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 next Colloquium will take place on 9 December 2025 h. 14:30-16 CET on Zoom.

We will have a roundtable with the editors and some of the authors of the book “The Eco-Social Polity?: Theoretical, Conceptual and Empirical Issues”. 

Further details are available on the Colloquium’s page.

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The Early-Career Researchers Meeting will take place on 10 December 2025 h. 14:00-15:00 CET on Zoom.

Further details 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 16 December at h. 14 CET.

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 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).

The call for abstracts for a submission to this and other tracks is now open (here the link) – deadline is 19 December.

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.