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Awards and Fellowships: Non-Governmental Public Action Programme

Non-Governmental Public Action Programme at Centre for Civil Society, London School of Economics - New Awards and New Fellowships.

ESPAnet Conference: European Social Dimension nad NGOs

Call for papers: "The European Social Dimension: New opportunity structures for national social NGOs?" Stream 9 during the ESPAnet conference, Bremen University, Germany 21st-23rd September 2006 Deadline for submission of abstract: 31 March 2006

3 CONNEX Newsletter on Multilevel Governance

The theme of the 3 ed. is "Efficient and Democratic Multilevel Governance in Europe".

JSEEBSS

Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

Call for Papers: "The European Social Dimension: new opportunity structures for national social NGO's?"

Call for papers: "The European Social Dimension: New opportunity structures for national social NGOs?" Stream 9 during the ESPAnet conference, Bremen University, Germany 21st-23rd September 2006 Deadline for submission of abstract: 31 March 2006

Seminar - NPO and Management

The seminar on Non-Profit Organisation and Management is a part of the EDEN initiative created by EIASM to support young doctoral students in their academic career.

Request – Lists of NGO networks in your country!

CEDAG requests lists of most important NGO networks in your country, for survey on how NGO networks activate citizenship.

Questionaire - NGO networks

Questionaire - NGO networks

Conference on 'Migration Policies'

EUROFOR Marie Curie conference on European and National Agencies of Dealing with the Non-Accepted.

Call for papers – Conference on 'Migration Policies'

EUROFOR Marie Curie conference on European and National Agencies of Dealing with the Non-Accepted.

Call for proposals - Life in Motion

Life in Motion; Shifting Spaces, Transcending Times, Crossing Borders - 8th Postgraduate Conference, Brno. Czech Republic.

IST conference– Networking eParticipation

IST (Information Society Technologies) conference: ‘Networking eParticipation Researchers and Practitioners’, Helsinki.

CIRIEC

 

OECD Capacity building seminar

Capacity building seminar on 'Enhancing the Capacity of Partnerships to Influence Policy', 18-20 April 2007, Dublin, Ireland

EIPA-ECR

 

PhD seminar: "Social Dynamics in the City and Urban Policy"

PhD Course/Research Seminar: "Social Dynamics in the City and Urban Policy" Organized by the Post-Graduate Research School - Welfare State and Diversity at Roskilde University, Denmark

PhD summer school: Citizens' Involvement

A wonderful opportunity for PhD students

French Civil Dialogue Diagram

 

South African Democracy at the Crossroads

Conference: Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Public Sphere: South African Democracy at the Crossroads

CPCA European Conference Programme

 

Conference on Civil Dialogue

European Conference on Civil Dialogue in Paris, December 2007, 14th

What Characterises Today’s EU Debates?

A series of lectures on characteristics of today's Eu debates organised by the Danish Institute for International Studies.

Programme - Course on Democracy in Transition

 

Call for papers: Civil Society Organizations: Pirates, Privateers, Pioneers and Protectors

European Group for Organisational Studies calls for papers for its 24th EGOS Colloquium "Upsetting Organizations" that will take place at Vrije University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on July 10-12 2008.

Central European Journal of Public Policy: 1st issue published

First issue of the electronic, peer reviewed journal is accessible on-line in October 2007.

Registration Form CPCA

 

Programme CPCA European Conference

 

Awards and Fellowships: Non Governmental Public Action Programme

Non-Governmental Public Action Programme at Centre for Civil Society, London School of Economics - New Awards and New Fellowships.

Call for papers: Comparative studies of civil society

A call for papers to the volume 27 of Comparative Social Research on the theme of Comparative studies of civil society.

International Research Fellowship

The International Society for Third-Sector Research and the Rockefeller Archive Centre will award the Fellowship to a scholar from outside the U.S and Canada.

Course on Democracy in Transition

This Phd-course is a theoretical and methodological introduction at the highest level to the recent research on how the current transformations of the political systems influence the democratic quality of societal governance. It takes its point of departure in the huge challenges that advanced liberal democracy currently faces. The course takes place at Roskilde University, Denmark from 3rd to 7th December 2007 and counts for 5 ETCS credits.

Conference: Public Communicaton of Science and Technology

The conference offers an excellent opportunity to meet colleagues, discuss and debate and share experience and knowledge within the rapidly expanding science communication field. Several formats for presentations will be used, including papers, posters and workshops.

Call for applications PhD Network Meeting

 

New RECON online working papers

 

Conference: Power: Forms, Dynamics and Consequences

An international conference on Power: Forms, Dynamics and Consequences will be held on 22-24th September 2008 in Tampere, Finland.

Call for papers: Inequality Beyond Globalization

Call for Papers for the Midterm Conference of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Economy and Society "Inequality Beyond Globalization: Economic Changes and the Dynamics of Inequality" that will be held at University of Neuchatel, June 26-28, 2008.

Call for papers: Inequality Beyond Globalization

 

Award of Excellence in World Society Research 2008

 

Call for Participation in European Values Network 2008

The European Values Network 2008 is a project for those who want to become actively engaged in searching for and formulating of alternative solutions to make Europe freer, safer, stronger and more prosperous.

EVN Poster

 

Call for papers: Equality and Difference in a Multicultural Society

Organisers of 38rth World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Budapest 26-30 June 2008 call for papers on the theme Equality and Difference in a Multicultural Society.

Call for Coordinators for the European Values Network 2008

The EVN 2008 is looking for Coordinators on each of the policy topics, who will be guiding and facilitating proceeding of the working groups. The Coordinators will be especially responsible for preparation of background materials, moderating of workshops and conference panels, facilitating e-communication and editing final policy-papers.

Call for participation in the Migra-Nord Network

The Migra-Nord network gathers some 40 junior and senior academics working in the interdisciplinary field of media, migration and ethnic relations in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Estonia.

Call for papers: Good Enough Governance

IIAS Specialised Conference "International Aid and Public Administration" will be held in Ankara in June 2008

Call for papers: GOOD ENOUGH GOVERNANCE

 

Conference on Europeanization, Tallinn, April 2008

Tallinn University of Technology and its journal Halduskultuur are hosting a conference on Europeanization on 25 April 2008. The conference takes places in Tallinn, Estonia.

New RECON Online Working Papers available

Six new RECON online working papers are now available at RECON webpage. See the abstarct and links below.

Call for papers: “Resistance to European integration and the EU polity”

ECPR Standing Group on the EU Conference announces call for papers for the conference “Resistance to European integration and the EU polity” that will be held in Riga on 25-27 September 2008. The deadline for papers submission is 17 February 2008.

Call for papers: DEMO-net workshop

DEMO-net workshop "Empowerment and e-Participation in Civil Society: Local, National and International Implications" will be held at Örebro University, Sweden, May 10th and 11th 2008.

Call for papers: DEMO-net workshop

 

Call for papers - DEMO-net 2008

 

Call for applications: Summer school on rural sociology

 

European Summer School of Rural Sociology 2008

25-30 August 2008, Pannon University, Hungary. Call for applications open until 30 April 2008.

ISTR seeks nominee for Editor of the journal Voluntas

The International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR) seeks nominations for Editor of its journal, Voluntas, for a three-year term beginning January 1, 2010. The term may be renewed, once, by mutual agreement. The editor reports to the ISTR board, and Voluntas reflects ISTR’s commitments: it is an important peer-reviewed social science journal, published quarterly, that focuses on civil society, philanthropy, and the nonprofit sector in ways that are inter-disciplinary, international, and comparative.

CIDESC 2008 Conference programme

 

2008 ESCR+EQUALSOC Summer School flyer

 

Conference: The Direction of the reforms of the local self-goverment law in Poland and Europe

The conference will be held on 17-28 September 2008 in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

Conference invitation

Conference: The Direction of the reforms of the local self-goverment law in Poland and Europe, on 17-28 September 2008 in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

Application form

Conference: The Direction of the reforms of the local self-goverment law in Poland and Europe, on 17-28 September 2008 in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

New RECON Online Working Papers

See new online working papers on "Researching Gender Democracy in the European Union", "Social Deficit" of the European Integration Project and its Perpetuation through the ECJ Judgements in /Viking/ and/ Laval/ "; "European Identity Formation in the Public Sphere and in Foreign Policy"; "Public Accountability and the Public Sphere of International Governance";

Call for Articles: Central European Journal of Public Policy

The CEJPP is a peer-reviewed electronic journal published in English biannually.

New RECON Newsletter

From the content: new RECON partners, Gender equality indicators for a democratic audit, Policy memo on Turkey and the EU and some more....

New RECON Newsletter

 

LGI Policy Fellowships: Call for proposals

Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative (LGI) calls for proposal for its policy fellowhisp programme for 2008/2009. The primary goal of the LGI Policy Fellowship program is to support policy research aimed at stimulating innovative and practical policy reform in areas that LGI is interested in exploring further. Each year broad topics are identified for candidates from different country groups. LGI is currently calling for Fellows for its 2008/2009 program, which will run from October 2008 to October 2009.

LGI Policy Fellowships: Call for proposals

 

The Social Enterprise World Forum

CEiS organises the inaugural Social Enterprise World Forum in Edinburgh, Scotland from September 2nd to 5th 2008. The Forum will be the first international gathering of practitioners and support agencies dealing exclusively with social enterprise and will bring together social enterprise leaders and champions from all continents to collaborate, share best practice and plan future developments. This collaboration will raise awareness of social enterprise as an expanding global mechanism for social change and will explore the merit of ongoing collaboration for key stakeholders.

PhD Course: Approaching Organisations

The Ph.D. course will deal with the analytical and methodological challenges faced in studying the nature and role of organizations in development. The course proposes to explore a broad range of organizations from the international level, such as the World Bank, to the national level, such as a government ministry or a large NGO, and down to the local levels of small NGOs, associations and local government departments and agencies. The course will combine lectures from leading international experts in the field of organizations in development, and workshops in which Ph.D. students attending the course present their research projects.

PhD Training Course: Organisations, development and religion

Ph.D. course on Organisations, development and religion will be held on 17th and 18th December 2008 at University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Ph.D. students who wish to participate are welcome to submit their papers. Main topics include: The analysis of religious organisations and institutions; Social movement theory and religious activism; Religion as social capital; Religious ideas in relation to social action

Chair in Sociology and Social Research at EUI

The Department of Political and Social Sciences of European University Institute invites applications from candidates engaged in advanced comparative sociological research in substantive fields such as inequality, welfare, migration, population, organizations, or networks. Preference will be given to candidates with a graduate teaching capacity in quantitative methods. Junior as well as senior candidates will be considered.

Chair in Political and Social Sciences at EUI

The Department of Political and Social Sciences of European University Institute invites applications from candidates engaged in comparative research in the political and social sciences. The Department is open to applications in a wide range of themes dealing with contemporary Europe, ranging from research on ethnonational conflicts to research on the transformation of institutional structures. The Department is particularly interested in candidates who combine research on European and state institutions. Junior as well as senior candidates will be considered.

New RECON online working papers

Four new RECON Online Working Papers are available

Conference on Post-Immigration Minorities, Religion and National Identities

Registration is now available for the Bristol-UCL Leverhulme Programme on Migration and Citizenship conference on Post-Immigration Minorities, Religion and National Identities that will be held on 14-15 November, 2008 in Bristol. A limited number of places are available for non-paper givers and those not connected to the Programme.

Call for papers: State and Administration in a Changing World

NISPAcee is pleased to inform you about the forthcoming NISPAcee annual conference 2009: “State and Administration in a Changing World” that will be held on 14- 16 May 2009, in Budva, Montenegro.

Call for papers: Digital media, civic engagement and political mobilization in repressive regimes

The Institute for Society and Globalization (RUC) in cooperation with the Research School for International Development Studies (RUC) and the Danish Institute for Human Rights (IMR/DIIS) will host a research seminar on digital media, civic engagement and political mobilization in repressive regimes on 10-11 November 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark

Centre for Civil Society Newsletter

 

Conference: "A security strategy for Europe: new priorities, new challenges"

International conference within the frame of the French Presidency of the European Union Prague, 14 November 2008, Hotel Praha, Sušická 20, Prague 6

14-11-2008 Programme of the conference

International Conference “A security strategy for Europe: new priorities, new challenges” within the frame of the French Presidency of the European Union

Panel discussion: Global Financial Crisis Impact on the Czech Economy

Centre for Social and Economic Strategies, Faculty of Social Sciences organises a panel discussion with the theme "Global Financial Cricis Impact on the Czech Economy" on 1st of December 2008, from 4 pm until 6 pm. The discussion will be held in Modrá posluchárna, Celetná 20, Prague.

