The European Association of Schools of Social Work and the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences (Department of Social Sciences) are proud to announce the European Conference of Social Work Education 2025.
Call for abstracts
You are invited to register and submit your contribution to the conference with the central theme on “Social Connectedness”.
Conference theme “Social Connectedness”
It is the aim of the conference to investigate the ways in which Social Work Education (SWE) can foster social connectedness as an important pillar for an inclusive, democratic, healthy and (socially) sustainable society. SW educators, researchers, students, service users, activists and practitioners are invited to elaborate on how SWE can (critically) address and/or promote social connectedness. We encourage collaborative, innovative, creative, and proactive approaches to developing social work curricula, including ethics and values, theories, models and interventions, addressing the main theme and/or one of the following five subthemes (you may find more details on our website).
As connectedness appears to be an indisputably positive aspect of social life, it also needs to be scrutinised critically. All contributors are invited to reflect on the topic, e.g. the “legitimacy” of being socially “disconnected”, especially against the backdrop of neoliberal dominant discourses, reinforced by modern technologies, propagating the regime of permanent “connection”. The following questions may help to serve as a prompt and catalyst for your thinking in this area:
We look forward to getting connected and meet you in Salzburg as a participant and contributor!
With kindest regards,
Martin Lu Kolbinger, Doris Rosenlechner-Urbanek, Markus Pausch, Mariusz Granosik, Zuzana Poklembova and Richard Ingram for the Scientific Committee