Sustainability@Leave
CA21150

Sustainability@Leave | COST Action CA21150

Parental Leave Policies and Social Sustainability

The Action aims to advance and disseminate research and knowledge about the significance of paid parental leave (PPL) for the social sustainability of societies.

About the Sustainability@Leave Action

The Action aims to advance and disseminate research and knowledge about the significance of paid parental leave (PPL) for the social sustainability of societies. Our aim is to set the scene for future PPL research from the new perspective of social sustainability while making the field more coherent across disciplines and beyond academia.

The main challenges are to build the network, identify and fill gaps in PPL research, develop a future-oriented and cross-disciplinary PPL terminology, and facilitate future research by closing the PPL data gap.

Five Working Groups (WGs) will be established to focus on:

  1. The development of a theoretical framework;
  2. the identification of social inequalities through PPL policies;
  3. the relevance of PPL for child development;
  4. providing a future-oriented PPL terminology and
  5. the expansion of PPL data.

Sustainability@Leave in Numbers

Total Participants
0
Total Countries
0
ITC Countries
0

Latest Updates

We are pleased to announce the publication of Building better parenting leave survey data: A repository of survey questions for comparative policy analysis. Comparative...
Working Group 3 (WG3) of Sustainability@Leave has actively developed interdisciplinary research collaboration on paid parental leave, children and family well-being. Starting with discussions at...
As part of its work on the links between parenting leave, children’s well-being and social sustainability, Working Group 3 (WG3) of the Sustainability@Leave COST...
From the outset, a key objective of Sustainability@Leave was to build a broad and interdisciplinary network around paid parental leave and social sustainability. The...
Stakeholders directly engaged in Sustainability@Leave activities Key organisations reached through dissemination and policy dialogue Collaborating networks and research infrastructures
Several members and contributors of Sustainability@Leave appeared at the programme of the 24th ESPAnet Annual Conference 2026 in Lisbon: