According to the activities plan we organized for the PhoenixTN new cycle (2005-2008), the main part of our work will be developed inside our Working Groups. We already have the statements written by each one of their coordinators as well as the activities schedule. We’d like to ask you to read them carefully and choose which fits best in your research interests and work. You will link directly to them here:

• Welfare, health and social change. Coordinator Jan Sundin, Linkoping University
• Scientific expertise and Policy making. Coordinator Sally Sheard, Liverpool University
• Welfare reforms and vulnerable population. Coordinator Patrice Bourdelais, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
  
• Welfare, health and non governmental organizations. Coordinator Jon Arrizabalaga, Autonomous University of Barcelona and CSIC-IMF
  
• The new frontiers of European societies. Coordinator Didier Fassin, University of Paris North and Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
  

Each one of the coordinators gives you the precise information on how to proceed. And in order to really start the work, we would like you to express your interests to the Working Group coordinator before the 3rd of March 2006.

Apart from the WG plans you may be invited to participate in some conferences organized in the Phoenix framework or by other projects to which PhoenixTN belongs (such as the Archipelago). We are also launching the questionnaire for the 3rd cycle Tuning competences and this WG may ask you to join them while the work is developing. All the information will be sent to you as soon as we get it.

We’d like to ask you to spread this bulletin among the colleagues you think may be interested in participating in our activities.

Warm regards,

Laurinda Abreu
Coordinator
PhoenixTN, European Thematic Network on Health and Social Welfare Policy
http://phoenixtn.net
laurinda.abreu@mail.telepac.pt