a european social sciences research infrastructure project

This project is supported by funding under the EU Seventh Research Framework Programme – Capacities

A EUROPEAN SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE

PROJECT

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Inclusive Growth Research Infrastructure Diffusion

• Funded under 7th Framework Programme - Capacities (EU)• 17 academic and European partners• February 2013 – January 2017• Project to integrate and improve an existing research

infrastructure– Networking activities– Transnational access– Joint research activities for improvement

1. ‘Whereabouts’ of the research infrastructure2. Projects goals and activities


THE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE

What is a Research Infrastructure (RI)? What is the specific InGRID

infrastructure?


What is a European Research infrastructure?

HELPING HANDSResearch infrastructure =

– facility or platform– provides resources and services– to the scientific community– Aim: enable to conduct top-level research

FACILITATING RESEARCH

Supports scientists in research– to access, order, analyse, store and reuse – data and knowledge– in ways otherwise impossible


Facilitating what kind of research?Facilitating top-level research …

Poverty &Living conditionsWorking

conditions & Job Quality

Com-parative

Policy-related

European

Inclusive growth

strategy

EU2020

Social sciences research

… Evidence-based policies


Innovative data collections

Harmonised classifications

Users expertise official data/surveys

Cross-country policy indicators

Statistical simulation environments

Standards of statistical and survey quality

Knowledge infrastructure accumulated by European scienceEU-FP projects: RECWOWE, EQUALSOC, WORKS, GINI, ImPRovE, NEUJOBS, WALQING, MEADOW, EurOccupations, Woliweb, SPReW, WorkCare, RISQ, SAMPLE, Ameli


The InGRID Research Infrastructure

• International data archives/collections: integration of national data: f.e. LIS Data centre (income data) & CED institute (European census micro-data)

• EU-wide databases & indicator collections f.e. SOFI (Sweden) & AIAS (Amsterdam)

• New data efforts or projects on working conditions and job quality: f.e. WageIndicator project, Meadow approach

• Innovative ways to order and analyse data from official data providersf.e. EU-SILC, Eurofound surveys, national socio-economic panels and working conditions surveys

• Standards for harmonisation of questionnaires, classifications & policy indicators

• Simulation facilities f.e. EUROMOD


GRID

INTEGRATING RESOURCES FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS TO REACH A COMMON GOAL


The policy challenge in the current crisis

EU 2020 ambitions 2009 2010 2011 2012

Employment: 75% of the population aged 20-64 should be employed in 2020

Employment rate – age group 20-64 69.0% 68.5% 68.6% 68.5%

Poverty should be reduced by lifting at least 20 million people out of the risk of poverty and social exclusion by 2020People at risk of poverty and social exclusion (thousands)

114 353 116 847 120 177 123 874

Source: Eurostat


THE InGRID PROJECT

Key objectives and activities Transnational access: how it works? Description of work in the 4 pillars/clusters Project activities to structure the sustainability of the

infrastructure



Objectives• Integrate and innovate existing European social sciences

Research Infrastructures on • Poverty and living conditions• Working conditions and vulnerability

• by improving: • Transnational data access• Organising mutual knowledge exchange activities • Improving methods and tools for comparative research

• In order to create new and better opportunities for development of evidence-based European policies on Inclusive Growth


About the project

17 partners in a consortium

3 types of activities:• 18 Summer schools & 12 expert workshops• 250 Visiting grants to data infrastructures• Joint research

Clustered in 4 themes: • Poverty and living conditions• Working conditions and vulnerability• Social policy analysis• Statistical quality management


Pillar: Transnational access

Acces to 13 European Research Infrastructures • Access to infrastructure• Guidance and training of experts

Data infrastructures – Data expert centersLIS Luxembourg Income Study

LWS Luxembourg Wealth study Data base (part of LIS)

IECM Integrated European Census Micro-Data

Eurofound European Working Conditions Survey, European Quality of Life Survey, European Company Survey

Wage Indicator data

EUROMOD

SPIN Social Policy Indicators Data base (SCIP, SaMip, PAL, CBD)

CSB-MIPI cross-national and cross-temporay comparable model family simulations

WISCO World Data base of ISCO-08 Occupations

ICTWSS Data base on Institutional Characteristics of Trade Unions, Wage Setting, State Intervention and Social Pacts

EU-SILC Data expertise

MEADOW organisational panel surveys


VISITING GRANTS How it works?

