The FoU Välfärd Conference (research and development in the welfare sector) 2025

The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for practice-oriented research issues in the field of welfare, for both practitioners and researchers and R&D staff working on research, development projects and investigations in social services and related health care.

The aim is to promote excellent practice-oriented research and to disseminate knowledge about practice-oriented research and development in social services and related health care.

At the R&D Welfare conference, research and development projects carried out by R&D units in the welfare field during the past year are presented. All projects involve social services in various ways.

In many cases, the projects are co-created with practice and are always based on the practice´s own issues.The conference is held over two days and is focused on presentations and Q&A in three parallel sessions, as well as two joint program items.

During the 2024 conference, the joint program items are a panel discussion on the topic Knowledgebased practice grounded in science and systematic analysis of practice -how can national structures support?, and a talk on Assessment of the changing social care system -towards a national model for assessement and analysis.

Throughout the conference dialogue on various current themes are encouraged.

The purpose of the dialogues is partly to exchange knowledge but also to create opportunities for nationwide and cross-cutting R&D collaborations.Since 2023 the conference is open to employees in social services and related health services. The purpose of this is to reach out to the municipalities´ organisations with the knowledge R&D units are generating.

Employees, strategists, managers and others who work with knowledge issues in social services are invited to attend. Through the generous grant from Forte 2023 we have the possibility to invite them free of charge.