Issue Networks

These thematic workshop series are conceived as interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary temporary working groups. They provide a space for exchanging new research findings, developing joint publications and formulating policy recommendations. Within this network, researchers from across the social policy disciplines work together on complex, cross-disciplinary questions.

Contact person for the Issue Networks
Dr. Lara Altenstädter (Duisburg site)

The following Issue Networks are active at DIFIS during the second funding phase, starting in May 2026:

• Issue Network: Intergenerational Justice and Digital Transformation (Information on the Issue Network to follow)
• Issue Network: Social Cohesion in Eastern Germany (continuation of the work carried out during the first funding phase)

The following Issue Networks were active during the first funding phase of DIFIS (May 2023 to April 2026):

• Issue Network: Poverty Research
• Issue Network: Platforms – Labour – Regulation
• Issue Network: Social Services & Digitality – Designing Critical Social Infrastructures Sustainably and Resiliently
• Issue Network: Social Courts
• Issue Network: Housing and Social Policy