The Summer School is dedicated to the analysis and close examination of Family and Care Policies in contemporary Europe in a comparative perspective. Specific attention will be devoted to the relationship between social and demographic shifts, families structures and labour market transformations and public policies adjustment processes.
The Summer School is organized and supervised by Prof. Costanzo Ranci (Politecnico di Milano) and Prof. Manuela Naldini (University of Turin) and will take place in Milan, Politecnico di Milano, Campus Leonardo, from September 23rd to September 28th 2011.
The Politecnico di Milano will host the Italian Espanet Conference 2011 that will take place at the same venue from September 29th to 1st October 2011.
The working language is English.
For more information, please visit http://www.espanet-italia.net/summerschool2011/
CALL OPEN -- DEADLINE March 20 -- A pdf version of the call can be downloaded here.
The school targets PhD-students who have started or are about to start a project related to welfare and social policy in Eastern and Western Europe. Topics that will be addressed are the comparative analysis of welfare state and social policy reform, role of social actors, policies for work and welfare reconciliation, social protection, immigrant integration, welfare regimes and labor markets. The course also aims to address methodological issues of comparative research in East and West European welfare and social policy.
The Summer School offers lectures with discussion, assignments and workshops given by European scholars from various disciplines such as sociology, social policy, political science and economics. In addition, students will have the opportunity to present their PhD-projects and to discuss them in small groups with other participants and scholars. Participants obtain 3 ECTS for the Summer School.
This summer school encourages applications from graduate students and researchers at departments of political science, sociology, social policy, economics, and any related disciplines. Undergraduates without a university degree will not be considered. Some familiarity with the topic is required, such as the completion of an undergraduate degree in the relevant fields. The course will be most suitable for participants who have pursued or intend to pursue independent research on some aspect of the subject.
There is no fee for the participation in the summer school and the organizers will cover the accommodation and lunches. The participants need to fund their travel costs and secure own health insurance for the duration of the stay.
Application deadline: March 20, 2011
For further academic information on the course and on eligibility criteria and funding options please visit the web site http://www.summer.ceu.hu/
Course Director:
Anil Duman, Department of Political Science, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Additional Faculty:
Contact:
CEU Summer University
P.O. Box: Budapest 5, P.f.: 1082, H-1245,
(36 1) 327 3811, Fax: (36-1) 327-3124
E-mail: summeru@ceu.hu
Skype: ceu-sun
Apply online at http://apply.embark.com/nondegree/ceu
The school targets PhD-students who have started or are about to start a project related to welfare and labour policies in Europe and/or the renewal of the Lisbon Strategy. Topics that will be addressed are the comparative analysis of welfare state and labour market reform/adjustment, EU activities in the social policy field, tensions between work and family life, quality vs. quantity of jobs issues, current challenges for pensions and health care systems, social and labour integration of migrants, income mobility and economic inequality, the role of collective bargaining in reconciling work and welfare, and the impact of the financial crisis.
The Summer School offers lectures with discussion, assignments and workshops given by European scholars from various disciplines such as sociology, social policy, political science and economics. In addition, students will have the opportunity to present their PhD-projects and to discuss them in small groups with other participants and scholars. In sum, students take part in lectures, excursions and discussions.
Further details can be found here
Organizers: Ana M. GuillÉn, Rodolfo GutiÉrrez, MarÍa GonzÁlez
Secretary: Sergio GonzÁlez Begega and RocÍo MillÁn
Centre for Social Policy Research (CeS) in cooperation with Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS)
The Summer School is targeted at PhD-students who have started, or are about to start, a project which is related to social inclusion and exclusion in Europe. Topics addressed are: contested paradigms of justice, (social) citizenship and migration, income distribution and poverty, shifting borders of financial and social policy, activation policies and risks of exclusion across different fields (i.e. employment, family, health and pensions). Students will learn and discuss causes of social exclusion, the production of exclusion/inclusion through institutional settings and the effects of social exclusion on individuals, groups and society, as well as policies of inclusion in comparative perspective.
The Summer School offers lectures with discussion, assignments and workshops given by European scholars from various disciplines such as sociology, social policy, political science, and economics. The programme will include a methods workshop on measuring social Inclusion/exclusion. In addition, students will have the opportunity to present their personal PhD-project and to discuss it in smaller groups with other participants and scholars. Participants obtain 3 ECTS for the Summer School.
