Deadline for Abstracts and Paper Presentations

November 17th, 2006
Please send your abstract to Matthias Freise, Muenster University by e-mail: freisem@uni-muenster.de

About the Conference

The outsourcing of local based community services to public private partnerships with involvement of civil society organizations is currently taking place in many European countries and policy fields. In particular the policy fields welfare production and culture, education, environment, sports, and recreation are restructured in the course of new governance approaches. Up until now, the topic of civil society organizations involved in public private partnerships has not been well researched. This is particularly the case if we consider theses developments in a European comparative perspective. In other words, research takes by and large a rather static approach on the “welfare mix” of selected policy fields.

The programme of the conference will be as follows:

1. New Modes of Governance and Public Private Partnerships
2. What do we know about Civil Society Organizations being part of PPPs: An Overview of the State of the Art
3. Challenges for Civil Society Organizations in Public Private Partnerships: Management, Governance, Stakeholders
4. Examples and Best Practices from various European countries

12 to 15 paper givers are intended. The conference is open for historical and qualitative as well as for theoretical and empirical contributions.

Target Group

The conference is open for all members of the CINEFOGO Network as well as for other interested colleagues. Ph.D. students are especially encouraged to apply.

Responsible institutions

The conference is a cooperation project between Muenster Universtity (Germany), Tillburg University (Netherlands) and the Franz-Hitze-Haus, an independent academy in Muenster.