Objective The research concerns public policies and policy-making and in particular "women-friendly" policy approaches. The aim is to identify how the integration of a gender dimension in policy formulation and design is proceeding across the Community and how it serves to improve the impact of these policies. Empirical research will be carried out, in nine European countries, on three main policy areas, which are priorities within the European Social Policy Agenda:1) income distribution, in particular tax and welfare policies;2) education, in particular on skills and qualifications in the knowledge society; and3) social integration, particularly of immigrants and ethnic minority people. The "value-added" of integrating gender into policy will be explored and substantiated, not just in terms of the relative well being of women and men and the reduction of gender inequalities, but also in regard to how it acts to alter policy making itself. Fields of science social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiespublic policiessocial sciencessociologysocial issuessocial inequalitiesgender inequalitysocial sciencessociologygovernancetaxationsocial sciencessociologydemographyhuman migrations Programme(s) FP5-HUMAN POTENTIAL - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Improving the human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base" (1998-2002) Topic(s) 1.4.1.-4. - Key action Socio-Economic Knowledge Base Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator PANTEION UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES EU contribution No data Address Leoforos Syggrou 134 17671 ATHENS Greece See on map Total cost No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all LAW UNIVERSITY OF LITHUANIA Lithuania EU contribution No data Address Ateities Street, 20 2057 VILNIUS See on map Total cost No data LULEAA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Sweden EU contribution No data Address 971 87 LULEA See on map Total cost No data THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address College Park East 2 BT7 1NN BELFAST See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES Belgium EU contribution No data Address 50,Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50 1050 BRUXELLES See on map Total cost No data