European Educational Research Association (EERA)

The association is made up of 23 national and regional Educational Research Associations from all parts of Europe. The academic work is organised in 25 thematic networks including Network 23: Policy Studies and Politics of Education that has an interest in understanding education, and educational continuity and change, from a 'critical social science' perspective.
Kontaktperson: Jakob Ditlev Bøje

European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA)

ESREA promotes and disseminates theoretical and empirical research on the education of adults and adult learning in Europe through research networks, conferences and publications. Active members come from most part of Europe. Researchers from VELPRO are in particular involved in the network Life History and Biography as well as the Network on Work Life.
Kontaktperson: Henning Salling Olesen og Kirsten Weber

Nordic Network on Politics of Education and Education Policy (NFPF/NERA)

The focus’ of this network are political aspects of education and educational policy making. Hence, a point of departure is that educational phenomena are political, based on power relations, and are producing significant differences in culture and society.
Kontaktperson: Jakob Ditlev Bøje

The European Sociological Association (ESA)

ESA is an academic association of sociologists and a non-profit Europe-wide association made up of over 1500 members. The Network 19: Sociology of Professions is among the networks that researchers from VELPRO take part in. The focus of the network is to provide a European forum for the development, discussion and dissemination of research in the sociology of professions, and to encourage and organise international research projects.
Kontaktperson: Camilla Schmidt

Netværk for Forskning om Mænd og Maskuliniteter (NeMM)

NeMM er et forskningsnetværk, der samler og understøtter forskere, der beskæftiger sig med forskning om og i mænd og maskuliniteter. Netværket samler forskere indenfor alle videnskabelige discipliner, ligesom netværket rummer medlemmer af begge køn. Samarbejde mellem kvindelige og mandlige forskere er et vigtigt element i vores arbejde. I samarbejde Nordisk Institut for Kunnskap om Kjønn (NIKK) udgives tidsskriftet norma - Nordisk tidsskrift for maskulinitetsstudier.
Kontaktperson: Steen Baagøe Nielsen

International conferences Researching Work and Learning (RWL)

The international conferences are focused on new research on work and learning. For information regarding the scientific committee and the international advisory committee please follow this link.
Kontaktperson: Henning Salling Olesen

European Network for Mental Health Service Evaluation (ENMESH)

ENMESH is a network of active researchers in the field of Mental Health Service Research and Evaluation. The aim is to promote the development and dissemination of study designs, research instruments, mental health outcome indicators (including cost measurements), and relevant forms of statistical indicators. The network also functions as a clearing house for mental health service evaluation information in Europe.
Kontaktperson: Trine Wulf-Andersen

International Research Group for Psycho-Societal Analysis (IRGfPSA)

An interdisciplinary research group for the development and application of psycho-societal approaches to research and methodology. The members represent a range of social sciences including sociology, social psychology, psychoanalysis, criminology, cultural studies, education, social work and social policy.
Kontaktpersoner: Camilla Schmidt og Kirsten Weber

Netværk for Forskning i Døgninstitutioner

VELPRO er tilknyttet dette netværk, som er forankret på Det Nationale Forskningscenter for Velfærd (SFI)
Kontaktperson: Trine Wulf-Andersen

Nordisk Nettverk for Barnelivsforskning

Nordisk børneforskning ejer visse særlige nordiske træk, som via netværket ønskes videreudviklet. Det 'særligt nordiske' viser sig i tre opmærksomheder: a) Børn som aktører i en social, kulturel og historisk sammenhæng, b) Børnelivet, som det leves af børn og c) Forskningens indgriben i børns liv og børns indgriben i forskningen.

NordNet: Transnational Tendencies and Nordic School Development

NordNet is a network of Nordic educational researchers from 13 Nordic universities representing Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Finland and Denmark.
The network's focus is on the situation of education as a central area of the Welfare State.
Is national diversity being blurred by transnational tendencies in educational policy (PISA, OECD recommendations, EU indicators, the Bologna process etc.), or is a new Nordic approach to education emerging?
The aim of the network is to explore these questions by creating synergy between groups of Nordic educational researchers dealing with the development of schools in relation to the new forms of educational governance (NPM, tests/ranking, accountability) being experienced across the whole region.
Kontaktpersoner: Camilla Schmidt og Steen Baagøe Nielsen

The members of the network have formed sub-groups that put special focus on different research areas.

Sub-Group: Pre-school & School (NordNet)

This sub-group pays attention to commonalities and differences between pre-school and school in Scandinavian (Nordic) countries. The point of departure is that pre-school and school are increasingly seen as part of comprehensive schooling, and life-long and life-wide learning in so-called knowledge economies. In the wake of PISA, the Lisbon declaration and so forth, national education strategies increasingly integrate pre-school and comprehensive school strategies. The subgroup intends to research what happens to pre-school as well as comprehensive school in these processes.
Kontaktpersoner: Camilla Schmidt og Jakob Ditlev Bøje

Research Network on Everyday Life Processes in European Societies (ELPiES)

ELPiES studies everyday life processes in time and space within the context of the ongoing modernization of European societies. The network takes an interdisciplinary and multimethodological approach to the study of everyday life, since the nature of everyday life is in fact transgressing and defying the boundaries of conventional academic disciplines. At the latest ELPiES conference entitled Subjectivity and Learning in Everyday Life, VELPRO chaired the workshop “Welfare, Professions, and Everyday Life”.
Kontaktpersoner: Allan Westerling, Trine Wulf-Andersen og Camilla Schmidt

Critical Research on Men in Europe  (CROME)

The European Research Network on Men in Europe was established with funding from the EC framework 5 project: ‘The Social Problem of Men: the Social Problem and Societal Problematisation of Men and Masculinities’. The network is an umbrella research network of researchers (female and male) who are researching on men and masculinities in an explicitly gendered way. It brings together researchers from European countries including: Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, UK, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Spain and Sweden.
Kontaktperson: Steen Baagøe Nielsen

EU-ekspertgruppe med fokus på Livslang Læring

Kontaktperson: Henning Salling Olesen

FORSA

Foreningen har fokus på forskning og udvikling i socialt arbejde. Dens formål er at fremme formidlingen af viden, erfaringer og resultater mellem forskning, uddannelses- og udviklingsmiljøer og socialt arbejdes praksis. FORSA indgår også i det nordiske samarbejde FORSA Norden sammen foreninger fra Island, Norge, Sverige og Finland.
Kontaktperson: Trine Wulf-Andersen