Objective The proposed research project, which is structurally based on the comparative analysis of the role of social capital and civil society in achieving the goals of development policy through stimulating social partnerships and improving levels of administrative capacity, is based on research conducted in non-Cohesion (Germany and Italy), old Cohesion (Greece and Spain), CEE (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland) and candidate states (Bulgaria and Romania) of the EU. The project focuses on identifying the patterns of interactions between the levels of social capital and the capacity of civil society to choose effective and efficient development policy strategies and implementation processes to achieve the goal of sustainable development.Hence, the principal goal of the project is threefold: first, to identify the existing differences in the structure of civil society between the old and new Member States, by evaluating the level of social capital present in different territorial contexts; second, to assess how these differences in the strength of social capital and civil society may be related to the levels of effectiveness and efficiency of development policies in these countries; and third, to identify ways in which the Europeanization of public policy (in our case, cohesion policy) may be used to strengthen the level of social capital and civil society at large, thus indirectly affecting/improving the levels of effectiveness and efficiency of development policy. Fields of science social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiespublic policiessocial sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil societysocial sciencespolitical sciencesgovernment systems Keywords EU enlargement towards the Balkans EU regional policy Socio-economic cohesion in the EU civil society in EU development policy in the EU social capital sustainable development in the EU Programme(s) FP6-CITIZENS - Citizens and Governance in a knowledge-based society: Thematic Priority 7 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research Programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) CITIZENS-2004-3.2.1 - Development models to meet combined societal and economic objectives CITIZENS - Citizens and governance in a knowledge-based society Call for proposal FP6-2004-CITIZENS-5 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE EU contribution No data Address Houghton Street LONDON United Kingdom See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY BUDAPEST FOUNDATION Hungary EU contribution No data Address Nador utca, 9 BUDAPEST See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data CENTRE FOR LIBERAL STRATEGIES Bulgaria EU contribution No data Address 135A RAKOVSKI STR SOFIA See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Germany EU contribution No data Address Karolinenplatz 5 DARMSTADT See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data INSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGY OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC Czechia EU contribution No data Address Jilska 1 PRAHA 1 See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA Spain EU contribution No data Address Placa de la Merce, 10-12 BARCELONA See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI Romania EU contribution No data Address Mihail Kogalniceanu, 1 CLUJ-NAPOCA See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data WARSAW UNIVERSITY Poland EU contribution No data Address Krakowski Przedmiescie 26/28 WARSZAWA See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data