RC32 - Public Policy and Administration

The Jean-Monnet Centre for European Studies and Transnational Regulations at the University of Oldenburg (Germany) offers a full-time position for a sociologist or political scientist for the coordination of an EU project entitled "Combating Poverty in Europe: Re-organising Active Inclusion through Participatory and Integrated Modes of Multilevel Governance" (COPE). The position is for an initial duration of two years, starting from February, 2012 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The project focuses on the political and organisational challenges of the complex governance models which have evolved in the field of European, national and local poverty, inclusion and minimum income policies. COPE will study how minimum income schemes for three different groups (lone mothers, long-term unemployed, working poor) are organised in five EU countries (Italy, Germany, Poland, Sweden and the UK) and how they cope with multilevel and multi-stakeholder modes of co-producing active inclusion policies. In addition, we will analyse the impact of multilevel, multidimensional and multi-stakeholder regimes on the individually perceived situation of the poor and the life courses of the most vulnerable social groups.