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At the Free University of Bolzano, Italy, you will find your place at the campus of Bressanone in South Tyrol, where Humanities and Social Sciences are situated. Bressanone is a small, medieval town, embedded in the unique alpine landscape of the World Nature Heritage Dolomites.

Placed in the European border region between the North and the South, our still young and small University aims to transgress cultural, national and language boundaries, offering all its degree programmes in English, German and Italian and bringing together different academic discourses and traditions within European and transnational perspectives.

As interdisciplinary team, responsible for research and teaching in social work and social sciences, we represent the research-cluster Socio cultural worlds: Institutions, welfare, social professions, environment and population, working in intense collaboration with local, national and international partners.
We have a strong focus on social innovation, local welfare, community-based research and development, Social- and Solidarity Economy and eco-social transformation.

The Free University of Bolzano is particularly committed to equal opportunities and the career development of its employees.

Professor Susanne Elsen

Dr. Susanne Elsen is full Professor for Sociology at the Free University of Bolzano, Italy.

She studied Social Work and Social Education, Sociology and Economics and has long-term experience in the development of theory, research and practice in integrative area approaches for social innovation, community-based eco-social development as well as in social- and solidarity economy with a special focus on solutions for disadvantaged rural and urban areas.

She combines participatory research strategies as cooperative and transdisciplinary knowledge production with approaches to social change and development, involving stakeholders and concerned people.

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Associate Professor Urban Nothdurfter

Urban Nothdurfter is Associate Professor in Social Work and Social Policy at the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano. He is a qualified social worker and holds a PhD in Sociology and Social Research from the University of Trento. He has been a visiting doctoral researcher at the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare and winner of the Jos Berghman Welfare Studies Stipend awarded from the KU Leuven.

He has extensive experience in social work education and currently serves as the director of the BA programme in Social Work at the Free University of Bozen and as a member of the executive committee of the European Association of Schools of Social Work (EASSW). He is also board member of the Italian Academic Society for Social Work (SOCISS).

His research interests and activities mainly concentrate on the relationship between social policy development and social work practice, with a particular focus on the street-level implementation of policies and policy practice. He also works on sexuality, gender, and family issues, on the challenges of right-wing populism to social work and on eco-social work and sustainable welfare development. His research is mainly based on qualitative methodologies with a particular interest in participative approaches.