GARNET's core theme is ‘Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: the Role of the EU’. To integrate research from Europe and beyond, GARNET organises an international conference every year starting 2006. This one, held in Amsterdam, will be the first.

The ISSP is a continuing annual programme of cross-national collaboration on surveys covering topics important for social science research. It brings together pre-existing social science projects and coordinates research goals, thereby adding a cross-national, cross-cultural perspective to the...