Dear Friends and Colleagues,

On behalf of EAWOP and the British Psychological Society, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you to EAWOP’s first digital congress that will take place on 27 May 2021. The theme of the digital conference is “Viral Strain? Working life during the COVID Pandemic” and reflects the unique circumstances that each of us has been working in, but also in which EAWOP finds itself seeking to organize our next congress. The 2021 digital congress is not intended to replace our normal full-fledged congress. Instead, we are organizing this one-day meeting to reenergize EAWOP connections between members in eager anticipation of our postponed Glasgow Congress. As the world will slowly start to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, with effective vaccines on the horizon, we are confident that we can plan for an in-person congress in Glasgow in January 2022. While we are of course also preparing for potential changes to a virtual format, it could be that for many of us Glasgow 2022 will be the first in-person conference since a very long time. Fingers crossed!

“Viral Strain? Working life during the COVID Pandemic” is a thematic conference devoted to sharing and learning from the exciting and impactful research that many Work and Organizational Psychologists have been doing in the past year on COVID-19 issues. While EAWOP is the leading European organization for evidence-based insights on people, work and organization, we acknowledge that our audience and membership has become global. To this end, the conference will run one long global day to allow members to take part from all over the world. We’re looking forward to seeing you online in May 2021 and hopefully, also in person in January 2022.

Best regards