5. Activities related to the PhD-Network

6th meeting in the PhD-Network, 25-28 May 2006, Vienna (Austria)

Florian Pomper, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (Austria)

The annual meeting in the European PhD Network on the Third Sector and Civil Society took place from 25-28 May 2006 in Vienna. The meeting was hosted by the Research Institute for Nonprofit Organizations at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. In the years 2001 - 2005 similar meetings took place in the Netherlands, Sweden, Ireland and UK.

35 PhD-students from 16 different European countries attended the Vienna meeting. During the meeting the students presented their own work in five sub-groups that were facilitated by two faculties each. In addition four plenary sessions dealt with the developments in Central and Eastern European Countries and the role of civil society. Responses from the attending students showed that the main benefits for the students were the individual feedbacks on their presentations as well as the opportunity to participate in a network with other students from other European countries and different faculties and disciplines.

The European PhD Network on the Third Sector and Civil Society was founded in 2000 by the Center of Civil Society Studies of the London School of Economics, and is supported by CINEFOGO.

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