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WP29 lecture: Civil Society and Nationalism
WP29 workshop: Populism Left and Right
WP49 Workshop: Distinguishing “Religious” from “Economic”
WP28 workshop: Civil Society and the Governance of Health Care
This workshop focuses on health-care systems as a field to test the capacity of public institutions to acknowledge and respond to cultural diversity and the health needs of men and women.
WP16 Lecture by Prof. Thomas Scheffer, Humboldt University
"Procedure matters. An Invitation to Political Ethnography and Discourse Analysis"
WP16 Lecture by Dr. Tom Cockburn
Young People’s Involvement in Democratic Structures in England
WP16 Lecture by Dr. Tom Cockburn
Children, the Feminist Ethic of Care and Childhood Studies: Is this the way to further children’s well‐being?
WP40 Training: Module 4 in Ireland
A Trans-European Top Executive Programme is composed of eighteen days divided into four modules that will be held in four academic capitals of Europe. The first module starts in March 2009 in Stockholm and the last runs in November 2009 in Dublin.
WP16 Seminar: The Idea of Civil Society and Transformations of Democratic Representation in Latin America
WP38 Workshop: Governance through Civil Society?
With particular reference to the activities of the public sector, this one-day workshop will examine to what an extent civil society organizations can improve decision-making processes.
WP16 CIPACI lecture: Cosmopolitization of the nationa and citizen: European Dilemmas
WP15: Civicness in the governance and production of personal services
Dissemination Meeting
WP40 Training: Module 3 in Austria
A Trans-European Top Executive Programme is composed of eighteen days divided into four modules that will be held in four academic capitals of Europe. The first module starts in March 2009 in Stockholm and the last runs in November 2009 in Dublin.
WP49 Conference: "The Social Dimension of Religion in Civil Society"
The Social Dimension of Religion in Civil Society: A Comparative European Perspective Conference held at Ersta Sköndal University College, Stockholm, Sweden, September 17 - 19, 2009
WP49 Workshop on Diasporas and Activism in Europe
One day workshop will be held on 11th of September 2009, London proposes to advance thinking about diasporas in Europe. We intend to examine how these actors negotiate their multiple identities (e.g., national, ethnic, religious, gender, sexual etc) and their engagement and activism at various levels (local, national, regional, etc.)
WP45 Workshop: The interface of citizenship, civil society and rule of law
Deadline for abstracts: Wednesday 8th July 2009. Workshop to be held at University of Aberdeen, Tuesday 25th – Wednesday 26th August 2009. Academic coordinator: Trevor Stack, t.stack@abdn.ac.uk. Workshop administrator: Lloyd Dodd, l.dodd@abdn.ac.uk.
WP45 PhD Summer School: The interface of citizenship, civil society and rule of law
University of Aberdeen, Scotland, Tuesday 25th – Friday 28th August 2009. Academic coordinator: Trevor Stack, t.stack@abdn.ac.uk. Administrator: Lloyd Dodd, l.dodd@abdn.ac.uk. Deadline for applications: 8th July 2009.
WP27 & WP15 dissemination seminar: Third Sector Organizations facing turbulent environments
Third Sector Organizations facing turbulent environments: the impact of commercialization on organizational legitimacy and the quality of services
WP49 Workshop: What are the Consequences of Particular Religious-Secular Distinctions?
University of Aberdeen, Thursday 25 – Friday 26 June, 2009
WP30 Workshop: Participation, Consultation and Deliberation in the EU
"Participation, Consultation and Deliberation in the EU. Theoretical reflections and empirical evidence"
WP45: CINEFOGO + WORKCARE Conference on Citizenship, Governance and Social Quality
Conference presenting WORKCARE and CINEFOGO results. The quality of life is a research topic within social and political research on the one hand but it is also an instrument of European social policy, an alternative to economistic ways of measuring policy outcomes and goals. It utilises a range of subjective and objective measures of social cohesion more generally.
!!! CANCELED !!! Lecture by Loic Wacquant
The lecture is CANCELED due to family reasons. Original schedule was Wednesday the 10th of June 2009, Roskilde University, Building 25.1 Professor Loic Wacquant, Boalt Law School, University of California at Berkeley
WP38 Workshop: The power of Civil Society
WP40 Training: Module 2 in Germany
A Trans-European Top Executive Programme is composed of eighteen days divided into four modules that will be held in four academic capitals of Europe. The first module starts in March 2009 in Stockholm and the last runs in November 2009 in Dublin.
WP33 Seminar: The Social Differentiation of Trust and Social Capital
The CINEFOGO and Department of Sociology, Social Work and Organization, Aalborg University, Denmark, are inviting PhD-students and senior researchers to take part in a two-day research seminar on Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 June 2009 on ‘The Social Differentiation of Trust and Social Capital’.
WP16 Conference: Classes and Civil Society
The relationship between social classes and the civil society has been one of the central themes in sociology and social sciences in general from the 19th century to the present. However, it seems that since the 1980s this theorization has been carried out partly with avoiding the use of class theoretical conceptualizations.
WP31 Workshop: Governing ambiguities
New Forms of Local Governance and Civil Society
WP21: 9th PhD Network Meeting
9th Annual Meeting of the European Civil Society Ph.D. Dissertation Network will be held at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium on May 28-31, 2009.
WP20 Seminar: Developments in the analysis of collective action
Developments in the analysis of collective action
WP26 Conference: Accession to the European Union, Civil Society and Multi-Level Governance
The Bulgarian European Community Studies Association is pleased to announce the CINEFOGO WP26 Conference on 15-16 May 2009.
WP16: CIPACI Conference on Citizenship, Participation and Civil Society
A conference for centres dealing with Citizenship, Democratic Participation, and Civil Society in Europe and elsewhere will take place at Roskilde University in May!
WP42 Workshop: Public Accountability in a New Institutional Environment
This 24 hour workshop will offer an opportunity to widen the debate and explore key themes concerning civil society actors, issues of accountability, representation and legitimacy in more depth, bringing together relevant research across Europe.
WP16: CIPACI seminar on Citizenship
On the 28th of April the centre for International Studies in Citizenship, Participation and Civil Society will organise a seminar on how to define citizenship
Lecture: "Islamic Publics and Notions of Civil Society in Africa"
Abdulkader Tayob, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town Tuesday 21th April 2009, Roskilde University, Building 25.1 at 13:00 –15:00
Lecture "Hierarchical citizenship and the creation of a new global workforce"
Professor Stephen Castles, Migration and Refugee Studies at the University of Oxford, Wednesday 25th March 2009, Roskilde University, Building 25.3 at 13:00 – 15:00
WP16: CIPACI workshop with Prof. Stephen Castles
New approaches to migration research
WP44 Conference: Social Rights, Active Citizenship and Governance in the EU
After almost four years of joint research, the network will stage a top-level conference where European researchers will meet EP members, EU officials, NGO representatives (EU, national), and the media. The goal of the conference would be spreading the outcomes of research conducted by the CINEFOGO project at the European and national levels of policy making.
WP40 Training: Module 1 in Sweden
A Trans-European Top Executive Programme is composed of eighteen days divided into four modules that will be held in four academic capitals of Europe. The first module starts in September 2008 in Stockholm and the last runs in June 2009 in Dublin.
WP37 Conference: Civil and Uncivil Society in the 21st Century
This international conference is a joint cooperation between the LSE Centre for Civil Society and the CINEFOGO Network of Excellence under the 6th EU Framework Programme.
WP16: Workshop with Stephen Castles and Olle Törnquist
Lecture: "Participatory Budgetting and the Mapping of Local Civil Societies in Brazil"
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Associate Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Brown University Tuesday 17th of February 2009, Roskilde University, Building 25.3 at 13:00 –15:00
WP46 Conference: Third Sector Organizations in CEE Countries
Conference "The Role of Third Sector Organisations in Changing Welfare Systems in Central and Eastern European Countries" will be held at Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, 5-6 February 2009
Conference: Multicultural Democracy and Immigrants Social Capital in European Cities
This two-day conference aims at engaging in a constructive debate around the civic and political inclusion of immigrants and their children into the public sphere of their places of settlement. For this purpose, the teams of the project LOCALMULTIDEM – funded by the 6th Framework Programme of the European Commission – will present various aspects of the main findings of an ambitious comparative project carried out in eight European cities.
WP44 Preparatory meeting 4
21st January 2008, Prague (CZ)
WP11 Workshop: Methodological Challenges in Cross-National Participation Research
In recent years cross-national research on citizen participation in associational and political life has taken a flight. In Europe, especially the European Social Survey (ESS) is an often used, large-scale survey on social and political participation, but several other surveys also try to capture participation in a similar way, such as Citizenship, Involvement and Democracy (CID), European Value Studies (EVS), Eurobarometer, and the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP).
WP16: CIPACI seminar Approaches to citizenship and participation
3rd CIPACI seminar on citizenship, participation and civil society research
WP11 Practitioner Workshop: Participation and its implications for NPO management
NPO Institute organises practitioner Workshop on "Patterns of participation and their implications for NPO management". The workshop will be held on 28th November 2008 in Vienna.
WP16: CIPACI seminar on Citizenship II
This seminar focuses on approaches to citizenship and participation found in the research projects of ISG staff. Further, on the agenda as a discussion point are the pro’s and con’s of applying the concept of civil society.
Lecture: "'Populism and Civil Society in Europe"
Tuesday 18th of November 2008, Roskilde University, Building 25.3 at 13:00 – 15:00 Professor Carlo Ruzza, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento
WP27 Workshop No.2: Third Sector Organizations facing turbulent environments
Third Sector Organizations facing turbulent environments: the impact of commercialization on organizational legitimacy and the quality of services
WP1: Network Management Board 2008
Meeting of the Network Management Board
Lecture "Digital Constellations: Critical Theory of Media and the Transformation of Civic Participation in Cyberspace"
Dr Jaeho Kang, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The New School University New York, Wednesday 12th November 2008, Roskilde University, Building 25.3 at 13:00 - 15:00
WP16: CIPACI Internal seminar on Civil society, citizenship and participation
ISG, Roskilde University in building 24.1 at 9-15.00
Lecture: "How Women Changed the World?"
Monday the 3rd of November 2008, Roskilde University, Building 25.3 at 13:00 – 15:00 Professor Gösta Esping-Andersen, professor of Sociology at University of Pompeu Fabra, Spain
WP43 Workshop: Citizen Participation and Democratic Engagement
Workshop focusing on learning and sharing knowledge of citizens' influence and engagement in Society in North, South, East and West
WP44 Preparatory meeting 3
A meeting to plan and prepare the first final conference
WP49 Workshop: Religion & Civil Society
The Hague, October 24th and 25th 2008
Lecture: "Obamania: Will the 2008 Election Put an End to Voter Apathy?"
Sasha Polakow-Suransky, Associate Editor at Foreign Affairs magazine in New York, Tuesday 21st of October 2008, Roskilde University, Building 25.3 at 13:00 – 15:00
WP20 Midterm Workshop: Social Movements Research Network
The workshop aims at bringing together scholars for a discussion on recent developments in social movement theory and research, continuing the discussion the RN had in Glasgow last September. In this light the Mid Term workshop represents an important opportunity to advance our understanding of social movement approaches through intensive debate among participants.
WP47 Seminar: Integration and Diversity
SUSDIV and CINEFOGO run a joint seminar "Integration and Diversity: Diversity, Civic Participation and Sustainability in Europe" on 1-3 October 2008 in Copenhagen.
WP9 Training for Trainers
The local training for trainers course was organized on 16th of September 2008 at Vytautas Magnus University
Lecture "The Social Bases of Volunteering and Political Participation" by Prof. Thomas Janoski
Professor Thomas Janoski, University of Kentucky, USA, Monday 15th of September 2008 at 13:00, Roskilde University, Building 25.3, Lecture Room
WP16 Conference on Contemporary European Perspectives on Volunteering
The conference "Contemporary European Perspectives on Volunteering: Civic Virtue vs. Social Movement Activism" is collaboratively organized and funded by Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubilieumsfond (the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation), the CINEFOGO Network of Excellence on Civil Society and New Forms of Governance in Europe, and Ersta Sköndal University College.
WP41 Summer School: Sociology and the Quality of Life
The summer school aims to explore how theory and methods can be combined in the study of societies in Europe in general and the study of quality of life in particular. An additional theme is the combination of different methods in the study of European societies.
WP34+ISTR+EMES conference on the Third Sector
The Third Sector and Sustainable Social Change: New Frontiers for Research
WP35 Workshop at WP34+EMES+ISTR Conference
WP35 Workshop at WP34 Conference on Third Sector and Sustainable Social Change: New Frontiers for Research
WP26 Kick off Workshop
The Workshop’s primary aim will be to design the WP26 research agenda and the program for the upcoming WP26 Conference to take place in Sofia in November 2008.
WP35 Summer School: Social enterprises, third sector and social economy
The international summer school on "Social enterprises, third sector, social economy, solidarity-based economy: Empirical realities and theoretical debates" is a joint venture of the CINEFOGO and EMES networks
WP31 Workshop: New Forms of Local Governance and Civil Society
The Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento (Italy), the Institute for Social Research ISF of Oslo (Norway) and the University of Roskilde are pleased to announce the CINEFOGO WP31 Workshop on “New Forms of Local Governance and Civil Society” that will take place in Trento (Italy) on 20-21 June 2008.
WP37 Preparatory meeting
Closed preparatory meeting at Roskilde University
WP25 Conference: Civil Society and Social Capital in Central and Eastern Europe
International conference Squaring the Circle: The Relationship between Civil Society and Social Capital in Central and Eastern Europe?
WP11 NPO Jam Session
Theme: „Platz für alle? Die Zukunft der Freiwilligenarbeit."
WP44 Preparatory Meeting 2
May 2008, Kaunas A meeting to prepare the March 2009 conference
WP21: 8th PhD Network Meeting
The 8th PhD Network on the Third Sector and Civil Society meeting will be for the first time organised in Central and Eastern Europe on 22nd-25th of May 2008. Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania offers a four days seminar for PhD students from all over the Europe to discuss their thesis as well as to participate in theoretical and practical sessions given by renowned scholars from Western and Eastern Europe. PhD Network Meeting 2008 is the third seminar mainly supported by CINEFOGO and ERSTE Foundation.
WP1: Network Council meeting 2008
NCM 2008 will take place in Kaunas (Lithuania) on 19-22 May 2008
WP46 Preparatory meeting
A meeting to prepare the WP46 Conference "The Role of Third Sector Organisations in Changing Welfare Systems in Central and Eastern European Countries"
WP29 Conference: Populism and Civil Society
The Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento (Italy) Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (Stockholm) and the Social and Cultural Planning Office (Den Haag) are pleased to announce the Cinefogo Conference on “Populism and Civil Society”.
WP30 Conference: Normative Implications of New Forms of Participation for Democratic Policy Processes
The conference coorganised by the Cinefogo network and Orebro University aims at addressing the broad theme of new forms of participation interfacing recently acquired empirical knowledge with a normative perspective. In particular, we are interested in assessing the normative implications of the institutionalization of participatory devices for democratic policy-making, requirements of representativeness and accountability and public control over binding collective decisions.
WP50 Workshop: Dialogue between European and Middle East Universities
Workshop on the theme Social Participation, Democratization and Organized Civil Society – dialogue between European and Middle East Universities
WP10 Closed Meeting
The meeting with the experts at European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights in Vienna (www.fra.europa.eu) is organised with the aim to share views, experiences and policy recommendations in order to produce a best practice document.
WP19 Symposium: Unpacking Relations between Organised Civil Society and the State
A symposium, University of Kent at Canterbury, Friday 25th April – Saturday 26th April 2008
WP27 Workshop No. 1: Third Sector Organizations facing turbulent environments
International conference workshop "Third Sector Organizations facing turbulent environments: the impact of commercialization on organizational legitimacy and the quality of services" will be held in Giessen (Germany) on 18th - 19th of April 2008.
WP11 Conference: Europe – with or without you?
Conference Europe - with or without you?, Developments in civic participation and their implications on the role of Nonprofit Organisations and Civil Society, focuses on trends and patterns of citizens’ participation in Europe.
WP36 Conference: Gendering Theories of Citizenship: Europeanization and Care
Conference on Gendering Theories of Citizenship: Europeanization and Care will be held at University of Roskilde, Deptartment of Social Sciences on 2nd- 3rd April 2008.
WP37 Conference: European Development Aid and NGOs
The Centre for Civil Society and CINEFOGO invites participants for an international conference on European Development Aid and NGOs: Changing Notions of civil Society in "North" and "South", which investigates the changing approaches of European development aid towards European and Southern NGOs and the effects of these on the participation and well-being of poor and marginalised groups in developing countries.
WP15 Workshop: Between State and Citizen – The Role of Civic Elements in the Governance and Production of Social Services
WP13 Workshop: Social Policies and Social Citizenship Rights: Change and Continuity in Europe
The Workshop will address change in social protection in a European comparative perspective. It will question how reforms are impacting individuals’ social security and citizenship rights. Are new orientations for social policies, such as social investment, activation or flexicurity, redefining the scope and nature of social rights and entitlements ?
WP24 Conference: Work/Life Balance in Europe
Conference on Work/Life Balance in Europe – Possibilities and Constraints
WP38 Conference: Governance of the EU: theories, practices and myths
The Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento (Italy) and Institute for Social Research ISF of Oslo (Norway) are pleased to announce a call for papers for the Cinefogo Conference on “The Governance of the European Union: Theories, practices and myths” that will take place in Brussels on 25-26 January 2008. We are interested in contributions that aim at shedding light on the transformations of European system of governance, paying attention to both political and discursive practices.
WP44 Preparatory Meeting 1
First meeting for planning and preparing the first final conference
WP28 Conference: Immigrants in the Health-care System
Conference on Immigrants in the health-care system: the connection among migrants and health-care systems in different European Countries
WP22 Update: The European Civil Society Student Corner
Student Corner update
WP48 Workshop Citizens' Participation in a European Network Civil Society
Workshop on Citizens' Participation in a European Network Civil Society
WP30 Workshop: Normative implications of new forms of participation
The workshop "The Normative implications of new forms of participation for democratic policy processes" aims at addressing the broad theme of new forms of participation in policy processes interfacing recently acquired empirical knowledge with a normative perspective.
WP1: Network Management Board 2007
NMB meeting to review the annual financial and activity report
WP6 Pilot Training: Research Communication and Dissemination
A pilot training developing the CINEFOGO TRANSAACT principles
WP11 Workshop: Civic Participation across Europe
WP18 Summer school: Social Capital and Democratisation
The module offers 15 European Credits (ECTS) towards a Masters or PhD programme.
