Summer School 2010 was a success

NordWel Summer School 2010:

“A sense of excitement in the air”

NordWel and Re-Assess joint summer school brought together two generations of welfare state researchers in Svendborg, Denmark.

The aim of the summer school was to stimulate critical discussions across disciplines and between established scholars and the coming generation welfare state researchers. Over the six very intense days more than 40 PhD-students from Europe and the US as well as more than 20 senior scholars were engaged in discussions of papers and lectures.

The high standard of the papers, of the key note lectures and the very open and critical discussions both within and between the formal sessions were considered by the organizers as signs of a very successful summer school. As stated by one the participants in her feedback to the organizers: “There was a sense of excitement in the air, and that is always a very good thing.”

The summer school attracted international attention. The 40 participants were selected among more than 100 applicants from all over the world and the list of teachers and lecturers includes a distinguished group of leading scholars including

• Bernhard Ebbinghaus (University of Mannheim)
• Bruno Palier (Sciences Po, Paris)
• Christoph Conrad (University of Geneva)
• Gerhard A. Ritter (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
• Gøsta Esping-Andersen (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
• Julia Lynch (University of Pennsylvania)
• Joakim Palme (Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm and Uppsala University)
• Marta Szebehely (Stockholm University)
• Noel Whiteside (University of Warwick)
• Olli Kangas (Kela, Helsinki)
• Philip Manow (University of Heidelberg)
• Bjørn Hvinden (Nova, Oslo)
• Pauli Kettunen (University of Helsinki)
• Pirjo Markkola (Jyväskylä University)
• Cathie Jo Martin (Boston University)
• Christine Trampusch (Universität Bern)
• Kees van Kersbergen (VU Amsterdam/Århus University)
• Niels Ploug (Statistics Denmark and Danish National Centre for Social Research)
• Viggo Nordvik (NOVA, Oslo)
• Niels Finn Christiansen (honorary Professor at Centre for Welfare State Research) as well as
• Patrick Emmenegger, Klaus Petersen and Jon Kvist (all University of Southern Denmark, Odense).

The Summer School was organized by NCoE NordWel in collaboration with the NCoE REASSESS and the Centre for Welfare State Research, University of Southern Denmark, in August 2010.