ESSI webinar "Social innovations in/with/ for the welfare state in rural areas"
8. Apr 2025
Social innovations in/with/ for the welfare state in rural areas
June 3rd, 2-4pm
This webinar explores a range of social innovations (SI) in the context of European welfare states responding to the challenges of demographic change, globalisation, rural development and regional inequality, and ensuring mental health at work. SIs in this context do not just fill gaps in social service delivery or the functioning of the labour market. They contribute to reconfiguring the domains of the state, the market, civil societies and families (Jenson 2015) in the light of local and particular challenges that tend to accumulate for (often intersectionally) disadvantaged groups. Doing this, they engage with the welfare state in varied ways: our cases of rural-related initiatives represent a continuum from recombining challenges and (new) resources to exploring ways to redress the inequalities or exclusions generated by contemporary social policies themselves.
The webinar presents and compares three case studies from the Horizon Europe project WeLaR to explore possible pathways of social innovation in the welfare state.
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