EuroCohort at international academic conference dedicated to the centenary of the Baltic countries

EuroCohort team member from Daugavpils University Dr. Ilze Kacane participated in the 13th International Academic Conference “Social Sciences for Regional Development 2018” which this year was dedicated to the centenary of the Baltic Countries and invited scientists, students, policy-makers and practitioners to give special attention to the future vision of the regional development.

Ilze Kacane’s presentation “Studying the Lives of Children and Young People: the Benefits of Cross-national European Cohort Survey” at the conference plenary session was aimed at discussing the benefits of longitudinal well-being surveys in EU. It introduced ECDP as a successor of FP7 project MYWeB that had provided the proof of concept for the development of a Europe wide longitudinal survey of child and youth well-being. The presentation received big interest among the participants leading to the discussion on the project’s contribution towards the achievement of sustainable development goals.

The international conference was organized by Daugavpils University Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences and Faculty of Social Sciences and was held at Daugavpils University on October 12–13, 2018. The event was attended by more than one hundred participants from the Baltic countries, Georgia, Poland, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, a.o. The aim of the conference was to promote the contribution of social sciences to regional development, to popularize interdisciplinary approach to research of urgent issues on regional development and to stimulate transfer of knowledge into practice. The conference participants shared the experience in terms of economic aspects of regional competitiveness and sustainability, topicalities of state and law in European and national practice, and urgent issues on sociology and social psychology.