Crop News and Events
CROP-GRIP Newsletter 2019-2020
March 2020
This special issue newsletter is the final one for CROP and the first one for GRIP. It explains the transition process and provides an overview of CROP activities in 2019.
The Politics of Social Inclusion: From Knowledge to Action
15 November 2019 | UN Library, GENEVA
BOOK LAUNCH for forthcoming CROP/UNESCO publication (as part of UNRISD Seminar Series)
Putting Children First: New Frontiers in the Fight Against Child Poverty in Africa
18 October 2019 | Brighton, UK
BOOK LAUNCH and workshop at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in Brighton, UK
New Global Research Programme on Inequality (GRIP)
15 October 2019
The University of Bergen (UiB) and the International Science Council have signed a new agreement for a Global Research Programme on Inequality (GRIP).
Social Policy, Poverty, and Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
5 September 2019 | Dubrovnik
BOOK LAUNCH with editors Tatiana Chubarova and Paul Stubbs and contributing authors Natalia Gregorieva and Noemi Lendvai Bainton at "The Breakthrough of the Social" conference 2019
Poverty as Ideology: Rescuing Social Justice from Global Development Agendas
14 May 2019 | Bergen Global
LITERARY SALON: Andrew Fischer, winner of the International Studies in Poverty Prize awarded by CROP and Zed Books.
On 15 October 2019, the University of Bergen (UiB) and the International Science Council (ISC) signed a new agreement for a Global Research Programme on Inequality (GRIP).
“Today we are turning a new page and UiB is extremely pleased to be signing an agreement for a new programme with the ISC. UiB has for several years recognised and worked with the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda. With its focus on inequality, GRIP will deepen this effort by working truly globally", said UiB Rector Dag Rune Olsen.
“A key challenge for contemporary science is finding and identifying pathways to global sustainability that can reduce inequality and lift people out of poverty. Some of the significant gains that have been made in reducing poverty are now being threatened by pressing global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss and conflict. The GRIP programme, by providing a vibrant and interactive network of social scientists that collaborate on these issues, can build the critical knowledge required to identify and develop these pathways", said Mathieu Denis, ISC Science Director.
The agreement was signed by ISC President-elect Sir Peter Gluckman and UiB Rector Dag Rune Olsen.
