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Reflecting disability rights in broader European socio-economic policies

Reflecting disability rights in broader European socio-economic policies

Unapei brought the realities of people with intellectual disabilities and their families directly to the European Commission, and the need to consider them not only within disability-specific policies, but also across wider discussions on employment, social protection, economic participation and public services.

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Combining innovative methodological tools to approach digital transformations in leisure among children and young people

Combining innovative methodological tools to approach digital transformations in leisure among children and young people

There is a lot of discussion in the common discourse revolving around fears that digital technologies are harming children’s wellbeing. Digigen’s latest working paper presents an innovative multimodal approach to investigating how digital transformation affects children and young people’s free time.

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Reframing Welfare Index: Can new tools and approaches help us deliver shared prosperity?

Reframing Welfare Index: Can new tools and approaches help us deliver shared prosperity?

Designing welfare policies requires a deep understanding of complex social and economic phenomena. Phenomena that are often hard to be fully captured by conventional economic models and metrics such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Thus, over the last years, the academic community has tried to address this issue through the development of a beyond-GDP agenda.

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