Reconciling Work and Welfare – Network of Excellence

The paramount objective of RECWOWE is to create a European research network capable of overcoming the fragmentation of existing research on questions of work and welfare in Europe.

RECWOWE integrates existing research activities on the various tensions that characterize the relationships between work and welfare, The ultimate aim is the constitution of a ‘virtual institute’ promoting the research excellence required in identifying and understanding the multiple tensions between work and welfare, as well as strategies for managing or resolving them.

RECWOWE is aimed at encouraging innovative research in the fields of labour market and social protection research. The common focus on tensions gives rise to perspectives and questions for research that are currently lost in the ‘void’ between existing research domains and academic disciplines. The activity of the network promotes new institutional and individual partnership, based on novel combinations of disciplinary and geographical expertise.

RECWOWE seeks to effectively share the new knowledge that is built up through its activities. It organises specific training schemes for students and professionals. It centralises and publicises existing and new sources of data on work and welfare, and disseminates its analyses and findings through a particular structure. [More..»]