International conference of the Working Yet Poor Project
Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini, partner of Working Yet Poor (WorkYP) project, will take actively part in the project international final conference on “In-Work Poverty in Europe”.
The conference will be held in Brussels on 26 January 2023 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (CET) and live-streamed online.
Funded by the Horizon 2020 scheme for the years 2020-2023, Working Yet Poor project focused on the increasing social trend of working people at risk or below the poverty line, analysing seven representative countries: Sweden, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, and Poland.
The overall purpose of the project was to effectively prevent the risk of social dumping, reduce economic shocks, and grant EU citizens, mostly those who do not circulate, regaining confidence in public governance and substantiating their citizenry’s status.
The conference will kick-off with two invited keynotes by Nicolas Schmit (EU Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights) and Olivier De Schutter (UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights).
It will then present the final results of the WorkYP project, aiming at reconceptualising in-work poverty and EU social citizenship, focusing on the most vulnerable clusters of workers in the labour market, and reflecting on the role of regulation and social policy both at EU and at national level.
Within one of the conference sessions, Marta Capesciotti, FGB expert in social justice, will take a speech on the role of EU law in atypical work and the gender dimension of in-work poverty.
The conference will close with a roundtable hosting social stakeholders.
