14th Conference “Social Monitoring and Reporting in Europe”
Weakening Social Cohesion in Europe? Indicators, Analysis and Policy Implications
Villa Vigoni Conference, October 14-16, 2019
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Monday, October 14 | |||
Afternoon | Arrival of participants | ||
19:00 | Reception & Dinner. Welcome by Dr. Christiane Liermann, Secretary General of Villa Vigoni | ||
Tuesday, October 15 | |||
9:00 – 10:45 | Session I. Chair: Heinz-Herbert Noll (formerly GESIS, Mannheim) | ||
Heinz-Herbert Noll | Welcome and Introduction to the Conference | Presentation | |
Jan Delhey (Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg) | Social cohesion in EU countries: trends, cross-national differences, and vulnerable groups | Presentation | |
Christoph Klavehn (European Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin) | Europe’s cohesion challenge: lessons from the EU Cohesion Monitor | Presentation | |
Claire Wallace (University of Aberdeen) and Christian Haerpfer (University of Vienna) | The collapse of social cohesion in Europe? Evidence from the World Values Survey | Presentation | |
10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee Break | ||
11:15 – 12:45 | Session II. Chair: Christian Suter (University Neuchatel) | ||
Tadas Leoncikas and Massimiliano Mascherini (Eurofound, Dublin) | Underlying resources for trust: Social insecurities and trust in national institutions | Presentation | |
Eduardo Bericat (University of Seville) | The Emotional Dimension of Social Cohesion: Emotional cohesion and the European Union | Presentation | |
General discussion | |||
13:00 | Lunch | ||
14:15 – 15:45 | Session III. Chair: Carla Collicelli (CNR, Rome) | ||
Reinhold Sackmann and Oliver Winkler (Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg) | Measuring Cohesion: New Instruments for Regional Monitoring | Presentation | |
Sakari Karvonen and Laura Kestilä (National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki) | Social cohesion and level of urbanization - the case of Finland | Presentation | |
Oliver Nahkur (University of Tartu) | Is social cohesion really weakening in Europe? Societal Index of Interpersonal Destructiveness Across Time and European societies | Presentation | |
15:45 – 16:15 | Coffee Break | ||
16:15 – 18:00 | Session IV. Chair: Tadas Leoncikas (Eurofound, Dublin) | ||
Adele Bianco (University of Chieti-Pescara) | Our common future: Young people perspectives as a chance for social cohesion and Europe | Presentation | |
Philipp Poppitz (University of Oldenburg) | Multidimensional inequality and divergence: the euro area crisis in retrospect | Presentation | |
Zsombor Cseres-Gergely and Virmantas Kvedaras (European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra) | Change and convergence of income distributions in the European Union during 2007-2014 | Presentation | |
István Toth (Tarki, Budapest) | The Hungarian Social Report 2019 | Presentation | |
19:30 | Dinner | ||
Wednesday, October 16 | |||
9:15 – 10:15 |
Session V. Chair: Peter Farago (formerly FORS, Lausanne) |
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Stefan Vogtenhuber et al. (Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna) | One step forward two steps back? Measuring Social Progress in the Quality of Work between 2005 and 2015 | Presentation | |
Jeroen Boelhouwer (SCP, The Hague) | The Social State of the Netherlands | Presentation | |
10:15 – 11:15 |
Session VI. Chair: István Toth (Tárki, Budapest) |
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András Gábos (Tarki, Budapest) | The principles and practice of the Integrated Poverty and Living Conditions Indicator System (IPOLIS) | Presentation | |
Stephanie Steinmetz (University of Amsterdam) | Collecting data on wages and working conditions in more than 90 countries: WageIndicator.org | Presentation | |
11:15 – 11:45 | Coffee Break | ||
11:45 – 12:45 | Business Meeting Chair: Heinz-Herbert Noll (formerly GESIS) | ||
Future Plans | |||
13:00 | Lunch and Departure |