Working together with experts on dataWho can apply?• Early-stage or expert researchers• Employed in EU Member States & associated countries

What is offered?• Work together with data between one week and one month• Free-of-charge access to data sets & expertise• Reimbursement travel costs & subsistence allowance• Individual or in group • (linked to previous attending of a summer school or expert workshop)

How to apply?• Call every 4 months (on website)• Why-what (project, PhD, paper, article …) + short CV• Selection panel• Fine-tuning with ‘host’ institution


Showcase: First call visiting grants

26 applications – 8 countries• 5 refused• 3 postponed• 18 accepted

Examples• Mapping zones of job insecurity in Europe• A minimum income in Italy• Small area estimates in time-varying frames• A model to predict poverty


Partners providing transnational access


Pillar: Working conditions & vulnerability research

• Context – EU2020 stategy: new skills for new jobs initiative & ESCO– Harmonisation – Disorganised statistical system

• Main challenges: – Comparison & harmonisation of job quality indicators,

occupational health and savety indicators and Laeken indicators

– Measurement of working conditions of vulnerable groups– Address lack of tools to identify new jobs and new skills


Pillar activities ‘Working conditions & vulnerability’

Joint research activities • Create tools for harmonising the measurement of

occupations EU-wide• Tools to detect and classify new jobs and new skills in

WC & OHS surveys• Inventories and reviews considering WC & OHS

(web-based platform)• Identifying determinants of vulnerability connected

with economic changes and employers’ behaviour and mapping vulnerable groups in work


Pillar activities ‘Working conditions & vulnerability’

Networking activities• 4 training events on advanced labour studies• Expert workshops

– Tools for harmonising the measurement of occupations

– Tools to detect and classify new jobs and new skills in surveys

– Use of linked employer-employee data– Job quality indicators


Partners ‘Working conditions and vulnerability’ pillar

Pillar leader:

Partners:


Website, newsletter & social media

(WP5)

Representation at stakeholder

platforms(WP5)

Training activities(WP3&4)

Liaison persons(WP5)

Advisory Board(WP1)

Research infrastructure

forum(WP2)

Futuring programme

(WP2)

Stakeholder actors

InGRID consortium

Investigating/improving the sustainability of the research

infrastructure


Innovative data collections

Harmonised classifications

Users expertise official data/surveys

Cross-country policy indicators

Statistical simulation environments

Standards of statistical and survey quality

RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT

Visiting grants

Summer schools

Expert workshops

Joint research for improvement

Futuring about

sustainability

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UpcomingInGRID events• 26-28 February 2014: Winter school:Using EUROMOD in cross country

microsimulation

Upcoming calls and eventsFebruary:• Call for summer school Poverty pillar (Bremen)March• Call for summer school Policy pillar (Brussels)April• 7-8/4 Expert workshop EUROMOD (Antwerp)• 28-30/4: expert workshop Poverty Pillar (Bremen)• Fourth call for visiting grantsJuly: 7-17: Summer School Working conditions pillar: ‘the gender wage gap revisited (Amsterdam)

TÁRKI Social Research Institute Inc. (HU)Amsterdam Institute for Advanced labour Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam (NL)The Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholms Universitet (SE)Fachbereich IV, Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistik, Universität Trier (DE) Centre d’Etudis Demogràfics, Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)Centre d’Etudes de Population, de Pauvreté et de Politiques Socio-Economiques (LU)Centre for Social Policy, Universiteit Antwerpen (BE)Institute for Social & Economic Research, University of Essex (UK)Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, Universität Bremen (DE)Department of Dynamics of Organisations of Work, Centre d’Etudes de l’Emploi (FR)The Centre for European Policy Studies (BE) Dipartimento di Economica e Menagement, Università di Pisa (IT)Social Statistics Division, University of Southampton (UK)Luxembourg Income Study, asbl (LU)WageIndicator Foundation (NL)School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester (UK)

Partners

Co-ordinator


contract no. 312691

For further information about the InGRID project, please contact [email protected]

www.inclusivegrowth.bep/a HIVA – Research Institute

for Work and SocietyParkstraat 47 box 5300

3000 Leuven Belgium

Guy Van GyesMonique Ramioul

InGRID

Hope to see you soon at one of our events!

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