SOC (formerly SCSS) funded 12 Exploratory Workshops in 2003:
- Preliminary details may be consulted prior to each event
(for information purposes only - these meetings are not open to the public)
- Final scientific reports become available two months after each event
List of Workshops in 2003
- Euro-Med and Middle East Political Economy: Assessing the State of the Field
Dates and Location: 22-24 May 2003, Florence, Italy
Convened by: Eberhard KIENLE (FR), Steven HEYDEMANN (US), Giacomo LUCIANI (IT)
ESF representative: Jakob de Haan, University of Groningen (NL)
Scientific Report (PDF 222 KB)
- Transnationalism in the European Union
Dates and Location: 20-22 June 2003, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Convened by: Wolfram KAISER (UK), Peter STARIE (UK)
Scientific Report (PDF 350 KB)
- Arbitrage and related topics
Dates and Location: 24-26 June 2003, Paris, France
Convened by: Bernard CORNET (FR)
ESF representative: Miroslav Marcelli, Philosophical Faculty, Comenius University, Bratislava (SK)
Scientific Report (PDF 371 KB) Papers: go to website
- Intergenerational Relationships, Migration and Ageing: policy and behaviour
Dates and Location: 18-21 July 2003, Keele, United Kingdom
Convened by: Simon J. BIGGS (UK), Ariela LOWENSTEIN (IL), Ruth KATZ (IL)
ESF representative: Henryk Domanski, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Warsaw (PL)
Scientific Report (PDF 169 KB)
- The Impact of Institutions on Innovation: the Case of Biotechnology
Dates and Location: 19-20 September 2003, Barcelona, Spain
Convened by: Pierre RÉGIBEAU (UK), B. CASSIMAN (ES), D. HARHOFF (DE), Katharine ROCKETT (UK)
ESF representative: Nathalie Schueller, European Science Foundation
Scientific Report (PDF 283 KB)
- Income, Interactions and Subjective Well-Being
Dates and Location: 25-26 September 2003, Paris, France
Convened by: Andrew CLARK (FR), Claudia V. SENIK (FR)
ESF representative: Michal Illner, Institute of Sociology, Prague (CZ)
Scientific Report (PDF 274 KB)
- New Forms of Citizenship and Young Generations. The Civic Dimensions of Leisure and Consumption for Young Generations in Global Cities
Dates and Location: 2-4 October 2003, Strasbourg, France
Convened by: Henk VINKEN (NL), Cristine GRIFFIN (UK), Anita HARRIS (AU), Angela ITTEL (DE)
ESF representative: Henk Stronkhorst, European Science Foundation
Scientific Report (PDF 13.5 KB)
- Topics in Economic Geography: A Dialogue between Economists and Geographers
Dates and Location: 24-26 October 2003, London, United Kingdom
Convened by: Michael STORPER (UK), Gilles DURANTON (UK), Andrés RODRIGUEZ-POSE (UK), Jacques-François THISSE (BE)
ESF representative: Torsten Fischer, European Science Foundation
Scientific Report (PDF 243 KB)
- The Immigrant Tourist Industry
Dates and Location: 5-7 December 2003, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Convened by: Jan RATH (NL)
ESF representative: Amélie Mummendey, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (DE)
Scientific report (PDF 153 KB)
- The Strategic Use of European Law and its Implications for Labour Market Relations in the EU and China (postponed from 2002)
Dates and Location:12-13 December 2003, London, United Kingdom
Convened by: Francis SNYDER (UK) and Robert REINER (UK)
Scientific report (PDF 75 KB)
- Development Meets Transition: Understanding Institutional Change
Dates and Location: 12-13 December 2003, Stockholm, Sweden
Convened by: Guido FRIEBEL (SE), Erik BERGLÖF (SE), Philippe AGHION (UK/US), Gérard ROLAND (UK/US)
ESF representative: Asbjørn Rødseth, University of Oslo, Norway
Scientific report (PDF 726 KB)
- Assessing the role and significance of transnational political parties within the European Union
Dates and Location: 16-18 December 2003, London, United Kingdom
Convened by: Stephen R. DAY (UK)
ESF representative: John Coakley, Department of Politics, University College Dublin (IE)
Scientific Report (PDF 156 KB)
ESF Contacts for Exploratory Workshops in the Social Sciences
- ESF Exploratory Workshops Unit:
- ValerieAllspach-KiechelE-Mail
- Database officer
- ESF SOC (formerly SCSS) Unit:
- CélineSeewaldE-Mail
- Administrator
