Conference on social cohesion research, Vienna, Austria

The EU-funded SOCIAL POLIS ('Social platform on cities and social cohesion') project is organising an international conference on May 11 and 12 in Vienna, Austria.

The conference is one of the main events of SOCIAL POLIS and aims to strengthen the platform by creating opportunities for discussion and exchange of experience and knowledge. It is designed as an interactive and dialogical conference and focuses on the following topics:
- future directions of research on social cohesion;
-- what is social cohesion?
-- significance of social cohesion in research and practice;
-- challenges for methodology in urban social cohesion research;
- what is SOCIAL POLIS?
-- creating a network between academics, policy makers and practitioners;
-- reflection on 12 existential fields and their usefulness for the future functioning of SOCIAL POLIS;
-- outlook on the forthcoming steps of the project.For further information, please click:
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