Objective Private tenancy law is existentially affecting the daily lives of European citizens, as about one third of them depend on rental housing. That notwithstanding, it constitutes a nearly blank space in comparative and European law. This is due to its national character, its political nature and its embeddedness in widely diverging national housing policies, which ultimately reflect different welfare state models.At the same time, however, different parts of EU law and policy do affect tenancy law significantly, albeit indirectly. Thus, EU social policy against poverty and social exclusion extends to selected issues of housing policy. EU non-discrimination rules extend to the provision of housing, and several consumer law directives apply to tenancy contracts, too. Moreover, if the Common Frame of Reference were one day to develop into an optional instrument, tenancy law issues now regulated by national general contract law might be covered as well - though without any legislator having co-ordinated the ensuing juxtaposition of European contract law and national tenancy regulation.Against this background, this project sets out to provide the first large-scale comparative and European law survey of tenancy law. In a first step, it analyses national tenancy laws and their embeddedness in, and effects on, national housing policies and markets. In a second step, the effect of EU legislation on national housing policy in general and national tenancy law in particular will be analysed in a comparative perspective. In a third step, a proposal for a better co-ordinating role of the EU in tenancy law and housing policy, in particular through an OMC process developing common principles of good “tenancy regulation”, will be designed.This research matches well several priorities of the Stockholm programme given tenancy law’s intimate relation to social human rights and a system of law and justice working for the benefit of European citizens, in particular vulnerable groups. Fields of science social sciencessociologysocial issuessocial inequalitiessocial scienceslawhuman rights Programme(s) FP7-SSH - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities Topic(s) SSH.2011.2.1-2 - Combating poverty in Europe: a key question of human dignity and social cohesion SSH.2011.5.2-2 - Rule of Law and Justice in a Multilevel Governance System Call for proposal FP7-SSH-2011-2 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator UNIVERSITAET BREMEN Address Bibliothekstrasse 1 28359 Bremen Germany See on map Region Bremen Bremen Bremen, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Sylvie Gavirey (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITA DI PISA Italy EU contribution € 186 527,00 Address Lungarno pacinotti 43/44 56126 Pisa See on map Region Centro (IT) Toscana Pisa Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Elena Bargelli (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT Netherlands EU contribution € 384 929,75 Address Stevinweg 1 2628 CN Delft See on map Region West-Nederland Zuid-Holland Delft en Westland Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Hendrik Ploeger (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data TARTU ULIKOOL Estonia EU contribution € 149 072,00 Address Ulikooli 18 51005 Tartu See on map Region Eesti Eesti Lõuna-Eesti Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Irene Kull (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI Spain EU contribution € 229 900,00 Address Carrer de escorxador 43003 Tarragona See on map Region Este Cataluña Tarragona Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Sergio Nasarre Aznar (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University Sweden EU contribution € 290 380,00 Address Paradisgatan 5c 22100 Lund See on map Region Södra Sverige Sydsverige Skåne län Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Per Norberg (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIWERSYTET SLASKI W KATOWICACH Poland EU contribution € 208 300,00 Address Ul. bankowa 12 40 007 Katowice See on map Region Makroregion południowy Śląskie Katowicki Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Magadalen Habdas (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data MEDNARODNA FAKULTETA ZA DRUZBENE IN POSLOVNE STUDIJE ZAVOD Slovenia EU contribution € 195 340,00 Address Mariborska cesta 7 3000 Celje See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Goran Dakovic (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON United Kingdom EU contribution € 270 490,50 Address Highfield SO17 1BJ Southampton See on map Region South East (England) Hampshire and Isle of Wight Southampton Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Peter Sparkes (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data VAROSKUTATAS (METROPOLITAN RESEARCHINSTITUTE) KFT Hungary EU contribution € 154 127,20 Address Lonyay utca 34 iii/21 1093 Budapest See on map Region Közép-Magyarország Budapest Budapest Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact József Hegedüs (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data