Tuesday 22 april 2008	Plenary session
	Mr. Joakim Palme, Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm, Sweden Social exclusion in modern Europe. What expectations should we have for social inclusion of marginalized groups in the future?  Biographical data: Joakim Palme has been Director of the Institute for Futures Studies since November 2002. He is also a professor associated with the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University. His doctoral dissertation, “Pension Rights in Welfare Capitalism”, was defended in 1990. Since then he has continued to work on social policy in a comparative perspective and published analyses of the welfare state and redistribution, and of the public-private mix in social protection. He has further worked on social insurance and health, as well as on social policy reform and retrenchment in Sweden. From 1999 to 2001 he chaired the Welfare Commission appointed by the Swedish Government.
	Mr. Tony Jeffs, Durham University, Department of Community and Youth Work,  Great Britain The history of street-based youth work and the development of different paths and terminology. What contribution can detached or outreach youth work make for local communities? Biographical data: Tony Jeffs teaches community and youth work programmes at Durham University. He was founding editor of the journal Youth and Policy and remains a member of the editorial board. He is also a member of the board of the National Youth Agency, Leicester.
	Ms. Helena Johansson, Ph.D., Department of Social Work, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Boys at risk of not becoming men – how masculinities are developed in social youth work.  A deconstruction of some gender conceptions and practices with an impact on ideals and marginalization. Biographical data: Helena Johansson is a trained social worker with a Ph.D. in social work. Her main area of interest is social youth work in a gender perspective. Her dissertation called “Lack of male role models – deconstruction of a conception ands its practice” was published in 2006 at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
	Mr. Øystein Nysæther, Mr. Anders D. Jansen and Ms. Aina Langhelle, The City of Oslo, Agency for Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services, Department for Detached and Outreach Youth Service, Norway Developing the reflective street-worker. How to make tacit knowledge more available in detached and outreach youth work. Biographical data: The facilitators are employed as full-time staff at the Agency for Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services; Department for Detached and Outreach Youth Service. They are all educated as child welfare social workers and are now taking post-degree education in street-based youth work at the University College of Oslo.
	Ms. Evelyne Baillergeau, CREMIS (CAU-CSSS  Jeanne-Mance) University of Montreal, Canada How can the views of the target group contribute to inform and develop the practice of street-based youth work? Considering the views of target groups in outreach work. Based on an ongoing comparative study of outreach work in Canada, France, The Netherlands and Spain, Ms. Baillergeau addresses findings to date and raises a discussion of what to do with the point of view of target groups in outreach work. Biographical data: Evelyne Baillergeau is a senior research fellow at CREMIS (a non-profit research institute related to the University of Montreal, Canada), Associate Professor at the University of Montreal (Department of Sociology) and associate research fellow at ASSR (Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands).
	Ms. Olga Levina, Stellit, St.Petersburg, Russia Research and perspectives on social exclusion in Russia. Biographical data: Olga Levina, Development Director of Regional Public Organization of Social Projects in Sphere of Population’s Well-Being “Stellit” and tutor at the Faculty of Psychology of St. Petersburg State University, has taken part in elaborating and realizing more then 70 social sphere projects, including those on prevention of social exclusion, and has more than 10 publications to her name.
	The Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs Early intervention: Governmental strategies for developing prevention work in local communities.
	Ms. Maureen Bruce, Senior practitioner and detached youth worker, Buckinghamshire County Council, Community and Youth engagement, Great Britain. Street-based youth work in rural settings. Maureen Bruce has been working as Detached Youth Worker in Buckinghamshire since 1999. For the past three years she has been a Senior Practitioner for the South Area team, which covers an area consisting of market towns and rural villages. Buckinghamshire is situated 40 miles from London, England and is a mixture of towns and rural villages. Within the rural setting, many young people are isolated due to the infrastructure of public transport and the expense of public transport. So it is not always easy for them to get to main areas where young people like to hang out such as cinemas, sports and leisure complexes and even youth centres, as many rural areas do not have youth centres.   Her work also leads to working with the travelling community where she has built up good relationships with the community.  The young people live on a static caravan site and she helps them with incorporating with the community they live in, as they spend a lot of time within their own tight community.  She has worked closely with METAS in relation to the Traveller’s Community and has established a very good working relationship.
	Ms. Dina Theofilidi, ARSIS, Thessalonica, Greece Growing up in Greece as an immigrant. Outreach work targeting gaps in the institutional frame. Biographical data Dina Theofilidi has studied communication, Greek philosophy, literature and pedagogy. She has been working for ARSIS since June 2005, primarily targeting child victims of exploitation or neglect who either come from marginalized social groups or are in danger of marginalization (immigrants, Romany people and ethnic minorities). Theofilidi’s areas of responsibility are street work, sensitization, lobbying, documentation of experience and methodology.
	Mr. Njaal Petter Svensson, The Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs Early intervention: Governmental strategies for developing prevention work in local communities. Biographical data: Njål Petter Svensson is senior advisor at the Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social affairs. By profession he is social worker with additional advanced studies in social policy, social work and anthropology. Almost 40 years experience as a social worker in different positions. Among the first to practise outreach work with young people at risk in Oslo late 1960ties.  Author and co-author of several books and articles on social work; e.g. “Outreach work with young people, young drug users and young people at risk.” (Council of Europe 2003)