The European Social Observatory has been asked to draft, in collaboration with Ides Nicaise from the Higher Institute for Labour Studies (HIVA, KU Leuven), an assessment of the extent to which the measures proposed in the Belgian National Reform Programmes (NRP) are ensuring progress towards the Europe 2020’s social inclusion objectives and target.
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The OSE has been closely involved in the scientific preparation of the 4th European Roma Platform which took place on 13 December 2010, in the framework of the Belgian Presidency of the EU. At the request of the Belgian Secretary of State for Social Integration and Combatting Poverty (Philippe Courard), Romana Careja and Bart Vanhercke, together with several experts from UNICEF, drafted a Discussion Paper on “Preventing Social Exclusion through Europe 2020: Early Childhood Development and the Inclusion of Roma Families”.
The OSE was awarded a contract to facilitate the work of the ad hoc Group of the Social Protection Committee (SPC) on the adaptation of the Social OMC to the Europe 2020 Strategy. In this context, the OSE has written several contributions which identify the main issues at stake, suggest questions for debate and provide a draft of the Discussion Paper that the ad hoc Group is presenting to the SPC. The deliverables also served as a basis for the SPC Opinion on “Reinvigorating the Social OMC in the Context of the Europe 2020 Strategy”.
The OSE was awarded a contract to facilitate the work of the ad hoc Group of the Social Protection Committee (SPC) on the adaptation of the Social OMC to the Europe 2020 Strategy. In this context, the OSE has written several contributions which identify the main issues at stake, suggest questions for debate and provide a draft of the Discussion Paper that the ad hoc Group is presenting to the SPC. The deliverables also served as a basis for the SPC Opinion on “Reinvigorating the Social OMC in the Context of the Europe 2020 Strategy”.