The Housing Dimension of Welfare Reform - the ICCR

5 Dissemination and exploitation of results
A brochure with basic facts on the project was produced in the first
months of the project and disseminated to potentially interested parties or
relevant actors through the consortium partners in order to increase
awareness.
The project’s Web Site is www.iccr-international.org/impact . It includes
information on the project consortium, links to organisations working in
the housing field as well as all the project’s deliverables and a series of
working papers. The Web Site will remain active also past the end of the
project.
The project results were presented at external conferences as well as an
own workshop organised in January 2003 in Brussels. The workshop
attracted around 30 experts and researchers in the field of housing and
homeless research from around Europe and provided the opportunity to
relate the project results to other research in the field as well as to discuss
the policy implications. A special issue of the journal Innovation; The
European Journal of Social Science Research (published by Taylor and
Francis, UK) with contributions to this workshop is planned for 2004.
External conferences to which the EUROHOME IMPACT results were
presented by various project collaborants include: The ‘European
Network for Housing Research’ (ENHR) Conference, Vienna, July 2002;
The European Observatory on Homelessness, September 2002; Seminar
of the Nordic Network of Homelessness Researchers in Copenhagen,
March 2003; The National Conference of Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft
Wohnunglosenhilfe in Fulda, May 2003
A book monograph on the EUROHOME-IMPACT is currently under
preparation with Ashgate for release under the ICCR book series. The
book will be edited by Dragana Avramov, Liana Giorgi, Volker Busch-
Geertsema and Marc-Henry Soulet and will include contributions from
all project participants. The book is expected to be published in early
2004.
Most significant in terms of the dissemination and exploitation was the
research design itself. Especially the case studies of social services and
programmes of social re-integration implemented as action research
involved direct contact with both service providers and users and offered
the opportunity to apply the knowledge gathered through the project to
improve the organisation, management and performance of these
services.
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