by Lars Josephsen

In 2009, a new Centre was formed: The Centre for International Studies in Citizenship, Democratic Participation and Civil Society - CIPACI. The centre is organized in partnership with the CINEFOGO Network – Civil Society and New forms of Governance in Europe. CIPACI is located at Roskilde University (Denmark).

In order to sustain the most important CINEFOGO activities a creation of a Centre for International Studies in Citizenship, Democratic Participation and Civil Society was decided at the Network Board Meeting in May 2008.

Mission

The Centre for International Studies in Citizenship, Democratic Participation, and Civil Society (CIPACI) aims at:

• strengthening research into the social and democratic processes that are involved in defining citizenship rights
• enhancing active participation, and organizing democratic interaction between civil society organizations and state at local, regional, national and global levels

Target Group

The centre will focus on the establishment of a research and mobility network for scholars and young researchers in the field.

Research

Research at CIPACI is based on an understanding that citizenship rights are strongly dependent on social participation in all spheres of everyday life – from the involvement in labour market, family matters and community networks to the shaping of civic, public and private institutions, and the realization of democratic rights more generally within contemporary societies.

Activities

The Centre hosted in May 2009 a Conference for centres dealing with Citizenship, Democratic Participation, and Civil Society in Europe and elsewhere.

The Centre has organized a lecture series in the academic year 2009-10.

Read more: www.ruc.dk/isg_en/forskning/cipaci