Thematic focal points: - Climate change regulation 2.0. Making the Paris agreement work, - The university as an arena of sustainability transition, - Global collapse. There is no alternative(TINA) and the development of a “post- truth safe space?” - Markets, Money and Democracy, -...

Conference key areas are: - Global, regional and local labor marketissues - Labor market in the European Union - Socio-economic policy and labor market - Job creation and entrepreneurship - Impact of demographic change and migration processes on the labor market - Persons threatened with social...

The content of the IFLA Conference Programme is organised by different professional groups (Sections, Core Programmes and Special Interest Groups). Calls for papers will be submitted through these groups and made available on the web page.

The conference is open to all who are interested in the problems of contemporary welfare state. Stream Themes: - Comparative methodology - Pensions - Health care - Labour market policy - Family policy - Social services and social work - Poverty and social assistance - Education - Inequalities...

Stream Themes: 1. Welfare State in 'New Eastern Europe'. 2. Welfare state in Central and Eastern Europe in the post-crisis period. 3. Designing comparative social policy analysis. 4. 'New' perspectives on pensions and retirement. 5. The role of public pension systems for the long-term...

Topics: - Innovative intellectual capital and intangibles management practices - Intellectual capital Statements and the their organizational, managerial roles - The relevance of Intangibles for value creation - Measuring and Managing intangibles - Intangibles and social, environmental, and...

Topics: - The relationship between reputation and intangible resources’ life cycle; - Accounting and reporting standards and Intangible Assets’ relevance / materiality; - Managing and controlling investments in IA in companies and NPO’s; - Strategic relevance of intangibles measurement for...

The aim of the conference is to strengthen research in higher education from any perspective, country or international aspect. The main theme of the 2008 conference is 'Marketising, Marketing and Higher Education'.

The conference will create a forum for debates on current processes of learning, adaptation and resistance taking place in rapidly changing societies. The suggested issues to which the debates will be devoted are as follows: - Gdansk and other places: local geographies of change - New social...