Objective & mission

WILCO aims to examine, through cross-national comparative research, how local welfare systems affect social inequalities andhow they favour social cohesionwith a special focus on the missing link between innovations at the local level and their successful transfer and implementation to other settings.

The results will be used, through strong interaction with stakeholders and urban policy recommendations, to link immediately to the needs of practitioners. In doing so, we will connect issues of immediate practical relevance with state-of-the-art academic research on how approaches and instruments in local welfare function in practice.