THE EUROPEAN CONFEDERATION
OF POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATIONS
In November 2007 the European Confederation of Political Science Associations (ECPSA) was founded in Berlin, Germany. It is currently a union of twenty-three national and international associations of political science in Europe.
ECPSA was established to promote the discipline’s interests and pursue its professional goals. It seeks to make political science more meaningful in public debate and policy-making.
Among other things, the union of national associations is a reaction to the increasing harmonisation of the European higher education landscape. ECPSA creates a framework for the cooperation and exchange in Europe related to all aspects of political science as an academic discipline and its professional organisation.
ECPSA has adopted a mission statement which can be found on this website.
In June 2008 the first elections of the executive committee were held in Valencia, Spain. The new EC consists of representatives of the Finnish Political Science Association (Dr. Kia Lindroos), the Hungarian Political Science Association (Prof. Dr. Andras Bozoki), the Spanish Political Science Association (Prof. Dr. Pablo Oñate) and the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom (Prof. Dr. Neil Collins). Prof. Dr. Suzanne S. Schüttemeyer from the German Political Science Association is the first president of the ECPSA.
Further information can be obtained from Felix W. Wurm, secretary general of the German Political Science Association:
DVPW,
c/o. Universität Osnabrück,
FB 1 – Sozialwissenschaften,
D-49069 Osnabrück,
+49/541/969-6264,
dvpw(at)dvpw.de.
