Events

“Psychology and social change for our future world”

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EFPA SC Community Psychology, AIP, Community Psychology Lab,

University Federico II, Psy-Com Aps, SIPCO

9.00-14.30, 25th of November 2023

Fondazione Mediterraneo, Via De Pretis 130, Naples in person and zoom

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85641575508?pwd=dmVZaG56UVpsR1hpelNsVEdDeW04dz09

9.00 Neapolitan environment friendly welcome!!!

5mns video “Gardening against any addiction!

Dott.Anita Rubino, Dipartimento per le dipendenze Asl Napoli1 Centro

 Psychology today and Environmental future issues

Introduction

Prof. Christoph Steinebach, President EFPA

Dr. David Lazzari President CNOP

Prof. Santo Di Nuovo President INPA

Prof. Cinzia Albanesi President ECPA

10.00 How to use the tools of Community Psychology (e.g., Participatory Research) to support and stimulate climate engagement?

Chair prof. Immacolata Di Napoli   

Promising projects to fight climate change based on Community Psychology principles

Prof. Minou Mebane EFPA WG CP Project on climate change

Prof. Bjørn Z. Ekelund

Strengthening innovative capability for community engagement and climate issues.4 cases applying Theory U and Diver

Community psychological perspectives on climate change

prof Emeritus Bernd Roehrle, University of Marburg 

Climate change and community psychology issues

 Prof. Fortuna Procentese, President SIPCO,University Federico II Naples

 11/25 UN day to fight violence against women and climate change. The respect of the earth as a non-predatory feminine value

Marina Passos, phd Student University Federico II

12.15-14.00 Workshop
The New Bank of Community Ideas and Solutions
In Quest of a Common Global Currency of Tomorrow

In this 2-hours workshop, we will analyze and present patterns of success built into the moments and sense of community, in order to make them transferable to other situations and areas. Interactively, we will discuss conditions needed to create and tell transformative community stories, and share our own stories.

Wolfgang Stark (Germany), with Bill Berkowitz, Leslie Hatch Gail, Brad Olson, Jordan Russell, MoDena Stinette, Tom Wolff (USA), Liesette Brunson (Canada), Caterina Arcidiacono (Italy), Nicholas Carr (Norway)

The ‘New Bank for Community Ideas and Solutions’ offers concrete examples how we build community and collaborate creatively as a community. It recognizes and appreciates inspiring stories of community resilience and creativity as shared ‘societal treasures’ and as an important part of our ‘common social wealth’.

2023 – EFPA ITALIAN SEMESTER ON PSYCHOLOGY

General Assembly

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We are pleased to announce that the ECPA General Assembly will take place online on November 28, from 4:00-5.30 PM CET time during the 10th Conference and Workshop in Community Psychology in Slovakia 2023

Use the following link to join us:

Topic: ECPA General Assembly – November 2023

Time: Nov 28, 2023 16h CET/15h GMT

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/99880490129?pwd=OUtjVENwK1NYUE1zMXUvTktSQy9aZz09 

Password: 313243

During the G.A. the Treasurer for the next mandate (24-25) will be elected. 
 
We have received the nomination of Fortuna Procentese (University Federico II, Naples)

Call for applications – Student collaborators to co-develop the ECPA-SCRA online webinar series

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European Community Psychology Association (ECPA) in collaboration with the Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) is organising an online webinar series, composed of five online webinar sessions. Each webinar will focus on key societal challenges and domains for community psychologists, such as borders and migrant justice; feminisms and gender-based violence; violence and resistance in transgender, queer and gender-nonconforming communities; climate/environmental justice; community mental health and homelessness; the prison-industrial complex and abolitionist struggles; decolonising academic knowledge and practices. For each webinar, scholars from ECPA and SCRA respectively will be invited to share their insights with the audience.

The series will take place between November 2023 and June 2024. We are looking for one to two European-based students enrolled in a Master or PhD programme with a focus on community psychology to help organise and disseminate the online webinar series.  

Tasks: Collaborators will help designing the webinar series and identify the ECPA/SCRA scholars to invite for each session. Collaborators will also help disseminate the webinar series and run individual sessions. After each webinar, the two collaborators will finally write a short blogpost with key ideas and discussions coming out of each webinar, or will help ECPA board members finding someone who would be willing to write it.

Each of the collaborators will be provided a grant of 450 Euros .

Application process: To apply for this opportunity please send a brief description, of no more than two pages, of the webinar series how you will design it. Please indicate title and main topics addressed in each webinar and the reason why these are important for community psychology scholars, activists, and practitioners. 

Please also provide a brief motivation letter, describing why you are applying for this opportunity and how this role aligns with and contribute to your academic/professional values and trajectory, and what you are looking to learn from it.

Applications from Black and ethnic minoritised students are particularly welcome.

Applications should be sent via email to ecpa.psychassociation@gmail.com by Friday 22nd September 2023, 24:00h CET. Any application arrived after that deadline will not be considered.

