The theme of the 12th Conference “Social Monitoring and Reporting in Europe” at Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Mennagio, October 23-25, 2017 was Resilience: An Asset in Difficult Times?
The 2017 „Social Monitoring and Reporting in Europe“ – conference will have a focus on the concept of „resilience“ and its measurement in terms of indicators and/or survey instruments. In a most general sense, resilience – as the antonym to vulnerability – may be defined as the ability to cope with critical states and forces like shocks, conflicts and stress, challenging the stability of systems such as communities, cities and societies, or – at the micro level – eventually also individuals and households. As a quality of such systems resilience may e.g. help to absorb shocks and to recover, to adapt to change or even to facilitate transformations of a system to a new equilibrium state. From such a point of view, resilience may thus be considered a desirable quality, particularly in time periods characterised by rapid and far reaching change, serious risks and threats of different sorts as well as conflicts and instabilities.
Resilience: An Asset in Difficult Times
Villa Vigoni Conference, October 23-25, 2017
Programme Back to all conferences
| Monday, October 23 | |||
| Afternoon | Arrival of participants | ||
| 19:00 | Reception & Dinner. Welcome by Prof. Dr. Immacolata Amodeo, Secretary General of Villa Vigoni | ||
| Tuesday, October 24 | |||
| 9:00 – 12:45 | Session I: Resilience – Concept and Measurement – I (Chair: Heinz-Herbet Noll) | ||
| Welcome and Opening | |||
| Heinz-Herbert Noll (formerly GESIS, Mannheim) | Introduction to the Conference | ||
| Enrico Giovannini (Università “Tor Vergata”, Rome) | Resilience and sustainability: two sides of the same coin | Presentation | |
| Anna Rita Manca, Peter Benczur (JRC, Ispra) , Enrico Giovannini (Università “Tor Vergata”, Rome) | Resilience: a positive scientific narrative for the EU society | Presentation | |
| Anne-Catherine Guio (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, Esch-Belval) | How do European citizens cope with economic shocks? The longitudinal order of deprivation | Presentation | |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:45 – 12:45 | Session II: Resilience – Concept and Measurement – II (Chair: Filomena Maggino) | ||
| Gábor Bartus (National Council for Sustainable Development, Budapest) | Indicators for sustainability: do they measure social resilience? | ||
| Marleen De Smedt (Eurostat, Luxembourg) | Resilient societies in a sustainable world: towards a new measurement framework | Presentation | |
| General discussion | |||
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch | ||
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Session III: Resilience – Empirical Analysis I (Chair: Sakari Karvonen) | ||
| István György Tóth (Tarki Social Research Institute, Budapest) | Households’ coping strategies and social cohesion during the Great Recession: an attempt to measure the micro foundations of societal resilience in Hungary | Presentation | |
| Markus Promberger, Marie Boost (IAB, Nürnberg) | Resilience in vulnerable households – selected results from a qualitative study comparing nine different European countries | Presentation | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Session IV: Resilience – Empirical Analysis II (Chair: Peter Farago) | ||
| Tadas Leoncikas (Eurofound, Dublin) | Self-perceived resilience: findings from the European Quality of Life Survey 2016 | ||
| Gaël Brulé/Jehane Simona (University of Neuchatel) | The resilience of the elderly in Switzerland and its impact on the level of subjective wellbeing | Presentation | |
| General discussion | |||
| 19:30 | Dinner | ||
| Wednesday, October 25 | |||
| 9:15 – 10:45 | Session V: Recent Developments in European Social Monitoring and Reporting (Chair: Christian Suter) | ||
| Loukas Stemitsiotis (European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, Brussels) | Employment and Social Developments in Europe – The 2017 Report | Presentation | |
| Carla Collicelli (CNR – Istituto Tecnologie Biomediche, Rome) | The first report on the Italian situation toward the UN Sdg’s for 2030: “L’Italia e gli obiettivi di sviluppo sostenibile”, Rapporto Asvis 2016 | Presentation 1 / Presentation 2 | |
| Eduardo Bericat (Universidad de Sevilla) | The Quality of European Societies: A Meta-Ranking of Composite Indicators | Presentation | |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee Break | ||
| Business Meeting | |||
| 11:15 – 12:45 | Future Plans | ||
| 13:00 | Lunch and Departure | ||
