Serie 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

Serie 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

Serie 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

Serie 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