Summer School 2009

The third RECOWE/ESPAnet Summer School on

"Social Inclusion and Exclusion in a Changing Europe"

will be held in the University of Bremen, on July 2-11, 2009.

It is organised by the Centre for Social Policy Research (CeS) in cooperation with Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS)

The Summer School is targeted at PhD-students who have started, or are about to start a project which is related to social inclusion and exclusion in Europe. Topics addressed are: contested paradigms of justice, (social) citizenship and migration, income distribution and poverty, shifting borders of financial and social policy, activation policies and risks of exclusion across different fields (i.e. employment, family, health and pensions). Students will learn and discuss causes of social exclusion, the production of exclusion/inclusion through institutional settings and the effects of social exclusion on individuals, groups and society, as well as policies of inclusion in comparative perspective.

Applicants are kindly asked to submit (via e-mal attachment) a short description of their PhD-project (no more than 500 words), their CV and personal motivation to attend the summer school (no more than 500 words), inform about the year of their study, and include a letter of recommendation from their supervisor.

Please send your application to: summerschool2009@bigsss.uni-bremen.de.
The deadline is April 15, 2009.

Students from RECWOWE partner universities are exempted from fees for the summer school but have to cover their travel costs.

Organizers: Karin Gottschall and Karl Hinrichs.

Contact and application: Jan-Ocko Heuer and Philine Weyrauch

More information here