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MONDAY 10 MAY 2010
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***FAMILYPLATFORM interactive website goes online encouraging dialogue
between stakeholders on family wellbeing across Europe***
FAMILYPLATFORM is funded by European Commission’s Seventh Framework
Programme and gathers a consortium of twelve organisations, working
together to articulate key research issues and policy questions about
the family, for inclusion in the European Social Science and Humanities
Research Agenda 20122013. The platform is coordinated by Technical
University Dortmund.
One of the key means of achieving this is involvement of a wide range
of stakeholders from scientific, policy and social organisations: “We
are convinced that our socioeconomic research will be better targeted
and have a greater impact on society if its scope and objectives have
been identified together with societal, policy and research
stakeholders”, says the Head of the SocioEconomic Research and
Foresight Unit at the European Commission, Pierre Valette.
Managed by The Confederation of Family Organisations in the European
Union (COFACE), the interactive website is the key point of entry into
the project. Currently hosting a series of reports on the state of
family research in Europe, it has been designed to encourage effective
dialogue and discussion between stakeholders.
“Family is an important subject for most European citizens, but it is
also one of the most contentious ones,” states the overall coordinator
at Technical University Dortmund, Uwe Uhlendorff, “with FAMILYPLATFORM
we are taking up the challenge of bringing together different voices and
perspectives - and this website enables us to do this. The expertise and
input of stakeholders will have a real and lasting impact on future
research in Europe”.
To register as a stakeholder and get involved visit
http://www.familyplatform.eu.
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Notes:
The FAMILYPLATFORM (SSH20093.2.2 Social platform on research for
families and family policies) consists of the following 12
organisations:
1 ) Technical University Dortmund (Coordinators)
2 ) State Institute for Family Research, University of Bamberg
3 ) Family Research Centre, University of Jyväskylä
4 ) Austrian Institute for Family Studies, University of Vienna
5 ) Demographic Research Institute, Budapest
6 ) Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon
5 ) Department of Sociology and Social research, University of
MilanBicocca
8 ) Institute of International and Social Studies, Tallinn University
9 ) London School of Economics
10) Confederation of Family Organisations in the European Union
(COFACE), Brussels
11) Forum delle Associazioni Familiari, Italy
12) Mouvement Mondial des Mères, Brussels
FAMILYPLATFORM is funded by the EU’s 7th Framework Programme for 18
months (October 2009 - March 2011).
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