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Mr. Yves Jorens is currently Professor of Social Security Law (National and International) and European Social Law, at the Faculty of Law of the Ghent University in Belgium. He was a Former Head of an Independent Junior Research Group for European and International Social Security Law at the Max-Planck-Institute for foreign and international social law, Munich, Germany. (Research Theme was the influence of globalization and international norms on national social law and social policy).
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He wrote a doctoral thesis on the judicial position of non-EU-nationals in European Social security law. Since many years he is working on European social law and social policy issues with respect to accession and integration into the European Union, problems related to international employment, health policy and health care law. He has done a lot of research on and has a good knowledge and understanding of the national social security systems of the EU Member States.
He has a lot of experience of working in many Member States of the European Union, in particular the latest Accession Countries as well as connections with social security experts in many of these countries. He is also very active in Southern Africa and in China. For the moment he is a Project Leader for building out a social law department at the university of Maputo, Mozambique. He was expert and Team Leader in different Phare and Consensus programmes on European social law, as well as consultant for the Council of Europe. He is consultant for the European Union in different domains of European social security and European health care law and policy.
Yves Jorens is Member and Scientific Mentor of the MISSOC-Secretariat (Mutual
Information
System on Social Protection in the EU), the information system created
at the initiative of the European Commission that provides up-to-date
and comparative information on social protection systems in the EU
Member Sates and the European Economic Area/EFTA-Countries.
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Currently he is also Project Director and Scientific Manager of the trESS-project (Training and Reporting on European Social Security) commissioned by the European Commission, Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities Directorate, dealing with the Social Security co-ordination regulations for migrant workers. He was is also co-ordinator of a European 5th Framework Network called SPECIAL (Social Protection in Europe. Convergence? Integration, Accession and the Free Movement of Labour – commissioned by the European Commission, DG Research) that carried out research on the process of accession and integration with respect to social policy issues on a pan-European scale. He was also legal co-ordinator of the European 6th Framework project E4p (Europe for Patients), commissioned by the European Commission, DG Research, a project that looked at cross-border mobility of patients within the European Union.
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He was member of the legal expert group on Social Services of General Interest, set up by the European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities.
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He was also member of the Belgian commission for frontier workers set up by the Government.
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French Report: download here [PDF-File]
He is organizer of many (international) colloquia and has the ability to manage and co-ordinate large-scale research projects. He wrote many books and articles on European Social Security and European Health Care issues.
Mr Jorens is also a lawyer at the Brussels Bar where he is working for the law firm Tilleman-van Hoogenbemt, which is specialised in social law and international employment.
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