World_Drives association has its roots in scientific conferences, projects and cooperations with Eastern European partners promoted by INTAS, World Society Foundation, SCOPES and SDC (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation).

The next priorities are the survey and forecasting of geopolitical shifts in relations between Eastern European and Western European countries and regions.

The Newsletter 11 informs about the news and outlook of the next period.

The last multilateral project of INTAS including Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Germany, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Switzerland concentrated on the impacts of globalisation on local labour markets in small and middle centres of the coutnries.

• The final report to INTAS.

• Literature and contents of the book.

• Programme Tbilisi 2007 - Newsletter X.

• Conference in Stupino-Moscow 2006 - Executive summary.

• Programme Stupino-Moscow 2006 - Newsletter VIII.

• In memorian Yurij Levada - Newsletter IX.

• INTAS conference in Bialystok (Suprasl Poland) - Newsletter VI LOCLAB

• Intermediary report 2006.

At the occasion of 20 years after Chernobyl the comparative survey described and evaluated the long termed impacts of the catastrophe on different generations (project promoted by SDC).

• CHERNOBYL - An international comparison of societal impacts in Belarus, Russian Federation and Ukraine

• German
• English
• Russian

The network initiated projects, mainly “Good Elephants” and “looking upward”, in order to enlarge the cooperation range (including additional Western, African and Latin-American partners). The initiatives focus on the role of Transnational Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility) and the impacts of “Global Economic Government”.

• Globalisation arriving at Eastern Europe – a first part is published in the book: L'éffectivité des normes internationales.

• GOOD ELEPHANTS is looking upwards now - from Lyon to Bremen, Moscow, Yaoundé, Fribourg, Tbilisi to Brussels: it changed its profile and outlook.

• LYON: an input paper work-in-progress.

• Postsocialist Transformation and Civil Society in a Globalizing World

• A joint book publication: Postsocialist Transformations and Civil Society in a Globalizing World.

• HOW MANY WORLDS? Newsletter VII as a guideline and expert questionnaire for a joint publication.

• Understanding Democracy in the NIS - five readings from Georgia

• The Georgian Rose Revolution in a SCOPES project.

• INTAS_NETWORK Regions and Civil Societies in Belarus, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine. → Newsletter V Sofia. → Newsletter IV Minsk. → Newsletter III Tbilissi.

Since 2004 World_Drives association tries to found an African partnership; it started with the Chad-Cameroon-pipeline project and workshop projects including Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria, Congo-Braza, the Republic of Central Africa.

• Community development in a comparative perspective: methods, tools, experiences and evaluation processes, Workshop in Yaounde, February 2007 See the conference papers

• The WORLDPIPE project: state of the art and coming steps Newsletter II informs.

• We start with a workshop in Yaoundé: The Chad-Cameroon Pipeline and the Making of World Society Newsletter I

• WORLDPIPE: The Chad-Cameroon Pipeline and the Making of World Society in Africa

A cooperation with China is planned and prepared for the next period.

• CHINA: Globalisation and Sustainable Development in Shanghai

World_Drives association is an organisation oriented to open access. It stimulates cultural projects promoting the image of world society in culture and arts of specific groups and nations.

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