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.
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.”

On 30 November, 2023 researchers of the Institute of Sociology have completed a two-year project “DEFEN-CE: Social Dialogue in Defence of Vulnerable Groups in Post-COVID-19 Labour Markets”.
A short video was produced to present the project activities, carried out by the Lithuanian team.

In October 23-24 dr. Vilana Pilinkaite Sotirovic participated in the conference “Making Universities and Research Organizations Safe from Gender-Based Violence”.

On October 17–19, the Institute hosted a visit of scientists from the COST Action CA19129 “Decolonising Development: Research, Teaching and Practice”, including Dr. Haley McEwen (USA / Sweden), Dr. Svitlana Babenko (Ukraine / Sweden), and Dr. Ana Cristina Pereira, aka Kitty Furtado (Portugal).

In September 28–29, Margarita Gedvilaitė-Kordušienė participated in the Socio-gerontechnology Network’s 5th Annual Meeting at the Open University of the Netherlands in Utrecht. Entitled “Theorising Ageing in a Digital World”, the conference welcomed over 80 scholars from around the world. The meeting brought together critical scholarship on ageing and technology from various social sciences and humanities perspectives – including STS, age studies, social and critical gerontology, media studies, critical design studies, and many others.

On 7-9 September 2023, Dr Rūta Brazienė, Chief researcher, and Justina Krauledaitė, a PhD student at the LCSS at the Institute of Sociology of the LCSS, participated in the prestigious 21 st ESPAnet Annual Conference.