From December 9 to 11, QCA enthusiasts gathered in Krakow, Poland, for the 13th EuropeanQCAConference2025 (formerly known as the International QCA Workshop). It was a successful conference with a PDW and an expert workshop. Thank you to the local organizers Anna Sławik, Seweryn Krupnik, Aleksandra Rudawska, and Esther Staes—you were fantastic!

Please note the various QCA courses this summer. The courses offer the opportunity to start with QCA or to deepen your knowledge.

For instance, Peer Fiss will be teaching a five-day QCA course as part of the Global School in Empirical Research Methods (GSERM). It will take place at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, from June 10-14, 2025. Information on the course can be found here. The goal of this workshop is to provide a ground-up introduction to crisp and fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). Participants will get intensive instruction and hands-on experience with the fsQCA software package and on completion should be prepared to design and execute research projects using the set-analytic approach.

The Konstanz Methods Excellence Workshop (komex) are organized by the University of Konstanz, in collaboration with the Methods Excellence Network (MethodsNET) and hosted by the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz. FInd out more: https://afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/komex/konstanz-methods-excellence-workshops

QCA enthusiasts will soon meet at the European QCA Conference 2024 (formerly the International QCA Workshop) in Tilburg, the Netherlands. Want to find out more? https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/current/events/european-qca-conference