On 27th June 2025, the rEUsilience project concluded its three-year research project with a vibrant high-level final conference in Brussels. The event brought together over 90 participants, including ...

We are pleased to announce that Edward Elgar Publishing has published the book “Families, Welfare States, and Resilience – Low-Resource Families Navigating Care, Employment and Welfare in Europe”, edi...

Studying families with social surveys is not always as straightforward as it may seem. The reasons for the challenges are both conceptual and methodological, stemming from the specificity of the da...

We are pleased to share our new working paper which introduces a novel questionnaire designed to improve the measurement of how family dynamics intersect with labour market risks, and how families’ re...

We are glad to share our new working paper which examines the overlooked consequences of Sweden’s gender-equality-driven family policies for low-resourced single mothers. Although the ability to combi...

We are pleased to share our new working paper, which develops an ‘inequalities in resilience’ framework to better understand how individuals respond to labour market risks in Europe, and how inequalit...

Resilience has become a prominent concept in EU social and economic policy, positioned as a response to megatrends such as technological change, labour market deregulation and demographic shifts. This...

On the 26th of May 2025, rEUsilience researcher Wim Van Lancker moderated a rEUsilience Workshop: ‘Critical dialogue regarding Belgian and Flemish family policy’ which brought together a diverse group...

On the 23rd of May 2025, the rEUsilience National Event in Sweden focused on childhood poverty in Sweden, where rEUsilience research insights regarding the compounded challenges for families in vulner...

We are pleased to share our new working paper which proposes a Rotating Module to be included in the European Social Survey (ESS) concerning questions on adult care responsibilities within and beyond ...

On Wednesday 21st of May, COFACE Families Europe, consortium member of the rEUsilience research project co-organised, together with the Share the Care Foundation, the Conference “Equal at Home – Equal...

Att ha ett arbete hjälper inte alltid mot fattigdom. Nästan var tolfte familj med somalisk bakgrund lever i fattigdom trots att båda föräldrarna jobbar, visar ny forskning.

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Today, May 15th, marking the International Day of Families, the European research project rEUsilience presents new insights and recommendations aimed at enhancing family resilience in Europe. The proj...

To mark the International Day of Families on the 15th May, we are pleased to share with our community of key stakeholders rich insights into the policy reforms necessary to better promote family resil...

Volume 52 - Article 27 | Pages 887–914

Volume 52 - Article 27 | Pages 887–914

On the 10th of April 2025, rEUsilience researcher Ivana Dobrotić moderated a Croatian stakeholders’ conference titled “Families, care and poverty: what can cities and municipalities do?” which gathere...

This prestigious recognition highlights the project's outstanding impact in positioning families as a driving force for building a more resilient Europe

We are glad to announce that our rEUsilience joint research coordinators Mary Daly and Rense Nieuwenhuis will be chairing a research stream at the upcoming Network for European Social Policy Analysis ...

On the 27th of March, rEUsilience researchers Ivana Dobrotić and Merve Uzunalioğlu contributed to the 10th International Community, Work & Family Conference in Bielefeld, Germany. They presented the p...

El projecte rEUsilience, finançat per la Unió Europea i amb la participació de l’IGOP-UAB, ha estat seleccionat perquè la secció del web de la...

We are glad to announce our new working paper which is charged with road-testing a range of research informed policy proposals that are workable and the cost and roll-out conditions of which are known...

We are glad to announce our new working paper which is charged with road-testing a range of research informed policy proposals that are workable and the cost and roll-out conditions of which are known...

Europe is facing a range of challenges, from an ageing population to increasing financial insecurity, growing inequalities and evolving work practices. While policymakers know that adapting to these c...

Risks, Resources and Inequalities: Increasing Resilience in European Families

This newly published Working Paper ‘Road Testing Child Benefit and Social Assistance Reforms’, follows up on the Working Paper ‘Eligibility and benefit adequacy for families in the tax-benefit system,...

Europe is facing a range of challenges, from an ageing population to increasing financial insecurity, growing inequalities and evolving work practices. While policymakers know that adapting to these c...

Europe is facing a range of challenges, from an ageing population to increasing financial insecurity, growing inequalities and evolving work practices. While policymakers know that adapting to these c...

On the 13th of March, rEUsilience project joint co-ordinator Rense Nieuwenhuis participated in a parallel event to the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), organised by the United Nations in New Y...