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Current News
Successful Annual General Meeting - May 2010
The Association's Annual Meeting in Barcelaona on May 22nd recieved the Executive's proposals for new Association activities next year. These include the possibility of research travel grants to help members move about Europe, and annuial awards for the best publications by CiCea members. Detailed plans will be announced in the Autumn.
Membership reaches new record levels
As reported at the AGA, the Association has achieved record membership this year - fifteen new members were recruited in Barcelona. We now have over 110 individual members, and over 40 institutional members. President -elect Julia Spinthorakis has set a target of increasing membershio in all categories by at least 25% in her first year of office. Incresing membership means more member benefits - more travel grants, more research grants.
The Association's Research Centres
The Association has launched eight European Research Centres. Members have the exclusive use of these Centres for individual study/research purposes, or for research group meetings. The Universities providing the Centres make meeting rooms, internet access and library facilities available, and can provide details of possible local hotels, etc. They may also facilitate access to schools and educational institutions for research purposes. For more details, go to the Activitiespage.
An illustrated catalogue of all the Centres is available for all members.
Research Centers are to be located in Malmo, Ankara, Patras, Reims, London, Coimbra, Budapest and Olsztyn.
Newsletter
Newsletter No 6 was published and distributed at the beginning of December 2009.
The Association's Journal
The next issues of our journal will be the first to be printed and published by the academic publishers Intellect. The issue will be launched in July 2010. Members of the Association will continue to receive the Journal, which will aslo be available commercially from Intellect. Ian Davies will continue to act as Editor.
Past News
FEBRUARY 2008
The Research Competition for 2009 is now open! See the Activities page for full details.
The Executive met in Mechelen, Belgium in January 2009. Plans were made for the Journal, for the Research Competition and for the Annual General Meeting in Malmo.
OCTOBER 2008
The Association Executive met in Oradea, Romania in October. They made arrangements for the Company and Charity reports to be filled, with the relevant annual accounts. These will be given to Association members at the Assembly meeting in May 2009.
The Executive plan to publish the first electronic Newsletter in November 2008. This will then be published regularly through the year. The first Newletter will contain details of the next Research Grant Competition.
Arrangements were also made to ensure that the Association's administrative arrangements are put on a regular basis.
JUNE 2008
The Annual General Assembly was held in Istanbul on May 31st 2008.
The Executive nominated Susana Goncalves to be Association Secretary
for one year from 1st October 2008.
Meeting on May 31st 2008 in Istanbul: the Exceutive present their Annual Report.
Left to right:
Beata Kryswosz-Rynkiewick; Julia Spinthourakis (Secretary); Alistair Ross (President)[standing]; Christine Roland Levy (President-elect); Marta Fulop; Anne Marie Van den dries (Treasurer).
The Annual General Meeting was well attended. The draft minutes are published on the web site (see Meetings/Conferences).
The Meeting accepted the election results for the new executive, and agreed to he nomination of Susanna Goncalves as Secretary (for the year 2008-9, to fill the vacancy caused by Julia Spinthouralis becoming President-elect in October).
This picture of the Assembly shows a small section of the meeting, with
(right foreground) Lindsay Melling, the Association administrator, taking
minutes.
MAY 2008
Executive Member Elections
Scientific and Publications Officer
Votes cast:
Marta Fulop 146 elected
Riita Korhonen 56
Executive Members
Nanny Hartsmar
Riitta Korhonen
Beata Kryzywosz-Rynkiewicz
(all elected unopposed)
Details of the candidates
Research Grant Awards 2008
Three proposals were received, and after deliberation the Executive has decided to award the 2008 grant to a proposal byMaria Pagoni (University Lille III, France), Despina Karakatsani (University of Peloppenese, Greece),Richard Etienne (University of Paul Valéry Montpellier III, France),Georges Stamelos and Julia Spinthourakis (University of Patras, Greece) for a project entitled: Curricular, Pedagogical and Didactic Questions about Participative Citizenship in Secondary Schools: a comparison of two European countries.
Details of the Competition
APRIL 2008
Nominations for Executive Member posts
NOMINATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED FOR THE EXECUTIVE AND THE ELECTION IS IN PROCESS.
JANUARY 2008
Nominations for Executive Member posts opened in late January.
