The European Social Observatory (OSE) took part in the project “Working for Equity in Health” whose objective is to identify and understand to what extent unemployment and social protection are determinants of health inequality, in Member States. The project, funded by the European Commission, included 25 organisations from 12 Member States; it was coordinated by HAPI (Health Action Partnership International) for a period of 24 months.
Social protection
The Public Policy and Management Institute (PPMI) and the European Social Observatory (OSE) wrapped up the European Commission-funded assessment of the PROGRESS Peer Reviews in Social Protection and Social Inclusion.
The Public Policy and Management Institute (PPMI) and the European Social Observatory (OSE) wrapped up the European Commission-funded assessment of the PROGRESS Peer Reviews in Social Protection and Social Inclusion.
The final conference of the INVOTUNES research project will bring together researchers, EU and national policymakers, social partners and other stakeholders to discuss the present and future role of social partners in the Semester. There will be ample time to consider the project’s key findings and examine the eight case studies (BE, BG, DE, FI, HU, IT, PT and SE).
Sociologue de formation et doté d'une grande expertise en matière d'analyse socio-économique et de techniques empiriques, Ramón Peña-Casas a rejoint l'équipe de l'OSE en 2000. Il s'est impliqué dans divers projets relatifs aux interrelations de plus en plus complexes des sphères de l'emploi, du social et de la protection sociale dans le contexte des méthodes de gouvernance souples (méthodes ouvertes de coordination (MOC) qui se sont multipliées ces dernières années au niveau de l'Union européenne.
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Discussion 17.00–18.20 | Drink 18.20–19.30
Programme
Chair: Slavina Spasova, Director, European Social Observatory
OSE afterwork discussion
Danai Konstantinidou joined OSE as a Researcher in October 2025. Her research focuses on social protection, poverty, welfare states, and comparative social policy and policy evaluation, with deep expertise in both qualitative and quantitative methods. She is in the final stage of her PhD in Social Policy at the University of York, funded by the ESRC White Rose Scholarship, where she examines the impact of social transfers on income poverty and deprivation in EU member states.
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Slavina Spasova, PhD in Political Science (Université Libre de Bruxelles, ULB), has been OSE's Director since 1st of December 2023. Previously, she was a Senior researcher (2021) and a researcher (2016) working in the area of social protection at the OSE. She is the OSE coordinator in the European Social Policy Network (ESPN). As such her research agenda focuses on various social protection topics such as protection for the self-employed, pension reforms, work-life balance, healthcare, long-term care, sickness benefits.
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Research Associate
Ilda Durri started a new role as researcher in EU social policies at the European Social Observatory (OSE). Her work includes projects, such as on the impact of globalisation, digitalization, demographic changes, and climate change on labour markets and welfare states in Europe (WELAR); access for domestic workers to labour and social protection (ESPAN); transparency of social protection systems (ESPAN); digital labour platforms in the care sector (ORIGAMI); EU social policy developments (Revue belge de sécurité sociale).
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