August 18-21, 2026– Joint ICDSS-EARA Roundtable discussion: Scientific and societal impact of research on adolescence – EARA, Utrecht
Chair: Susan Branje, Utrecht University, NL
June 21-25, 2026 -Roundtable discussion: Bridging Developmental Research and Policy: Global Strategies for Impact at ISSBD 2026, Incheon,
Chair: Marcel van Aken, Utrecht University, NL
August 25-29, 2025 -ECDP/ICDSS Roundtable discussion: Sustainable developmental science – ECDP2025, Vilnius, Lithuania
Chair: Spyridon Tantaros
ICDSS Roundtable discussion: Bridging Developmental Research and Policy: Global Strategies for Impact – ECDP2025, Vilnius, Lithuania
Chair: Marcel van Aken, Susan Branje
September 2024 – EADP/EARA/ICDSS Roundtable Discussion: Destination Future: Is Developmental Psychology Ready to Take off? EARA 2024, Cyprus
Chair: Dagmar Strohmeier
September 2024 -At the EARA 2024 conference in Cyprus, ICDSS also organized three Bites of science sessions:
1. Planning Eco-Friendly Conferences: The Future of Scientific Meetings
2. Effective Mentoring Relationships in Science
3. Balancing Open Data with Privacy Considerations
September 2023 – ICDSS panel discussion: Benefits and challenges of open science for developmental science at ECDP2023, Turku, Finland
Chair: Susan Branje
ISSBD/ICDSS 2022 Conference
Our first meeting of the ICDSS took place June 19-23, 2022, on the Island of Rhodes in Greece. Under Frosso’s leadership, ICDSS had several invited events
• SRCD/ICDSS Joint Symposium: Nancy Hill, Preparing for the Transition to Adulthood
• ISSBD/ICDSS Joint Event: Ann V. Sanson: Implications of Climate Crisis for Human Development and for Developmental Scholars
• SRA/ISSBD/ICDSS Joint Symposium: Velma McBride Murry: School, Social Spaces for Youth Risk and Opportunities for Positive Development
• ISSBD/ICDSS Special Event: J. Goviana Dell’Oro, Learning to Hope Schools, Refugee Teens and the Future of Integration
• ISSBD/ICDSS Roundtable Discussion: Sander Thomaes, Climate Change and Youth Development
In June 19-23, 2022, ICDSS will host at the 26th ISSBD conference, together with ISSBD, events on the topic of climate change and development.
The conference will take place on the Island of Rhodes in Greece.
The website of the conference is: issbd2022.org
Two of the events that have already been announced are:
A keynote address on the topic: “The Implications of the Climate Crisis for Human Development and for Developmental Scholars” presented by a world expert in the effects of climate change on developing individuals, Professor Ann V. Sanson, Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia
A roundtable discussion between scientists and a young activist on the topic “Climate Change and Youth Development” organized by an expert on the topic, Professor Sander Thomaes, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
In April 2021, ICDSS organized, together with SRCD, an online Preconference Event funded by Jacobs Foundation on the topic “Development of Refugee Children and Youth Living in Camps during COVID19”.
Chairs of this preconference event were: Frosso Motti-Stefanidi, President of ICDSS, and Velma McBride Murry, President-elect of ICDSS.
This event took place online due to the pandemic in April 2021 one day before the SRCD conference.
The first part of the event includes presentations by experts in the field focusing on the challenges and resources for refugee youth living in camps in the context of the pandemic.
The second part of the event consisted of the poster symposium. For this part ten (10) young scholars were paired with a colleague to engage in a capacity building event. The 10 young scholars presented a poster focusing on different aspects of the topic of the preconference event (refugee status, COVID 19, and/or policy implications). The pairs of scholars worked together on the preparation of the poster and on a brief oral presentation of the work presented in the poster.