Subject: Re: [Eespn-members] EESPN: Launch of two new initiatives: newsletter & blog contributions
From: Merita Xhumari <[email-masked]>
To: Dale Stevenson <[email-masked]>
Cc: EESPN-members <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 06:39:42 +0000

Dear Annetee, Sonila and Monika,

Congratulations on the new initiatives as a way of sharing the information on social policies in SEE and keeping the network active!

Regarding Initiative 1, a newsletter concerning the Bridge Building region, I am proposing two recent publication that I have contributed with a chapter on Albania:

1.
After two years of activities of COST Action IS 1409 “Gender
and Health Impact of Policies on Extending Working LifE" 2017-2018, the research activities were finalized with members' contributions in a common publication, the first one and another is still in process.
The book  "Extended Working Life Policies International Gender and  Health
Perspectives", 2020 published by Springer: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-40985-2

2.
For the first time, the Eurofound was extended the Quality of Life Survey 2016 in Albania as well as other Western Balkan countries have been included in that survey such as Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Turkey. The results are published in a separate book from the results of the EU-28 countries by the Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg in 2019: https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/sites/default/files/ef_publication/field_ef_document/ef18032en.pd

3.       The network of LSE has a publication in 2018 a book “Fiscal Decentralisation, Local Government and Policy Reversals in
South-Eastern Europe”, Palgrave publication: The book is also offered on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fiscal-Decentralisation-Government-Reversals-Southeastern-ebook/dp/B07FLSCQ11/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541582072&sr=8-1&keywords=Fiscal+Decentralisation%2C+Local+Government+and+Policy+Reversals+in+Southeastern+Europe , as well as on Springer's website
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319960913

I was presenting publications in the last three years 2020, 2019, 2018 which might be with interest for those like me who teach subjects such as social policy and comparative social policies.

Thank you for offering us such opportunities.

With very kind regards,

Merita

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 2:32 AM Dale Stevenson <[email-masked]> wrote:

Dear Annetee,

Many thanks for your update and initiative. It is great to see EESPN moving ahead positively. I look forward to receiving updates and the forthcoming newsletters.

Best wishes,

Dale

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> On 22 Apr 2020, at 01:07, [email-masked] wrote:

>

> Dear EESPN member,

>

> We hope this email finds you well and safe.

>

> The EESPN team is launching two new initiatives and we are looking forward to engaging you.

>

> Initiative 1

>

> The EESPN editing team are starting a newsletter concerning the Bridge Building region (Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova, the Republic of North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Ukraine). The purpose of the newsletter is to inform our members about the latest news in the region and distribute it via the EESPN membership mailing list.

>

> In this regard, we suggest the following headers for the newsletter

> •    New legislation/policy measures

> •    New projects

> •    New publications

> •    New active calls for application and participation

>

> We would appreciate your contributions with news (last half a year) from your individual countries on the above headers and would also like to ask for a brief contribution of approximately 50 words in English describing what it is and a LINK (if available).

> The news should be about the main areas of EESPN, i.e.

> •    Health

> •    Care

> •    Employment

> •    Labour Mobility/Migration

> •    Social policy

> •    Social welfare

> •    Any other related topic

>

> Initiative 2

>

> We are publishing a series of short articles in the format of blog contributions (500 – 800 words) which will be published in the EESPN front page and distributed via the mailing list.

> We would like the series to have a common theme. So, for the first round, and considering the circumstances created by COVID19, we welcome your contributions on topics related to the pandemic. The text could focus in one of the following main areas of EESPN and the measures taken in your country, in terms of

> •    Health

> •    Care

> •    Employment

> •    Labour Mobility/Migration

> •    Social policy

> •    Social welfare

> •    Any other related topic

>

> We welcome any other suggestions you might have on both initiatives. The deadline for contributions on both initiatives is 30 April 2020. Please send them to Monika Hunjadi: [email-masked]

>

> Do not hesitate to contact us if you need further explanations or have additional comments.

> We are looking forward to reading from you.

>

> Kind regards,

> EESPN team

>

> Annetee Scoppeta

> Sonila Danaj

> Monika Hunjadi

>

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