Analysis of the public policies promoted by the local level in terms of citizen participation, their impact on the co-production of public policies, the methodologies deployed for this purpose and the effective consideration of "citizenship" (mechanisms of social inequality and education in participation).
Social involvement processes should result in the self-development of these communities that have been subjects of training, monitoring and planning. The self-development methodology has proven to be a positive strategy to cement social change in the municipalities with high rates of poverty, vulnerability and social exclusion.Involvement, self-development, strategic planning, social change.
Community Social Services are the gateway to the social welfare system and its different benefits and programmes that address the needs of the most vulnerable groups. Its analysis and evaluation allows to make improvements in local social welfare structures.
Social Services are part of public policies for local development because they facilitate the social inclusion of groups with subjective difficulties in integrating into the labour market. Active employment policies aimed at the population at risk of social exclusion are the target population of this line.Local development, community-based social services, inclusion of vulnerable groups, active employment policiesLocal development, community-based social services, inclusion of vulnerable groups, active employment policies
Study of the dynamics of coexistence in contexts of significant multiculturalism, with special attention to integration policies, models for managing cultural diversity, the promotion of interculturality and conflicts associated with inequality and xenophobia.
Cooperation for the improvement of human development rates and social cohesion. Methodologies for carrying out participative citizen diagnoses, their systematisation and the elaboration of public policies from the citizen's proposal. Analysis of Social Security Systems.Cooperación para la mejora de los índices de desarrollo humano y la cohesión social. Metodologías para la realización de diagnósticos ciudadanos participativos, su sistematización y la elaboración de políticas públicas desde la propuesta ciudadana. Análisis de los Sistemas de Seguridad Social.
Access of young people to the labour market. Barriers and difficulties in worker participation and ways to improve working conditions. Sport as an instrument of integration in degraded urban contexts or with socially disadvantaged groups - immigrants, young people, women.
Les polítiques de protecció a la família són una assignatura pendent per al sistema de benestar social espanyol. A més, tenim constància que són en les entitats socials on es poden generar resultats d'investigació aplicats a la solució de les problemàtiques de família i de conciliació entre vida laboral i familiar.
Improving the living conditions of the population is accompanied by innovation processes, especially in the field of social sciences and education, where changes affect both structural and circumstantial dimensions. For this reason, we are committed to transferring the results of intervention and research to society so that it can replicate its experiences in other latitudes and generate new challenges in terms of development.
GESinn researches on the particularities of social intervention, intervention with population groups, minorities, analyses instruments for decision-making and planning, protocols and processes of intervention, measurement, execution and evaluation of results, dimensions of the quality of social intervention and the dynamisation and participative action of the participating subjects. Social intervention is developed in collaboration with different groups: minorities, people with functional diversity, drug addicts, the mentally ill, the homeless, the unemployed... Analysing reality from the origin of the problem is our main calling card.
Municipal public policies require a territorial analysis to be able to implement plans, programmes and projects adapted to the emerging priority needs for citizens. The participatory action research methodology has been identified as strategic to provide a solution to this type of policy and relevant results have been produced in this regard.
The constructivist paradigm is gaining ground among qualitative researchers and new methodologies such as the narrative are opening up for research in local communities. Especially on problems that are not usually visible and that, through the recognition of the strategy of the citizens’ involvement in the solution of them, it is possible to plan processes of social change that recognize the need to generate public policies of community development.
Study of the relation between urban structure and the mobility of people in urban areas. Use of new data sources mainly from information and communication technologies for studying different spatial dynamics. Evaluation and management of the territory from a social, environmental and economic perspective.
