This unique global event is the most important in the ISSA's triennial calendar, and is expected to involve more than one thousand directors and senior managers of social security institutions, ministers and policy-makers, representatives of international organizations and social policy experts...

Topics: - Cross-national comparison of welfare state regimes - Comparing social policymaking with QCA or Fuzzy-set Methods - Multi-level analysis of value survey data on welfare state attitudes - Comparing national panel data on social inequality

The Regional Social Security Forum for Europe will provide a key platform for information and exchange on the most important regional social security trends and priority issues inthe region. A unique networking opportunity, the Forum will bring together social security administrators and...

Topics: - Exclusion in education and the labor market - Income distribution, poverty and financial inequality - Living conditions - Health and wellbeing - Family formation and child care - The family as social, cultural, and economic capital, and educational attainment - Social protection and...

The objective of this Seminar is to explore opportunities to use social security to strengthen individuals' capacities to manage the social risks they face and make appropriate decisions, while developing their sense of responsibility. This involves raising awareness of the need for social...

Suggestions for Stream Themes: 1. European Union and social policy 2. Comparative methodology 3. Pensions 4. Health care 5. Labour market policy 6. Family policy 7. Social services 8. Poverty and social assistance 9. Inequalities and social policy 10. Political economy of welfare 11. Migration...

This doctoral workshop invites papers dealing theoretically, conceptually and empirically with such pressures and with the ever shifting boundary between the public and the private in contemporary European societies. Papers might explore questions such as: - Business and welfare - State...

We invite PhD students with projects that deal with issues on or related to the Summer School theme to apply for participation. We value a multi-disciplinary setting and welcome students from a range of academic disciplines, like sociology, economy, law, political science and (European) social...

This Forum will provide a key platform for the sharing of information and discussion of the most important regional social security trends and priority issues in the Asia-Pacific region. A unique networking opportunity, the Forum will bring together social security administrators, policy-makers...