- Team 1 The war for legitimacy in politics and culture
Team leaders: Dr. Martin Conway and Professor Peter Romijn - Workshop on War for legitimacy organised by Peter Romijn in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 20-22 September - Team 2 The continuity of the churches
Team leaders: Professor Jan Th. M. Bank and Professor Lieve Gevers - Workshop on Religious life/Theological confrontation 1939-1945 organised by Johan Ickx in Rome, Italy, 30 September-3 October - Team 3 The nature and development of local economies
Team leaders: Professor Richard J. Overy and Professor Alice Teichova - Acting co-team leader Hein Klemann - Workshop on Post-war economic reconstruction organised in Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2 - 5 September - Team 4 The structuring of everyday life
Team leaders: Professor Robert Gildea and Dr. Olivier Wieviorka - Workshop on Daily Life in Occupied Europe: the comparative picture organised in Madrid, Spain, 30 September-3 October. - Team 5 The migration of the masses
Team leaders: Professor Gustavo Corni and Dr. Tamás Stark - Workshop on Migration of the masses organised by Barbara Stelzl-Marx in Graz, Austria, 9-12 September - Team 6 The persecution and extermination of the Jews
Team leaders: Dr. Beate Kosmala - Workshop on Facing the Holocaust - Jews and Non-Jews in Europe organised by Edouard Niznansky in Bratislava, Slovakia on 23-24 May.
The Steering Committee met in Berlin, Germany on 24 May 2004