Documents Molino, Elisa 2 results

"In this Issue Paper, Claire Dhéret and Fabian Zuleeg present, with Serban Chiorean-Sime and Elisa Molino, the key recommendations of the Well-being 2030 project. A two-year research project co-funded by the European Commission, the Well-being 2030 project has aimed to articulate a strategic vision for the long term development of social policy in Europe by exploring the policy choices that are most likely to deliver a higher level of well-being for European citizens by the year 2030. In this final report, the authors encourage policy-makers, both at national and EU levels, to make sure that social policy both contributes to increasing people's resilience to cope with social risks and has a positive impact on the key determinants of well-being, without compromising the sustainability of European welfare models."

"Published within the framework of the ‘Well-being 2030' project, co-financed by the European Commission, this new issue of Challenge Europe addresses the question of how to turn social policy into an effective productive factor, enabling well-being of Europeans and economic growth. Based on the argument that social policy can contribute to long-term sustainable growth, this multi-author publication focuses on those policies which can potentially bring the most added value to citizens' life, and includes contributions from high-level policy-makers, academics, business representatives and experts about the future of social policy in Europe. While the first chapter explores the possible synergies between growth, well-being and social policy, the second part of this EPC's policy journal turns to those policy areas where intervention can be the most effective. Finally, in a third chapter, the authors look at the EU's room of manoeuvre and propose specific policy actions."