‘New Policies to Promote Youth Inclusion / Accommodation of diversity in the Nordic Welfare States’ is the report from the research project ‘Social regulation in Nordic Welfare States: The Impact on Employment among Youth from Ethnic Minorities and Youth with Disabilities’ (Project No. 11143).
The project was initiated in 2011 by the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Labour Market Committee, under the Committee of Senior Officials for Labour.
Rune Halvorsen has led the project together with Bjørn Hvinden, both from NOVA at the Oslo and Akershus University College.
Rune Halvorsen is part of the leadership team for the EU project DISCIT - Making Persons With Disabilities Full Citizens, and is a Norwegian partner in the EU projects COPE - Combating Poverty in Europe and PATHWAYS - Participation to Healthy Workplaces and Inclusive Strategies in the Work Sector. He is a member of the Norwegian Child Welfare Agency’s reference group for the establishment of a system to explore which opportunities people with disabilities have for social participation in Norway.
Bjørn Hvinden head of research/professor at the Centre for Welfare and Labour Research at the Oslo and Akershus University College.
He currently heads two EU projects, one about active citizenship for people with disabilities (2013-16) and one about young people’s job insecurity, as well as a project for the Research Council of Norway on sustainable European welfare societies (2014-17).