Conference Activities

  • 2014, October 9-10, Berlin: Joint FP7 Conference “Towards Inclusive Employment and Welfare Systems: Challenges for a Social Europe”
    • Berthet, Thierry/Bourgeois, Clara/Tourne-Languin, Karine: Challenges of delivering integrated activation policies: Calling French street-level bureaucrats’ discretion into question
    • Graziano, Paolo (with Patrizia Aurich-Beerheide): Stakeholder participation and policy integration in local social and employment policies: Germany and Italy compared
    • McQuaid, Ronald/Fuertes, Vanesa: Professional autonomy of front-line workers of employability services in the UK
  • 2014, September 4-6, Oslo: 12th Annual ESPAnet Conference
    • Garsten, Christina/Hollertz, Katarina/Jacobsson, Kerstin: Individualisation and social citizenship in local activation practice in Sweden
    • Rice, Deborah: How ‘social’ are active labour market policies? A vignette study on activation in two decentralized welfare states
    • Zimmermann, Katharina: Active inclusion funded by Europe? The impact of the European Social Fund on local social and employment policies
  • 2014, May 12-13, Bordeaux: Early Stage Researchers Conference “Delivering Integrated Employment Policies – Cross-Sectorial Policies in Practice”
    • Berthet, Thierry: From activation-friendly integration to activation from the activated: A research perspective (keynote speech)
    • Bourgeois, Clara: Multidimensional labour market integration policies in perspective: A street-level bureaucracy approach
    • Fuertes, Vanesa: The urban and national governance of active labour market policies in the UK
    • Graziano, Paolo: The end of social Europe? (keynote speech)
    • Rice, Deborah: Net-working jobcentres: An institutional work perspective on local employment policies in the Netherlands and Denmark (keynote speech)
    • Zimmermann, Katharina: Social and employment services for the long-term unemployed in Germany: Under which conditions are activation policies “social investment”?
  • 2014, April 10-11, Lausanne: International Conference “Assessing the Social Investment Strategy”
    • Rice, Deborah/Zimmermann, Katharina: Social and employment services for the long‐term unemployed in Germany: Under which conditions are activation policies “social investment”?
  • 2013, October 24, Berlin: HORIZON 2020 Workshop ‘Building Inclusive Societies in Times of Crisis: Evidence and Future Research Needs’
    • Heidenreich, Martin: Escaping social exclusion: Lessons and suggestions on the basis of COPE and LOCALISE
  • 2013, September 19-21, Rende: Italia, Europa – Integrazione sociale e integrazione politica. Session 4: The local Welfare State
    • Graziano, Paolo/Aurich, Patrizia/Zimmermann, Katharina: Stakeholder Participation and Policy Integration in Local Social and Employment Policies: Germany and Italy compared
  • 2013, September 19-20, Hamburg: Young Researchers Conference on Local Wefare Systems
    • Bourgois, Clara: The making of migrants’ local labour market integration scheme in France.
    • Fuertes, Vanesa: The governance of active-focus labour market policies in the UK and its effects on personalisation and street-level bureaucrat discretion
    • Zimmermann, Katharina: Local Welfare Systems and the European Social Fund
  • 2013, September 4-7, Bordeaux: ECPR General Conference
    • Bourgeois, Clara: Governance of Cross Sectorial Policies
    • Graziano, Paolo: Europeanization in Southern Europe
  • 2013, September 4-6, Poznan: 11th Annual ESPAnet Conference: Social Policy and Economic Development
    • Garsten, Christina/Hollertz, Katarina/Jacobsson, Kerstin: Local Worlds of Activation: The Diverse Pathways of Three Swedish Municipalities
    • Bourgeois, Clara/Fuertes, Vanesa/Zimmermann, Katharina: Do politics matter in employment policy processes at the local level? France, Germany and the United Kingdom compared
  • 2013, July 3-5, Vienna: 8th IPA Conference “Societies in Conflicts: Experts, Publics and Democracy”
    • Bourgeoise, Clara/Fuertes, Vanesa/Zimmermann, Katharina: Do politics matter in employment policy processes at the local level? France, Germany and the United Kingdom compared
  • 2013, June 10-12, Barcelona: FP 7 PhD conference ” Local welfare systems and social cohesion ”
    • Bourgeois, Clara: The making of migrants’ local labour market integration scheme in France.
    • Fuertes, Vanesa: The governance of active-focus labour market policies in the UK and the effects on active policy types
    • Zimmermann, Katharina: Local policy integration funded by Europe? The impact of the European Social Fund on local social and employment policies in Germany
  • 2013, June 4-5, Berlin: Shifting to Post-Crisis Welfare States in Europe? – Long Term and Short Term Perspectives
    • Heidenreich, Martin: European Worlds of Employment and Social Services: The Local Dimension of Activation Policies
  • 2013, February 6, Melbourne: SP&A Employment Service Roundtable
    • Graziano, Paolo R./Aurich, Patrizia/Zimmermann, Katharina/Fuertes, Vanesa: Marketization and Integrated Activation Policies
  • 2013, January 31 – Febuary 1, Pisa: Participatory local welfare, citizenship and third sector organizations. What is at stake? (PART_WEL Conference)
    • Bassoli, Matteo/Trivellato, Benedetta: Integrating and Decentralizing the employment services. The case of Lombardy and Milan
    • Aurich Patrizia/Graziano, Paolo R./Zimmermann, Katharina: Stakeholder Participation and Policy Integration in Local Social and Employment Policies: Germany and Italy compared
    • Fuertes, Vanesa/McQuaid, Ronald: The Work Programme: a new public governance policy or a continuation oc new public managment?