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Workshop: Adequate social policy responses for transformational challenges in the Nordic countries and beyond?

Nordic ESPAnet-ReNEW workshop for doctoral students & early career researchers 7 – 8 December 2023, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen This workshop focuses on the extent to which social policies respond adequately to various exogenous and endogenous challenges in the Nordic countries. These challenges include digitalisation, climate change, demographic ageing, and labour shortages. All have the …

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Nordic ESPAnet workshop for doctoral students and early career researchers –The Nordic welfare states after COVID

9‐10 December 2021Doctoral students and early career researchers in the social sciences are cordially invited to submit a paper proposal to this workshop organized by the Nordic ESPAnet. Call for abstracts/papersThe COVID‐19 pandemic hit the Nordic countries to varying degrees, and the responses also differed. Like in many other European countries, lock‐down measures of different …

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Nordic ESPAnet workshop for doctoral students: Social Citizenship, Solidarity and Sustainability – The changing landscape of welfare in the Nordic countries

Call for abstracts/papers Ongoing changes in the Nordic welfare states call for new understanding of social citizenship and solidarity among citizens, communities and societies, as well as social and citizens groups. The Nordic countries are faced with unprecedented structural transformations in the labour market under the fourth industrial revolution (digitalisation, robotisation, automatisation) and stronger global …

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