Suat Aksu participated in the “Erasmus+” Traineeship program offered by Vytautas Magnus University and completed his internship in Braga, Portugal. He worked at “Federação das Associações Juvenis do Distrito de Braga” (angl. “Federation of Youth Associations of the District of Braga”).
We invite you to join the seminar-discussion, “Can Social Sciences Make a Difference? The Application of Sociology and Anthropology in the Public Sector and NGOs.”

The 16th ESA Conference “Tension, Trust, and Transformation” took place in Porto (Portugal) on 27-30 August 2024. The conference was attended by a large team of researchers from the Institute of Sociology: dr. Diana Janušauskienė, dr. Rūta Brazienė, dr. Diana Janušauskienė, dr. Rūta Brazienė, PhD students Kamilė Botyriūtė, Vilma Ražauskienė, Dmytro Mamaiev and Violeta Vilkoitytė.

On 4-6 September 2024, dr. Jolanta Aidukaitė attended the International Sociological Association (ISA) Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC19) conference “Sustainable welfare in global context: responding to societal and environmental transformations” in Oslo, Norway. During the event, she gave a presentation on “Improving the right to housing in the EU: the case of Lithuania”. Earlier dr. J. Aidukaitė was elected as a member of the RC19 Board and Vice-President for the term 2023–2027.
n total, 110 scholars attended the RC19 conference in Oslo to discuss research on global social policy and social policy globally. This year the main topic was “Sustainable welfare in global context: responding to societal and environmental transformations”. The conference was opened by State Secretary Per Olav Hopsø from the Norwegian Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion.

Collective contract coverage research in the sectors of care, central public administration and waste collection was the main focus of researchers from the CEECAW project consortium, who met at a field seminar in Belgrade (Serbia) on September 4-5, 2024. The Institute of Sociology at the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, as a member of this consortium, was represented at the meeting by dr. Inga Blažienė and dr. Ramunė Guobaitė.

The 9th NORSA Conference “Regional Outcomes of Global Challenges in the Nordic Countries” organised by the Institute of Sociology at the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, in partnership with Vilnius University and the Nordic Division of the Regional Studies Association, took place in Vilnius between 2nd– 3rd May 2024.

In March 21–23 Dmytro Mamaiev, PhD student of the LCSS Institute of Sociology, participated in Symposium “Heritage and Sustainability“ at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden). He has delivered presentation on the importance of researching a ways how to recover and secure Ukrainian heritage given the times of the full-scale war.

The Institute of Sociology at the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences has successfully completed the Horizon 2020 project “Gender-based violence and institutional response: Building a knowledge base and operational tools to make universities and research organizations safe (UniSAFE)”.