Measuring Progress Annual Workshop

The annual workshop will not be held this year as we are co-organizing the 23^rd International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies meeting in Luxembourg from July 22 – 25, 2025. We expect more than 400 participants and have an excellent programme in development. The theme is “Redefining Progress: Achieving Sustainable Well-Being for All”.  You can see further details here.

Past Events

Measuring Progress Workshop (2024)

• Event Programme (Pdf, 918 Kb)
• Book of Abstracts (Pdf, 738 Kb)
• Day 1 recordings are available here.
• Day 2 recordings are available here.

Inaugural Measuring Progress Workshop (2023)

• Event programme (Pdf, 1016 Kb)
• Book of abstracts (Pdf, 600 Kb)

All Day 1 recordings are available here.

Day 2 recordings are available here.

Well-Being 2022: Knowledge for informed decisions

Programme (Pdf, 2.02 Mb)

In June 2022, 83 speakers, 20 attendees and 8 invited guest speakers from around the world came together to discuss questions such as: How do we promote well-being? What are the best policies? What is the role for civil society? How can these insights help us to address the environmental, social, and economic challenges of today and the future?

Participants included practitioners and researchers from academia, international and national organisations and institutions (including the OECD and several statistical offices), and civil society. It featured 26 parallel sessions; opening remarks from the Minister of the Economy (Franz Fayot); a roundtable discussion on how policy-makers can integrate the findings from well-being studies (including panelists from the Luxembourg parliament, academia, and policy organizations, e.g., OECD); a presentation of the new results from the PIBien-être project by the Director of STATEC Dr. Serge Allegrezza; an opening talk from a civil society activist (author and filmmaker Mr. John De Graaf); a workshop on the World Database of Happiness by its creator Ruut Veenhoven; and four keynote speeches by Profs. Stefano Bartolini, Andrew Clark, Carol Graham, and Andrew Oswald.

Recordings of the main events are available here.

The conference was organized by STATEC Research with support from STATEC and the Ministry of the Economy, and sponsored by the National Research Fund (FNR), Caritas Luxembourg, the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS), and Global Labor Organization (GLO).