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EUROSPHERE will organize two Euro Forums - that is, special policy-targeted sessions – to which the representatives of stake-holding European institutions and the key researchers of Eurosphere will be invited to stimulate an exchange of ideas, experiences, and knowledge. These will be intensive one-day conference sessions with concise presentations of policy-relevant findings by project participants and interventions by the representatives of European institutions. Each of these one-day sessions will be divided into four concise, specific topical sub-sessions. These Euro Forums will be synchronized with the two last conferences that will be carried out in Brussels.

The one-day policy session (4 August 2010) will exclusively address the roles and contributions of different social and political actors in the shaping of the European public sphere and in increasing the communication between different institutional actors. This policy session will be divided into four sub-sessions, each of which will last 2 hours. The four different sub-sessions will address the contributions of (1) political parties, (2) think tanks, (3) social movements, and (4) electronic/print media. In each sub-session the factors will be identified which obstruct/facilitate communication between the respective actor and the European institutions.

In October 2011, the one-day policy session will address the feasibility of different supranational strategies for articulating a democratic, inclusive, and participatory European Public Sphere. This policy-session will also be divided into four sub-sessions, each of which will last 2 hours: (1) the strategies for increasing communication between essentialized communicative public spaces and the European institutions, (2) the strategies for increasing communication between national spaces and the European institutions, (3) the strategies for increasing communication between transnational spaces and the European institutions, and (4) the strategies for increasing communication between glocal spaces and the European institutions.