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.

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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.

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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.

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Dr. Jolanta Aidukaitė and dr. Rūta Ubarevičienė have successfully completed the Horizon 2020 project EuSocialCit “European Social Citizenship”. The project aimed to provide alternative policy scenarios to strengthen European social citizenship by comparing and contrasting concrete policy scenarios for reinforcing European social citizenship. The LSMC SI part of the project was related to the analysis and the assessment of housing policy and housing rights in Europe.

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