The Cosmobilities Network is the link to European mobility research

The Cosmobilities Network connects European scientists working in the field of mobility research. It is a lively context of intellectual and academic exchange. As an interdisciplinary network it represents state of the art research on different aspects of social, physical, cultural and virtual mobilities.

It fosters mobility research as a key discipline for the modernization of European societies under the conditions of globalization and global complexity.

The Cosmobilities Network addresses social scientists, planners, engineers, and researchers interested in questions of technology, knowledge and the philosophy of science (STS). For journalists and other experts in questions of mobility it is a source of information and competence. The plurality of its members shapes the network and its activities.

The www.cosmobilities.net website is an information platform. It supports scientific exchange and meeting each other in virtual or real space. Creating ‘weak ties’ by communication and beyond national and disciplinary boundaries is the origin for the creativity and agility of the cosmobilities network.

Three times a year, the Cosmobilities Newsletter offers news, information, and links to social science based mobility research.

Beyond communication between the members, the Cosmobilities Network continuously organizes common workshops, conferences, publications, and projects. The network stimulates the development of common research projects and publications. This has resulted in the first Cosmobilities book 'Tracing Mobilities' (April 2008).

Two times a year network members come together to discuss new findings and perspectives in a field of growing importance for the modernization of modern societies. From March 12-14, 2008 the Cosmobilities Network came together in Denmark to discuss the future of the Cosmobilities Network. In the Activities section you can now find a short report and photos of the workshop.

The next Cosmobilities conference 'Tracing the New Mobilities Regimes - The Analytical Power of the Social Sciences and the Arts' will take place in Munich, October 16-17, 2008. Registration for the conference is open now.