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International Association of Schools of Social Work
President's Report ( January-June 2022)
for Recife and on line Board Meeting
Dear Colleagues,Greetings!!
First of all, I would like to thank Alexandra Mustafà for organizing this hybrid Board meeting.
Unfortunately, not so many members can attend it in presence, but I thought that was very importantto have a representative of the Board in Brazil, to recreate a positive link with the ABEPS (theBrazilian association of educator and researchers in SW).
The time we are living, is very difficult. The COVID 19 pandemic is not totally eradicated and we have
had another terrible event that took place in Ukraine with the Russian military invasion that has
produced deaths and destruction. I’m absolutely aware that this is not the only war as different
agencies underline, according to the most recent data on forgotten conflicts in 2021 there were 22
high-intensity conflicts. With Ukraine it has now reached 23. If, on the other hand, chronic crises andviolent escalations are also taken into account, there were 359 conflicts in 2020…. So, it is very difficult
to follow all these situations, to express statements in time and to not forget anyone.
The most important objective for us, as association of schools, is to secure that in our education, social
justice, human rights, proactive engagement at local level to build dialogue and peace, but also to relief
people affected by all this trauma, are present in social work programmes.
January Board meeting
Due to Covid-19 restrictions we had again an online board meeting during January 10-12, 2022.
Although, it was difficult for some of due to different time zones across the world. In spite of that we
had 32 participants’ (voting and non-voting board members) in attendance.

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Tripartite Committee
IASSW, ICSW and IFSW have continued their cooperation both for the Global Summit (where Barbara
is representing IASSW in the committee and will report) and the Global Agenda (Antoinette willreport).
WSWD 2022 has been celebrated in the UN agency in New York, in Geneva and in Bangkok and inmany others places around the world, where I’ve been asked to give welcome or speeches.
Katherine Kendall
The activity is going on with a lot of initiatives. I couldn’t attend the meeting in May in USA but
Barbara was there.

SWESD 2022The conference in Seoul October 26/28 has been launched. It will be a hybrid
conference. The call for abstracts was open till the 30th of June. More details are available at :http://www.swesd2022.com/

Concerning the past on line ISWED 2021 conference the publication of book containing someinteresting chapters is almost ready. Tiong will be updating more on it.

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Communication Officer
Jenny Joy, as worked as communication officer and we have started to organize webinar on specifictopics linked to the UN days.
The response to our request by the board has been really poor and this has created problems in therealization. The same problems was on providing information and contents for the Newsletter.
So, I want to invite all of you to be more responsive.
It is still on the way the realization of some changes in the website, to follow some input received via
survey and also to make it more attractive and useful. It is foreseen to open a space for students that
we would like to involve in our organization.
Jenny is also working with the Global Summit Communication group. and will update for this in herreport.
Italian Ministry of Health will host the fourth Global Mental Health Summit
Italian Ministry of health along with several other partners will be organizing 4th global Mental HealthSummit kills, rights, care: time to act. Lessons learned from the emergency" that'll be held in Rome, on
13 and 14 October 2022. IASSW is one of the steering committee partners. They had two steeringcommittee meeting on May 13th and June 22nd. I was busy in other commitment, Rashmi attended bothmeeting. Darja accepted to represent IASSW in the steering committee but we need volunteers toorganise a workshop during the seminar.
Reports from the Committee
You have received the reports and I’ve been in contact with the chairs of the committees all the timethat was needed
Palestine/Israel SW task force
After June Board meeting, a task force was formed, chair of task force is Tiong and he will update on it.
Other activities
I am sharing highlight of my participation to many different initiatives during the past six months:
I have prepared the endorsement for the Mark Henrickson book: The origin of social care and social
work and a Foreword to the Eduardo Marques book on "Serviço Social nos países de língua
portuguesa: interculturalidade e desafios" . I’ve also recorded a video for launching a book on : Asianexperience. Community development case studies in Asia
February
23 I was invited to speak at the Iran conference on Social Work and social inclusion organized in
Teheran. My on line contribution was on The inclusion of service users in social work education
22 Presentation and welcome for International Seminar on Disaster Preparedness and SustainableDevelopment International organized by Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) along withother International Organizations