Call for papers: International Conference on Social Enterprise

EMES calls for papers for its 2nd International Conference on Social Enterprise that will be held on 1st to 4th of July 2009 in Trento, Italy.

EMES Conference Social Enterprise Call

 

New Issue of Central European Journal of Public Policy

Third issue of Central European Journal of Public Policy is available online: December 2008; Vol. 2, No. 2.

Celebrities And Aid: New Humanitarians or Just Another Fad?

Social Policy Department of LSE invites all interested for its PUBLIC LECTURE "Celebrities And Aid: New Humanitarians or Just Another Fad?". Why do charities use celebrities to speak out on humanitarian action? Who do celebrities represent? Are they genuinely committed to the causes they espouse or have causes become another path to self-promotion? These are some of the issues that the panellists will debate on 5th of February 2009 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London.

Call for case studies: Social Capital & Community Resilience

Assist Social Capital is inviting individuals, organisations and institutions that have knowledge and expertise in the field of Social Capital and Community Resilience to submit summary case studies for inclusion in the conference that will be held on 4th June 2009 at New Lanark Heritage Centre. Please note that the conference aims to bring together and explore the PRACTICAL implications of the connection between social capital and community resilience.

09 Conference Call Flier.doc

 

New RECON publications

 

Call for Applicants 2009-2010 – IMPALLA Programme in Social Policy Analysis

The International Master in Social Policy Analysis (IMPALLA) is an interuniversity cooperation organized jointly by CEPS/INSTEAD (G.D. of Luxembourg) and Leuven University, (Belgium) in association with Tilburg University (The Netherlands), the University of Nancy II (France) and the University of Luxembourg (G.D. of Luxembourg)

WORKCARE conference programme (.doc)

 

New RECON Online Working Papers

 

Active Citizenship Foundation Newsletter

Active Citizenship Foundation - FONDACA - Newsletter No. 2 for July-August 2009 was published.

CIRIEC Volume on Current Themes in Social EconomyRresearch

Volume 80 Issue 2 (June 2009) was published on behalf of the International Centre of Research and Information on the Public, Social and Cooperative Economy (CIRIEC). This issue presents a selection of revised versions of some papers presented at the first CIRIEC International Research Conference on Social Economy that took place in Victoria, BC, Canada in October 2007 (http://www.conference.se-es.ca).

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, VOL.80, No2, 2009

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, VOL.80, No2, 2009, published on behalf of the International Centre of Research and Information on the Public, Social and Cooperative Economy (CIRIEC), present a selection of papers discussed at the 1st international CIRIEC research conference on social economy, held in Victoria (Bristish Columbia), Canada in October 2007.

SAGE to publish Bulletin on Sociological Methology

Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC (31 July 2009) – SAGE, the world’s leading independent academic and professional publisher, is delighted to announce a new partnership with the International Association of Sociological Methodology (AIMS) to publish their journal, Bulletin of Sociological Methodology (BMS).

NISPAcee Annual Conference 2010: Call for papers

This is a call for papers for NISPAcee Annual Conference 2010: "Public Administration in Times of Crisis" DEADLINE for applications: September 30, 2009. The conference will be held on 13-15 May 2010, Warsaw, Poland. The event is organised in co-operation with The National School of Public Administration, Warsaw, Poland.

Centarl European Journal of Public Policy, Vol.3

A new issue of Central European Journal of Public Policy - Vol. 3, No. 1 (June 2009) - is available now. For more information see Table of Contents in the text below.

RECON Online Working Papers 07-10/2009

New RECON Online Working Papers: Denouncing European Integration: Euroscepticism as reactive identity formation by Hans-Jörg Trenz and Pieter de Wilde; Designing Politicization: How control mechanisms in national parliaments affect parliamentary debates in EU policy-formulation by Pieter de Wilde; Explicating social action: Arguing or bargaining? Erik Oddvar Eriksen and Civil society and EU constitution-making: Towards a European social constituency? by Hans-Jörg Trenz, Nadine Bernhard and Erik Jentges are available.