23rd SocNet98 IUW: "Child and Youth Welfare and Child Protection - Contemporary Challenges and Developments"
Welcome
to
the 23rd SocNet98 International University
Week (online event):
"Child and
Youth Welfare and
Child Protection -
Contemporary Challenges and Developments"
Hochschule
Bremen’s School of Social Work hosts one of
the three SocNet98
online IUWs 2021 during April 19th – 21st
2021.
The organizing team kindly invites social work students from all European countries as well as university lecturers to participate in this international program. We especially call for a participation from universities of the SocNet98 network, but also encourage students, researchers, lecturers, and social workers from other backgrounds to be part of this week.
The IUW
2021 in Bremen takes a focus on the field of child and youth welfare
and child
protection with a comparing European perspective. We understand child
and youth
welfare in a broader sense as the work for good life conditions for and
with
young people. This includes child and youth authorities as well as
youth and
family services, youth work, school social work, family centres, and
day care. As
one of the biggest sectors of the social work profession, child and
youth
welfare works with a highly capable and diverse target group.
Situated
in the professional polarities of help and empowerment and of
protection and
control, child and youth welfare needs to continuously reflect its
roles and
approaches to meet the complex needs in the field. Societal changes,
rising
inequalities, growing diversity, processes of digitalisation, changes
in
legislation and guidelines, and the Covid-19-pandemic provide new tasks
and
challenges that require innovative approaches.
This
IUW provides a forum for an international comparison and reflection of
societal
analyses about the conditions of the public and familial support and
the public
upbringing of young people and their current needs and interests. It
aims to
present and reflect innovative and effective approaches, concepts,
methods,
settings, organisations, and their potentials to meet the needs and
interests
of young people and their families in changing times. It invites
contributions
from all the different participants’ backgrounds.
The IUW
2021 in Bremen will include workshops, lectures, key notes,
field-related practice
guests as well as social activities. It offers a chance to visit an
international
online event situated in the City of Bremen and the North-West of
Germany.
Currently we calculate to invite about 50 visiting and 50 local
students as
well as about 15 lecturers.
Program highlights will include:
- A
workshop program
with lecturers from universities and practical child and youth
welfare
-
Practice events with social work
institutions
from the field of child and youth welfare
- Time and special formats to meet the other participants in an online environment
- Two ECTS for the participants
We
are looking forward to meet
you in this online event hosted from Bremen.
Prof. Dr.
Christian Spatscheck and the local organising team
International Coordinator, School
of Social Work, HS Bremen
The IUWs are since 1998 organized within: SocNet98 – European Network of Universities/Schools of Social Work
Participants
of the IUW 2018 in Bremen
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