What does social citizenship mean? EUROSHIP project delivers papers on long-term care, minimum income and employment

AGE is part of the Advisory Board of the research project ‘Closing gaps in European social citizenship’ (EUROSHIP), which aims at assessing gaps in social protection across Europe, putting an emphasis on vulnerable populations and gender gaps. It has a particular focus on minimum income schemes and older persons with care needs, as well as on seven countries: Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom.

The project has been running since 2020 and has already delivered a couple of working papers on a number of topics of interest to our work:

Minimum income:

• The institutional logics of minimum income schemes in seven European countries
• Developments in minimum income benefits levels in Europe
• Alternative approaches to the study of poverty and social exclusion in Europe

Long-term care:

• Long-term care regimes in Europe
• Gaps in the provision of long-term care across Europe

Digitalisation and social protection:

• Comparing the digital transformation of welfare delivery in Europe
• EU Citizens’ attitudes to digitalisation and the use of digital public services

Employment:

• Fostering work-life balance for precarious workers: culture and social protection systems in comparative perspective
• The digital transformation of work and associated risks