Hugo Swinnen
Hugo Swinnen is Manager for International Affairs at Verwey-Jonker Institute. Drs. Swinnen studied sociology at the University of Louvain, Belgium. M.Sc. in 1975. Language skills: Dutch native speaker, fluent in French and English, good knowledge of German.
Skills mobilised
Apart from the overall co-ordination of cross national projects, he is actively involved in different projects on local (urban) social policy and on citizens’ participation in European countries. He did research work in different domains of social policy, notably on poverty, long term unemployment and local employment initiatives. From 1993 until 2000 he was Research Manager of the Department for Policy and Administration at the Verwey-Jonker Institute. He supported local administrative and policy innovations through research, developed models for self-evaluation and for interactive policy development. On proposal of the Netherlands Ministry of Social Welfare, he was appointed International Relations Attaché of the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research in Vienna (Austria) in 1999. Hugo Swinnen also taught comparative study of social policy in Europe at the University of Lille (France) from 1993 until 2000 and he is actively involved in different European research and policy networks, such as the European Social Policy Analysis Network (ESPAnet) and Eurocities.
Relevant publications
· Nederland, T., Stavenuiter, M.and Swinnen, H. (2004). Implementation of the NAP Inclusion 2003-2005 (2004). Verwey-Jonker Institute, Utrecht.
Davelaar, M. and Swinnen, H. (2004). How European cities try to secure their influence in the social domain – paper for FISS seminar in Oslo June 2004. Verwey-Jonker Institute, Utrecht.
· Davelaar, M., Swinnen, H. and ter Woerds, S. (2003). European Cities and local social policy. Survey on developments and opinions in six European countries. Bundesamt für Sozialversicherung, Bern. (also available in French and German)
Davelaar, M., Duyvendak, J.W., Swinnen H. and van der Graaf, P.(2001). Good governance en de sociale pijler in het grotestedenbeleid. Kenmerken en kwaliteiten van een succesvolle lokale overheidsstrategie / Good governance and the social pillar of the Major-Cities Policy. Attributes and qualities of a successful local governmental strategy. Utrecht: Verwey-Jonker Instituut.
Huygen, A. and Swinnen, H. (2001). Wat bewoners wensen en diensten doen. Bewoners praten mee over wijkbestedingen voor onderhoud en beheer in Utrecht. Verwey-Jonker Instituut, Utrecht.
Swinnen, H. (2000). Approche comparative des modèles d'intervention sociale en Europe. In Intervention sociale et Fabrique des différences. Acte de colloque. Caravan, du 11 au 13 octobre 2000 à Arras, France. pp. 25-34.