The laboratory of Behavioral Genetics, within the Brain and Mind Institute-School of Life Science at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)/CH is organizing an international symposium, Understanding Violence – Recent advances in biology, sociology and modeling - EPFL Latsis Symposium 2009 which will take place on February 11-12th & 13th, 2009 on the EPFL campus.  (see more information in the webpage http://latsis2009.epfl.ch/).

Call for Research Summaries - Global Research Seminar: Sharing Research Agendas on Knowledge systems, UNESCO, Paris, 28 – 30 November 2008. The UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge invites research organizations and researchers actively involved in studying research and knowledge systems in key fields such as higher education, science and technology, innovation, social sciences, health and agriculture to submit a summary on their new and ongoing research for the Global Research Seminar. For more information click here. 

FP 7 Project Management Rules and other trainings: please go to website.

The Kiel Summer School (KiSS) is a center for learning in an international context, offering a variety of courses in economics, business administration, quantitative methods, social sciences, and the German language. The seven-week program also includes a series of field trips and visits to business companies. No prior German language training is required. After the seven-week program, internships with institutions and business can be arranged. For more information, please go to website.

Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research: Announcement and Information for candidates for the XIIIth (2008) and XIVth (2009) Prize.The prize is open to all social science disciplines. It is given to a submission that is deemed by the Jury to be a very substantial and original contribution in comparative social science research. It can be either an unpublished manuscript of book length, or a printed book, or collected works published no more than two years before the award ceremony is to take place. The prize is €5000.
Nominations for the XIIIth (2008) and XIVth (2009) Prize are currently welcomed.
The deadline for submission of nominations is 1 December 2008.
Both the 2008 and 2009 Stein Rokkan Prizes will be awarded during the ISSC’s first World Social Science Forum, which is to be held in Bergen, Norway, from 10-12 May 2009. For further information on the Forum, please see http://www.rokkan.uib.no/wssf/.

COST invites researchers throughout Europe to submit proposals for research networks, including the domain of Individuals, Society, Culture and Health. Since 1971 COST brings together research teams in different countries working on specific topics. It finances networking of nationally funded activities in supporting meetings, conferences, short term scientific exchanges and outreach activities. Full information and the electronic application tool can be found at: go to website.

The Board of Governors of RC24 has just created the Frederick H. Buttel International Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Environmental Sociology in honour of its past president.  The ISA has approved the award and specified a list of rules for granting the award. Go to the ISA website.

INTAS: for funding opportunities go to website.

Marie Curie Actions: go to website.

The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS) publishes a newsletter, which contains information about activities, publications and FAS-funded research.  All newsletters published to date can be consulted here, where you can also subscribe.

The African Journal of Political Science and International Relations (AJPSIR) is currently accepting manuscripts for publication. AJPSIR publishes rigorous theoretical reasoning and advanced empirical research in all areas of the subjects. We welcome articles or proposals from all perspectives and on all subjects pertaining to Africa, Africa's relationship to the world, public policy, international relations, comparative politics, political methodology, political theory, political history and culture, global political economy, strategy and environment. For more information, please go to website.

The GlobalSSH Action first newsletter is available and can be consulted online: go to website.

A new methodology-oriented journal is being launched : the ‘Journal of Spurious Correlations – Qualitative and Quantitative Results in the Social Sciences’ (JSpurC) forward. The editorial board of JSpurC has developed a web-based survey, in order to receive general feedback on the purpose of this Journal. Please find the JSpurC survey at: go to website.

Unesco Newsletter: go to website.

CATCH, demonstration project in the European Commission’s Life-Environment Programme, has now published its final report. It supported the EC’s Sixth Environmental Action Programme by promoting sustainable mobility in order to improve air quality. CATCH was implemented in Liverpool (UK), Suceava (Romania) and Potenza (Italy). For more information on Catch: forward; to read or download the final report:  go to website.

Newsletter on EU Research in Social Sciences and Humanities go to website.

Politics & Gender is an intellectually rigorous, methodologically sophisticated, agenda-setting journal that publishes the highest quality scholarship on gender and politics and women and politics. For more information, please go to website.

EABIS - European Academy of Business in Society is issuing regular calls. For more information, please go to website.

Social Capital Gateway
A useful resource for researchers, teachers, students, and practitioners interested in social interactions and social capital, in their role in the well-being of communities, and in their relationship with human, social and economic development. Go to website.

International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion - IMISCOE
Calls, Summer Courses, Reports, PhD Courses.... For more information,  go to website.

The Central European Centre for Women and Youth in Science, funded by the European Commission Framework Programme 6, has developed a unique regional, multi-disciplinary, easily navigable database which can be searched for appropriate candidates for invitation to advisory committees, boards and expert panels as well as scientific projects. To search the database, please go to website.

European Commission - LOCIN: Database on Local Intitiatives to combat Social Exclusion. Launched in 1996 by Research Directorate General, aims to collect pertinent information, in all Member States, on Local Initiatives against Social Exclusion, to gather them into a database on the web, for all interested people. Over 700 local intiatives, which are example of good practice and innovation in the fight against social exclusion, and texts demonstrating the policies of the Member States in this field, are also in LOCIN. Links to websites have been added, allowing to obtain more information about the European Community’s policies to combat social exclusion.
http://locin.jrc.it/

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