Strong Social Work is the organiser of this European Social Work Conference, together with the Department of Care of the government of Flanders.

Strong Social Work is a Flemish platform for social workers that was established in 2018, following the first Flemish Social Work Conference. We want to connect social workers and social work organisations to inspire and support each other. We support projects based on the challenges that social workers face.

Currently, we support projects focussed on socially just sustainability, digitalisation, diversity, the shortage of social workers on the labour market, first-line social work, impact evaluation, politicisation, and privatisation.

We connect social workers through our regional platforms. Each Flemish province and Brussels has its own Strong Social Work Platform where social work schools and social workers organise events aimed at connecting, inspiring and sharing knowledge. A great example are the activities that each platform organises yearly on World Social Work Day.

All this work is only possible because of the constant support of the social work and civil society organisations in our network.

We hope that this European Social Work Conference can be a moment to connect social workers across European borders, to be inspired and to learn from each other. Together, social workers can make a difference.