The Sustainable Welfare and Eco-Social Policy Network was kicked off at an online meeting in September 2022 and officially launched in the context of the Social Policy Biennale at the University of Bremen.

A Board of researchers has carried out the organization and promoted various activities that include bi-monthly Colloquium and Newsletters, a Mailing list with over 700 subscribers, the establishment of an Early-Career Researchers community, and of a dialogue with national and European stakeholders.

The Sustainable Welfare and Eco-Social Policy Network also serves as a coordination point for common conference streams and as a general “hub” for researchers working on sustainable welfare and eco-social topics.

 

Upcoming events

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International Summer School “Social Policy and Ecological Sustainability

7 – 13 September 2025, University of Bremen

We are pleased to invite you to apply for the international summer school of the Sustainable Welfare & Eco-Social Policy Network in cooperation with the German Institute for Interdisciplinary Social Policy (DIFIS).

You can find more information about the Summer School here.

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EARLY-CAREER RESEARCHERS’ BOOK CLUB

The Early-Career Researchers warmly invite you to their next Book Club virtual meeting on Monday, the 28th of July at 11:00 AM.

We will be reading and discussing Chapter 2: Wealth and income maxima for sustainable welfare: ecological reasons for economic limitarianism by Katharina Bohnenberger and Chapter 3: Sustainable welfare as a new paradigm in social policy by Martin Fritz, Kajsa Emilsson and Jayeon Lee of the edited volume The Eco-Social Polity? Theoretical, Conceptual and Empirical Issues.

Further details are available on the Early-Career Researchers’ page.

If you wish to learn more about the Network and its origins, you can read Mandelli, M., Bohnenberger, K., Hirvilammi, T., & Zimmermann, K. (2022). The sustainable welfare and eco-social policy network. Culture, Practice & Europeanization, 7(2), 304-308.