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2024

EADI Member Forum 2023

in Lisbon, Portugal.

2023

President Andy Sumner

“Our objective is to stimulate discussion on how Development Studies can navigate its internal tensions while remaining positive to the complexities of a changing world”

2023

EADI CEsA 17th General Conference - Towards New Rhythms of Development, Lisbon, Portugal.

2023

Dudley Seers Lecture: Development Studies in an Age of Crisis in Lisbon

Speaker:  Alfredo Saad-Filho

2022

Relaunch of EADI Website.

2022

EADI Podcast “Hierarchies of Development” was launched.

Podcast: Hierarchies of Development

2021

Launch of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Global Citizenship Education.

2021

Dudley Seers Lecture - Mapping Power and Inequality: Institutions and Individuals

Speaker: Rohini Pande

2021

16th General Conference - Solidarity, Peace and Social Justice, The Hague/online.

2019

EnerSHelF - Energy Supply for Healthcare Facilities in Ghana:

A German-Ghanaian interdisciplinary project of political economists, engineers and partners from the private renewable energies sector. 

2018

The EADI Blog was launched.

Debating Development Research

2018

2017-2023

President Henning Melber

“Development is not neutral. We need to take a stand.”

2017

EADI publishes a definition of Development Studies, as a result of a multi-annual participation process.

Definition of Development Studies

2017

Dudley Seers Lecture on “Inequality and Financial Power: A Macroeconomic and Comparative View” in Bergen, Norway 

Speaker: James Galbraith 

2017

15th General Conference - Globalisation at the Crossroads: Rethinking Inequalities and Boundaries, Bergen, Norway.

2015

1st draft of the Vision paper on Global Development Studies was presented and discussed.

2015

Social and Health Policies for Inclusive Growth (SHPIG) project.

2014

EADI at 40 celebrations and annual partnership with the City of Bonn.

2014

14th General Conference - Responsible Development in a Polycentric World: Inequality, Citizenship and the Middle Classes, Bonn, Germany.

2014

RE-launch of EADI Website.

2014

2013 - to date

EADI Executive Director: Susanne von Itter 

2011-2017

President Isa Baud 

“The polycentric character of the world makes the knowledge of the viewpoints from the global South a crucial source for promoting better understanding within Europe of developments elsewhere.”

2011

EJDR: Acceptance in Social Sciences Citation Index.

2011

13th General Conference - Rethinking Development in an Age of Scarcity and Uncertainty: New Values, Voices and Alliances for Increased Resilience, York, UK.

2009

New project: Chance 2 Sustain: Urban Chances - City Growth and the Sustainability Challenge

C2S aimed to examine how governments and citizens in cities with differing patterns of urban economic growth make use of participatory (or integrated) spatial knowledge management to direct urban governance towards more sustainable development. (Chance 2 Sustain: Urban Chances - City Growth and the Sustainability Challenge)

2009

EADI on Facebook, Twitter and other social media channels.

Twitter- https://twitter.com/EADI

Facebook- https://de-de.facebook.com/EADIdev

LinkedIn- https://de.linkedin.com/company/eadidev

2008

First Dudley-Seers Lecture on "Earthland, six billion characters in search of an author"

Speaker: Tariq Banuri 

2008

12th General Conference - Global Governance for Sustainable Development: The Need for Policy Coherence and New Partnerships, Geneva, Switzerland.

2007

EADI Research Programme: European Development Cooperation to 2020 (EDC 2020) 

EDC2020 is a project that aims at improving EU policy makers' and other societal actors' shared understanding of emerging challenges facing EU development policy and external action.

2007

Launch of Research Programme “Emergent Issues in Information and Knowledge Management".

(IKM Emergent)

2006

2005-2011

President Jean-Luc Maurer

“Development studies will play again a crucial role when our humanity will shift away from the excesses of present day neo-liberal globalisation.”

2005

11th General Conference - Insecurity and Development: Regional Issues and Policies for an Interdependent World, Bonn, Germany.

2005

EADI turns 30.

2004

European Journal of Development Research is published 4 times a year.

2003

EADI Project - European Development Co-operation to 2010

The project was intended to provide a vehicle for the dissemination of research findings and debate, a forum in which the perspectives of different actors can be shared and developed.

2003

Relaunch of EADI website.

2002-2005

President Louk de la Rive Box

"Quality management in both education and research is one of the core tasks of a professional organisation like EADI."

2002

10th General Conference - EU Enlargement in a Changing World - Challenges for Development Co-operation in the 21st Century, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

2000-2013

EADI Executive Secretary: Thomas Lawo

2000

No. 24 of EADI Book Series

2000

New corporate design for EADI publications.

2000

EADI Secretariat moves to Bonn, Germany. 

 

2000

EADI turns 25.

1999-2002

President Sheila Page

"We will have to join hands in development research in order to prepare a larger EU for coherent action in global policy-making."

1999

9th General Conference - Europe and the South in the 21st Century: Challenges for Renewed Co-operation, Paris, France.

1998

EADI gets a website.

1996

8th General Conference - Globalisation, Competitiveness and Human Security: Challenges for Development Policy and Institutional Change, Vienna, Austria.

1993-1999

President Helen O'Neill

"For me one of the revolutionary ways, in which development research and training and development policy have all changed profoundly in the years since EADI was founded, has been in the acceptance of the fact that women as actors and beneficiaries are central to the process of sustainable development."

1993

7th General Conference - Transformation and Development: Eastern Europe and the South, Berlin, Germany.

1990-1993

President Carlo Secchi

"The well-known implications of global interdependence together with our responsibilities for economic and social problems in what we used to define as the Third World are getting increasingly important on the agendas."

1990

6th General Conference - New Challenges for European Development Research: Sustainable Development and Changes in Europe, Oslo, Norway.

1988-1999

EADI Secretariat in Geneva 

Executive Secretary: Claude Auroi

1987

5th General Conference - Managing the World Economy or Reshaping Work Society? Towards a Definition of Europe's Choices, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

1985-1990

President Emmanuel de Kadt

“Perhaps we shall see the political pendulum really swinging away from the one sided views promoted over the last ten to fifteen years, with beneficial effects on what is perceived as problematic.”

1984-1985

President Yves Berthelot

"EADI has not one single view but many views which reflect different sensitivities, disciplines and cultures."

1984

4th General Conference - Development and Cooperation: European Initiatives, Madrid, Spain.

1982-1988

EADI Secretariat in Tilburg, The Netherlands

Executive Secretary: Ben Evers

1982

First issue of the EADI Newsletter.

1981

3rd General Conference - Emerging Development Patterns: European Contributions, Budapest, Hungary.

1978-1984

President Louis Emmerij

“A European association is not 'European' if only half the continent is actively involved.”

1978

2nd General Conference - Europe's Role in World Development, Milan, Italy.

1976

First issue of the EADI Bulletin, as of 1989 called the European Journal of Development Research (EJDR).

1976

Foundation of ICCDA, Inter-Regional Coordinating Committee of Development Associations.

1975-1982

EADI Secretariat in Vienna.

Executive Secretary: Arne Haselbach

1975-1978

President Dudley Seers

"We have to rethink our views of the transferability of models in the social sciences." 

1975

Foundation of EADI in Linz, Austria during the 1st General Conference entitled: A New International Economic Order: Economic, Social and Political Implications.

Preamble of the first constitution of EADI 

”In practically all countries of Europe, there are many institutions for development research or training. But there is no adequate framework within which closer collaboration can be effected among them and between them and similar institutes in Africa, Asia and Latin America: The European Association should fill this gap.” (1975)

1974

First meeting in Ghent, Belgium. 

"Towards a European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes."