Project description
Measuring the impact of social investments on EU wellbeing
Investments in social services, from maternal care to long-term care, impact economic and social wellbeing, yet their returns remain difficult to measure. To evaluate these returns, the EU-funded SWINS project will create a policy-oriented toolbox. Specifically, it will assess how various social services influence income, employment and growth across the life course. Its approach includes analysing both macro- and micro-level impacts using advanced tools like EUROMOD, synthetic panels, and machine learning. The project seeks to highlight social services as drivers of sustainable wellbeing in the EU, moving beyond their traditional role as safety nets. SWINS’ findings will inform strategies to integrate these insights into policies, reinforcing social investment for long-term sustainability.
Objective
SWINS will develop and test a policy-oriented toolbox for the ex-ante assessment of the economic and social returns of investments in social services over the life course. Focusing on the complementarity of services aimed at developing human capabilities throughout the lifespan, it will explore the impacts of alternative social policy scenarios entailing different social services configurations (from maternal care and ECEC, to education and ALMP, up to long-term care). SWINS will conceptualize the returns to social services in terms of income, employment, and growth, as well as bridge knowledge gaps about how these investments influence macroeconomic stability and foster the EU sustainability transition performances. By implementing a right-based social investment approach, SWINS aims to support the rethinking of social services as drivers of the EU’s shift towards sustainable wellbeing, going beyond their role as mere safeguards against the transition’s side effects. SWINS methodology will be based on three main steps: 1) the identification of macro-regularities, that is the relation between investment in social services and aggregate social-economic performances, 2) analysis of the micro-foundations, that is the analysis of the micro-level mechanisms that explains the macro-regularities, 3) macro and long term projection of the results. SWINS will rely on a variety of methodologies, i.e. microsimulation analysis using the EUROMOD platform and its expansions, synthetic panels, causal analysis of comparative microdata, machine learning techniques and macroeconomic agent-based models. Leveraging the expertise of a multi-disciplinary (law, economics, sociology, political science) consortium, SWINS will explicitly pursue impact by proposing concrete strategies to integrate research findings and tools into the institutional, legal and policy frameworks.
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- social sciences sociology governance public services
- social sciences economics and business business and management employment
- social sciences political sciences
- natural sciences computer and information sciences artificial intelligence machine learning
- social sciences law
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.2.2 - Culture, creativity and inclusive society
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HORIZON.2.2.3 - Social and Economic Transformations
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01
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08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles
Spain
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