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

The date of the next Colloquium will be announced soon.

In the meantime, you can access the recording of our 17th Colloquium on the Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth.

 

Further details are available on the Colloquium’s page.

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The next Early-Career Researchers Meeting will take place on 24 June from 14:00 to 15:00 CET via Zoom.

Further details and the link to the meeting are available on the Early-Careers Researchers page.

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The next meeting of the Early-Career Researchers’ Book Club will take place on 7 July at 14:00 (CET) at the usual Zoom room.

You are very welcome to join, regardless of whether you have attended any of our previous book club meetings or plan to attend any in the future!

More information and the zoom link on this event is available at the Early-Career’s Researchers page.

The Sustainable Welfare & Eco-social Policy Network will host an Open Special Subtrack at the upcoming 16th Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics, 30 June – 3 July 2026, Ghent (Belgium).

For more information see the Conferences and Workshop page.

 

The Sustainable Welfare and Eco-Social Policy Network is organising a Summer School and the first ever Conference in September 2026!

THE DEADLINE FOR APPLYING TO BOTH HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO 23 FEBRUARY!

For more information and to apply visit the SUMMER SCHOOL and the NETWORK CONFERENCE pages. 

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.