main_objectives

Main Objectives

To organise and hold international workshops and conferences tha aim to bring together a range of professionals from different specialist areas in this field, in order to debate and compare their research and experiences.
To bring into focus, co-ordinate, channel and publicise the results of research into the diversity of family, forms and their effects on children carried out by a number of institutes and individual researchers in Europe, whilst attempting to avoid and dispersion of effort or fragmentation of initiatives.
To define lines of research for greater knowledge and understanding of the consequences relating to the prevalence and growth of these phenomena in our societies.
To exchange experiences as wel as different proposals for legal and institutional reform in several countries in order to alleviate the impact of divorce and other forms of marital instability on children.
To monitor European trends and to follow up the outcomes of institutional arrengements in this field in EU member states and candidate countries.
To identify good practices for confronting the problems posed by the consequences of changing family forms and to work out benchmarks for the fight against child poverty.
To establish multi-directional paths of dissemination of knowledge derived from the academic research to policy makers and agencies involved in the policy-making processes (NGO's, govermentn bodies, ...) and vice versa.
To produce reports and recommendations for governments so that suggestions and proposals for reform emanated from this research action can be helpful to legislators and policy-makers.
To explore the ways in which monitoring and reporting on the well-being of children can be ameliorated and to devise a common EU system of statistical indicators using the child as a unit of observation.