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I prepared a video for the WSWD in English, French, Spanish and Italian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqVd63Hsc_E&t=11s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiKKqAlpXS4&t=14s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuOFkT87pLg&t=15s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff3_6q82_LE
8- I recorded a short video for the Women’s day . I also invited the students to join IASSW and toparticipate in our activities
https://www.facebook.com/IASSW.AIETS/videos/1405556146553352
15 - I presented a welcome speech at the Johannesburg World Social Work Day :Co-building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind
15 - I gave a speech at the Florence University celebration of the WSWD on Specialisation in social
work and a model of crisis intervention, to not to leave anyone behind
16 - I welcome participants at the WSWD in Geneva
22- Presentation and welcome for International Seminar on Disaster Preparedness and Sustainable
Development International organized by Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) along withother International Organizations
24- I spoke for the Regional council of social workers in Naples, about “Field placement and theglobal standard for social work education and training”
24- I recorded a speech for the “ EASSW Funded Regional Event: International Social Work ineducation, training and practice”, on Internationalising social work curricula
March 28 and 29th I was invited by Pablo Olavide university Sevilla Spain and I. She gave lecture on"The challenges of social work in International arena" and discussed about the book on
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1-2 participation to a panel on Challenges, innovation and quality of social work education on theconference in occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Schools of social work of the Catholic Universityin Lisboan

4 April I spoke on "Internationalising social work curricula" in the seminar on "Perspective in Social
work practice" organised by the department of Social work of Charles University and the Professional
Chamber of Social Workers in Prague Czech Republic.

6/9 April Closing speech at ESWRA conference inAmsterdam. My presence was active in Special interest
group as on Research on Social work and policyengagement, in transnational social work, in Users
participation, in Social Work Through History. Also
participated in the General Assembly and in the launchof the new Journal European Social Work Researchthat will be published by Policy Press, where I am in
the advisory Board and gave the closing remarks,
underlining the role of IASSW, the IASSW statement onresearch, the opportunities offered by International
projects and Resource Centres, as well as the Global
Standard. I invited schools and individual to become
members and to cooperate with IASSW

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19 Participation on line to the launch of the Brazilian journal “Quadernos Gepe” where is also
published my article on IASSW
22 participation on line to the launch of Eduardo Marques book "Serviço Social nos países de língua
portuguesa: interculturalidade e desafios" |May
6 preparation of a short video for the 75 years of Lund University and a video interview on theimportance and the challenges of international collaboration
May 12th, I gave welcome speech via video message in IASSW's capacity building programme forVietnam, which was organized online. Darla will be updating more about it in her report.

17 WORLD SOCIAL WORK DAY 2022 Co-building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behindorganized by University of Pisa on May 17th on theme of "Inequalities and humanitarian crisis. Social
work challenges between global and local “. I participated and spoken on "World social work day
between Academy and profession and Social work challenges between global and local: leaving no One
behind". I was also was in the panel where Valentina Shkuro of Taras Shevchenko university of Kyiv
presented the "Social Work at the stake of the war in Ukraine".
-27 I presented a speech on The Institutional Processes of Social Work and their Organizations: anInternational Look at the conference organized by Pisa University on Social Work Professional
Organizations in Europe and Beyond. An Opportunity for Social Work and Social Policy in Complex
Societies?

7President ReportThe future
We have three important projects, strictly related to our mission, to develop:- the first is to create a task force with representatives of all the regions that will develop a strategicplan to implement Global standards for education and training in different part of the world- the second is to involve students in our organization. They are a fundamental part of the schools, thefuture professionals that we have to prepare in the best way, so their voice need to be considered.
They have to become active members in IASSW.
-The third is the organization of different activities, in cooperation with Power Us. We have subscribeda letter of intent and we would like to develop a strong synergy to introduce the service users
perspective in our education.
I think we need a strong commitment of everyone to spread information about IASSW and ouractivities and to involve schools and individual academic to become members.
It is important to enhance our educators community. We can share ideas, learn from each other’s,and offer a mutual support in contrast with the competitive individualistic attitude that is present in
the culture of our society. I would like to have a more engaged discussion in the future on key issue forour association. I’m looking forward to having also your ideas on how to organize our next board
meeting, that I hope will be for everybody in presence, choosing one core topic that can be of generalinterest to debate and that can attract schools and individual members to join IASSW and to refreshthe image of our association.
We need an engagement of board and non-board members in the committees to fulfill our mission.
I think that the publication series, the students involvement as an important stakeholders of ourorganization, as well as the idea I’ve proposed to create a task force to implement the global standards
around the world can boost our organization.
I look forward to your feedback on my report and I hope that next time we can have a full face-to-facemeeting in Makerere University.
Respectfully submitted

Prof. Annamaria Campanini
President, International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW)