Project History

The directors of the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy (MPISoc), Axel Börsch-Supan and Ulrich Becker, partnered with the coordination committee of the PPD in 2012. Then the Population Europe Secretariat in Berlin took over the management of the PPD’s first update. Later on, the Population Europe Resource Finder and Archive (PERFAR), however, replaced the PPD with its release in 2015.  Coordinated by Diana López-Falcón with the guidance of the Scientific Advisory Board, PERFAR’s content provided legal documents, policy descriptions, and links to data resources attracting a more diverse group of users.

Under the framework of the first two databases (PPD & PERFAR), Population Europe Partners carried out the data collection for the Policy Section until 2016.

Data on migration policies for Italy, France and Spain were generously provided by the Collaborative SSH-FP7 Temporary versus Permanent Migration Project - TEMPER (http://www.temperproject.eu) in 2014.