Nominations for Presidential Election
NOMINATIONS HAVE NOW CLOSED (1pm Monday 7th January 2008)
NOVEMBER 2007
Research Grants
The Assocation is to offer groups of Association members research grants to support collaborative projects. The first grant/grants will be for up to Euros 1,500, for a group of four or more Association members (freom different Institutions). Applications are due in March 2008: details on the Activites page.
Nominations for Presidential Election
Nominations open this month for the Prsident-elect/President election. The peson elected will join the Executive as President-elect next October, and become President at the end of Christine Roland-Levy's term of office (Septemvber 2010). They will be President for two years, and then past-President for two years. Nomination details on the Activites page.
JULY 2007
Web Site
Welcome to the new CiCea website, which was put together 22 - 26 June. It will replace the temporary site on the CiCe Thematic Network site. We puchased our own domain name - with the all-important .eu address.
Elections
The CiCea Executive met in Budapest on 22- 23 June 2007, and have made a series of decisions about how we will organise the next round of elections for the CiCea Executive. Full details are on the Activites pageof the website, and will be sent to members by mail in the early autumn. In brief:
* the President-elect/President/past-President election will take place first, with nominations opening in late November, and the election in January.
Following the results of this, we'll open nominations for four executive posts:
* a scientific and publications officer
* three executive committee posts
Voting for these posts will be in April, with the results announced a few weeks before the Istanbul conference. These four posts will only come into effect if we are funded for a fourth CiCe Erasmus Network from October 2008. If our proposal is not funded, we shall not be able to afford this many Executive posts.
MARCH 2007
New President elect: Christine Roland Levy
There was only one candidate nominated for election as our next President. Christine Roland Levy, of the University of Paris Descartes, is elected as President-Elect to September 2008, when she will become President of the Association for a two-year term. Following this she will continue as Past President as a member of the Executive until September 2010.
Christine Roland Levy Election Manifesto
I am standing as President for our Association, and ask for your vote because I feel that I have the experience, qualifications and enthusiasm for the task.
I have been involved in the CiCe Thematic network since its first conference in 1999, and have since served as National Coordinator for France and on the Executive Committee. I have enthusiastically contributed to the formation and launch of our new Cicea Association.
I led the development of the CiCe MA in Citizenship Education in Europe, guiding members from 21 countries in the Curriculum Development project, and helped shape the structure and content of this joint European Masters Degree.
I am well aware of the work Alistair Ross has given to CiCe and feel he will not easily be replaced. But his term as President of CiCea runs until October 08, and he will be Past-President during the two-year mandate of the new President, which will help!
I hope you will entrust me with your vote so that I have the opportunity to bring my expertise and enthusiasm to guiding CiCea with you towards its goals. I will be energetic in providing fresh input into CiCea, making our main focus the development of an autonomous and innovative international association. Our association will be clearly connected to developing a multidisciplinary research field with the journal Citizenship, Teaching and Learning, produced by citizED in partnership with CiCea.
I have varied and substantial administrative and leadership experience in leading academic associations. I have the privilege of having been elected President of two international research associations (International Association for Research in Economic Psychology, 1997-1999; the Economic Psychology division, in the International Association of Applied Psychology, 2002-2006). I have organized 6 major congresses, co-edited 7 research publications, edited 3 manuals for students and professionals, edited special issues for the Journal of Economic Psychology, New Review of Social Psychology, and Applied Psychology, and published 25 articles in international scientific journals. I teach psychology at all levels, and supervise 5 PhD students.
I will lead Cicea with the advice and support of all its members, building on our experiences together so far, but also looking to construct a new and independent future, taking all possible opportunities to grow and develop in new directions and to a new strength. With your support and trust, I believe that together we can achieve a great deal towards helping fulfil the promise of CiCea.
JANUARY 2007
Relationship between CiCea and CiCe
The European Commission supports the CiCe Thematic Network for a fixed term to carry out particular activities agreed with the Socrates agency. To date Socrates has supported the CiCe Network for four separate periods (1998-2001; 2001-2; 2002-5; 2006-8).
The CiCe Association is independent of the European Commission, and will have an existence independent of the Commission. It will nevertheless continue to seek funding for Network activities from the Commission beyond 2008.
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We are the academic association for the study of young people's citizenship education and identities, with members in most European countries.
We coordinate a European Commission Erasmus Network: click on the logo below to visit the Network site. 
We publish a regular academic journal, and other publications.
Our current President, Christine Roland Levy
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