Case Study: Improving Policy Responses and Outcomes to Socio-Economic Challenges: changing family structures, policy and practice (Iprosec)

Iprosec was a multinational team research project, undertaken between 2000 and 2003 with funding from the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme (FP5), and coordinated from Loughborough University, UK. The research proposal was developed from an earlier desk study of seven EU member states carried out by the Loughborough team for DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (see Cross-National Research Papers, 1999). The FP funding enabled an expanded interdisciplinary team to conduct new empirical work across eight EU member states and three candidate countries.