The rapid changes caused by global developments are increasingly in danger of marginalising economically and socially weaker groups. The threat of social segregation calls for new and effective concepts and projects. Migration flows, together with the growing importance of the information society as an element of globalisation, present new dangers of exclusion from modern society. Social cohesion is central to the future development of society, and as such emerges in current projects and in the debate on social capital.
| Gruppe 2a (EN/FR) | Loisirs populaires, tourisme social, des réalités menacées? | Luc Greffier | France | |||
| Animación Sociocultural y globalización | Luisa Sarrate Capdevila | Spain | ||||
| The Empowerment of Civil Society for repelling right-wing extremism in Swiss Municipalities | Eser Davolio, Miryam | Switzerland | ||||
| Empowerment of individuals strengthens communities Developing social cohesion through rites of passage into adulthood | LuciAnna Braendle, Marie-Louise Pfister | Switzerland | ||||
| Gruppe 2b (EN/FR) | La construction du métier d'animation socioculturel par l'éducation populaire en France et en Europe | Gallibour Eric, Freydoun Schahmaneche | France | |||
| Les institutions économiques des territoires face à la mondialisation | Ndiaye Abdourahmane | France | ||||
| «Chez nous, c’est Marrakech» ou la question du traitement de l’ethnicité dans les champs de l’animation en territoire rural. | France | |||||
| Gruppe 2c (EN) | Community Leadership Education: Building Social Cohesion Among Diverse Audiences | Kenneth Pigg, Donielle Lovell | USA | |||
| Neighbourhood Revitalisation through Land Pooling. A Key to Integrated Community Development in Kathmandu Valley. | Keshav Nepal, Sanjay Upreti | Nepal | ||||
| Gender, environment and sustainable development: women social inclusion via community development | Edina Schimanski | Brasil | ||||
| Gruppe 2d (EN) | Building Community Capacity Through Community Based Income Generation Projects: The Evidence from South Africe | Rebecca Surender | Great Britain | |||
| Experiences with interviews, conversation and dialogue in Socio-cultural Animation | Javier Orlando Lozano Escobar | Spain | ||||
| The Poorest City in the United States has Housing Development | Dagmar Clark | USA | ||||
| Gruppe 2d (EN) | Rediscovering ourselves, experiencing cultural participation in e-culture | Gert-Jan van Dijk | Holland | |||
| The social and democratic challenges in risk-society (South Asia) | Ivan Sarwar | Ukrainia | ||||