Organizers: Karin Gottschall and Karl Hinrichs
Contact and application: Jan-Ocko Heuer and Philine Weyrauch
Local organizer: Valeria Fargion
The Summer School is targeted at post-doc researchers and PhD students who are involved in a research project on European Social Policies. In addition, the Summer School is open to students (second level degree) in their last year that feel a need to broaden and deepen their understanding of comparative socials policy research.
Topics addressed are:
1. methodological problems of comparative research in European social policies with particular reference to the following areas: pensions, healthcare, work-family conciliation policies, new social risks and poverty;
2. how social policy developments are affected by the interplay between sub-national, national and supra-national levels of government;
3. overall reconfiguration of European Welfare States: extent and limits of Europeanization processes.
These issues will be addressed from both theoretically and empirically diversified approaches which aim at providing the participants with an overview of methods, designs and pitfalls of comparative European social policy research.
The Summer School offers lectures with discussion, assignments and workshops given by European Scholars from various disciplines such as political science, sociology and social policy. Teaching staff includes: Jens Alber, Jean-Claude Barbier, Valeria Fargion, Ellen Immergut, Manuela Naldini, David Natali, Costanzo Ranci, Rossana Trifiletti.
In addition, students will have the opportunity to present their personal PhD-project to students and staff, and discuss it in smaller groups with other participants and scholars.
All courses are held in English.
The deadline for applying is 30 April 2009.
For further information, including the provisional program and the application form, please refer to the summer school website.
The Summer School was targeted at PhD-students who have started, or were about to start, a project on a topic which is related to new social risks resulting from the demographic turn, fluid family relations and flexible labour markets on the one hand and the way these risks are governed on the other hand. Students who felt a need to learn more broadly about: Welfare regimes and social and family policies; Social protection and activation policies in Europe; privatisation of risks and privatised interventions; New governance and decentralisation policies; The role of the EU activities in these fields.
The Summer School offers lectures with discussion, assignments and workshops. In addition, students will have the opportunity to present their personal PhD-project to students and staff. Students take part in lectures, excursions and discussions. Aim of the course is introducing students to the origins and developments of social policy, in principles and practices of benefit systems and social services, in European social policy, in methods of comparative research, and in available quantitative and qualitative data sets. Participants obtain 3 ECTS for the Summer School.
Further details can be found here.
Organizer: Trudie Knijn (G.C.M.Knijn@uu.nl)
Contact and applications: Judith Raven (raven@fsw.eur.nl)
Fee: EUR 300 which includes accomodation.
The Summer School is targeted at PhD-students who have started, or are about to start, a project on a social policy issue related to its territorial dimension, and who feel a need to broaden and deepen their understanding of how welfare states and social policies are undergoing territorially relevant changes. Lectures will tackle with the origin of the changes, their aims, principles and practices, as well as the challenges they are bringing about. These issues will be addressed from both theoretically and empirically diversified approaches, which aim at providing the participants with an overview on methods, designs and pitfalls of comparative social policy research, in relation to the territorial dimension of social policy change as well as of the actors involved in these processes.
More information can be found here.
Organizer: Yuri Kazepov.
Contact: Eduardo Barberis (edubar@uniurb.it)
The Summer School was targeted at PhD-students who have started, or are about to start, a project on a topic which is related to the fields and linkages between employment, labour market and social protection and who feel a need to learn more broadly about: Welfare regimes and labour markets; Social protection and activation policies in Europe; Policies of reconciling work and welfare; The role of the EU activities in these fields; The politics and policies of welfare reform; Designs and pitfalls of comparative analyses, as well the availability of relevant quantitative and qualitative data. The Summer School offers lectures with discussion, assignments and workshops. In addition, students will have the opportunity to present their personal PhD-project to students and staff.
More information can be found here.
Organizers: Jochen Clasen (Jochen.Clasen@ed.ac.uk) and Richard Brodie (r.brodie@blueyonder.co.uk)
The Summer School is targeted at PhD-students who have started, or are about to start, a project on a social policy issue, and who feel a need to broaden and deepen their understanding of:
welfare states and social policies, their origin, aims, principles, and practices, as well as about the challenges they are confronted with at present;
the methods, designs and pitfalls of comparative social policy research, as well the available quantitative and qualitative data.
A link with further details can be found at the website of Centre for Comparative Welfare Studies: www.ccws.dk