Policy and practical implications

This workpackage aims to spell out the policy and practical implications of research activities carried throughout the project and to disseminate the research findings through the final conference. It also includes the three focus groups, which have both research-oriented and policy/practical-oriented aims.

The elaboration of the policy-relevant research findings and the practical implications of the research will be done in three ways. First, we aim to integrate the stakeholders into the research process from the beginning. To do so, we will make focus groups with some of the actors interviewed. Three focus groups are planned in each country, which will take place at the end of the workpackages using interviews: one with state actors (after WP1), one with practitioners from non-profit and civil society organizations (after WP2), and one with young unemployed (after WP4). The results of the analyses conducted in the respective workpackages will be used to feed the discussions in the focus groups. Second, the EU-level analysis will provide an additional key source of insights and suggestions for policy-reforms. Workpackage 5 places national case studies into a European perspective, describing the range of potential problem solving strategies in the European states under analysis and pinpointing possible corridors of policy learning and coordination. Accordingly, workpackage 6 will need to take up these main findings and draw conclusions for policy-reforms. These conclusions will also be included in the final integrated research report. Finally, the policy-relevant findings and the practical implications of the research will be collected in an executive summary report to be presented at the final conference and which will constitute the basis for a blueprint for policy reforms. The workpackage includes the organization of the final conference. The executive summary report will be prepared by the coordinator.