EUROPEAN COMMISSION RESEARCH DIRECTORATE-GENERAL Directorate K - Social sciences and humanities; foresight Social and human sciences research

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The PIONEUR project has been financed within the 'Key Action Improving the socio-economic knowledge base' under the 5^th Framework Programme. It started in 2003 and will end in April 2006.

The project investigates three main aspects of mobility: 1) the conditions and motives of internal mobility within the EU; 2) the effects of internal mobility on the quality of life and individual prospects of movers; 3) the attitudes of 'internal movers' towards EU institutions and their European identification.

The overarching research goal is to answer the following questions: Who are 'internal movers' in the EU and what makes them migrate from one country to another? What are the implications of mobility for the quality of life, well-being, socio-cultural integration, and subjective expectations of the persons and families involved? Does the experience of internal mobility reshape and widen the sense of political and cultural belonging to Europe?

The PIONEUR research group is coordinated by the Centro Interuniversitario di Sociologia Politica (University of Florence) and composed by the Center of Socio-Legal Studies (Oxford University), the Centre d'Etude de la Vie Politique Française (CNRS, Paris), the Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen (Mannheim), and the Observatorio Europeo de Tendencias Sociales (University of Alicante).

The conference is also part of the initiatives promoted by the European Commission (DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities) for the European Year of Workers' Mobility.

Research website: http://www.obets.ua.es/pioneur

EC contact: Giulia Amaducci, email: giulia.amaducci@cec.eu.int

Università di Firenze contact (local organizer): Matteo Abbate, email: m.abbate@tikappa.it.

Participants are asked to register on site (March 10, 8:30-9:00 am).

9:30-9:45 Sandro Rogari, Dean of the Facoltà di Scienze Politiche "C. Alfieri", Università di Firenze and Gianfranco Bettin, Director, Centro Interuniversitario di Sociologia Politica (CIUSPO), Welcome address

9:45-10:00 Giulia Amaducci, DG Research, Presentation of the PIONEUR project; Ivone Kaizeler, DG Employment, Presentation of the European Year of Workers' Mobility

10:00-10:20 Michael Braun (ZUMA, Mannheim) and Camelia Arsene (Oxford University), The Demographics of Movers and Stayers in the European Union

10:20-10:40 Ettore Recchi (Università di Firenze), Spatial Mobility and Social Mobility in the EU

10:40-11:00 Martin Kohli (European University Institute), Comments

10:45-11:00 Discussion

11:00-11:20 COFFEE

11:20-11:40 Oscar Santacreu (Universidad de Alicante), Emiliana Baldoni (Università di Firenze) and Mari-Carmen Albert (Universidad de Alicante), Migration Projects in an Integrating Europe

11:40-12:00 Antonio Alaminos (Universidad de Alicante), Living Across Cultures in a Transnational Europe

12:00-12:20 Louise Ackers (University of Leeds), Comments

12:20-12:45 Discussion

12:45-14:00 LUNCH

14:00-14:20 Nina Rother (ZUMA, Mannheim) and Tina Nebe (European University Institute, Firenze) The Question of European Identity

14:20-14:40 Anne Muxel (CEVIPOF, Paris) The Political Participation of EU Movers

14:40-15:10 Juan Diez-Medrano (Universidad de Barcelona), Comments

15:10-15:30 Discussion

15:30-15:50 COFFEE

15:50-16:10 Damian Tambini (Oxford University), EU Movers and the Media

16:10-16:30 Adrian Favell (UCLA) and Tina Nebe (European University Institute), Internal and External Movers: the Impact of EU Enlargement

16:30-16:50 Vittorio Cotesta (Università di Roma Tre), Comments

16:50-17:10 Louise Ackers (University of Leeds), From Diaspora to Professional Communities: Understanding the Role of Networks Connections in the Migration of Highly Skilled Scientists

17:10-17:20 Silvia Ruppenthal (University of Mainz) Job Mobilities and Family Lives in Europe. Modern Mobile Living and its Relation to Quality of Life

17:20-17.45 Discussion