21th Annual ESPAnet conference
‘Challenges for the welfare state in turbulent times’
Warsaw, 7-9 September 2023
Main organiser: Anna Kurowska
20th Annual ESPAnet conference
‘Social Policy Change between Path Dependency and Innovation’.
14-16 September 2022, Vienna
Organizer: Yuri Kazepov And Ruggero Cefalo
19th Annual ESPAnet Conference
Up for the Future? Social policies in challenged societies
31 August – 3 September 2021 – Leuven / Online
Organizer: Wim van Oorschot
18th Annual ESPAnet Conference
Online PhD seminars (instead of the regular conference, due to Covid-19).
2-4 September 2020, Online
Organizer: Wim van Oorschot
17th Annual ESPAnet Conference
Migration and Conflict – Equality and opportunity in European welfare states.
5- 7 September 2019, Stockholm
Organizers: Kenneth Nelson and Rense Nieuwenhuis SOFI Stockholm University
16th Annual ESPAnet Conference
Transformation of European Welfare Systems: Challenges, Problems and Future Prospects.
30 August – 1 September 2018, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Hosted by: Institute of Sociology and Social Work, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Oragnizer: Jolanta Aidukaite
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15th Annual ESPAnet conference
New Horizons of European Social Policy: Risks, Opportunities and Challenges
September 14-16, 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal
Hosted by: Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (ISCSP) Universidade de Lisboa
Organizer: Romana Xerez
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14th Annual ESPAnet conference
Re-inventing the Welfare State? Pathways to Sustainability, Equality and Inclusion in European Welfare States
1- 3 September 2016 Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Organizer: Menno Fenger
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13th Annual ESPAnet conference
THE LOST AND THE NEW WORLDS OF WELFARE
3-5 September 2015, Odense Denmark
Organizer: Klaus Petersen
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12th Annual ESPAnet conference
Beyond the Crisis in Europe – New Opportunities for reconciling sustainability, equality and economic robustness
4-6 September 2014, Oslo, Norway
The Conference website has been closed
Organisers: Bjørn Hvinden and Ivan Harsløf Oslo Metropolitan University
11th Annual ESPAnet conference
Social Policy and Economic Development
5-7 September 2013, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
For more information, please visit the conference homepage.
Organiser: Piotr Michon
10th Annual ESPAnet conference
10 Years of ESPAnet – The Anniversary Conference
6-8 September 2012, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
For more information, please visit the conference homepage.
Organiser: Jochen Clasen
9th Annual ESPAnet conference
Sustainability and transformation of European Social Policy
8-10 September 2011, Polibienestar Research Institute and the Department of Social Work and Social Services, University of Valencia, Spain
For more information, please visit the conference homepage.
Organiser: Jorge Garces
8th Annual ESPAnet conference
Social Policy and the Global Crisis: Consequences and Responses
2-4 September 2010, Budapest, Hungary
For more information, please visit the conference homepage.
Organiser: Dorottya Szikra
7th Annual ESPAnet conference
The future of the welfare state
17-19 September 2009, Institute of Sociology, University of Urbino, Italy
For more information, please visit the conference homepage.
Organiser: Yuri Kazepov
6th annual ESPAnet conference
Cross-border Influences in Social Policy
18-20 September 2008, Helsinki, Finland, in cooperation with the Finnish Social Policy Association
Organiser: Mikko Kautto
5th annual ESPAnet conference
Social Policy in Europe: Changing Paradigms in an enlarging Europe?
20-22 September 2007, Department of Social Policy, Institute of Economics, Vienna, Austria
4th annual ESPAnet conference
Transformation of the Welfare State: Political Regulation and Social Inequality
21-23 September 2006, Centre of Social Policy Research (ZeS) and Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS), University of Bremen, Germany
For more information, please visit the conference website.
3rd annual ESPAnet conference
Making Social Policy in the Post-industrial Age
22-24 September 2005, Department of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
2nd annual ESPAnet conference
European Social Policy: meeting the needs of a new Europe
9-11 September 2004, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford, UK
For more information, please contact Teresa Smith.
1st annual ESPAnet conference
Changing European Societies – The Role for Social Policy
13-15 November 2003, Danish National Institute of Social Research (SFI), Copenhagen, Denmark.