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Apologies for cross-posting **************************** ESPAnet Newsletter 3/03 Dear Colleagues, ESPAnet, the Network for European Social Policy Analysis, brings to your attention: 1. Young Researcher Prize The Journal of European Social Policy and ESPAnet are offering a prize to the best paper by a young researcher presented at any of the ESPAnet conferences, workshops or seminars in 2003. The papers will be judged by an international panel of senior scholars in the field of European social policy. The prize-winning paper will be published in the Journal of European Social Policy in 2004, and the winner will also receive 1 year's free subscription to the Journal. Submitted papers should be 6-8000 words long, and address any aspect of European social policy, including comparative and European Union studies. Single country studies offering an innovative perspective beyond the single country will also be accepted. The submitted paper must have been presented at one of the ESPAnet conferences, workshops or seminars in 2003. The authors must, at the closing date, not yet have been awarded a doctorate. Closing date for submissions: 31 December 2003 For more information: ESPAnet homepage (http://www.uvt.nl/espanet) or contact Dr Emma Carmel, Asst. Editor, Journal of European Social Policy, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK. Email [log in to unmask] 2. EISS (European Institute of Social Security) Workshop for Young Researchers 10-17 May 2003, Marstrand, Sweden. The Workshop for Young Researchers is aiming at giving young researchers (with at least one year research experience) a forum for discussing their research topic and the opportunity to get acquainted with methodological issues related to comparing social security systems of various countries. For further information see ESPAnet homepage (http://www.uvt.nl/espanet under the link of announcements) or contact Ms. Kirsten Vanden Bempt (e-mail: [log in to unmask]) 3. Final COST A13 conference 'New Challenges to Welfare: Trends, Concepts and Policies' Oslo 9-12 October 2003. For the Call for papers, see ESPAnet homepage (http://www.uvt.nl/espanet under the link of announcements) 4. ISSA (International Social Security Association) conference 'Social security in a long life society' 5-7 May, Antwerpen, Belgium. For more information, see the conference website: http://www.issa.int/ 5. ESPAnet's website and newsletter are open for messages on conferences, seminars, workshops, courses etc. that you would want to convey to colleagues in the field. Please send a mail to the ESPAnet secretariat: [log in to unmask] Yours sincerely, Minna van Gerven (ESPAnet secretariat)