A Committee will assess existing applications and candidates will be informed of their outcomes by 16th October 2023. 

For any query contact: ecpa.psychassociation@gmail.com 

Beyond Genders. Intersectionality between theory and practice. Interdisciplinary gazes. 

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November 24-25, 2023 University of Turin 

 CIRSDe (Interdisciplinary Center for Women’s and Gender Research and Studies – University of Turin is organizing the international conference Beyond Genders. Intersectionality between theory and practice. Interdisciplinary gazes.

The conference aims to foster a multidisciplinary debate and to explore the state of the art of research and reflections on intersectionality. What are the perspectives through which intersectionality has developed over the years, and what are its applications? What makes its implementation complex, and what are the pitfalls to its effective applicability? Why do some areas of study seem to have a more fluid dialogue with this concept while others still prove refractory? What are the most effective research methods, and why?  How is the concept of intersectionality being explored and debated in different disciplines? How can an intersectional perspective be developed in global contexts that necessarily have to come to terms with a past of colonialism and oppression? 

People interested in participating may submit a contribution: the deadline for abstract submission is June 15, 2023. More details can be found here

Special Issues Call for Papers JCASP

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The Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology is calling for submissions for two special issues.

Multicultural Identities in Context: The influence of social, community, environmental and historical factors

Special Issue Editors: Elena Trifiletti, Katarina Pettersson, Verónica Benet-Martínez, Seth Schwartz, Alan Meca, and Yasin Koc

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 31st January 2023.

Sport for the Community: Psychological and sociomoral benefits of sport participation in youth and adult communities

Special Issue Editors:  Elisa Bisagno, Marianna Alesi, Francesca Vitali, Alessia Cadamuro, Veronica Margherita Cocco, Loris Vezzali, and Maria Kavussanu

Deadline for Manuscript Submission: 1st May 2023

General Assembly

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The General Assembly will take place online on November 30, at 4 PM (CET time) during the Community Psychology Conference in Slovakia. During the G.A. the election of the President for the next mandate (22-23) and the President-Elect for the following mandate (24-25) will be elected. To join the General Assembly please use the following Teams link

The Agenda will be the following

  1. Welcome
  2. Approval of the last GA minutes
  3. Report of the activities
  4. Elections
  5. future plans

The General Assembly is open. Notice however those only members who paid membership fees can vote.

ECPA Virtual café

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November 5, 2021, 5 PM CET | Join us here

Have you recently joined ECPA as a member and want to know more about our activities and plans? Are you a lifelong member that wants to share your experience and ideas? 

New and existing members are invited to pop in to our Virtual Cafe and chat with board members. If you have not yet joined ECPA as a member but you would like to know more about us, you are also welcome!

ECPA virtual café is an informal meeting with ECPA members. Bring your cup of coffee/tea and prepare to meet our community.

A Social Capital Approach to Understanding Community Resilience during the Covid-19 Pandemic – CROP#6

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Friday, November 12, 2021, 5 PM (GMT)

Register here

Discussion of a paper by community psychologist Suzanne Wilson (UCLan, UK) highly relevant for community resilience in global crises.

About the event

As the world begins to take stock of the impact of Covid-19 on communities, this paper provides a critical review of the role of mutual aid groups in the community response in the UK. Drawing on a narrative review of available literature, interviews with community members and selective case studies we consider what forms of social capital impact on access to mutual aid support in the community response to Covid-19. The three case studies will identify enablers to participation in community resilience responses to Covid-19. The research found that communities with social capital have been among the most organised in providing mutual aid, and sometimes this has extended to supporting the more marginalised and disadvantaged sectors. The phenomena of collective resilience in the pandemic, and in particular the activities of mutual aid groups as described in this paper, testify to the relevance of key concepts in social and community psychology. Without psychological ‘groupness’ – the sense of being a part of and identifying with a community, and the motivations and commitments that come from that – there would be no adaptive community response.

Previous research in community resilience explored responses to the multiple culture traumas of floods and a mass shooting. Suzanne is currently researching the impact the COVID-19 crisis is having on families who were already experiencing poverty and published a rapid response paper on this topic.

About the presenter

Suzanne Wilson is a Research Fellow in Social Inclusion and Community Engagement at The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). The research agenda, which is in partnership with the Samuel Lindow Foundation and The Centre for Citizenship and Community, is to work with communities to identify effective and sustainable means of increasing community capital. This expanding portfolio of research focuses on working-class, coastal communities, often regarded as being ‘left-behind’ and recently won a Golden Apple Award for ‘Best Community Initiative’.

The innovative format of the CROP Workshops/Salons follow the principles of writers workshops which are used by the pattern community. Please be informed about the rules by reading the CROP Workshop Agenda Rules and/or Writers Workshops as a Scientific Method

Please make sure to read Suzanne’s full paper before the event. Once you register you will receive the paper by November 5.

