European Voluntary Associations
in the Modern and the Contemporary Period

Planned Activities

• During the year 2006 two workshops will be organized in order to develop the two volumes that will be produced by the network. Each of the workshops consists of sessions discussing both volumes. The workshops will be attended by the steering committee members, as well as the doctoral students involved in the network. In addition, scholars outside the network can be invited to participate in the workshops and to contribute the volumes in case their research seems relevant concerning the themes of volumes. The first workshop will be organized in spring 2006 and the second in autumn 2006.
  A page for the upcoming volumes can be found here.
• Furthermore, the steering committee will have two meetings in which the volumes, as well as the future plans of the network, are discussed.

Past Activities

• A meeting was held in Copenhagen in December 2005.
• August 25-27, 2005, Conference “Politics of Participation – Focus on the ‘Third Sector’” in Helsinki. The conference will be organised in collaboration with a EU-project on "Small Consensual States in Western Europe" as well as the following institutions in the University of Helsinki: Department of Social Science History, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Nordic Studies CENS, Renvall Institute, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences.
• June 2005, Steering committee meeting in Helsinki.
• The Centre for Nordic Studies at the Renvall Institute (University of Helsinki) hosted a preliminary workshop in 2003 to discuss European Voluntary Associations in the Modern and the Contemporary Period. This was attended by scholars and doctoral students of history, sociology, and other social sciences.