EUROPEAN OBSERVATORY ON HOMELESSNESS
Research Conference 23rd March 2006

Intervention Strategies on Social Exclusion and Homelessness in Europe

FEANTSA is the European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless and has member organisations in 23 of the 25 EU member states. The work programme of FEANTSA is funded, in large part, by the European Commission Directorate General for Employment and Social Affairs under the budget line of the EU Strategy for Social Inclusion. FEANTSA prepares an annual work programme with the aim of raising awareness of the issues of homelessness at European and national level, to inform the EU Social Inclusion strategy, to promote international exchange and to assist the member organisations. European Observatory on homelessness A key element of the FEANTSA work programme is the research strategy implemented through the European Observatory on Homelessness. The Observatory consists of researchers in 23 member states whose work is co-ordinated by a team from the Joint Centre for Scottish Housing Research based at the Universities of Dundee and St Andrews and led by Bill Edgar (Dundee) and Professor Joe Doherty (St Andrews). The Observatory disseminates a wide range of research reports each year for each member state and comparative reports for Europe. These are all available on the FEANTSA website