Overview of projects funded under FP6 in Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), Citizens and Governance theme - link to CORDIS

• Central European Centre for Women and Youth in Science (CEC-WYS) was empowering woman and young scientists in Central Europe and contributed to the achievement of gender equality in R&D.
  
• CivicActive is a European Sixth Framework Research Programme which scientific objective is to analyse the individual and societal factors that affect active civic participation.
• CONNEX - "Connecting Excellence on European Governance" - this Network of Excellence is dedicated to the analysis of efficient and democratic multilevel governance in Europe. It seeks to integrate independent fundamental research and mobilise outstanding scholars from different disciplines to deepen our knowledge on European multilevel governance and build a Europe-wide research community which stands for scientific excellence. It also aims to contribute to the public debate on the future of European governance.
• DEMOS - "Democracy in Europe and the Mobilization of Society" focuses upon forms of participatory democracy as they are elaborated 'from below' and implemented both in the internal organization of social movements and in experiments with deliberative decision-making.
• EU-Consent - "Wider Europe, Deeper Integration? Constructing Europe Network" is a Network of Research and Training concerned with the visions about the future of the EU. It integrates a broad range of research communities involved in research on widening and deepening of the European Union. The open network aims at improving the understanding of key European processes and challenges, but also to create a forum, easily accessible for researchers, students and a broader public on all major dimensions of the EU integration process. A particular focus is on the relationship between widening and deepening of the Union and a reflection on the Union’s ultimate capacity to enlarge. To this aim scenarios for the future shape of the EU are being discussed
• IConnectEU - The objective of IConnectEU is to create a generic infrastructure for joint dissemination activities across thematically related projects, consisting of a software platform, a reference model for integrated dissemination, and guidelines on how to implement the infrastructure in different domains.
• InTune - “Integrated and United? A Quest for Citizenship in an Ever Closer Europe” - is a Research Project, which aims at studying the changes in Citizenship due to the Enlargement proces. Co-ordinated by Siena University, Italy.
• NewGov - "New Modes of Governance" - is a Pan-European Project on New Modes of Governance in Europe that focuses on EU and its Member states. Co-ordinated by the European University Institute, Italy.
• PAGANINI investigates the ways in which participatory practices contribute to problem solving in a number of highly contentious fields of EU governance. PAGANINI looks at a particular dynamic cluster of policy areas concerned with what we call “the politics of life”: medicine, health, food, energy, and environment.
• RECON - "Reconstituting Democracy in Europe" - seeks to clarify whether democracy is possible under conditions of pluralism, diversity and complex multilevel governance. Three different models for reconstituting democracy in Europe are delineated and assessed with the overall aim of developing a theory of democratic deliberative supranationalism.
• RECWOWE - "Reconciling Work and Welfare in Europe" is a Network of Excellence which aims at improving the understanding of recent changes in the relations between labour markets and employment on the one hand and welfare regimes on the other. The network addresses and investigates the tensions which often characterise these relations.
• WORKS - The overall objective of the WORKS project is to improve our understanding of changes in work in the knowledge-based society, their driving forces and their implications for the use of knowledge and skills, for flexibility and for the quality of life. In particular, new forms of work organisations will be analysed taking account of global value chain restructurings and regional institutional contexts.