2000 – 2003 | | "Working poor in Switzerland: Ways out of Social Welfare", with Ueli Mäder (University of Basel) and Carlo Knöpfel (Caritas Switzerland), financed by the Swiss National Fund |
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2004 – 2006 | | "Social Welfare in Switzerland: Integration and Exclusion by Segmentation of Clients", with Ueli Mäder (University of Basel) and Carlo Knöpfel (Caritas Switzerland), financed by the Swiss National Fund |
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2006 | | Development of a research module "Social Problems and Welfare State Interventions" (financed by the Research Fund of the University of Fribourg), for the graduate college "Actors, debates and public space" (project directed by Jean Widmer, University of Fribourg, Max Bergman, University of Basel and Laurence Kaufmann, University of Lausanne). |