Project Kick-off: ZSI to work on a pilot project on the Social Progress Index
21. Dec. 2018
The project is supported by DG Regional and Urban Policy and coordinated by Intrasoft International SA and involves further 5 partner institutions, among them ZSI.
The kick-off with DG Regio took place on December 19 and for the next 12 months, the project will bring together 10-12 regions to discuss the EU Social Progress Index (EU-SPI) and its use in the regions. To learn more about the EU-SPI, please visit this website: https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/information/maps/social_progress
The aim of the project is to test how the EU-SPI could be used to inform and improve policy making in relation to policies supported by cohesion policy. The project also aims to identify best practices of its use and to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and in the assessment of the EU-SPI in the broader context of the beyond GDP initiative and so to identify aspects to be improved and inform the EU-SPI developers by providing insights on how to improve the next editions of the index.
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