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Social Simulation Conference (SSC) 2025

25/08/2025

The 20th annual Social Simulation Conference (SSC 2025) will take place from the 25th to the 29th August 2025 at the TU Delft, the Netherlands. This year’s special theme is “Social simulation in a socio-technical context: embracing societies’ complexities.” A theme fitting to an engineering university that, through the faculty Technology, Policy and Management, bridges engineering… MORE

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Social Simulation Fest 2025

May 20-21

The European Social Simulation Association is excited to bring to you the 2025 edition of the Social Simulation Festival. Free and featuring 8 online sessions over 2 days (May 20th and 21st), participants will get access to an amazing set of speakers and interactive workshops. All sessions are designed to help both new and experienced… MORE

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Social Simulation Conference 2025

25-29 August 2025

The 20th annual Social Simulation Conference (SSC 2025) will take place from the 25th to the 29th August 2025 at the TU Delft, the Netherlands.

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Social Simulation Conference 2024

2024-09-16 to 2024-09-20

The 19th annual Social Simulation Conference (SSC 2024) took place from 16th to 20th September 2024 at the Cracow University of Economics, Poland. This year’s special theme will be “Social Simulation – crossroads between social science and computational methods”, focused on modelling of social phenomena, computational aspects and the theory linking these  two scientific fields.

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ESSA summer school 2023

The European Social Simulation Association’s official 2023 Summer School will be held at The James Hutton Institute’s Craigiebuckler campus in Aberdeen, Scotland on 28 August-1 September 2023. The summer school aims for PhD students and early career researchers from academia and beyond in the week before the Social Simulation Conference in Glasgow. No prior experience… MORE

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Social Simulation Conference 2023 in Glasgow

4-8 September 2023

The Social Simulation Conference 2023 will be organized by the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at the University of Glasgow, 4-8th September 2023. The conference is one of the key activities of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA) to promote social simulation and computational social science in Europe and elsewhere. This year’s special… MORE

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Social Simulation Fest 2023

March 15 and March 16, 2023

For the third year running, the free of charge Social Simulation Fest is taking place online. Although free, you need to register to receive the Zoom link(s) for the event. For this, please visit the events website at: SocSimFesT2023 Programme of the 2023 SocSImFest Wednesday 15th of March 09:30-11:00 Inspirational talk: Tatiana Filatova (Delft University… MORE

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Social Simulation Conference (SSC) 2022

12/09/2022

The 17th annual Social Simulation Conference (SSC 2022) took take place from 12–16 September 2022 at the University of Milan, Italy. The conference was organised in a hybrid format with plenary sessions of general interest, invited lectures and parallel sessions, tracks and workshops. ESSA-related events took place, including a general assembly and a final cerimony… MORE

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ESSA-BEHAVE Online Summer School 2021

30 August-10 September 2021

Jointly organised by Behave Lab, ESSA-European Social Simulation Association, GECS–Research Group on Experimental and Computational Sociology (University of Brescia), the ESLS PhD Programme in Economic Sociology and Labour Studies (University of Milan) and supported by Fondazione Grazioli and Collegio Universitario Luigi Lucchini di Brescia, this school aims to train students on Agent-Based Models (ABM) in… MORE

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Social Simulation Conference 2021 (Cracow, Poland)

20-24 September 2021

The 2021 Social Simulation Conference will be held at the Cracow University of Economics, Poland. It will take place from 20th to 24th September 2021 at the Cracow University of Economics, Poland. See the conference website. The conference is one of the key activities of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA), aimed at promoting social… MORE

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