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The European programme in Civil Society Leadership
The aim of the programme is to support an international strategic awareness among top decision makers with a background in different CSO’s, and various civil society contexts.
Development of the European system of governance - Theories, practices and myths
CINEFOGO researchers focus on the broad theme that is theories, practices and myths in relation to the European system of governance. The aim of the research is to contribute to the on-going discussion on European governance and its consequences for the EU polity, policy and politics.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Immigrants in the healthcare system – how to ensure access?
CINEFOGO researchers address a specific aspect of the highly topical issue of ethnic difference in EU welfare regime. The scope is to asses how institutions in different EU countries acknowledge ethnic differences and to what extent migrant groups have access to policy decisions on health care. The researchers recommend coherent immigration policies at European and Member State level and conclude that the increasing demand for healthcare requires a timely and effective policy to be undertaken.
How to cultivate "civility"in the field of social services?
CINEFOGO researchers have focused on the meaning of civility in the civil society debate, and conclude, that civicness is not exclusively a concern of state policies and administrations, nor is there a natural prior link of civicness with the operations of TSOs. Rather, civicness seems to be the outcome of the cooperation between various sides, where the hybridization of service organizations is key to enhance the civicness of services, and thereby cultivate civility in the field of social services.
Social rights as we know them are in trouble
CINEFOGO researchers observe differences in the new patterns of social policies across Europe, and generally find, that the field of social policy is becoming an area for changes concerning social citizenship rights, but moreover citizenship at large. The researchers conclude that much about social citizenship has to be reinvented.
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).
Active Citizenship Foundation Newsletter
Active Citizenship Foundation - FONDACA - Newsletter No. 2 for July-August 2009 was published.
Call for papers "Diasporas and Activism in Europe"
This is a call for papers for one day workshop that 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.)
Essay "Social Quality in Europe" by Claire Wallace and Pamela Abbott
This article is highly actual in relation to the CINEFOGO conference in Brussels the 16.-17. June 2009, and will also appear as the essay in the Dialogue & Debate section of the forthcoming issue no. 7 of CINEFOGO's Newsletter.
Call for papers: Workshop "The interface of citizenship, civil society and rule of law"
A two-day workshop at the PhD Summer School in Aberdeen, August 2009
Call for applications: PhD Summer School "The interface of citizenship, civil society and rule of law"
University of Aberdeen, Scotland, Tuesday 25th – Friday 29th August 2009.
Ørecomm: Consortium for Communication and Glocal Change
Ørecomm is a bi-national research group that originated at Malmö University (MAH) and Roskilde University (RUC) for research in the field of Communication for Development. Ørecomm focuses on the relations between media, communication and social change processes at both global and local levels.
CINEFOGO-WORKCARE Conference Programme
WORKCARE (the European Union Sixth Framework Programme Project) helds a presentation of project results about how work and care are managed across Europe (focusing on the care of children in households) on June 16th and on 17th a range of presentations will focus on citizenship and participation in Europe. The conference will be held in in Scotland House on the Schuman roundabout in Brussels.
Seminar: The single currency and European Citizenship: an Assessment
The general aim of the seminar that will be held on 3rd June in Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa - Aula magna storica, is to discuss the effects of the introduction of the Single Currency on the development of citizenship of the Union.
Information on conference "The Social Dimension of Religion in Civil Society"
This is a call for participation and papers for WP49 Conference on The Social Dimension of Religion in Civil Society, A Comparative European Perspective, that will be held in Stockholm, Sweden on 17-19th of September 2009.
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- Lecture series 2008-2009
- International Centre for Studies in Citizenship, Democratic Participation and Civil Society at the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University will organize during the Academic Year 2008 – 2009 a Lecture Series on Citizenship, Participation and Civil Society.
The European programme in Civil Society Leadership