Strategic goal of the project

To inform policy by developing an integrated understanding of how a knowledge-based society can promote the societal objectives of the EU of sustainable development, social and territorial cohesion and an improved quality of life.

Objectives

• Developing a greater understanding of the socio-economic-cultural context within which intergenerational inheritance of inequalities (IIofI) occurs and policy responses at the national level.
• Developing a greater understanding of policy responses at local level to overcome IIofI.
• Identifying the relative importance of policy among the factors affecting social mobility of individuals.
• Assessing the transportability of policy solutions promoting social mobility chances at local level.

Results

• Identified policy responses in different socio-economic-cultural contexts aimed at counteracting intergenerational inheritance of inequalities at the national level.
• Specified implications of different national contexts for policies and practices to counteract IIofI at the local level.
• Defined relative importance of local policy among the factors affecting social mobility of individuals.
• Identified possibilities and constrains to transferring good practice examples between communities from different countries.

Contracting organisation

Prof. Wielislawa Warzywoda-Kruszynska, head of the Institute of Sociology, University of Lodz, Poland

Partners’ organisations

Research Centre “Regional and Global Development” (REGLO), Bulgaria
Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
University of Tartu, Estonia
University of Turku, Finland
University of Padua, Italy
Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
Loughborough University, UK

Contact person

Prof. habil. dr. Kęstutis Pukelis, for Quality of Studies, Vytautas Magnus University