The CINEFOGO Network organizes March 16-18 2009 a Conference on Social Rights, Active Citizenship and Governance in EU. The conference is held in Brussels.  After almost four years of joint research, the netw ork will stage a top-level conference where European researchers will meet EP members, EU officials, NGO representatives (EU, national), and the media. The goal of the conference would be spreading the outcomes of research conducted by the CINEFOGO project at the European and national levels of policy making.

The conference will focus on two important topics relevant for all citizens of Europe as well as all European policy makers:

- Social rights and social reality in the European Union
- Active citizenship and governance.

The conference will present CINEFOGO Network findings on the relationships among citizens, NGOs, civil servants and politicians at the European and national levels. It will identify different roles of various actors and institutions, the ways they are (or are not) involved in the decision making processes, and how their actions influence the changing human living conditions – including accessibility of social rights to European citizens.

Governance at the EU level has a big impact the on daily life and working conditions of the Europeans. However, the citizens of Europe mostly do not understand the complexities of EU policy making. Their active participation at various levels of governance differs from one country to another and from agenda to agenda, depending on uneven strengths of particular civil societies, different civic cultures, and emerging new modes of cooperation between private and public actors. There is an important role of intermediate organizations, such as NGOs and the media in nurturing conditions for the activation of European citizens. In general, active citizens’ participation is still a feeble resource in the EU decision making processes.

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Challenge 4, Objective 2: Intelligent Content and Semantics

FP7-ICT Call 3

The 3^rd ICT Call, objective 'Intelligent Content and Semantics' was puplished on 4 December 2007 and will close on 8 April 2008. The budget will be the same as for the first ICT Call (50 M euro). Further details on the scope of the call, individual research lines and planned budget allocation are provided in the Work Programme for ICT research in FP7 in 2007-2008, available online on CORDIS.

3.4 Challenge 4: Digital Libraries and Content - Objective ICT-2007.4.2 (ICT-2007.4.4): Intelligent Content and Semantics <8Apr08