Fifth PRESILIENT Coordination Meeting and Workshop, University of Bucharest, 3-7 November 2025.
Check out the preliminary program here!
October 2025 – PRESILIENT Seminar with Alena Ledeneva "What is informality and what it may become? An introduction to the Global Informality Project and guidelines on how to contribute".
Discover the world’s open secrets, unwritten rules and hidden practices with the founder of The Global Informality Project, Professor Alena Ledeneva. The project is a pioneering online resource for exploring the 'ways of getting things done' around the globe. The online encyclopaedia and the published volumes of invisible, yet powerful informal practices are made possible by a remarkable collaboration of scholars from five continents.
Recording available here.
February 2025 – University of Naples Federico II (Naples, Italy): Fourth PRESILIENT Coordination Meeting and Workshop "From Data to Insight: Analytical Challenges and Diverse Perspectives"
February 2025 – Presentation PRESILIENT Project at CAMINANTES: Centro di Studi e Documentazione Multimediale su Messico e America Latina (Naples, Italy)
March 2024 – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain): Second PRESILIENT Meeting and Induction Training “Informality in the Global South and beyond: the state of the art of debates"
March 2024 – Dublin City University (Ireland): Online Training on How to Conduct a Systematic Literature Review. Conducted by Gian Marco Moisé (DCU)
April 2024 – Centro per la Cooperazione Internazionale (Italy): Online Training "GDELT: Exploring News Sources across Different Countries". Conducted by Giorgio Comai (CCI)
June 2024 – UNED Costa Rica (online): PRESILIENT Roundtable "Informality in Latin America: Economic and Social Impacts in a Post-Pandemic Context". YouTube recording available
July 2024 – University of Split (Croatia): PRESILIENT Summer School "Informality in the Global South and Beyond: Qualitative and Quantitative Research of Informal Economies"
November 2024 – Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS), University of Copenhagen (Denmark): Online Workshop on Ethnote applied to PRESILIENT: an Open Source Ethnographic Fieldnote Management Tool. Conducted by Emilie Munch Gregersen (SODAS)
November 2024 – Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (Portugal): Third PRESILIENT Coordination Meeting and Workshop "Fieldwork: Challenges and Perspectives"
November 2023 – Bratislava Policy Institute (Slovakia): First PRESILIENT International Meeting and Induction Training "Informality in the Global South and Beyond: the State of the Art of Debates"