le projet Express2, financé par l’UE, vise à examiner ces changements récents, leur impact, ainsi que les besoins et les doutes des citoyens, dans le but de formuler un nouveau contrat social et un nouvel accord d’association pour l’UE. Pour ce faire, le projet identifiera les principaux éléments perturbateurs, comprendra leurs interrelations, concevra des solutions, et mettra en place des mesures pour protéger le contrat contre les perturbations potentielles. Des efforts de collaboration avec les institutions et les décideurs politiques seront entrepris afin de renforcer le contrat social.
Objectif
EXPRESS2 is a project that addresses from a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and cross-sectional perspective, the growing demand for a new, more democratic, inclusive, and sustainable social contract in the EU. To achieve this, the project will work to create a more appealing and legitimate EU social contract draft that will be submitted to inhabitants, Member States and EU institutions that will have the possibility to participate and decide upon the conditions, rights, and obligations to be binding. The goal is to strengthen the EU agreement of association by promoting social dialogue, civic engagement, and integration. An express draft shall be achieved by means of policy dialogue, campaign implementation, collaborative workshops, advocacy planning, and innovative offline and online formats and tools to create spaces for dialogue. To this end, EXPRESS2 will involve EU policymakers and institutions throughout the project to obtain a more appealing and legitimate EU social contract draft.
The project will also focus on identifying and analyzing disruptive elements of the social contract, such as insecurity, populism, climate change, mistrust in institutions, gender discrimination, digitalisation and pandemics. The analysis of these stressors includes both individualised and cross-sectional approaches to cover the plausible relation of multiple disruptors, their concatenation or the “trigger” effect of a disruptive phenomenon to another. By understanding these disruptive elements and their effects on the social contract, the project will propose concrete measures to ironclad the social contract and it will provide relevant information to protect it from actual and potential disruptions thus we conceive social contracts as incomplete theorised agreements and living documents. In addition to academic, policy, and socio-economic outcomes, EXPRESS2 will propose recommendations to strengthen the social contract's resilience and capacity for further development.
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