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EADI Events

Seminars, Workshops, Conference & more

Our events are at the heart of our engagement with our members and with the general field of Development Studies. Our flagship event, the EADI General Conference, is Europe’s largest gathering of the development research community, and is held every three years. With around 600 participants, opportunities to connect and engage with the latest research abound. Our more frequent thematic workshops and meetings bring together professionals from certain fields for networking and peer-to-peer exchange: the annual Directors’ Meetings, the dedicated workshops for research communicators or coordinators for academic studies programmes, our expert events on specific topics, and events organised by our working groups. In addition, we regularly offer online talks and lectures. Here they are listed in chronological order.

Upcoming Events

Together with the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) we are happy to invite communications specialists and interested researchers from our… continue

Postconflict reconstruction in Ukraine represents one of the most significant challenges for the future. Together with academia and civil society…

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Together with the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies… continue
Event by: Centre of Historical and Political Studies on Africa and the Middle East, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of… continue
This 70th Anniversary workshop engaging with the relevance of Arthur Lewis’ (1954) work today. is organised by the EADI Working Group "The Politics… continue

Past Events

New Frontiers of Urban Informality, 12 September, University of Sheffield

15.00-17.00 UK Time, ICOSS Building, 219 Portobello Road, University of Sheffield, S1 4DP
Event organised by the Urban Governance Working Group
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Conversations between Development Studies and International Studies

Roundtable, University of Warsaw, 25 July 2025, 11.00-12.30 CEST
Roundtable for the EADI 50 anniversary in collaboration with the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA) and the World International Studies Committee (WISC)
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Venue: Genscherallee 3, 53113 Bonn - The event will be held as a hybrid format - prior registration is requested. Register here Few countries in the world are more affected by food insecurity than…
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The Future of Development Studies, London, 26 June 2024

#EADI50 Roundtable at DSA Conference at SOAS, 14.30-16.00 UK Time
Development Studies (DS) demonstrates maturity as a field of inquiry marked by the half-century anniversaries of journals, institutes, and scholarly associations of DS.The foundational journals of DS…
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Department of International Development King’s College London (DID)
This event is organised in collaboration with the Development Studies Association (DSA) and co-sponsored by the University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute Journal of Development Studies…
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Development Studies has always been specifically concerned with analysing socio-economic development in what are popularly considered‘developingcountries’. Binary categorisations of…
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2024 Academic Coordinators Workshop (in person), Bonn, 13-14 June 2024

Artificial Intelligence and Development Studies: Designing a Roadmap for the coming Years
Research & Education  -  European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
We are excited to announce this year’s Academic Coordinators Workshop which tackles a critical and timely theme. Apply by 10 May 2024!
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Organised in cooperation with the Swiss Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries (KFPE) and the Finnish University Partnership for International Development (UniPID)
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Research policy
Cancelled! The workshop will be given by Sven Grimm, Head of Research programme: Inter- and Transnational Cooperation, Training, at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) This…
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Register here The DSAI Summer School provides a focussed 2-day programme of workshops exploring research methods for development. The event will engage NGOs, Policy Makers, and Academics both as…
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In partnership with the Centre for Rural Development (SLE) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, this meeting will provide an opportunity for master’s students and PhD researchers to engage with the…
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This workshop aims to discuss experiences with, attitudes towards, and lessons learned from various forms of research-practice collaboration in the field of development. We are primarily interested in…
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EADI’s 50th anniversary in 2024 presents a good occasion to take stock of the state of development studies and the understanding of development in the European peripheries. The countries on the…
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Research policy
11.30-13.00 CEST, Asociación de la Prensa de Madrid, Calle Claudio Coello, 98, Madrid Background While policymakers, practitioners and academics alike are dedicating efforts towards achieving global…
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Research policy
The development policy of traditional donor countries in recent years has shifted significantly, from being a relatively isolated policy with a more reduced list of objectives, to becoming a strategic…
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German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)  |  European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
The German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), the Representation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia to the European Union, the European Association of Development Institutes…
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The webinar introduces and discusses the open access book "Challenging Global Development: Towards Decoloniality and Justice" published in the EADI Global Development Series.
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EADI and the Research Communications Working Group are happy to host the first in-person Communications Workshop since 2019. These workshops have been set up as a platform for communications…
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Child and youth well-being is essential for achieving shared prosperity at the global level; nevertheless, millions confront poverty and the deprivation of basic rights. Many are engaged in harmful…
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The webinar introduces and discusses the open access book "Civil society responses to changing civic space" published in the EADI Global Development Series.
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Use or misuse? The emerging global challenge of data authoritarianism

Join us on Thursday 16 November, 18.00-19.30, at IDOS, Tulpenfeld 6 53113 Bonn
In cooperation with the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS Bonn) at Bonn University and the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), we are happy…
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Latin American structuralism, pioneered by Raúl Prebisch and his collaborators, is focused on the strategic links between State, industrialization, and regional integration. This triangular…
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“Resettlement colonies” -- sites of mass formal low-income housing – have emerged on metropolitan peripheries across India over the past two decades, redefining the social geographies and…
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EADI is organising partner of the 2nd pluridisciplinary doctoral conference organised by several research teams in Paris, taking place 18-20 October at the Centre des colloques du Campus Condorcet,…
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EADI invites all members and representatives of member institutes to join us on 12 July 2023 at the EADI Member Forum at the EADI-CEsA conference. The event will represent an important opportunity to…
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The global spread of soft authoritarian rule hollows out liberal democratic institutions and principles from within by using electoral majorities and the law that confers formal legitimacy. The talk…
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We are living through an age of overlapping crises across the economy, democracy, health, the environment and more, with severe consequences for all areas of social reproduction. During this public…
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European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)  |  Centre for African and Development Studies CESA-ISEG
The development landscape has never been static but in these times of uncertainty and insecurity, we are witnessing ever more profound shifts in global relations, inequalities, and forms of exclusion.
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Indebting the green transition (online)

A launch of the "Debt and Green Transition" blog series
Chair: Tomaso Ferrando (U of Antwerp) Speakers: Stephanie Garcidueñas Nieto (Antwerp); Hector Herrera (Antwerp); Frédéric Huybrechs (Antwerp); Giedre Jokubauskaite (Glasgow), Arinc Onat Kiliç…
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How can we teach International Development students to better understand complex global challenges and to imagine alternative responses to them?
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The 2022 floods in Pakistan left an impact of unimaginable proportions in terms of the loss of lives, assets, livelihoods, and infrastructure, and in their implications for health, nutrition, and food…
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EADI General Assembly (online)

16 May 2023, 13:00 - 15:00 CEST
The General Assembly of all EADI members takes place every three years. It elects the EADI President as well as the Executive Committee.
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Insights into Development Research in Hungary - EADI/KRTK Conference

Venue: Centre for Economic and Regional Studies (KRTK), 1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán u. 4
Alongside the annual meeting of the EADI Executive Committee, this time being held at the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies in Budapest, Hungary, we take the opportunity to shed the light on…
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The Sustainable Development Goals aim to improve access to resources and services, reduce environmental degradation, eradicate poverty and reduce inequality. However, the magnitude of the…
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Together with the Convivial Thinkers, our Working Group on Post- and Decolonial Perspectives on Development, we cordially invite you to this virtual book launch an discussion with the author Sayan Dey
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EJDR Special Issue Launch, 21 February 2023, 09.00 GMT, 10.00 CET

Financing of Sustainable Development Goals in the era of Covid-19 & Beyond
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)  -  European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
The economic and social impact of covid-19 pandemic both on developing and developed countries has been significant. In addition to the impact of the pandemic, the current Ukraine war has also led to…
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As communication and dissemination partner of the Energy-Self-Sufficiency for Health Facilities in Ghana (EnerSHelF) project, we cordially invite you to the online symposium to share the main…
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Are you an academic curious about how to design and enact more climate conscious travel practices? This event is for you! Join us on Wednesday, 23 November, for a Knowledge Exchange Session with…
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European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
As part of the Bonn Alliance for Sustainability we are happy to be holding this half-day conference where we will discuss central questions in transdisciplinary research work. The conference is open…
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The cooperation between researchers and practitioners during different stages of the research process has the potential to benefit both society and research supporting processes of ‘transformation’.…
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Department of International Development King’s College London (DID)  |  Development Studies Association (DSA)
Building on previous panels on emerging economies, democracies, and resistance movements, we take a holistic look at the long-lasting impacts on development processes and governance of international…
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EADI Directors' Meeting 2022

03 and 04 November, King's College, London
European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
Setting the Agenda
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In cooperation with the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS) at Bonn University and the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), we are happy to…
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EADI Regional Meeting and PhD Symposium for Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia

15-16 September 2022, Institute of International Relations (Prague)
Research & Education  -  European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)  |   -  Institute of International Relations (IIR)
We are organising our first regional meeting and PhD symposium!
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Social protection and social cohesion

Online panel discussion and official launch of special EJDR issue
Social protection  -  German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)  |   -  European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
While there is substantial evidence of the effect of social protection on poverty, inequality and vulnerability, limited research has focused on societal and political outcomes so far. The European…
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EJDR Early Career Dialogue

Understand the submission and peer-review process
European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
Join us on 9 June to hear about our journal's support for early career researchers!
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While the word “development” usually has positive connotations, there have been many critiques of the concept and its application. One of the most prominent of such critiques is advanced by…
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European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
The Hierarchies of Development podcast offers long format interviews focusing on enduring global inequalities. Conversations focus on contemporary research projects by critical scholars from across…
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Sorbonne Development Studies Institute (IEDES)
Together with French EADI members we cordially invite you to a full-day seminar or single sessions on 31 March, either at the premises of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) in Paris, or…
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This years' workshop is entitled "Development studies and climate change: ways forward for curriculum building".
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Global Value Chains and Multinational Corporations – how do they relate?

Budapest, 9-10 December 2021 (hybrid), abstract due by 20 October
The EADI Working Group on Multinational Corporationst" invites you to a workshop on global value chains with the aim of organising a special issue in a renowned journal in 2022.
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