EADI is holding its annual Directors’ Meeting on 11 and 12 October in Vienna. The event is kindly hosted by the Austrian Foundation for Development Research ÖFSE. The focus of this years’ meeting will be on the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, combined with a public event on the EU-Africa relations organised. The EADI Directors’ Meeting 2018 will once more connect research institutes for more effective co-operation by sharing ideas, identifying common problems, discussing new trends. The key is networking. In Europe, there is no better occasion for institute directors to meet, exchange and discuss.

Inequalities are increasing globally. Dissecting the social, economic and environmental dimensions of these inequalities reveals how disparities of income and wealth, of access to resources, of limitations to free speech and free movement continue to be shaped by (post-)colonial power relations, Western narratives of progress and their entanglements with (white) idea(l)s of modernity, civilization and development.

The first webinar of the Civil Society and Citizenship in Development Working Group invites everyone interested to join the session (and the group) and share approaches and ideas.

Since its foundation, The European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) has been dedicated to science-based, fair and just development. In committing to the successful implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), countries around the globe pledge to contribute to a fundamental shift in how we interact with each other and the finite resources of the Earth. EADI recognizes its role to champion transformative and practical social, economic and ecological changes. We acknowledge our responsibility to not only facilitate scientific exchange for sustainability, but to actively go ahead and ensure that we act in an ethical and responsible manner in all aspects of our work and partnerships.