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Mihai Pascaru and Călina Ana Buţiu (University of Alba Iulia, Romania) published, in the Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, an entitled article "Civil Society, Public Participation, and Religious Affiliation. Exploratory Investigations in the Livezile-Rimetea Area (Apuseni Mountains, Romania)".

This event (4-8 November 2009) will be the seventh annual international conference of territorial intelligence. The first conference took place in 2003 in Besançon and was the starting point for setting up the European Network of Territorial Intelligence on the basis of the Catalyse Method users network that had progressively been build up in Europe since the 1990’s.

The ThéMA laboratory organizes an international symposium : "Le Sahara et ses marges: enjeux et perspectives de territoires en mutation" (" The Sahara and its margins : issues and prospects of territories in transformation") in Besançon, from 18th to 20th June.

Applied Research Projects, conducted under the ESPON 2013 Programme, create European wide, comparable information and evidence on territorial potentials and challenges focusing on opportunities for success for the development of regions and cities. The first Interim Reports of two ESPON Projects are now available.

The Norois Journal last issue, entitled “Territorial Governance systems and tools”, under the direction of Sylvie Lardon, Eduardo Chia and Hélène Rey-Valette, gathers contributions from the workshop “Tools for Territorial Governance” that took place during the Joint Conference of the European Regional Science Association and the Association de Science Régionale de Langue Française (Paris and Cergy-Pontoise, 29th August-2nd September 2007).

This publication describes European Research projects funded by the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities theme of the seventh Framework Programme in 2007, 2008 and 2009. These projects concern the Lisbon strategy, sustainable development and regional cohesion, major societal trends, Europe in the world, the citizen in the EU, indicators, foresight and infrastructure.

G-FORS, an SSH project of the 6th Research Framework Programme, organises its final conference on "Governance for Sustainability - Multi-level governance, sustainability, sustainable development, knowledge, reflexive knowledge, management of environmental resources"

EUDIMENSIONS project (FP6) organises its final conference on "Local Dimensions of a Wider European Neighbourhood"

caENTI is a three-year project of humanities and social sciences funded under the 6th Framework Program of Research and Technological Development, until February, 28th 2009. During this dissemination seminar, caENTI work packages leaders will present project activities and final results, and will then debate with the audience.

The new Latin-American network "Territorios Posibles" (Possible territories) was launched during the twelfth meeting of Latin American geographers. This meeting is taking place in Montevideo (Uruguay) from April 3rd to 7th 2009 and gathers 2500 geographers.

This report presents a brief description of the projects focusing in the areas of migration and integration of migrants funded in the last five years, their main findings and relevance for European policy making.

The European Network of Excellence CINEFOGO ('Civil society and new forms of governance in Europe - the making of European citizenship') is organising its final conference dedicated to 'Social rights, active citizenship and governance in the European Union' on 17 and 18 March in Brussels, Belgium.

The third INSPIRE conference will take place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 15-19 June 2009, in conjunction with the eleventh international conference of the GSDI association, "Building spatial data infrastructure bridges to address global challenges" and the national conference on Dutch SDI.

One of the axles of the European programme e-contentPlus, which finished at the end of 2008, concerns the geographic information, its content improvement and its access improvement by the directive INSPIRE (2007/2/CE) about the creation of a European geographic infrastructure.

The annual Symposium of de la Permanent Conference of Territorial Development will take place on March, 24th 2009 in the "Palais des Congrès" in Liège.

The "Collège des Hautes-Etudes de l'environnement et du Développement Durable" (College of study of environment and sustainable development) organizes a training on "Territory and Sustainable Development" in Rueil-Malmaison (France), From March, 12th to June, 29th 2009.

The Observatory of territories publishes its second diagnosis on main territorial dynamics in France.