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The Future of European Social Citizenship

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Alternative policy options to boost European social citizenship

All citizens of an EU country are automatically citizens of the EU who enjoy important extra rights and responsibilities. But the concept of European social citizenship – the bond between equals joined by a shared fate – is different. Crucial for social integration, it hinges on membership in a community based on equal parts. The EU-funded EUSOCIALCIT project will review policies to boost European social citizenship. It will develop a resource-based, multi-level concept of social rights at EU, national and local levels. The project will also identify the shortcomings of the institutions and gauge citizens' attitudes. By analysing current realities and alternative policy options, it will provide new indicators and implementation studies on social investment, working conditions, minimum income protection and housing.

Objective

EUSOCIALCIT will provide scientific analysis and examine policy scenarios to strengthen European social citizenship. It focuses on three domains that mirror the building blocks of the European Pillar of Social Rights (the empowerment of citizens, fair working conditions and social inclusion) and pursues five objectives:
1. Bring together long-standing rival approaches to European social citizenship, and develop a resource-based, multi-level concept of social rights (recognizing that the resources supporting social rights can be located at EU, national and local levels).
2. Understand the current state of social rights and their relationship to outcomes (social and gender inequality, poverty and precariousness).
3. Diagnose the shortcomings of the institutions that generate undesirable outcomes.
4. Understand attitudes, preferences and the demand for change among citizens, and the constraints and opportunities these create for the EU social agenda.
5. Develop alternative policy scenarios to strengthen European social rights, in particular to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights.
This promises a more encompassing understanding of European social citizenship than existing literature now offers. We will provide new indicators and implementation studies on social investment, working conditions, minimum income protection and housing. The project is deliberately ambitious in terms of both science and policy because effective policies require in-depth analysis of current realities and alternative policy options, both empirically and conceptually. The consortium has been formed to realise that ambition, by combining academic expertise – in political science, law, sociology, social policy and economics – with practical policy experience. Our emphasis on the plurality of possible policy scenarios, on listening to citizens and co-creation testifies to our conviction that an academic and policy-oriented research project should serve the public debate, not replace it.

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Call for proposal

H2020-SC6-GOVERNANCE-2018-2019-2020

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Sub call

H2020-SC6-GOVERNANCE-2019

Funding Scheme

RIA - Research and Innovation action

Coordinator

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
Net EU contribution
€ 844 084,40
Address
Spui 21
1012WX Amsterdam
Netherlands

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West-Nederland Noord-Holland Groot-Amsterdam
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Other funding
€ 282 533,10

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EC signature date 8 November 2019
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