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Award for the Betterment of the Human Condition

The basic requirement for eligibility for this award is significant accomplishment by an organization (private or public sector organization) to the development and use of QOL measures in serving its constituency. The Nominating Committee with the assistance of the Vice-President for External Affairs scouts possible candidates for consideration. The selected candidate is nominated by the Nominating Committee and is selected by a simple majority vote of the Board of Directors (with at least 25% of the Directors voting).

2012: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative

2010: Transparency International (Berlin)

2009: Istituto Degli Innocenti, University of Florence

2007: New Economics Foundation (NEF)

2006: The South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR)

2004: Annie E. Casey Foundation; KIDS COUNT Project

2003: Kluwer Academic Publisher; Social Indicators Research

2001: Government of Sweden; Statistics Sweden

2000: United Nations Development Programme; United Nations

1998: Center for Diseases Control and Prevention; National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion; Healthcare and Aging Studies Branch

Well Being & Public Policy Workshop

The workshop will focus on how well alternative measures of wellbeing correlate and how they can be used in evaluations of public policy outcomes.

CIP Workshop Program

If you are interested in attending please write to Jennifer Scheppers j.a.scheppers@reading.ac.uk

May 22, 2013
University of Reading, Whiteknights, UK

4th ISCI International Conference

The 4th ISCI conference will explore how child indicators can be used to improve the well-being of children in a globalized world under the conference’s main theme “Child Indicators in a Globalized World: Implications for Research, Practice and Policy.” Read more.

May 29 - 31, 2013
Hoam Faculty House, Seoul National University, Korea

XVI Encuentro De Economia Aplicada

This Spanish congress on Economics has a special item of Social Indicators Research on the agenda. The plenary speaker is Mariano Rojas.

To read more about the congress, visit their site: http://www.alde.es/encuentros/

June 6 - 7, 2013
Granada, SPAIN

Third World Congress on Positive Psychology

The World Congress on Positive Psychology is the perfect opportunity for anyone interested in learning how the “thriving science” is changing the lives of individuals, communities, and institutions around the globe.

For more information, please visit: http://www.ippanetwork.org/world_congress_landing_page/

June 27 - 30, 2013
Los Angeles, CA, USA

OECD-Universities Joint Conference

The conference explores the Beyond GDP agenda, the implications of wellbeing for policy as well as understanding and measurement.

Final deadline for abstracts is 20 May 2013 and for Receipt of payment 1 JUNE 2013.

Good quality contributions in Social Science as well as Economics are VERY welcome! The Oxford based Foundation for Knowledge Exchange (OFKE) will award a Prize of 300 Euros for the best contributed conference presentation if it feels appropriate. The decision will be announced on the website shortly after the conference.

Submission and Registration here.

July 3 - 5, 2013
OECD HQ,Paris, France