1st International Scientific Conference

HAPPINESS

AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY

Lviv, UKRAINE, March, 20-21, 2020

ORGANIZING COMMIITTEE

Roman PURII, MD, MBA, Director and Co-funder of the Ukrainian Institute for Happiness Research (Ukraine);

Uliana LUSHCH, PhD, Associate Professor the Department of Philosophy and Economics at Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Co-funder of the Ukrainian Institute for Happiness Research (Ukraine);

Claudia MAZZESCHI, PhD, Dean of the Department of Philosophy, Social Science and Education University of Perugia (Italy);

Marco MOSCHINI, PhD, Professor of the Department of Philosophy, Social Science and Education University of Perugia (Italy);

Andrii BAZYLEVYCH, Prof., Dr. Sc., Department of Propedeutics of Internal Medicine #1 at Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, President of the World Federation of Ukrainian Medical Associations (Ukraine);

Serhii MAKSYMENKO, Prof., Dr. Sc., Academician of NAES of Ukraine, Director of G.S. Kostiuk Institute of Psychology of NAES of Ukraine (Ukraine);

Ivan DANYLIUK, Prof., Dr.Sc., Dean of the Faculty of Psychology at Taras Shevchenko National Universsity of Kyiv (Ukraine);

Bohdan TKACH, Dr. Sc., Senior Research Fellow in G.S. Kostiuk Institute of Psychology of NAES of Ukraine, Neuro Psy Tech Group - neuromarketing company (Ukraine);

Liudmyla SERDIUK, Prof., Dr. Sc., Head of the Laboratory of Personality Psychology named after P.R. Chamata of G.S. Kostiuk Institute of Psychology of NAES of Ukraine (Ukraine);

Timothy HAGEN, PhD, Head of the Department of Business Administration, Epoka University, Director of Yunus Center for Social Business and Sustainability (Albania);

Xhimi HYSA, PhD, Department of Business Administration, Epoka University (Albania);

Ladislav KOVÁČ, Prof., Dr.Sc., Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University (Slovakia);

Juraj MESíK, MD, social activist, publicist (Slovakia);

March, 20, 2020 International Scientific Conference in Lviv

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION: March, 01, 2020 ukr.institute.happiness@gmail.com

Pursuit of happiness becomes crucial in a contemporary person’s mindset. Happiness becomes an object of neuroscientific and psychological studies. Relation of happiness to values, morality and freedom evokes baffling problems in philosophy. Happiness and human flourishing become a true criterion of economic and social development.

Our conference aims to create the European platform of an interdisciplinary international discussion on happiness and to attract scientific and public attention to the relevance of happiness problem for contemporary societies.

We invite for discussion researchers in philosophy, medicine, neuroscience, biochemistry, biology, psychology, sociology, political science, economics, pedagogy and anthropology. We invite managers and businessmen to share their experience and to enrich their knnowledge in raisinng business effectiveness.

Suggested areas for discussion:

1. Contemporary philosophy of happiness.

2. Positive psychology.

3. Happiness and neuroscience.

4. Happiness and healthcare.

5. Happiness and economic development.

6. Happiness and education system.

7. Happiness, civil society, law and state management.

SPECIAL GUESTS of the conference:

Dr John Arden, Northern California Kaiser Permanente Medical Centers (USA)

Dr Dan Haybron, Saint Louis University (USA)

❗❗❗ Participants who won’t be able to arrive in Lviv can make their report via SKYPE or send a recorded video in advance.

REGISTRATION, CERTIFICATION AND PUBLICATION IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

1. To register and to choose a way of participation, fill out the online form:

☑ https://cutt.ly/zreg72v For participants from countries except Ukraine publication of an abstract (paper) in the Conference Proceedings is free. NO FEE REQUIRED.

☑ Details for participants from Ukraine: see a Ukrainian version of the online form: https://cutt.ly/Wreg4zn

2. All participants whose abstracts are accepted for publication will receive a Certificate of a Participant, regardless to the fact whether or not they arrive and give a talk.

3. The Conference Proceedings will be published before the conference. Participants who will arrive in Lviv will receive it during registration before the opening of the conference.

4. Participants who won’t be able to arrive in Lviv will receive e-version of the Conference Proceedings on e-mail. Printed version of the Conference Proceedings along with a Certificate of Participant and the Program of the Conference will be delivered to a participant to the address and with a shipping service indicated by a participant in the online form. A participant pays a shipping fee.

5. Abstracts for submission should be sent to the email address: ukr.institute.happiness@gmail.com

6. Deadline for abstracts submission: February, 24, 2020.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ABSTRACTS

1. Language - English.

2. At least 1 page and no more than 4 pages A4.

3. Times New Roman 12.

Line spacing – 1.

Alignment – justified text.

Margins: top, bottom, left and right – 2.

File format - Microsoft Word (*.doc *.docх).

4. Structure of an abstract:

1) in the right top corner indicate a code of the area of the conference that you topic is relevant to: number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6.

2) next line centered – name and surname of the author;

3) next line centered – scientific degree;

4) next line centered – affiliation (with no abbreviation), city and country;

5) if there are two or more co-authors, information about each co-author separately is indicated below the first co-author;

6) next line centered – TITLE in bold with all capital letters;

7) text of an abstract justified;

8) references (if there are any) are indicated below the text with a title: REFERENCES

5. The text should be grammatically correct, correspond to the requirements of the English academic writing.

6. The author is responsible for the relevance and rightness of all scientific facts referred to in an abstract.

March, 21, 2020 Festival in Skhidnytsya

HAPPINESS FESTIVAL in Skhidnytsya is aimed to popularize results of happiness studies and to teach the wide range of people how to apply the knowledge of happiness in their everyday life.

Co-organizers of the Festival: