Social work’s professional training has experienced processes of continuity and discontinuity, which reflect in the contemporary developments of current generations. Under these processes, discussions regarding the links between social work’s knowledge production and its public impact have been accompanied by analyses concerning the profession’s object and the profession’s inter, trans, or post-disciplinary nature. More specifically, it is possible to identify how debates circulate, on the one hand, about what is considered to be the identity elements of Social Work. Following these concerns, professional intervention is seen as matching such elements identified as constitutive of social work, which should be emphasised by graduation profiles where the production of knowledge is considered closely related to social intervention. On the other hand, it is argued that inter, trans, or post-disciplinary work corresponds to how current professional practice develops where the discipline would provide an articulating perspective between the micro and macrosocial, contributing to the production of knowledge from this singular point of view. Therefore, knowledge production would make sense for both the development of social sciences and social intervention.

In recent years, the above perspectives have emphasised, as the political horizon of the discipline, its public impact in the light of transforming ethical parameters, recognizing the incompleteness of disciplines and, therefore, the necessity to transcend their borders, incorporating the notion that social work’s professional practice has diffuse limits, and that subjectivities and uncertainties, as components of the social environment, are permanent and inevitable.

From these understandings and considering the current socio-political and health conditions shared with other countries, it is pertinent to analyse, among other aspects, the global standards of professional training; its ethical-political dimension; the de-professionalization, massification, fragmentation and segmentation of social work, along with its socio-professional positioning. Additionally important to analyse too are social work’s teaching methodologies as well as the incorporation of new forms of learning; the role of training practices; the implications of national systems of educational quality assurance; the emergence of new professional profiles in the context of the transformations of the labour market; among many other aspects that are or will be influential in the training of future generations of professionals who will intervene on the social sphere producing knowledge with public impact.

1. Current debates, challenges, proposals, and experiences about:
   1. Knowledge production and public impact
   2. Social work and interdisciplinarity
   3. Professional training standards
   4. Social work’s teaching and learning practices
   5. The ethical-political dimension of professional training
   6. Networks building and impact on the public space

Chilean or foreign research social workers. Research professionals with proposals and data to develop presentations aligned with the congress axes and sub-axes.

Social workers and social science professionals working in public institutions and/or non-profit organisations: professionals who have developed research projects and public policies with meaningful impact or replicable good practices related to some of the congress axes.

Undergraduate or postgraduate students developing their final research projects (thesis): students from all types of higher education institutions developing or finishing research projects in areas related to the congress axes.

Leaders from communities, indigenous groups and social organisations, and public policy actors: to be invited by the congress organisers.

Those interested in presenting papers must send the abstracts through the congress platform with an extension of between 800 to 1000 words. Abstracts have to be sent through the congress website.

The deadline for sending the abstracts is between June 15 and September 9, 2022.

Abstracts will be evaluated by the congress academic commission, accepting proposals with different degrees of progress (i.e., research projects at the beginning, middle or end-stage) but associated with the five congress axes.

The abstracts must contain the following information located at the top of the document:

• Thematic axis where the paper proposal is inscribed
• Level of progress (for research or intervention projects (ongoing investigation, research results, experiences systematizations, among others)).
• Name and last names of authors (maximum 2)
• Position (if applicable)
• Organisation or institution (if applicable)
• Country and city of residency
• E-mail
• Phone number

In order to develop a proper evaluation of proposals, we recommend that abstracts be clear regarding the following elements:

1. 1. The argument, object, phenomenon, or problem to be exposed
   2. The theoretical, methodological, and empirical fundamentals
   3. The relevance and originality of the topic
   4. The knowledge contribution made by the proposal

Abstracts must be sent in Word format, Calibri or Arial fonts, word-size 11, 1.15 spacing, and justified text. Presentation titles in bold and centred. Subtitles in bold and right justified. Citation style APA, 7 edition.

• The proposal is inscribed in one of the congress axes
• The argument is clear
• Theoretical, methodological, and empirical fundamentals
• Topic originality and appropriateness
• Contribution to professional and disciplinary knowledge

The results will be known on September 30, 2022.

Enrolment and payments will be available on the congress website based on the following categories and prices:

• • Presentations: $ 25.000 (USD 30.25)
  • Professionals and general public: $ 30.000 (USD 36.3)
  • Postgraduate students: $ 15.000 (USD 18.15)
  • Undergraduate students : $ 5.000 (USD 6.05)

Cecilia Concha, Sandra Iturrieta, Yesika Herrera y
Elizabeth Vargas.
Responsible contacts of the axis.
consultas@congresointernacionalts.cl