INCASI, International Network for Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities, is an international research and training network between Europe and Latin America that was created in 2015 with a Horizon 2020 project of the European Commission: INCASI1, aimed at studying social inequalities in a comparative way.

We have just started a new project, which will run from November 2023 to October 2027, within the Horizon Europe, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), Staff Exchange programme, entitled: A New Measure of Socioeconomic Inequalities for International Comparison (INCASI2) aimed at building a new analytical model of socioeconomic inequalities in order to:

  1. To advance the understanding of the complex phenomenon of socio-economic inequalities by creating a new analytical framework at a comparative and interdisciplinary level.
  2. To build an innovative multidimensional measure (DYSIC: Dynamics of Socioeconomic Inequality in Comparison) that is more comprehensive and realistic in the comparative analysis of inequalities between Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean.
  3. Create the INCASI Living Lab as a space for the transfer and dissemination of research: organising seminars, elaborating diagnoses, contributing to the design of public policies and informed decision-making.

29 organisations participate: 14 European universities from 6 countries (Spain, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Finland and Great Britain), 11 Latin American and Caribbean universities from 7 countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil and Mexico), and 4 non-academic organisations (Latinobarómetro, ECLAC, INTAL and LAPOP).

The project is coordinated by the Instituto de Estudios del Trabajo (IET) of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, with Dr. Pedro López-Roldán as principal researcher of the network. Sub-coordination is provided by Dr. Sandra Fachelli from the Department of Sociology at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide.