Although Arlt influenced the professional discourse of her times in Europe and enriched it with an independent concept of welfare theory and method, her approach was quickly forgotten after her school was closed in 1950. For many decades her body of work was not dealt with. Even those parts of her research and teaching material that were not touched by the NS regime were merely saved and stored until recently. For 15 years there has been a gradual renaissance of Ilse Arlt, the Austrian pioneer of scientifically based social work. In 2007, the “Ilse Arlt Institute for Social Inclusion Research” was founded at the University for Applied Studies in St. Pölten, Austria.