Benefits

Individual Membership benefits are

  • Annual Publication(s) of the Society (either a monograph or quarterly journal)
  • Voting Rights
  • Office Holding Rights
  • Conference Registration Discounts (excluding inaugural conference)
  • Network-building opportunities within the European family research community

General rationale for institutional membership and yearly fees for research institutes

The European Society on Family Relations (ESFR) has been established with a true scientific mission as a federation of family research institutes within Europe in the first place, and also open to welcome research institutes outside Europe as affiliates. As a federation of family research institutes and, since research institutes are ESFR's main carriers, each family research institute which commits itself with annual institutional fees to the ESFR has the right of an ESFR vote with a weight of 3 votes.

Of course ESFR is not only a society for research institutes, but also for individual members. This network of family researchers needs an institutional basis. A solid financial minimum is needed to launch the ESFR-project successfully.

The institutional yearly fees and contributions are necessary to

  • Build up an attractive ESFR network for family researchers, and to start a website
  • Cover organizational costs of biannual conference, including invited speakers, print costs, catering et cetera
  • Establish the publication of papers on a regular basis either in ESFR monograph (each year) or in a new journal for ESFR
  • Establish a long-term backbone to maintain our field family research as relevant both to science and policy making
  • Allow each institutional member to register one free representative for ESFR conferences.

In addition to this rationale additional membership benefits are:

  • Annual publications of ESFR
  • Voting right
  • Conference registration discounts: one free representative for ESFR conferences
  • Network building opportunities
  • Stimulating researchers, especially the young researchers, to become familiar with the exchange of family research output within Europe

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