Project Description

The European Civil Society Network (CiSoNet) deals with a most promising issue of European integration and enlargement: the emergence, dynamics and perspectives of a European-wide civil society. Embedded in the EC´s 5th Framework Programme's Key Action on "Improving the socio-economic knowledge base" CiSoNet aims at stimulating cross-disciplinary research that concentrates on transnational dimensions of civil society, thereby contributing to the building of a European research area in the social sciences and humanities.

CiSoNet links fifteen partners from ten countries (Germany, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Serbia -Montenegro), representing different disciplines - sociology, political science, history, anthropology, law and economics - and different types of research institutions within an initial two years work period (2003 and 2004).

CiSoNet carries out a variety of activities, so called "workpackages", consisting of major conferences, smaller workshops, additional meetings, research reports and case studies, focussing on four core areas: Languages of European Civil Society; Resources and Dynamics of European Civil Society; Civil Society, Governance and the European Polity; Civil Society and the Economy

 

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