Congress theme and scope
All presenters and participants are encouraged to become involved with the congress theme Global creativity and innovation: Developing capacities for sustainable futures. The overarching focus of the congress is on global wellbeing, within a context of the transformative potential of home economics.
IFHE position paper: Home economics in the 21st century clarifies the dimensions and impact of the global home economics profession. To assist with reviewing and programming, authors submitting an abstract may nominate which IFHE program committee they wish their abstract to be reviewed by, as well as several key words or phrases the author(s) feels most closely links to their work. The IFHE program committees are:
- Consumer issues and family resource management
- Food security and nutrition
- Institutional and hospitality management
- Home economics policies in education and training
- IFHE international business group
- Outreach to central and eastern European countries
- Textiles and design
- Household technology and sustainability
The key phrases relating to abstracts are:
advocacy best practice business child care citizenship community consumers culinary arts curriculum decision-making design dietetics education energy use family fashion financial literacy | food food security gender green design growth health health promotion home economics hospitality households household appliances housing human development industry innovation leadership lifespan | management MDGs nutrition philosophy policy public health resources shelter sustainable development teaching and learning technology textiles thinking training United Nations wellbeing |
The congress program will be structured according to sub-themes:
Global wellbeing
Creativity and innovation
Developing capacities
Sustainable futures
