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Expert workshop “Innovative strategies to study education and care in a European perspective” will be held online on 9-10 June 2021.  
The participants will discuss gaps in data and indicators and research strategies to close the hiatus in key comparative indicators of public services. 
The workshop is open to researchers and policy-makers active in the field of poverty, inequality and public services. 
Participation is free of charge. The number of participants is not limited. To attend, please fill out the registration form before June 6th. 

Pioneered Kick-Off meeting was held on 24 March 2021. During the online discussion participants were able to get to know the partners involved in the project, study each work package in detail, discuss administrative chores, and then agreed on the tasks for the first year of the project. 

The 15th conference of the series “Social Monitoring and Reporting in Europe” was successfully held on 9th March 2021 with the title “Increasing Divergence and Changing Social Trends in Europe? – Longer-term Developments and Consequences of the Pandemic”. This year’s event took place online. 

The fascinating presentations of speakers from various well-known European Universities and Institutes can be downloaded from the conference series website. 
 

Our colleagues, István György Tóth and Márton Medgyesi, have written an overview on how ten Central and Eastern European countries have developed since the Regime change  - in terms of economic growth, labour market, inequalities and some well-being indicators. The study was published in the book titled Europe's Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality, published by Oxford University Press. For more information, click here. 

Tárki appears on seven lists of the annual report published by the University of Pennsylvania. In almost every category Tárki appears was ranked higher than last year. 

• Tárki is ranked 5th in Central and Eastern Europe and 48th in the world in the list of Top Social Policy Think Tanks, 
• ranked 46th in the list of Best For-Profit Think Tanks, as the only organization from Central and Eastern Europe, 
• ranked 59th on the list of Best Independent Think Tanks, third among those listed from the CEE region.

Thanks to Kopint-Tárki Institute for Economic Research Co. (a member of the Tárki Group), we also appear in listing for economic research as: 

We are delighted to announce that the Registration for the 15th ‘Social Monitoring and Reporting in Europe' conference - Increasing divergence and changing social trends in Europe? Longer-term developments and consequences of the pandemic- that will take place on 9h March is now open.  

The conferences of the European Social Reporting Network have been held annually since 2006. Bringing together a range of experts in their field, these events have become a meeting ground for in-depth debates on comparative social monitoring and reporting, well-being and societal trends in Europe, as well as policy-related issues. 
The 2021 conference focuses on two main issues: 

The aim of the Euroship project's paper is to evaluate the reliability and validity of existing indicators used by the European Commission to monitor developments in the field of poverty and social exclusion. The authors assess the quality and suitability of the main data sources to provide reliable indicators at the level of various vulnerable groups across Europe and identify any obstacles to comparative analyses across countries and over time, including the experiences of the European Statistical Office (Eurostat) and of national statistical offices.

The book addresses a wide range of migration-related issues in the European context and examines the socioeconomic consequences of migratory flows throughout Europe, focusing on a number of emblematic European countries. The book is divided into three parts. The first part deals with the tension between migrants and their integration processes in the receiving country. The second part analyses the impact of migration on the economic structure of the receiving country, while the third part explores the varying degree of immigrants’ socioeconomic integration in the country of destination. Anikó Bernát’s article is in the first part. 

The UPLIFT project aims to understand the underlying processes of the reproduction of urban social inequalities and the responses given in this situation in terms of possible public policy interventions to the inequality trap. This report sums up key social science concepts, theories and debates related to inequality. Successful intervention depends on understanding the drivers of inequalities and their dependencies. The role of the literature review was to help to formulate the theoretical framework of UPLIFT project.

The purpose of the study is to reveal the complex picture of inequality in Europe. As part of the UPLIFT project, this framework study has been separated into two parts. The first part identifies the main drivers of different inequalities in Europe. It also discusses how the driver specifically impacts the young generation, i.e., those aged 15-29, and try to find evidence of the impact of the drivers, particularly in the wake of the 2008-09 financial crisis.