ABSTRACT
The chapters in this volume give an overview of some research findings of a European project, called Intune. The project (with the title ‘Intune’ or ‘IntUne’, standing for ‘Integrated and United? A Quest for Citizenship in an Ever Closer Europe’) has been financed by the European Union within the 6th Framework Programme, Priority 7, ‘Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge Based Society’. 1 The project started in September 2005, spans for four years, covers 18 European countries, involves 29 European institutions and more than 100 scholars across Eastern and Western Europe. These sheer numbers themselves indicate the ambition of the main organisers: the project has been coordinated by the University of Siena and headed by Maurizio Cotta and Pierangelo Isernia and the participants have included sociologists, political scientists, policy analysts and linguists.
