Letters of Welcome

Dear EASSW Members, Colleagues and Friends,

On behalf of the European Association of Schools of Social Work (EASSW), I am very pleased to invite social work academics, students, service users and carers, practitioners, policy makers and all those concerned and involved in social work education to our biennial conference. Bicocca University, in Milan, Italy have very generously offered to host our conference from 29 June until 2 July 2015.

Our conference title is ‘Social work education in Europe: towards 2025’ and we sincerely hope that it will help to stimulate a lively and constructive debate among participants about the future of social work education in Europe. Social work and social work education have both undergone many fundamental changes in recent years. We believe it is time to come together to debate the direction we need to travel together to ensure that for the future, social work education will be fit for purpose and for the many challenges that will confront us all.

I look forward to meeting you in Milan, to engaging collectively with your ideas, experiences, wishes and plans for the future of social work education.

Susan Lawrence
President, EASSW.



Dear EASSW and AIDOSS Members, Colleagues and Friends,

On behalf of the Association of Italian Social Work Teachers (AIDOSS), I am delighted to invite you to the EASSW biennial conference ‘Social work education: towards 2025’ that will be hosted at Bicocca University, in Milan, Italy from 29 June until 2 July 2015.

During 2015 Milan will also host the International Exposition ( EXPO) and the issue of this edition is “Food for the planet” , looking for and developing new global possibilities so that everyone on the planet can have access to food that is healthy, safe and sufficient. As AIDOSS we thought it would be an interesting challenge to have the EASSW conference in this same frame.

We hope that social work teachers, academics, students, as well as policy makers, practitioners, service users and carers can come together and debate how social work education can face the challenges of future years in Europe. We will share experiences and opinions on how to enhance human rights and to fulfil the social work mission to contribute to realise a just and sustainable society.

Annamaria Campanini
President, AIDOSS.