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ConPolicy - the Institute for Consumer Policy - is looking for a Team Assistant (m/f/d) starting April 2022 in Berlin with interest and commitment to provide administrative and organizational support to the team and the management.
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Project for the European Parliament
Study on the impact of influencers on advertising and consumer protection in the single market
At the request of the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO), ConPolicy and VVA will conduct an in-depth study on influencer marketing in social media within the European Union. The objective of the study is to provide information on the impact of influencers and to analyze the relevance of influencers as market actors from a business and consumer perspective. Furthermore, the most common issues related to influencer marketing and consumer protection as well as legislative and non-legislative measures to tackle consumer protection concerns will be identified. Lastly, it will be examined how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the role of influencers.
More information on the project may be found here.
New project for the European Commission
Study to identify initiatives to provide local advice to consumers
Consumer organizations play an important role in providing consumers with independent advice. This advice assists consumers when they purchase a new (complex) product or when they encounter a problem with a trader or service provider after they have purchased the product. To solicit this advice, consumers are traditionally expected to visit consumer advice centers. But research and experience in many EU member states show that many consumers that would benefit from such advice, do not visit the advice centers.
Hence, some member states experiment with new forms of advice services. The European Commission’s New Consumer Agenda recognizes these “non-traditional” forms of consumer advice and foresees to support initiatives providing local advice to consumers.
Against this background, DG JUST commissioned this study to map initiatives in the 27 EU Member States that provide advice to (vulnerable) consumers at local level and identify good practices. This new study will be conducted jointly by VVA and ConPolicy from November 2021 until October 2022.
Further information on the project can be found here.
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