Project detail Title: Poverty reduction in Europe: social policy and innovation (IMPROVE). Duration: 01/03/2012 - 29/02/2016 Researcher(s): Principal investigator:  Cantillon Bea Research Team(s): Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy Abstract: This research proposal takes as its starting points: (a) the long standstill in poverty reduction, especially for people of working age, (b) the complementarity between employment, economic growth and social inclusion that is focal in the EU 2020 strategy, and, (c) the emergence of socially innovative policies and actions in the margins of the European welfare states. It aims at the evaluation of the Lisbon decade in terms of policies and actions against poverty at European, national and sub-national level and at improving the understanding of the interrelationships between employment, social protection and social inclusion and between institutionalised macro level social policies and innovative local action.-