The closing conference will mark the culmination of the TraFaDy network, bringing together researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and transnational families. It will present key findings from the six Working Groups, share policy and practice recommendations, and foster dialogue across disciplines and sectors. The event will strengthen the European community of practice on TNF and ensure […]
This WG 3 online meeting will consolidate the results on interdisciplinary knowledge towards TNFs social rights and social protection. We will be discussing the dissemination possibilities of the working group’s results in local languages and formulate policy recommendations, which address key challenges in social protection faced by TNFs. Finally, the working group member will discuss
This jooint meeting of the Working Groups 3 and 5 will be about investigating and presenting innovative methods as examples of good practice in social protection. A particular focus will be on ethics in social rights and social protection of TNF research, usage of statistics in social rights and social protection of TNF research, etc.
At the meeting, we will discuss the outputs of the cooperation between WG 3 and WG 5: The finalization of the brochures on the topic of ethics in social rights and social protection of TNFs, brainstorming on the final version, how to organize translations into national languages, dissemination, etc. The meeting is held online.
In this online meeting the members of WG3 will discuss ongoing activities on social rights and social protection of TNF. Main focus will be on discussing 1. how the members will disseminate interdisciplinary knowledge on TNFs; 2. where policy recommendations addressing key challenges faced by TNFs should be disseminated and how the working group results
This joint working group meeting of WG 3 and WG 5 was held online.
All Working Groups continued their work throughout 2024 by meeting several times, online and in-person. The final hybrid meeting was the General Meeting, which took place from 25-27 November in Vilnius, Lithuania. During the General Meeting several meetings took place: Core Group, Communications Group and, most important, all Working Groups, which met at least twice
On May 10, the members of WG3 (“Social Rights and Social Protection of Transnational Families”) gathered for an in-person meeting at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Organised by Karolina Lendák-Kabók and WG3 leader Vida Česnuitytė, the meeting provided an opportunity to advance ongoing projects, foster collaboration, and discuss upcoming publications and webinars. A key session included
The second General Meeting took place from 20 to 22 November in Istanbul, Turkey. It was hosted by the Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University (Istanbul, Turkey). Nafiye Cigdem Aktekin and Mutasim Bavarsi are the local organisers. During the General Meeting several meetings took place. All Working Groups met twice and several Working Groups split up
This joint working group meeting of WG 3 and WG 6 was held online.
The interdisciplinary network “Transnational Family Dynamics in Europe” (TraFaDy), founded on 3 October in the framework of the European COST Action programme, met for the first time for a general meeting to which all participants had been invited. In the course of the in person meeting that was held from 22 to 24 February, numerous
Working Group 3 starts from the observation that, in top of the fact that in many countries, Transnational Families are even not reflected in national social policies, research has revealed important differences in the social protection (including e.g. the portability of pensions, parental leave benefits) of Transnational Families. Especially the differences between Transnational Familiesemerging from
