The annual general meeting of ReDi, September 17th, at 3.15 pm, will elect a new chair person and and new members (three to five persons) of the executive board for 2020 and 2021. This will be the first election of an executive board in the Belgian organisation, which means we are not bound by who…
Dear members of ReDi. We would like to invite you on the due date according to our statutes, to the General Assembly of our association on September 17th 2020 from 15:15 to 16:15 (CET) Please note that the invitation is for members who have confirmed the transfer of their membership from the Finnish entity to the Belgian…
Dear members of ReDi, We would like to invite you on the due date according to our statutes, to the General Assembly of our association on September 8th 2020 from 9:00 to 10:00 CET. In accordance with the decision taken in the preceding year, the main issue on the agenda will be the move of…
Recently, the ReDi Executive Board was happy to accept the request of the CODE Forum to become a thematic network of ReDi.The CODE Forum brings together researchers and practitioners in the field of community development and Diakonia. It is a multidisciplinary network with broad international participation. CODE Forum seeks to support research that explores the…
During its last Executive Board Meeting, ReDi was very pleased to accept the request of interdiac Research Platform to become a regional network of ReDi for Central and Eastern Europe. It is the second network to join the association formally. The decision builds on the close relations within the already existing network with the aim…
The 8th International ReDi conference that was initially meant to take place in Oslo, Norway, has been replaced by a one-day digital conference on 17 September 2020. The pandemic has turned many lives upside down and ruled out most of conference planning in 2020. At the same time, the need for two components of the conference…
The International Society for Research and Study of Diaconia and Christian Social Practice (ReDi) and VID specialised University will be hosting the 8th ReDi Conference under the theme “Diakonia as Gamechanger”. The development of society on both global and local level is increasingly described in terms of crisis. Climate change is becoming more perceptible and…
Our institutional member Eurodiaconia, a Brussels-based federation of 51 social and health care service providers in Europe is looking for project partners. Recently, the European Commission has published a call for proposals under the research programme Horizon2020 called “Addressing Radicalisation through Social Inclusion” with the application deadline in March 2020. Eurodiaconia works on this…
ReDi is both happy and sad to announce that our board member Prof. Dr. Beate Hofmann is leaving the executive board of the association representing the Institute for Diaconic Science and Management (IDM), Germany. She has recently been elected to become the first female Bishop of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck (Germany). The executive board…
The 8th International ReDi Conference will take place on 16-18 September 2020 in Oslo, Norway. It will be hosted by VID Specialized University and focus on the theme of “Organising and leading service in contexts of change and diversity. Diaconal perspectives on innovation”. The Call for Sessions will come up during September 2019 and…