IUSSP at the European Population Conference (EPC2024)

Edinburgh, Scotland, 12-15 June 2024

The 2024 European Population Conference convened in Edinburgh (Scotland) from 12-15 June 2024. Over 900 participants from all over the world discussed more than 500 oral presentations in 120 parallel regular, flash and invited sessions. In addition, some 200 posters were presented in 3 thematic poster sessions. 

Hll Kulu (University of St. Andrews), EAPS President, during the Opening Ceremony in McEwan Hall.

During the Closing & Award Ceremony, the EAPS awards were presented to this year's laureates: France Meslé (EAPS Award for Population Studies), Aart Liefbroer (Van de Kaa Award for Social Demography), Iñaki Permanyer (James Vaupel Trailblazer Award for Demographic Analysis), Eleonora Mussino (Jan Hoem Award for Social Policy and Family Demography), Daniela Vono de Vilhena (Outreach Award for communication in population science), Antonino Polizzi (Beyer Award for Best EPC 2024 Paper by an early career scholar) and Best Poster Awards for Stefano Arnolfo, Ankit Sikarwar, and Fatima Arriba Moreno.

The next venue for the European Population Conference will be Bologna, Italy where EPC 2026 will convene from 3-6 June 2026!

The IUSSP Panel on Lifetime Migration organized a workshop on "Migration Over the Life Course" on June 12 as a side event of the European Population Conference. This event included parts: in the morning, an open peer-review session for 6 young authors, and in the afternoon, a public event on the use of life course migration in three projects funded by the European Research Council and coordinated by Profs Sergi Vidal (panel co-chair), Clara Mulder, and Helga de Valk.

The IUSSP also had a booth to encourage participants to join the IUSSP and to submit a paper for the forthcoming International Population Conference (IIPC2025) in Brisbane, Australia. 

A member of the EAPS PhD network helping distribute IPC2025 calls for papers at the shared EAPS-IUSSP booth. 

IUSSP Secretary General Nico van Nimwegen, Council members Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi and Edith Gray, and Deputy Executive Director Paul Monet.

IUSSP Council members Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Nico van Nimwegen (SG) and Albert Esteve, and Deputy Executive Director Paul Monet.