CiSoNet Conference: Markets and Civil Society in Europe Madrid, Spain, 23-25 September 2004. Coordinator: Víctor Pérez-Díaz, ASP

  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 and preparing for a Network of Excellence/Integrated Project within the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme.

CiSoNet links fifteen partners from ten countries (Germany, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Serbia), representing different disciplines - sociology, political science, anthropology, law, economics and history - and different types of research institutions.

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.

The forthcoming CiSoNet Conference on Markets and Civil Society in Europe, is organised by the ASP Research Center and will take place in Madrid, Spain, September 23-25, 2004, at the premises of  the Residencia de Estudiantes, a unique centre in the Spanish cultural scene.