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Web Sites on the Welfare State

Essential web sites

• Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) was established to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people's lives

• Employment and Social Affairs
The website of the European Commission on Employment and Social Affairs. It includes informations and analysis on employment, working conditions and work organizations, social protection, civil society, gender equality and on other topics related to social policies.

• European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
The Foundation is a European Agency, set up by the European Council in 1975 to contribute to the planning and design of better living and working conditions in Europe

• EMIRE
The EMIRE database is the online version of the European Employment and Industrial Relations Glossaries, which explain the national industrial relations systems of the EU member states through their terminology.

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Other web sites

• CareandHealth
CareandHealth is a private company aiming to facilitate and promote professional information and communication exchange within the social care and health sectors. The website includes a database that includes around 1600 links to social work and care related sites

• Care, Values and the Future of Welfare (CAVA)
Based at the University of Leeds, the ESRC Group on Care, Values and the Future of Welfare (CAVA) was established in 1999 to deliver a five-year research programme on changes in parenting and partnering and the implications of these for future social policies

• Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC)
CIPPEC is a private, non-profit organization that strives to create a more just, democratic, and efficient State in Argentina for the purpose of improving the quality of life for all Argentine citizens

• Center on Social and Economic Dynamics
The Center on Social and Economic Dynamics transcends disciplinary boundaries with innovative, unconventional research on economic and social issues

• Centre for Research in Social Policy
The Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP) is an autonomous research centre based in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. CRSP’s research has four main themes: poverty and social exclusion; work and welfare trajectories; policy evaluation; and the administration and delivery of welfare services

• Centro Studi Immigrazione (CESTIM)
CESTIM provides information to those interested in gaining appropriate and in depth knowledge of the current migration phenomena, with special focus on the Italian context

• Development Trusts Associations (DTA)
DTA promotes the work of community enterprises in the United Kingdom. Its aims are to strenghten civil society and improve social welfare. It conducts research, publish a quarterly information bulletin, and a range of other publications

• Education and Training
The website of the European Commission on education and training. It reports useful informations on the European programmes and actions, and on European policies on education, training, lifelong learning, learning abroad, new technologies.

• The Economic and Social Cohesion Laboratory
The Economic and Social Cohesion Laboratory (ESOC-Lab) is a research unit within London School of Economics' European Institute. The traditional areas that characterise ESOC-Lab research initiatives include social capital, institution building, socio-economic development, ex-ante evaluation of the socio-economic impact of large investment projects, econometric modelling and data bank construction, the evaluation of EU technical training and labour market policies, and the future of regional policy and enlargement in the European Union.

• European Research Center on Migration & Ethnic Relations
ERCOMER is a European research centre with a strong interest in comparative research in the fields of international migration, ethnic relations, racism and ethnic conflict within the European context. It is based at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

• Fondazione Zancan
Independent Italian Research Center on social policies and the welfare state.

• Institute for Public Policy Research
British non profit research center on welfare state and social policies

• Institute for Social and Economic Research
Centro di ricerca dell'Università di Essex, finanziato dall'Università e dall'Economic and Social Research Council

• International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Established in 1951 as an intergovernmental organization to resettle European displaced persons, refugees and migrants, IOM has now grown to encompass a variety of migration management activities throughout the world

• Joseph Rowntree Foundation
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is one of the largest social policy research and development charities in the UK. The Foundation works in partnership with a large variety of academic and other institutions to achieve its aims. It also engages in practical housing and care work through the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust

• Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion
This site monitors what is happening to poverty and social exclusion in the UK and complements our annual monitoring reports. The material is organised around 50 statistical indicators covering all aspects of the subject, from income and work to health and education

• National Centre for Social Research
The largest independent social research institute in Britain. Conducts social research among members of the public to provide information on a range of social policy issues in Britain

• New Policy Institute
A progressive think tank, founded in 1996, to advance the cause of social justice in a market economy. Two major areas of interest are modern society’s major services, from health to finance and the tax and benefits system. Wholly independent, they have neither financial backers nor political patrons

• ODELUCE Project (Open and Distance Education and Learning through University Continuing Education)
ODELUCE is funded by the Socrates Programme of the European Community as part of the Minerva Action. Minerva seeks to promote European co-operation in the field of Open and Distance Learning and the role of communication and information technology (C&IT) in Education

• Policy Brief
Policybrief is a co-operative web project to provide a 'one-stop-shop' for all public policy initiatives in the UK

• Policy Studies Institute
One of Britain's leading research institutes, aiming to promote economic well-being and improve quality of life, particularly through the evaluation of policy initiatives. Provides data and analysis in support of policy-making, promotes the discussion and exchange of relevant information and research findings and organises workshops and other events at its central London conference facilities

• Rokkan Centre for Social Studies - University of Bergen
The centre is affiliated to the University of Bergen via the research company UNIFOB AS. It focuses primarily on welfare, health and health care services, administration and management, democracy and municipal structures, and knowledge, leadership and working life

• SCHEMA Project (Social Cohesion through Higher Education in Marginal Areas)
SCHEMA is a project funded by the European Commission under the Joint Call orchestrated by the Educational Multimedia Taskforce. The Project is co-ordinated by the University of Stirling. Its main objective is to foster the skills of workers through the use of Information Technologies

• University of York, Centre for Housing Policy
CHP was established in 1990 with the aim of being a centre of excellence in policy relevant housing research. Committed to research which explores the relationship between a wide range of housing issues and other aspects of social policy

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