The course provides students with up-to-date knowledge of the changes in the social policies and community based social planning (in Europe, in Italy and in the regional context).
The first part of the course is dedicated to the presentation of configurations of welfare defined active welfare, social investment welfare, ‘new social risks’ policies, conditional welfare that have spread in all European countries, of their recent developments in implementation and their impact on living conditions of households.
The second part of the course presents recent changes in social programs, the development of new methods and techniques and the critical features and potential of main approaches