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Bulletin number 1

Dear PHOENIXTN colleagues
As you have already been informed, our project for the creation of a European Thematic Network on Health and Social Welfare Policy was succesful for the first year (November 2001-October 2002) but the main objectives which were drawn by us have been changed. We should focus our activities during this first year on this main topic: European Health and Social Welfare Policies.

This will be the title of the conference that we are preparing to be held in Evora University during the month of September 2002, in which we count on your participation, structuring your contribution, as a paper, under the following sections, for the present times:

Section 1: The Social Welfare Policy and the Changes of Population's Health.
Section 2: Health and Informal Institutions.
Section 3: Reasons for different Choices of Welfare Politics and their Consequences.
Section 4: Innovation in Health Policy and the Geographical Scale.

We are working in obtaining external funds so that those who present a contribution on any of the four sections have their travel and accomodation expenses for the conference paid by the organization. Deadline for presentation of summaries/abstracts of papers for the conference will be 20 February 2002. In the following days you will receive detailed information about how to submit your abstract/summary.

We would also like to know which are your prefered dates for the development of the conference, during the month of September. Please click here and fill in the survey as soon as possible. Identify yourself by using your e-mail address.

The agenda for the activities of the 2nd and 3rd year of the project (November 2002-October 2003 and November 2003-October 2004) must be prepared now. When we submitted the proposal to the European Commission, the division of partners in different working groups was practically aleatory and it did not reflect neither your preferences nor your areas of speciality. In order to correct this, please tell us, by filling in this survey , which working groups you would like to join and in which of the seminars proposed you intend to participate. We await for your answers before January 20. Please, use again your e-mail address as identifier. We are working to create a single entry point to the PhoenixTN repository.

A website for the dissemination of the project, http://phoenixtn.org, and another one for the coordination of the working force, http://phoenixtn.net, are already created and are being developed. Any suggestion or collaboration would be most welcome. A mailing list, partners@phoenixtn.net, is up and running too. We would like to encourage you to use the listserver as a means of communication among all partners of the network: by simply sending your messages to partners@phoenixtn.net all partners will receive a copy of your message at their e-mail boxes. E-mail accounts for those PHOENIXTN partners interested are also available. Please contact webmaster@phoenixtn.net for more details.

21 December 2001	First call for the conference in September 2002 in Evora.	A first call for participation and presentation of papers will be sent out in this date.
20 January 2002	Deadline for preferences on 2nd and 3rd years seminars, working groups and publication of the 1st volume of the Comparative History of European Public Welfare.	Partners should have informed the coordinator, Laurinda Abreu, about their preferences for the following two years by filling in the survey.
20 February 2002	Deadline for presentation of summaries/abstracts of papers for the Evora conference.	Summaries of papers which will be presented at the Seminar should be sent to the Network Coordinator, Laurinda Abreu, before this date.
4-5 May, 2002, Evora	Meeting of PHOENIXTN's Scientific Committee
September 2002, Evora (dates to be decided by partners)	Conference to take place at Evora University

Thank you very much for your collaboration.

Best wishes,

Laurinda Abreu
Coordinator
PHOENIXTN, European Thematic Network on Health and Social Welfare Policy
http://phoenixtn.org
Laurinda.Abreu@phoenixtn.net


	The network is supported by the European Commission, within the framework of the Socrates Programme (Erasmus Thematic Networks). It also receives funding from the Portuguese Government, and collaborates with other institutions: the Milbank Memorial Fund, the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Compostela Group of Universities.