Report on research trajectories on social issues in EU and CELAC

This deliverable targets research in priority issues in building modern welfare states, co-evolution of welfare state models in historic perspective, changing role of social actors (e.g. new middle classes), as well as benchmarking and role models for social policies. Target groups for this report are (a) scientific community engaged in both – regional studies and social welfare studies and (b) policy makers, especially those ones active in social policy and cohesion policy.