Accommodation centres are much more than means of securing asylum seekers’ housing needs. They are an embodiment of asylum and immigration policies. To understand these policies and their effects on asylum seekers, we need to ask what interests different institutional actors have in keeping...

The international law defines who are refugees, their rights and the legal obligations of states that receive them. However, the actual formulation and implementation of asylum law are based on politically and historically contingent construction of 'a refugee' determined largely by the nation...

Up until the early 1990s today's Czech and Slovak Republics were countries of emigration rather than immigration. The 19th and the early 20th centuries witnessed large-scale emigrations from Czech and Slovak lands – then still part of the Austro-Hungarian empire – due to primarily economic...

Collaborative Economy became the buzzword used to refer to all kinds of online platform based business models in the recent years. Yet there is no consensus on a working definition for these platforms and robust evidence is lacking on their costs and benefits to society - a precondition for good...

Collaborative Economy became the buzzword used to refer to all kinds of online platform based business models in the recent years. Yet there is no consensus on a working definition for these platforms and robust evidence is lacking on their costs and benefits to society - a precondition for good...

The rapid growth of the collaborative economy has fuelled a discussion about its potential benefits and challenges. Moving the debate towards longer-term considerations the scenario-based JRC foresight project explores the possible future developments of the EU collaborative economy towards...

The rapid growth of the collaborative economy has fuelled a discussion about its potential benefits and challenges. Moving the debate towards longer-term considerations the scenario-based JRC foresight project explores the possible future developments of the EU collaborative economy towards...

The workshop "Visions for the World in 2035" was organised in the EU Policy Lab by the Foresight and Behavioural Insights Unit in collaboration with the European Development Days (EDD15). It hosted 15 Future Leaders between the ages of 21 and 26 who were selected by the EDD15 organisers from...

The workshop "Visions for the World in 2035" was organised in the EU Policy Lab by the Foresight and Behavioural Insights Unit in collaboration with the European Development Days (EDD15). It hosted 15 Future Leaders between the ages of 21 and 26 who were selected by the EDD15 organisers from...