Conference on economy and solidarity
Reconfiguring relations between economy and solidarity: associations, cooperatives and social enterprises
WP35 Preparatory meeting
Social Entrepreneurship in Europe and USA
WP9 Closed workshop: Finalizing the toolkit for e-learning
WP9: Workshop finalizing the toolkit for e-learning as strategy to combat civic apathy
WP39 Midterm Conference: European Citizenship – Challenges and Possibilities
The CINEFOGO Midterm Conference on European Citizenship – Challenges and Possibilities
WP6: SoE Corner 2007
Spread of Excellence Corner at the Midterm Conference
WP1: Network Council meeting 2007
Third CINEFOGO Network Council Meeting
WP20 Seminar: Social Movements and Civil Society
First expert seminar on Social Movements and Civil Society
WP21: 7th PhD network meeting
PhD seminar 7th meeting of the PhD network on the third sector and civil society
WP37 Preparatory meeting
A meeting to prepare WP37 conference
WP19 Meeting: Political Ideologies & 3rd Sector
WP19 is hosting a closed expert meeting
WP24 meeting on Work-Life Balance in Europe
Preparatory meeting of WP24 on 'Work-Life Balance in Europe: Possibilities and Constraints'. The WP is open for interested members within the CINEFOGO Network.
WP7 Conference: European Public Spheres & Mass Media
WP7 is hosting a conference on European Public Sphere, Civil Society and Civic Mass Media.
WP15 Workshop: Between State & Citizen
Between State and Citizen – The Role of Civic Elements in the Governance and Production of Social Services
WP32 Workshop: Work-family-life balance
Closed workshop on work-family-life balance: politics and policy issues in relation to gender equality
WP13 Workshop: Social Policies & Citizenship
Workshop on changing form of state intervention in social protection - social policies and social citizenship rights.
WP14 Conference on Participation & Policy Making
WP 14 hosts a conference on Citizen participation and policy making 14-15 February, 2007, Bristol UK
WP17 Conference on Partnership
Conference on the outsourcing of local based community services to public private partnerships
WP11 Workshop: Participation & Civic cultures
Workshop on "Differences in Social Participation and Civic Cultures across Europe" 15 December 2006 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
WP7 Workshop: Civic culture and mass media
Workshop on Developing the European public sphere: institutions, media and civil society
WP22 Meeting: Student Corner presentation
CINEFOGO meeting regarding Student Corner
WP16 Conference: European Civil Society
Conference on The Role and Organisation of European Civil Society, its relationship to State and Business and its Importance for Welfare Provision and Social Cohesion
WP18 Workshop: Social Capital in EU and US
Workshop on Social Capital and Democracy in EU and US
WP8 Conference: European Identities
From 21-23 September 2006, the conference "European Identities" was held in Prague, Czech Republic, as part of the workpackage 8 "National Identity and Its Relationship to Citizenship"
WP10 Seminar: Non-EU citizens and political life
Seminar on participation of non-EU citizens and their associations in political life
WP1: Network Management Board 2006
CINEFOGO Network Management Board 2006
WP9 Preparatory Meeting
Preparatory meeting on E-Learning as a Strategy to Combat Civic Apathy and Exclusion
WP14 Preparatory Meeting
Citizen Participation in Policy Making Preparatory Meeting
WP18 Preparatory meeting
Closed meeting, June 2006
WP21: 6th PhD Network meeting
The CINEFOGO Network supported the 6th meeting of the PhD-Network on third sector and civil society studies in Vienna on 25-28 May 2006.
WP6: Spread of Excellence meeting 2006
Spread of Excellence meeting in Vienna
WP17 Preparatory meeting
A meeting preparing WP17 activities
WP16 Preparatory meeting
A meeting preparing WP16 activities
WP1: Network Council meeting 2006
CINEFOGO Network Council meeting 2006
WP12 Conference: Gender, Citizenship, Participation
Gender, Citizenship and Participation
WP13 Meeting: Changing Forms of State Intervention in Social Protection and their Effects on Social Citizenship Rights
Closed preparation meeting in Prague, 16-18 March 2006.
WP7 & WP8 Preparation Meeting
Closed meeting held to prepare work packages 7 and 8
WP3: Kick-off Conference for CINEFOGO
CINEFOGO kick-off conference
The European programme in Civil Society Leadership