ESSPIN IMPACT

SCIENTIFIC – ECONOMIC – SOCIETAL – POLITICAL

SCIENTIFIC

  • Develop a new knowledge frontier and improve substantially the understanding by the scientific community of the evolution and drivers of inequality.
  • Provide a novel methodological framework integrating different strands of literature and different types and scales of inequality that will have a lasting impact on scientific research.

ECONOMIC

  • Provide a better understanding of the economic costs of inequality.
  • Contribute to higher well-being at the workplace, higher firm productivity, and more inclusive managerial practices.

SOCIETAL

  • Successfully deal with the challenges faced by left-behind people and places;
  • Enhance public awareness of the causes and effects of inequality;
  • Single out critical areas for social actors and NGOs to intervene, accompanied by effective tools of analysis and policy instruments toreduce inequality and bring about inclusive growth;
  • Raised awareness to society as a whole on the importance ofinequalities for social cohesion, economic growth, and well-being.

POLITICAL

  • Improved efficiency of economic, social and cohesion policies in achieving inclusive growth at the European level;
  • Improve policymakers’ capacity in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
  • A more equal and inclusive European society.

OBJECTIVES

Improves the understanding by the scientific community of the evolution.
Provides a better understanding of the economic costs of inequality.
Enhances public awareness of the causes and effects of inequality.
Improves more equal and inclusive European society.