The European Campus of Excellence Summer School is targeted at international Master and early PhD students with a social science background whose research projects cover an aspect related to one of the three topics (1) dynamics of inequality, (2) old and new social risks, (3) social investment.

This conference aims to identify the linkages between social stratification and mobility with social policy and welfare states. It looks for questions and answers that lie at the intersection of stratification and policy. For example: Does social policy enable or inhibit social mobility? Do...

Topics: - Magnitude of the costs of conflict in cross-country analysis - Effects on health and schooling - Household coping strategies in (post-)conflict situations - The relationship between conflict and foreign investment - Accounting techniques for the calculation of conflict costs - Case...

It is a forum of debate among academia, practitioners, and policy makers. This year’s topic is "Innovation in Liberalized Network Industries - Markets and Regulation, Pull and Push". The sectoral foci are transport, energy, telecommunication & internet, water, waste, and the health...

This year’s topic is “New Challenges to Infrastructure Theory and Policy – Markets and Planning, Development and Sustainability”. The sectoral foci are transport, energy, telecommunication & internet, water, waste, and the health sector.