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.
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.
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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