Abstract
Over the past 50 years social work in Europe had to prove its capacity to transcend and to transform boundaries in a variety of ways. This contribution seeks to highlight the international importance of the scientific and professional work of Annamaria Campanini by analysing key moments in the author's own biographical trajectory in social work practice and education to demonstrate that social work knowledge and competences are challenged by boundaries of nationality, language, academic conventions, professional exclusivity and political ideologies.
The variety of models and epistemologies of social work in Europe serves to identify and further develop situationspecific but scientifically grounded intervention methods.