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28.06.2006 – 1.07.2006, Warsaw
The 10 Biennial ICSD European Conference
At the Warsaw School of Social Psychology (Szkola Wyzsza Psychologii Spolecznej)
Contact:Wyzsza Szkola Psychologii Spolecznej,
03 – 815 Warszawa,
Ul. Chodakowska 19/31
Prof. Dr. hab. Piotr Salustowicz
http://www.swps.edu.pl/new_www/icsd/
July 3-9, 2006, Milan
University of Milan
Department of Social & Political Studies
http://www.sociol.unimi.it/altrisiti/esa_registration
Contact:ESA European Sociological Association
European Sociological Association
59-61, Rue Pouchet
F-75017 Paris
France
Tel.: ++33 1 40 25 12 63
Fax: ++33 1 40 25 12 63
Email:
esa@iresco.fr
http://www.europeansociology.org
12 July 2006 from 9.30 to 17.00, Brussels
Scotland House
Rond Point Schuman 6
Brussels
Contact:http://act4europe.horus.be/module/FileLib/CD%20study%20-%20presentation.pdfDid NGOs fail to take citizens on board of the European project? Should they be part of the dialogue with EU institutions or of the contestation? What does " participatory democracy" really mean in the EU and how to link "Brussels" to the grassroots?
These questions have been high on the agenda over the last years and will ncreasingly be in the coming weeks, as the debate over the European Commission' s Communication White Paper and the Transparency Initiative heats up.
The Civil Society Contact Group would like to invite you to the conference NGOs and the EU: Making civil dialogue work better that will take place on 12 July from 9.30 to 17.00 and will provide space for common discussion over some of these key challenges (Venue: Scotland House, Rond Point Schuman 6).
Interpretation will be provided in English and French.
On this occasion, we will present the study "Civil Dialogue: making it work better", which assesses dialogue and consultations between NGOs and EU institutions in seven different policy areas, at EU and national level.
The aim of the conference is to bring together EU and national level NGO activists, giving them the opportunity to discuss the study's main outcomes and recommendations, based on their daily experience and difficulties. It will thus put a particular focus on participation through interactive workshops focusing on key aspects of the study:
The conference's outcomes will feed into the Civil Society Contact Group' s advocacy work on the Transparency Initiative and Communication White Paper.
30. July to 03. August 2006, Munich (Germany)
Contact:info@socialwork2006.de www.socialwork2006.deAs social workers we challenge obvious and extreme imbalances and particularly social inequalities. It is more difficult, however, to find agreement and unambiguous understanding of common goals and ways of achieving a new social equilibrium, which in itself is an ongoing and ever changing process.
In the past fifty years since the foundation of IFSW, social workers from around the world have initially defined and are in the process of redefining such goals, values, principles and methods. They are visible in the structure and statutes of IFSW, in the definition of social work, ethical principles, international policy papers etc.
This congress is organised around five problem areas that largely correspond with the above achieved positions of our organisation. And there will be a sixth theme which will address past and future issues of professional development in social work.
Each of these themes will be introduced through simultaneously translated keynotes and/or international panels followed by smaller seminars, workshops, poster displays and other forms of presentation. This structure provides a range of choices and will allow for participants to concentrate on their area of interest throughout the congress.
The themes are as follows:
• The Balance of Generations: Youth and Aging
• Physical, Emotional, and Mental Health
• Between Inclusion and Alienation: Migrants, Refugees and Displaced Persons
• Human Rights and Civil Rights: Between Globalization and Marginalization
• Social Systems between Demands: Basic Needs and Minimum Standards of Social Security
• Social Work as Profession: 50 years of Progress and Visions for the Future
For information about the Eileen McGowan Kelly scholarship, please see our News and Infos page, available from the Home page.
The international 'Social Work & Society'
Academy - TiSSA 2006
Serving Citizens. Sustaining Civil Society as Social Work Issue
4 th annual TiSSA Plenum August 27 to 30, 2006 & PreConference of the PhD-Network August 24 to 26, 2006 in Kaunas, LithuaniaContact:
www.TiSSA.net
“Serving Citizens. Sustaining Civil Society as a Social Work Issue” raises the question of the roles, tasks, and capacities of social work with respect to the social, cultural and political struggling for civil society.
The general focus is on the quest to establish and enhance spirited democratic civil societies. This implies the necessity to analyse current societal formations in order to identify structures and dynamics being conductive or constraining to a vibrant realm of the public. To deliver the conditions of possibility for a substantially democratic public realm are fundamental issues of social and political justice. They are essentially cashed out in the removal of structural barriers with respect to a democratically significant public realm implying a socially secured parity of participation. This presupposes publicly warranted opportunities which are to be reconciled with individual capabilities to perform what the idea of civil society may promise.
Recognising that the quality of the relations of public institutions and agencies to the citizens, they are assigned to serve, is an important feature of the quality of civil society, implies that especially social services are demanded to reflect their relation to service users as citizens. In this respect the organisation of social services, the quality of service production and consequently professionalism in social work might be considered as not only ‘technical’ but highly political aspects of civil society.
To meet the requirements of this substantial topic for current social work, three subject areas are defined for the further discussion during the TiSSA Plenum 2006:
• the social and political framework for sustaining civil society,
• the organisation, quality and professionalism of serving citizens,
• the challenges for social work education and research.
Social work is deeply enmeshed in shaping the potential meaning and substance of a future civil society as well as an agent within the political arena of its current reality. The coactions of social work practice, education and research are indispensable to encourage the active participation of citizens and social professions in the sustaining development of civil society.
18-20 September 2006, Southampton
The University of Southampton
The Provisional Programme and Booking form can now be accessed via the links on the right.
Plenary speakers are confirmed as Professor Juha Alho (University of Joensuu, Finland), Professor William Clark (University of California at Los Angeles), Professor John Salt (University College London.)
The 2004 and 2005 conferences attracted over 150 international and local participants and it is hoped the 2006 Conference will be as lively and well-attended.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/BSPS/annualConference/2006.htm
International Social Work & Society Conference
12 – 14 October 2006, Bielefeld (Germany)
Contact:
http://www.socwork.net/conference2006/Social work has since its inception in the nineteenth century been devised as an institutional manifestation of what can be described as the welfare state arrangement. Social work was conceived as a collective public good in providing assistance and help for people in situations of human need and vulnerability.
Towards the end of the twentieth century public welfare and state sponsored social services came increasingly under attack from all shades of political colour. If the public welfare role of social work is not accepted by society at large or by powerful groups such as politicians and social movements then a crisis of legitimation occurs. The legitimacy of social work as a public good is more sharply questioned today than ever before. The International Bielefeld Social Work & Society Conference “Why Social Work? Perspectives of Public Welfare” will ask whether it’s realistic to speak of a legitimation crisis in social work: Why (any more) Social Work?
Key issues relating to this key question will be addressed. The conference will address what perspectives on public welfare are available to social work regarding to the necessities of daily life conduct.
Speakers from ten countries and around 150 social scientist, social work teachers, social worker and activists will join the Conference.
5 to 7 March 2007, Warsaw (Poland)
The 5th International Research Conference on Social Security, organised
by the International Social
Security Association (ISSA) and hosted by the Polish Social Security Institution (ZUS)
Conférence internationale de recherche en sécurité sociale, 2007 - 'La sécurité sociale et le marché du travail : une discordance ?'
La 5e Conférence internationale de recherche en sécurité sociale, organisée par l'Association internationale de sécurité sociale (AISS) et invitée par l'Institut de sécurité sociale polonais (ZUS)
Conferencia Internacional de Investigación en Seguridad Social 2007 - "La seguridad social y el mercado de trabajo: están desfazados?"
La 5ª Conferencia Internacional de Investigación en Seguridad Social, organizada por la Asociación Internacional de la Seguridad Social (AISS) y auspiciada por la Institución del Seguro Social de Polonia (ZUS),
Contact:http://www.issa.int/engl/reunion/2007/Warsaw/2warsaw.htmThe Conference will focus on the challenges that increasingly flexible, insecure and international labour markets pose to social security worldwide and on the role that social security can play in supporting employment policies.
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Upcoming events about children, youth and related topics
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Upcoming events in social work and related fields
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http://www.feset.orghttp://www.fice-congress2006.org/http://www.iassw-aiets.org/http://www.ifsw.org/
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