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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The Sustainable Welfare & Eco-social Policy Network will host Stream 8 titled “Political Economy of Eco-Welfare” at the next Espanet Europe Conference in Milan (27-29 August 2025).
You can find the Stream description and all the other practical informations here.
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On behalf of the board, Tuuli Hirvilammi and Katharina Bohnenberger, are organizing a special session with mutiple slots at the upcoming ISEE-Degrowth 2025 (Oslo 24-27 June).
Our special session is called “Sustainable Welfare & Eco-Social Policy” but you will also find relevant presentations on welfare systems and sustainability in other sessions of the conference.
There is a very high level of interest in participating in the conference but quick registrations may still get accepted.
THE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Please register here.
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The date of the 13th Colloquium organized by the Sustainable Welfare & Eco-Social Policy Network will be announced soon!
More information will be posted on the Colloquium’s page.
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The date of the next Early-Career Researchers’ meeting will be announced soon!
All information on the meeting will be posted also in the Early-Researchers’ page and will be sent to the Early-Researchers’ mailing list.
More information about the Network
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.