Objective One of the most pressing challenges within the EU is to balance economic performance against socially sustainable forms of work organisation, quality jobs, and the preservation and improvement of the quality of life in the broadest sense. At the European Council meeting of 22/23 March 2005, the EU reiterated that growth and employment in an enlarged Europe, need to go hand in hand with the social quality of work and life. QUALITY is an innovative, quantitative and qualitative research project that aims to examine how, in an era of major change, European citizens living in different national welfare state regimes evaluate the quality of their lives.The project will analyse international-comparative data on the social well-being of citizens and collect new data on social quality in European workplaces in eight strategically selected countries: UK, Finland, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Hungary and Bulgaria.Overall aims of this project:a. to give insight, from an internationally-comparative perspective, in the quality of life and work of European citizens, the way the quality of life and work are interrelated, and the impact public and organisational policies have on the well-being of European citizens;b. to increase our knowledge how and under what conditions European workplaces could be transformed into healthy organisations, where work is organised in a socially as well as economically sustainable manner;c. to explore future trends by consulting national high-level groups (policy-makers, politicians, researchers, managers) and by constructing scenarios with respect to trends concerning the quality of life and work of European citizens;d. to analyse whether, to what extent and how gender matters in the relationship between well-being and public and organisational policies. Fields of science social sciencessociologygender studiesgender equalitysocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment Keywords organizations quality of work and life Programme(s) FP6-CITIZENS - Citizens and Governance in a knowledge-based society: Thematic Priority 7 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research Programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) CITIZENS-2004-2.2.1 - Societal trends, quality of life and public policies CITIZENS - Citizens and governance in a knowledge-based society Call for proposal FP6-2004-CITIZENS-5 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT EU contribution No data Address Heidelberglaan 8 UTRECHT Netherlands See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CENTRO DE INVESTIGACAO E ESTUDOS DE SOCIOLOGIA Portugal EU contribution No data Address Av. Forças Armadas - ISCTE LISBOA See on map Total cost No data GÖTEBORGS UNIVERSITET Sweden EU contribution No data Address Vasaparken GOETEBORG See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data KOZEP EUROPAI EGYETEM ALAPITVANY - CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY BUDAPEST FOUNDATION Hungary EU contribution No data Address Nador utca, 9 BUDAPEST See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address North London Business Park, Oakleigh Road South LONDON See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data NEW EUROPE CENTRE FOR REGIONAL STUDIES Bulgaria EU contribution No data Address Mladezka 20-B PLOVDIV See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data THE MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address All Saints Building Oxford Road MANCHESTER See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITAET HAMBURG Germany EU contribution No data Address Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 HAMBURG See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ Finland EU contribution No data Address Seminaarinkatu 15 JYVÄSKYLÄ See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data