Conference Theme: "Re-inventing the welfare state? Pathways to sustainability, equality and inclusion in European welfare states"

The theme for the ESPAnet 2015 conference is “The lost and new worlds of welfare”. The conference invites proposals for streams and papers that address issues across the full range of comparative welfare state research, from various disciplinary perspectives. Suggestions for Stream Themes -...

Posibles temáticas: - Paneles centrados en políticas sectoriales concretas del Estado de Bienestar: (pensiones, sanidad, educación, servicios sociales, envejecimiento, género, política migratoria). - Paneles en torno a aspectos del mercado laboral y políticas de empleo y desempleo -...

The ESPAnet Summer School is open to doctoral students who have recently started their project and feel a need for a broader introduction to social policy. At the summer school they are introduced in the origins and developments of social policy, in principles and practices of benefit systems...

This ESPAnet Conference in September 2008 thus looks forward into the global future of cross-border influences in social policy, but also analyzes the earlier experience of diffusion of social policy ideas. The conference offers a forum for debating policy learning, and lessons and evidence from...

Aim of the course is introducing students to the origins and developments of social policy, to principles and practices of benefit systems and social services, to European social policy, methods of comparative research, and to available quantitative and qualitative data sets.