Rethinking Social Assistance in Europe: Minimum Income, Activation, and Recognition

Join us for a presentation by visiting researcher Gianluca Busilacchi, PhD. Busilacchi is associate professor of economic sociology at the University of Macerata. He has served as president of the Healthcare Policies Committee and the Policy Evaluation Committee in the Regional Parliament, Regione Marche, as well as a consultant for the Commission of Social Exclusion of the Government of Italy. Previously, Busilacchi has been a visiting scholar at the European University Institute (EUI), the University of Barcelona, and the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He also was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Social Policy at the University of Antwerp. His main fields of research are social policy in a comparative perspective, poverty, guaranteed minimum income policies, and healthcare policies.