EUROSPHERE project conference, Osnabrück, Germany

The EU-funded EUROSPHERE ('Diversity and the European public sphere: towards a citizens' Europe') project will hold a conference to present its first results on 13 and 14 November in Osnabrück, Germany.

The EUROSPHERE partners will present their theoretical and methodological approaches and address the central research topics of EUROSPHERE. The conference will focus on two major thematic issues:

- Does a European Public Sphere (EPS) exist and how can it be approached?
- The tension between diversity and unity in the EU as a challenge for an EPS - what are the structural consequences of diversity for EPS (and vice versa)?

The main objective of EUROSPHERE is to create innovative perspectives on the European Public Spheres and to identify the conditions that enable or undermine the articulation of inclusive European Public Spheres. In each participating country, researchers analyse political parties, social movements, think tanks and the media with the aim of creating a knowledge base on how organisations contribute to the articulation of different types of public spheres in the context of complex diversity.For further information, please visit:
http://www.imis.uni-osnabrueck.de/EurosphereConference.htm(opens in new window)