FLOOR is short for Financial Assistance (Social Cash Transfers), Land Policy, and Global Social Rights

FLOOR is an interdisciplinary research group, partly funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (= German Research Council). FLOOR is associated with a cooperation group funded by the Zentrum für interdiszplinäre Forschung (ZiF) in Bielefeld.

The overarching goal of FLOOR is to examine social security as a human right.

FLOOR comprises

• the research project Social Rights – Towards a Global Human Right to a Civic Minimum (principal investigator: Ulrike Davy, law),

• the research project Social Cash Transfers – The Global Construction and Diffusion of the Right to a Monetary Minimum (principal investigator: Lutz Leisering, sociology),

• the research project Socio-ecological Land Policy (principal investigator: Benjamin Davy), and

• a ZiF cooperation group On the Road to Global Social Citizenship.

FLOOR asks these basic questions:

Social policy and welfare state have been projects of European nation states. What kind of social policy can we expect to emerge at the global level?

Is there a global right to a civic minimum?

What ideas, policies and institutions of basic social security are emerging, both in the global arena and in nation states?

How are global and national policies linked, what processes of diffusion are taking place?

Is basic social security part of world society and world culture? Can we identify the rise of global social citizenship, against or in conjunction with economic globalization?

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