Pau Mari-Klose

Professor Pau Mari-Klose
Institute of Childhood and Urban Studies (CIIMU)
Pg de la Vall d'Hebron 171
08035 Barcelona
www.ciimu.org

Pau Mari-Klose is lecturer of Sociology at the Department of Sociology of the University of Barcelona and Senior Researcher in the Institute of Childhood and the Urban Studies (CIIMU). He is Methodological Director of the Panel of Families and Childhood, a longitudinal survey that interviews a sample of three thousand children and their parents, conducted by CIIMU and financed by the Catalan Government. He has recently published the book Age of Change, a study in which he analyses the generational biases of Spanish welfare state provision.

The Institute of Childhood and Urban Studies (CIIMU) is a publicly-funded consortium based in Barcelona formed by Catalan universities and local administrations. Since its inception in 1998, CIIMU has fostered the transfer of results between research actions and policy implementation. CIIMU has the infrastructure needed to achieve the project's goals and would draw on its skills and expertise in the dissemination of results of scholarly-oriented research to regional and local administrations. The work that our institution conducts is based on the cooperation of researchers and professionals working in different specialities in social science, including demographers, sociologists, political scientists, lawyers and anthropologists. Its ultimate goal is to highlight good practices in addressing the needs of young people and overcoming their social exclusion. As a mark of excellence CIIMU has set up an observatory monitoring main trends in the state of childhood and adolescence and produces a report on the state of Catalan children on a regular basis. Since 2004 CIIMU has successfully been leading the WELCHI Network, a European Coordination Action within the 6 Framework Programme involving 11 partners from different countries.