INSEAI 2023 - International Network for Knowledge and Comparative Socioeconomic Analysis of Informality and the Policías to be Implemented for their Formalization in the Europea Unión and Latn America

Name of the Project: INSEAI 2023 - International Network for Knowledge and Comparative Socioeconomic Analysis of Informality and the Policías to be Implemented for their Formalization in the Europea Unión and Latn America

Project Number: GAP - 101182756
Project Coordinator: Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain)
Type of Project: HORIZON - MSCA Staff Exchanges
Project Lifetime: 1^st of January 2025 until 31^st of December 2028 

Partners:
Bucharest University of Economic Studies (Romania)
Universitatea Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu (Romania)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto (Portugal)
Politechnika Lubelska (Poland)
Universidade da Coruña (Spain)
Universidad de Alicante (Spain)
Universitat de Valencia (Spain)
Università degli Studi di Salerno (Italy)
Instituto de Ciencias Sociales (ICSO) - Universidad de Asunción (Paraguay)
Universidad Católica Argentina Santa María de los Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Universidad Católica Boliviana San Pablo (Bolivia)
Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Tecnologías y Desarrollo Social para el NOA (Argentina)
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia)
Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica)
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Peru)
Consulting 21 Tax Group S L (Spain)
Institut für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Kultur (Germany)
Crow Technologies Engineering SLL (Spain)
Fundacion Uocra para la Educacion de Los Trabajadores Constructores (Argentina)
DESH Consultores (Colombia)
Unión de Cooperativas de Trabajo Evita (Argentina)UBATEC S.A. (Argentina)
Cámara de Senadores (Mexico)
El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Mexico)
Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brasil)
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) 

Aims and Objectives:
The INSEAI project aims to create an international network for knowledge and comparative socioeconomic analysis of informality and policies to be implemented for its formalisation in the EU and Latin America. The interdisciplinary and intersectoral approach involves academic (nine from UE and seven from LA), non-academic (three from UE and four from LA), and four non-eligible funding entities. Training activities and debate events will be organised throughout secondments, and specific tools (to detect, prevent and avoid informality) will be developed with the network members and people from their environment's societal collaboration.

INSEAI Network faces at least seven critical challenges currently claimed by stakeholders at HEI in Europe and LA:

1. Raising the level of research organisation in the region in the informal issues covering the current state-of-the-art knowledge and formalisation governance lacks.
2. Multiplying the effect of research results opens the possibility of catching public policy interest.
3. Driving the PhD students' attention to informality as an endemic issue deeply rooted in the globalised dynamics changing people's lives and stratifying world peripheral capitalist positions.
4. Developing Open Science,  promoting gender equality, and consolidating the network continuity.
5. Developing training tasks, exchanging knowledge and methodologies, and trying to innovate in analysis and quantification tools with the support of research and dissemination technologies.
6. Managing external databases and those generated by the network to offer tools (using big data, algorithms, apps) for public use in favour of informality knowledge and estimation and the formalisation processes governance.
7. Bringing together research and innovation interests from academic and civil society entities to understand the convergences and divergences in structuring labour markets and informality dynamics in regions with different degrees of development.

Coordination of the project in ISCAP / Researchers involved:
Sandrina Teixeira (Fellow)
Anabela Mesquita (Fellow)

Research Unit
CEOS.PP