Topics: - Women's Political Participation and Leadership ; - Women and Civil Society Policies (Feminist movements, NGOs) ; - Women and Employment (Equal pay, rights) ; - Women's Human Rights and Global Conventions (CEDAW, Beijing Declaration, Istanbul Convention) ; - Education of Girls and...

Topics: - Changes in the demand for long-term care; - Healthcare expenditures associated with long-term care; - Funding systems (including international comparisons); - The consequences of informal care on caregivers (e.g., health and employment); - Policies to cope with the increasing demand for...

Key Topics: Social media in business; Social media in education; Social media in the present knowledge economy; The networked citizen; Monitoring and evaluating social media; Security of social media. Mini Tracks: Social Media Networking and Government. We are aware that the uncertainty...

Key Topics: Gender and social inclusion; Gender and ICT; Gender and education; Gender and democracy; Gender equality; Gender in the workplace; Women’s empowerment in science and in other areas; Feminist studies; Men and masculinities; Gender and small and medium sized enterprises; Gender and...

This conference has been cancelled. Both academics and practitioners are welcome to discuss current issues, exchange information, knowledge, and experiences across the various domains of services. Areas of focus: 1. Education; 2. Health care; 3. Local government and public services; 4. Tourism...

Mobility is a key problem in Economic and Social History. Regardless of the period under analysis, people circulate, carrying with them commodities, capital, ideas, languages, traditions. They circulate to survive, to trade, to explore, to conquer, to migrate, and also for leisure. These...

The IWSEA provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of topics related with population ageing, one of the most important social transformations of our times. Research on ageing transcends disciplinary boundaries and this is reflected in the multiple dimensions covered in the workshop....

This 5th Lisbon Research Workshop on Economics, Statistics, and Econometrics of Education will continue our very successful tradition of getting together researchers, students and education analysts, providing a forum to present methodological and applied research and to discuss quantitative...

Gender as an analytical tool has been increasingly used by historians in the last few decades in a wide range of domains. The aspects of social and economic history where the gender dimension is relevant are numerous: assessment of social functions, different patterns of insertion in the labour...

European countries have transformed. Fiscal consolidation, the 2008 financial collapse, demographic changes, the refugee crisis, social movements, unemployment, and new political forces are all a threat to social dialogue, solidarity and the European project. Social policy has played a key role...