The second PhD School seminar will take place in Brussels on 5-9 June. The deadline for applications is March 31st 2006.

• Call to Second PhD school
• Final Program
• Application Form Leaflet

The controversial interplay between globalisation and regional integration/cooperation is providing the classical theoretical issue of capitalist diversity with new input. Furthermore, global competition is creating new challenges for national systems within the EU, even as their capacity to adjust and to reform is differs greatly, due to their highly diversified socio-economic and institutional systems - even more so following eastern European enlargement. In 2000, the EU launched a common long term modernization project and framework, the so called “Lisbon strategy”(2000-2010) to try to help member states achieve such reforms in a globalised context and to foster a new development model for growth, employment and a knowledge based society according to European values.

The June 2006 Garnet Ph.D. student seminar will focus on the interplay between on the one hand, globalisation and on the other the national and Community-wide dimensions of the EU socio-economic model. On the basis of the variety of capitalisms both globally and within the EU, it will highlight the major common challenges facing all EU member states, the country-specific answers provided and the common policy framework. It will give an assessment of the functioning and achievements of the EU “Lisbon strategy” at community, national and regional levels, as regards governance and policy content. The question of the role of the EU as shield or/and a catalyst for member states in a partially globalised world will be examined as well as the international implications of the “Lisbon strategy”.

The programme will also aim to develop a dialogue between the research community and Brussels-based representatives of the social partners and the European Union institutions. The seminar will bring together an international group of scholars and PhD students coming from the GARNET network and beyond.

• Research Theme 1: Six years of reforms with the “Lisbon strategy”: genesis, aims, assessments and reforms of the strategy.
• Research Theme 2: Globalisation and the varieties of capitalism in Europe.
• Research Theme 3: Globalisation and the ways towards a knowledge-based society.
• Research Theme 4: Globalisation and the ‘political economy’ behind the “Lisbon strategy”.
• Research Theme 5: Globalisation and national reforms concerning social protection and industrial relation systems in the EU.
• Research Theme 6: The “open method of coordination” in practice in a variety of fields: its governance and policy implications.
• Research Theme 7: The international implications of the “Lisbon strategy”

Each session will include one lectures by a keynote speaker followed by a general discussion, and one paper-presentation by a selected PhD student based on her/his current research and dealing with specific tasks related to the seminar. Students not directly involved in the presentation of papers will be encouraged to have an active participation as discussants in the general discussions and the Q-A sessions. The presented papers will be discussed by the lecturer in charge of the specific session, so as to provide students with some constructive feedback on their research. Paper-givers will be offered the opportunity of publishing their papers on the GARNET website and to contribute to other GARNET publication outlets following Academic Council approval. All participants will be introduced to the Garnet NoE.

• Prof. Bjorn Hettne, University of Göteborg, Sweden, President
• Prof. Attila Agh, Corvinus Budapest University, Hungary
• Prof. Ann Deighton, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
• Prof. Janine Goetschy, CNRS, Université Paris X - Nanterre, France
• Prof. Richard Higgott, University of Warwick, UK (GARNET Senior Coordinator)
• Prof. Nicolas Levrat, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Prof. Riccardo Scartezzini, University of Trento, Italy
• Prof. Reimund Seidelmann, University of Giessen, Germany
• Prof. Elzbieta Stadtmüller, University of Wroclaw, Poland
• Prof. Karen.E. Smith, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
• Prof. Mario Telò, IEE, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
• Prof. Luk Van Langenhove, UNU-CRIS, Bruges, Belgium

• Call to Second PhD school
• Final Program
• Application Form Leaflet

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