To participate, please click here | Meeting ID: 836 1200 3686 | Code: 043398

Call for papers “The Faro Convention Implementation. Heritage Communities as Commons: Relationships, Participation, and Well-being in a Shared Multidisciplinary Perspective

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The Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society (Faro Convention) brings the debate on the theme of cultural heritage as a common good in its various material and immaterial dimensions and linked it to the identity of places and communities up to date. The Convention affirms that all forms of cultural heritage in Europe that together constitute a shared source of legacy, understanding, identity, cohesion, and creativity are part of cultural heritage.

This broad definition, which also refers to the role and function of citizens’ participation, opens the door to a multitude of possible intercultural and interinstitutional collaborations and innovative ways of promoting the development of cultural sites, communities and heritage.

Cultural heritage provides communities with tangible and intangible experiences that favour the perception of common past and traditions, creating connections between citizens and places and between citizens and the community, favouring a focus on local dimensions, enhancing resources and natural, environmental, cultural and social heritage, improving the quality of life.

They offer opportunities for discussion and debate on issues affecting the entire community, as well as to expand their social network, impacting the ties within and with the community through their physical and social characteristics and through the social and cultural environment that they host as part of “The Faro Convention Implementation. Heritage Communities as Commons: Relationships, Participation, and Well-being in a Shared Multidisciplinary Perspective” conference.

The Community Psychology Lab (Humanities Department) of the University Federico II and IRISS (Institute for Research on Innovation and Development Services) of the National Research Council of Italy and the Venice Office of the Council of Europe, with SiPCO (Italian Society of Community Psychology), ANIAI (National Association of Italian Engineers and Architects), AIP (Associazione Italiana di Psicologia), PSI-COM APS (Associazione di Promozione Sociale), invite scholars and professionals of human relations and habitat: psychologists, sociologists, architects, economists, lawyers, social and cultural managers to participate in the conference and to submit an abstract.

The deadline to submit abstract proposals is October 20, 2021

The conference will be held both live in Naples (Complesso del SS. Marcellino e Festus Ateneo Federico II) and with online sessions, on 16 and 17 December 2021.

Abstract
Abstract (max 250 words) in Italian or English must be sent, according to the following format, to the Organizing Secretariat (email:naplesfaroconvention2021@gmail.com) no later than 20.10.2021.

The communication of the acceptance will be sent, within 25.10.2021, to the e-mail address indicated in the abstract. It is also planned a special issue to which participants will be able to contribute.

Scholars, belonging to different disciplinary fields, are called to investigate and discuss, in the perspective of the Faro Convention, the following issues aimed at the development of Heritage Communities:
1. Places, participation, values and connections
2. Individual and collective rights in the participatory management of heritage
3. Cultural commons, valorization of cultural heritage and urban regeneration
4. Collaborative governance, management and business development
5. Identity of places, attachment, belonging and sense of community
6. Coexistence, ties, and memory

Abstract Format
Title
Authors, afferent, email
Corresponding author
Abstract (max 250 words)
Keywords (max 5)
Thematic area of reference

Promoting Committee
Caterina Arcidiacono (DSU UNINA), Alessandro Castagnaro (ANIAI), Maria Cerreta (DIARC UNINA), Massimo Clemente (IRISS CNR), Gaia Daldanise (IRISS CNR), Immacolata Di Napoli (DSU UNINA), Eleonora Giovene di Girasole (IRISS CNR), Luisella Pavan-Woolfe (Consiglio d’Europa Ufficio di Venezia), Fortuna Procentese (SIPCO)


Scientific and organizational team
Stefania Carnevale, Emanuele Esempio, Benedetta Ettorre, Flora Gatti, Simona Stella

Info: naplesfaroconvention2021@gmail.com

More info:

8th Conference and Workshop in Community Psychology

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We are happy to invite you to the 8th Conference and Workshop in Community Psychology in Slovakia 2021.

The conference will be online and the dates are 29th November – 30th November!

The goal of the conference and workshop is to provide time and space for both researchers and practitioners from various areas of community psychology in Europe so they can meet, present their work and research, inspire each other, and enjoy socializing together. 

Organisation: Institute of Applied Psychology at Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, European Community Psychology Association (ECPA), and The Society for Community and Action Research (SCRA) Division 27 American Psychological Association. 

Conference and workshop dates: 29th November – 30th November, 2021 (9.00-18.00)  

Conference and workshop language: English and Slovak (please, prepare your presentation in English in both cases) 

Conference and workshop fees: No fee (free access)

Deadline for active participation in the conference: Please, fill in this form within October 15th, 2021. 

The proceedings from the conference will be published in electronic form with ISBN. The deadline for the submission of the conference papers is November 5th, 2021 (CommunityPsychologySlovakia@gmail.com) in order to be reviewed and published online prior the conference. 

Proceedings from the last year was indexed in WoS. We will be applying for WoS indexing again this year. 

For more information follow:

Looking forward to see you in November!