Recent Events

The 2024 Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting in Kansas City, MO, USA, October 24-27, 2024, provided an exciting and productive experience for sharing group work education, practice and research strategies. Many IASWG members attended and presented. The Conference included several exciting panel discussions, papers, workshops, and posters in the CSWE Group Work Track and other tracks. Please see the attached schedule for more information. We acknowledge that this was a primarily U.S.-based conference and encourage IASWG members outside the U.S. to promote group work related content at their local, regional, and national conferences and meetings.

Upcoming International Conferences

In addition to planning to present and attend our IASWG Symposium, we encourage submission of group work-related abstracts to a number of international conferences. Feel free to share additional announcements for posting by email to [email protected].

June 11-13, 2025 International Association of Social Work with Groups: Annual Symposium

• Website: https://www.iaswg.org/2025symposium

June 23-26, 2025 European Association of Schools of Social Work

• Website: https://www.eassw.org/

September 2025, Association of South African Social Work Education Institutions (ASASWEI)

• Website: https://asaswei.org.za/

• Website: https://www.cswe.org/events-meetings/2025-apm/

June 26-29, 2026 Global Social Work Conference 2026, International Federation of Social Workers

• Website: https://www.ifsw.org/save-the-date-swsd2026/

Past Events

• In 2020, the IASSW and the IFSW will be hosting separate conferences.  They have agreed to return to a combined, biannual conference in 2022 and 2024.

• Online 2020 US Council on Social Work Education’s Annual Program Meeting - The Group Work Track has 11 Sessions (for conference registrants only), as well as a Track Meeting, Wednesday, November 18th at 6:00 EST (open to everyone on Zoom). Two of the accepted Track Sessions were selected for “live” presentations, and 9 Sessions were pre-recorded and will be available to conference registrants for a year.  View sessions and links. 

• CANCELLED - November 8-11, 2020, Rimini, Italy: Joint World Conference on Social Work Education and Social Development​ ​International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) & International Council on Social Welfare (http://www.swesd2020.org)

• July 15 – July 18, 2020, Virtual Event (Originally scheduled to be hosted in Calgary, Canada): The International 2020 Social Work Conference​ ​International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW)

• Special Interest Groups held in July at the SWSD2018 Conference, in Dublin, Ireland - Groupwork in Social Work Education, Practice and Research: Being and Joining Together

• 12th International Conference on Practice Teaching and Field Education: Oxford, UK, September 10-11, 2018.

• European Conference for Social Work Research: Leuven, Belgium, April 10-12, 2019

• European Association of Schools of Social Work EASSW Conference: Madrid, Spain, June 7, 2019

• US Council on Social Work Education's Annual Program Meeting: Denver, Colorado, USA, October 24–27, 2019