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"Longer better living"-Congress on May 14, 2019 in Hannover

Motivation for prevention. More opportunities for health: How do I put my motivation for behavioral prevention into action and keep the changes?

18.03.2019Closed for Easter

Please note that the SOCIUM library is closed for Easter from 18 April to 23 April 2019.

05.02.2019More funding for the data service center QUALISERVICE

German Research Foundation supports establishment of a division for anthropological research data

29.01.2019"Longer better living." Book published about the initiative

Prevention recommendations implemented in everyday life.

Welcome at the SOCIUM

SOCIUM is the only German research institute in social sciences which deals with theoretical and empirical questions of inequality, social policies and their social and political interdependencies. The interdisciplinary research focuses on the social, economic, political, cultural, organizational, legal, historical and sociomedical conditions and effects of social inequality, public social policies and their interdependencies. The research includes a mix of sociology, political and health sciences, economics and legal aspects.

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08.03.2019

Federal Minister Hubertus Heil visited SOCIUM

Recent Law-Making and the Situation of Social Policy Research subjects of the talk

The Federal Secretary of Labour and Social Affairs, Hubertus Heil, visited today SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy. Together with the Minister of Science, Health and Consumer Protection of the State of Bremen, Eva Quante-Brandt, the Federal Minister discussed questions of the situation of social policy research, the possibility of an improved secondary education in social policy affairs as well as issues of recent policy-making, especially the introduction of a basic pension system, with scientists of SOCIUM. Read more ...

27.02.2019

Federal Minister Hubertus Heil visits SOCIUM

Policy Discussion with the Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs

High ranking visit to SOCIUM on the afternoon of March 8th, 2019: The Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs visits Bremen and Bremerhaven and will participate in a policy discussion at SOCIUM. Together with the State Minister of Science, Health and Consumer Protection of the City of Bremen, Eva Quante-Brandt and members of SOCIUM the debate will focus on recent developments in social inequality and possible welfare state remedies to this problem. Read more ...

22.02.2019

Poor Germany?

Soziopolis publishes extensive report on Stephan-Leibfried-Workshop of SOCIUM.

The social science internet platform Soziopolis published an extensive report by the journalist Frauke Hamann on the Stephan-Leibfried-Workshop on Poverty and Poverty-Relief Policies which took place on February 1st, 2019 at the Haus der Wissenschaft, Bremen (in German). Read more ...