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The Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy invites you to participate in the Final Conference of the ImPRovE Project:
ImPRovE Final Conference
IMPROVING POVERTY REDUCTION IN EUROPE: LESSONS FROM THE PAST, SCENARIOS FOR THE FUTURE
3-5 February 2016
University of Antwerp, Antwerp
Background
The ImPRovE research project (2012-2016) aims to contribute to a better understanding of how the EU and its member states can tackle the persistent problem of poverty
in Europe. In this final conference, we bring together researchers, policy makers and NGOs to discuss the main output of the ImPRovE project and contributions from related studies.
The conference opens on Wednesday 3 February with a round table on social innovation in the morning and an afternoon and evenening session on More’s Utopia from
the perspective of Social Europe, organised in cooperation with the Centre
Pieter Gillis.
On Thursday 4 and Friday 5 February, the results of the ImPRovE project,
financed under the 7th Framework
Programme of the European Commission, are presented and discussed.
Keynote Speakers include:
ˇ Bea
Cantillon - Director Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy
ˇ Maurizio Ferrera - Professor
of Social Sciences – University of Milan, President of the Network for the Advancement of Social and Political Studies (NASP)
ˇ Tim Goedemé - Senior Researcher Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy
ˇ
John Hills – Director
Centre
for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE)
ˇ Guido Latré - Professor of English Literature and Culture - Université Catholique de Louvain
ˇ Brian
Nolan – Professor & Director of the Employment, Equity and Growth Programme at the Institute of New Economic Thinking – Oxford University
ˇ Joanne Paul - Lecturer History of Ideas, New College of the Humanities, London
ˇ Philippe Van Parijs - Professor at the Faculty of Economic, Social, and Political Sciences, Université Catholique de Louvain
ˇ Frank
Vandenbroucke - Professor of Economics, KULeuven, University of Antwerp & VU
Policy Conclusions by:
ˇ Marianne Thyssen –
EU Commissioner Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility
For more info on the programme and the registration form please visit the conference
website.
Closing date of registration: 18th of January 2016
If you have questions regarding the conference, please contact:
Best wishes,
On behalf of the organising team,
Nathalie Schuerman
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Nathalie Schuerman
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Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid Herman Deleeck
Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy
Universiteit Antwerpen
Sint-Jacobstraat 2
B-2000 Antwerpen
België