Among specific topics to be addressed are:
- The relationship between diversity, citizenship rights, civic participation and sustainable social development. Comparative perspectives on core issues of membership (citizenship, participation, identity);
- The consequences of transnational citizenship in relation to globalisation processes and the enlarged European Community. The interrelation of demographic change and ethnic migration;
- Migrants and non-EU citizens as active participants in economic, social and cultural development in Europe as well as their countries of origin;
- The social and cultural dynamics of migration considered as 'intersecting dimensions': class, generation, gender and sexuality;
- How diversity is expressed and managed in different arenas of social life - neighbourhoods, political and cultural organisations, work organisations, work-life relationships etc.

The meeting will bring together scholars within the two networks with colleagues from other European institutions working on civil society, citizenship, civic participation, diversity and multi-cultural issues; as well as with policymakers, and representatives of non-governmental organisations (NGOs).

It will be organised as a sequence of two keynote lectures, a series of paper presentations, and a round table discussion of practical policy implications.