Deadline registration

27 October 2006

Please register online at http://keynes.ruc.dk/obvious/roecs_form.php - there are still room for a few more conference participants.

Where

The conference centre: 'Comwell Roskilde', Vestre Kirkevej 12, Himmelev, DK 4000 Roskilde, Denmark. Link

About the Conference

The conference is the first of two conferences organised within the framework of the CINEFOGO Network of Excellence under Work Package 16 on Volunteering, Civic Participation and welfare – The Importance of the Non-Profit Sector in Europe. The second conference is foreseen to take place in the Autumn of 2007 and will focus primarily on volunteering and civic participation. Responsible are Thomas P. Boje.

With this conference we would like to address and discuss the role and organisation of the non-profit/civil society sector in Europe, the importance of the sector in the provision of social welfare and the different types of relationship emerging in European countries between the non-profit/civil society sector and welfare institutions.
At the Conference, we will present new empirical results from surveys on the organisation and development of non-profit/civil society sector from a number of European countries – e. g. Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Portugal. The data collected in connection to national surveys in the Johns Hopkins Comparative Non-profit Sector Study will be the primary data source for several of these studies. In addition to plenary lectures, the conference also includes sessions for paper presentation. We would like to invite scholars and especially Ph.D students to present research papers at the conference on a broader spectre of topics related to the organisation and development of the non-profit/civil society sector in Europe.

Costs

The conference and accommodation will be free for all paper-givers and participants, while travel costs shall be covered by each individual participant.