Series 1: Organised Civil Society, multi-level governance, public-private partnership and state-civil society relations

• Organised Civil Society and Multi-Level Governance
• Civil society and its role in new forms of governance
• Public-private partnerships are here understood as “key tools of governance”
• Impact of civil society on the public spheres, Social Movements and Civil Society
• Civil Society and NGOs in Policy Making
• Ideologies about third sector organisations and their role
• EU Aid Policy – Non-Government Public Action
  

Series 2: Social Rights, Social protection, Social cohesion, Citizenship Rights and Social Services

• Citizenship rights beyond the territorial borders of the nation-state and the establishment of European citizenship
• Strategy for combating civic apathy and exclusion
• Organized welfare outside state institutions in terms of third-sector-organisations and the third sector debate
• European Social Model
• Changing forms of state intervention in social protection
  
• Governance and production of social services
  

Serie 3: Social Capital, Active participation, Trust, social network, voluntary work

• The active citizen participation in social change as well as the passive acquisition of rights in the life course
• Differences in Social Participation and Civic Cultures across European society
• Social Capital and Forms of Participation in Europe
• Various forms of civic participation and active citizenship
• Voluntary work and non-profit associations
  
• Volunteering, Civic Participation and Social Inclusion
  

Series 4: National Identity, Multi-culturalism, Non-European citizens, marginalization

• Identities, Values and Civic Cultures in Europe
• The cultures and identities in Europe
• Civic cultures and representation of European citizenship in the mass media
• Identity formation, such as spontaneous protests, cultural creativity, and lifestyle initiatives and sets of values, sense of belonging to a community
• Human rights and social citizenship of non-EU citizens
  
• The formation of European identity within the contradictory processes of globalization and particularization of identities
  

Series 5: Gender, work-care-family relations, citizenship

• Gender, social citizenship and participation
• Gendering of citizenship rights
• Recognition of the right to time to care and to receive care – for children as well as elder citizens
• Politics of care
• Work-Life Balance in Europe
• Gendered organisation of paid work, care and unpaid work in different countries of Europe