It is our pleasure to invite you to the conference “Improving poverty reduction in Europe” on 14-15 November 2013 in Brussels.

The conference will build on recent work by the EU-funded ImPRovE Consortium and will bring together knowledge generated in related major EU-funded projects, such as the GINI project, COPE, LOCALISE and Net-SILC2. In addition, the conference will draw on the insights of several recent volumes on poverty, policy and the labour market, including Minimum Income Protection in Flux, edited by Ive Marx and Kenneth Nelson, and Reconciling Work and Poverty Reduction, edited by Bea Cantillon and Frank Vandenbroucke.

Keynote speakers include Andrea Brandolini, Anton Hemerijck, Lane Kenworthy, John Myles, Brian Nolan, Wiemer Salverda and Anne Wren.

The conference will take place in the Royal Library of Belgium (on the 14th) and the European Parliament (on the 15th).

Full details about the programme, venue and registration are available on the conference website.