This project aims to provide an in-depth and multidisciplinary analysis of the impact of European law and policies on national health care systems and their social character. It resulted in a publication and a conference at which the main findings were presented.

This project was carried out for DARES of the French Ministry for Employment, in partnership with Alpha Consulting and the Research and Study Centre on Qualifications (CEREQ).

This project is focused on the issue of change management and support to deal with the effects of company restructuring in France. The role of the OSE is in particular to provide a comparative European perspective of in-company practices in these fields and also to shed further light on the European framework for them. The final contribution of the OSE was to review European policies on restructuring, to analyse vocational training systems in five European countries and to conduct a quantitative analysis of the issue of in-company vocational training in these five European countries.

The Posting of Workers on the Belgian, French and British Territories, and the Salary Split

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The aim of this project was to discuss the relevance and the fine-tuning of "participatory" indicators on poverty and social exclusion in Belgium, in other terms the indicators resulting from a "knowledge crossroads" process bringing together the partner associations of the General Report on Poverty, representatives of administrations and scientists as well as persons living in poverty and social exclusion. The aim of this project was to define the indicators, or at least fields of information which reflect as closely as possible the difficulties and concerns of persons living in poverty and social exclusion. The OSE was the French-speaking scientific representative within the project.

The organisation of a conference on behalf of the Belgian presidency and the publication of two books on the impact of European integration on health care.

This project, which was carried out for the Belgian Ministry of Social Affairs, Public Health and the Environment, has several parts:

- Social Issues of EMU: two summary papers were produced within the framework of our remit to monitor the social consequences of EMU;

- EU enlargement: an international conference was organised on the topic of "new governance and the social dimension of enlargement" which took place at the European Parliament on 18 October 2000. This conference analysed the social issues, in particular social exclusion and pensions. The OSE has also prepared a special edition of the Belgian Social Security Review (in French, Dutch and English) which takes up the conference topics;

- Benchmarking: In light of the Belgian presidency of the EU, the OSE undertook reflection on the use of benchmarking in the social arena. A working seminar was held at the ULB on 12 July 2000 and two detailed reports were produced on the monetary and non-monetary poverty and social exclusion indicators from a European perspective as well as on the indicators of national action plans in the flight against poverty and social exclusion from a comparative perspective (see publications).

The OSE provides expert advice to the Belgian federal public authorities and the national health insurance institute (RIZIV/INAMI) on EU policies that might have an impact on the Belgian health care system.