Bucharest, 23-25 April 2015
In the past 50 years, Quality of Life increasingly became a key issue, the most important goal to be pursued by individuals. The process started in the more advanced democracies, replacing the mere search for material wealth, and putting at the top of the public agenda new challenges for social organisation and, in particular, for social policy. In the past 25 years, former communist societies around the globe also started, to different extents, to experience the shift. Their particular status was labelled as “double-risk societies”, to show that they simultaneously experience different social changes typical to contemporary age, but also social processes frozen by the communist regimes.
At its landmark 25th year, the Research Institute for Quality of Life is hosting a conference on the topic of quality of life as a challenge for social policy. The conference includes plenary meetings with keynote speeches, thematic sessions with presentations and round tables. Keynote speakers in plenary sessions are Fillomena Maggino, Christian Suter, Ruut Veenhoven and Claire Wallace.

List of sections:
1. Well-being and the quality of life in ageing societies – theoretical and empirical challenges
2. Using subjective wellbeing and quality of life indicators in public policy: a Latin American perspective
3. Environment, consumption & sustainability: cross-disciplinary perspectives
4. Social and Geopolitical Changes in XXI Century
5. Assessing the rule of social relations
6. Inequality and Well¬being: Methodological Considerations and Comparative Perspectives
7. Social beliefs and subjective well-being in post-transitional societies
8. Precarious Prosperity and Quality of Life
9. Changes in work and employment: New directions in the sociology of work
10. Social policy as a tool for sustainable development
11. European societies: changes in social values and social relations
12. Impact of international migration on societies and quality of life
13. Local development: experiences and challenges
14. Gender equality and quality of life
15. Sustainable level of living in contemporary world
16. Healthy lifestyles and well-being
17. Teaching Social Sciences in a Changing University Landscape
18. Child Well-Being: Levels and Correlates
19. Quality of life in Romania
20. Vicinities, communities and societies. New trends and old pathways in social sciences
21. Answers of the social economy to current challenges on the labour market
22. Strategies to improve school attendance
23. Faces of resilience: from local view to global issues
24. Integrating subjective and objective measures of utility in rational choice theory
25. Young people in changing social landscapes
26. Submission without specific section