Workshop Topics

1. Migration in Europe. A refuge for the needy or a need of the receiving countries?

Coordinators: Antidio Martínez de Lizarrondo and Nerea Zugasti.

Contributions:

• Vicente Riesgo. Director of the Spanish Training Academy. Bonn, Germany.
  The experience of the Spanish emigration to Germany.
• Prof. Dra. Sabine Krönchen, Niederrhein University, Germany.

(Other contributions have to be written in the section “registration”).

2. Lost youth or another social revolution: The M15 movement in Europe and around the world.

Coordinator: Alberto Jauregui.

Contributions: Prof. Dra. María José Aguilar Idáñez together with students, Castilla la Mancha University, Spain.
Perception of the 15th March movement by the students population.

(Other contributions have to be written in the section “registration”).

 3. Families, or who is paying the consequences of the crisis?

Coordinators: Irene Lapuerta and Javier Arza.

Contributions:

• Prof. Dr. Francisco Gómez, Complutense de Madrid University, Spain.
  Studies of practical cases. Applications of the family constelations model at Perú Ecuador and Spain universities.
• Prof. Dr. Peter Schäfer, Applicational Cience University of Niederrhein, Germany.
  Mediation as an interventional way in conflicts on a large scale – The three phases models for conflicts in divorces.

(Other contributions have to be written in the section “registration”).

4. On a bench in the sun and with a walking stick in their hands. The Elderly: between the family and institutionalization during the last stages of life.

Coordinators: Pablo Bretos and Sagrario Anaut.

(Other contributions have to be written in the section “registration”).

5. The poor, the poorer and the miserably poor. Who is affected by today’s crisis – always poor or newly poor?

Coordinators: Rubén Lasheras and Lucía Martínez.

Contributions:

• Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Schubert, Applicational Cience University of Niederrhein, Germany.
  A new approach to Social Inequality Studies?
• Prof. Dr. Erkki Saari, Applicational Science University of Laurea, Finland.
  Is there anything social workers can do for preventing the exclusion of unemployed?
   

(Other contributions have to be written in the section “registration”).

6. Communities in movement. What may neighbourhoods gain from community work these days?

Coordinator: Emilio Galera.

Contributions:

• Prof. Dra. Helena Almeida, Coimbra University, Portugal.
  Community and social mediation as a theorical and operative tool in the empowerment of people and communities.
• Prof. Dr. Jim Robertson, former senior lecturer, Northumbria University, Newcastle.
  Dignity and Community Resilience’ – ideas whose time has come?…a transforming perspective for community and social work practice?
   

(Other contributions have to be written in the section “registration”).

7. Gangs, killers and “human waste” (are young people left to fend for themselves - in a society that has gone astray). Alternatives from Social Work in educational field.

Coordinator: Mikel Gurbindo.

Contributions:Prof. Dr. Aurelio Lascorz Fumanal, Castilla la Mancha University, Spain.
Evaluation of the Minor Law of Castilla-La Mancha. General view of the minor defense system and its role in the Social Services net during the last ten years.

(Other contributions have to be written in the section “registration”).

8. Are women the future of society? More gender equality or still a labour reserve army?

Coordinators: Paloma Fernández and Patricia Amigot

Contributions:

• Prof. Dr. Jonathan Parker, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom.
  The experiences of male social work students: a gendered profession.
• Prof. Dr. Edeltraud Vomberg, Applicational Cience University of Niederrhein, Germany.
  Problems and good practices in setting up social enterprises in Germany.
• Prof. Dra. Esther Ochoa, Applicational Cience University of Niederrhein, Germany.
  Women in leadership positions in fields of Social and Health Sector in Germany.

(Other contributions have to be written in the section “registration”).

9. New social counseling, a new or old field of social work?

Coordinator: Paco Roda.

Contributions:

• Prof. Dra. Gina Kästle, Applicational Cience University of Niederrhein, Germany.
  Positive Psychology and Solution-focussed Therapy - two concepts - one objective?
• Prof. Dra. Clara Cruz Santos, Coimbra University, Portugal.
• Prof. Dra. Cinta Guinot Viciano and prof. Dra, Asun Berasategui Otegui, Social Work Departament, Deusto University, Spain.
  Supervision in Social Work: an experience.
   

(Other contributions have to be written in the section “registration”).

10. Any chance for ethics in today's society? Limits and options for ethical standards and their application in social work.

Coordinator: Alberto Ballesteros.

Contributions:

• Prof. Dr. Francisco Idareta, Social Work Departament of UPNA.
  Humanizising the social intervention: urgency of the Ethics of postmodern Social Work.
• Prof. Dr. Laurindo Miji, Social Work Departament of UPNA.
  Ethical matters in the geriatric intervention to the inmigrant population. Reflection from Social Work.
• Prof. Dra. Cristina Alburquerque, coordinator of an Social Service course, Coimbra University, Portugal.
  Empowerment vs opportunities in today's societies: ethical controversial issues

(Other contributions have to be written in the section “registration”).

Call for research papers, documentations as well as experience and good practice examples

We invite you to contribute to the Symposium’s Workshops:
Contributions should refer to research on or (experimental) implementation, experience or good practice examples of social work methods or interventions in the fields of the Workshop topics. They may be presented in the corresponding Workshop after approval by the scientific committee.

The selection of any of these will be made at the Scientific Committee’s discretion, the Committee will also decide where and when they will be presented. Registration in the symposium is an essential condition.

Note: The research, investigations, documentations and examples of good practice have to be presented before 7 September.

Symposium languages: Spanish/English.

Style guide and papers presentation

 We inform you that only will be accepted to be published or presented the papers whose authors pay the registration and attend to the symposium.
During the symposium you will received only one certificate with the name of all the authors.