Past Conferences

9th Annual ESPAnet conference

Sustainability and transformation of European Social Policy

September 8-10 2010, Polibienestar Research Institute and the Department of Social Work and Social Services, University of Valencia, Spain

For more information, please visit the conference homepage.

Organiser: Jorge Garces

8th Annual ESPAnet conference

Social Policy and the Global Crisis: Consequences and Responses

September 2-4 2010, Budapest, Hungary

For more information, please visit the conference homepage.

Organiser: Dorottya Szikra

7th Annual ESPAnet conference

The future of the welfare state

September 17-19 2009, Institute of Sociology, University of Urbino, Italy

For more information, please visit the conference homepage.

Organiser: Yuri Kazepov

6th annual ESPAnet conference

Cross-border Influences in Social Policy

September 18-20 2008, Helsinki, Finland, in cooperation with the Finnish Social Policy Association

Organiser: Mikko Kautto

5th annual ESPAnet conference

Social Policy in Europe: Changing Paradigms in an enlarging Europe?

September 20-22 2007, Department of Social Policy, Institute of Economics, Vienna, Austria

4th annual ESPAnet conference

Transformation of the Welfare State: Political Regulation and Social Inequality

September 21-23 2006, Centre of Social Policy Research (ZeS) and Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS), University of Bremen, Germany

For more information, please visit the conference website.

3rd annual ESPAnet conference

Making Social Policy in the Post-industrial Age

September 22-24 2005, Department of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

2nd annual ESPAnet conference

European Social Policy: meeting the needs of a new Europe

September 9-11 2004, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford, UK

For more information, please contact Teresa Smith.