| CEPS/INSTEAD – Centre for Population, Poverty and Public Policy Studies / International Networks for Studies in Technology, Environment, Alternatives, Development | |
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| Established | 1978 |
| President | Georges Schroeder |
| Vice-president | Prof. Jos Berghman |
| Director | Dr. Pierre Hausman |
| Admin. staff | 111 |
| Location | Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg |
| Website | http://www.ceps.lu/ |
The Centre for Population, Poverty and Public Policy Studies (CEPS/INSTEAD) is a research centre located in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.[1]
Established in 1978 for researching persistent poverty in industrialized countries within the framework of the First European Community Program to Combat Poverty, the Centre was given by Luxembourg law the status of a public establishment by the Prime Minister in 1989, with scientific, administrative and financial autonomy.[2]
The centre has a research staff complement of 130, consisting mainly of economists, sociologists, social policy analysts, geographers and psychologists.
The Centre is composed of five research units: The Department of Population and Employment, the Department of Economics, the Department of Geography (GEODE) and the Department of International Development (ERDI).
International Master in Social Policy Analysis (IMPALLA). With the political and financial support of the Luxembourg Prime Minister and the Minister of Culture, Higher Education and Research a CEPS/INSTEAD related University Consortium was formed in order to create a Graduate School for Comparative Public Policy Analysis and Data. The University Consortium and to guarantee the academic standards of the programme, CEPS/INSTEAD has made a joint venture agreement with the Department of Sociology of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven as key partner and offers an International Master in Social Policy Analysis (IMPALLA).
Integrated Research Infrastructure in Social Sciences at CEPS/INSTEAD (IRISS) is a visitor's programme at CEPS/INSTEAD. Its mission is to organise short visits of researchers willing to undertake empirical research in economics and other social sciences using the archive of micro-data available at the Centre.