Technological solutions and devices for long-term care are being developed worldwide. In an interview with the TV station Radio Bremen, CRC member Heinz Rothgang has evaluated whether robots and IT are suitable for coping with the long-term care crisis.

Roy Karadag looks back on two short research stays in Egypt and reports on bureaucratic hurdles, promising archives and the devastating state of the Egyptian education system.

Tao Liu, Tobias ten Brink and Armin Müller presented their research at an international conference of the Centre for Chinese Public Administration Research in Guangzhou.

In a brief interview, the co-director of project B05 explains the advantages of the distinction from the top Chinese university for the CRC 1342.

The CRC 1342 hosts this year's NordWel summer school "State, Society and Citizen - Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Welfare State Development", which it jointly organizes with BIGSSS (University of Bremen), the Danish Centre of Welfare Studies (University of Southern Denmark) and the Faculty of Social Sciences (University of Helsinki). The programme is indended for PhD students from the various disciplines of social policy research. The summer school includes workshops, presentations and discussions with internationally renowned researchers and will take place from 19 to 23 August 2019 at the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen.

Tao Liu and Tobias ten Brink, who are jointly directing project B05, have published a special issue of the "Journal of Chinese Governance". The six articles of the issue examine China's social policy from an international, comparative perspective.

Members of project A03 discussed their research on the regulation of labour standards and their segmentation effect with experts of the International Labour Organization.

The CRC 1342 is seeking two student assistants for its project "Transnational service provision in long-term care between Western and Eastern Europe": 10 hours/week each, starting April 1, 2019.

SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy seeks to employ two PhD fellows for the project "The Reciprocal Relationship of Public Opinion and Social Policy", starting from September 1st, 2019.