The network has so far organised the following workshops:
 

Time	Theme	Place
6-10 June 1997	Kinship Theory	Mols, Denmark
3-6 October 1997	Behavioral Ecology	Würzburg, Germany
28-30 March 1998	Chemical Communication and Behaviour	Keele, UK
8-12 October 1998	Genetic Methods (+ Midterm Review)	Uppsala, Sweden
23-26 July 1999	Social Insects as Model Systems	Losehill Hall, UK
21-24 January 2000	Social Organisation and Diseases	Zürich, Switzerland
7-11 July 2000	Closing Symposium	Firenze, Italy

 

In addition the network has had an important share in the organisation of a workshop on: "Social Evolution in Vertebrates and Invertebrates: Common Principles and Idiosyncratic Differences", sponsored by the European Science Foundation and held at Losehill Hall, Derbyshire, UK from 18-23 June 1997. (See TREE, December 1997, News & Comments).

The network will organise no further meetings, but the new INSECTS network (2001-2004) will start a new programme of workshops. 
 
Symposia

Network members have been involved in:

- The general organisation of the XX International Congress of Entomology, Firenze, Italy (25-31 August 1996) (Turillazzi) and the organisation of a symposium at that congress (Ratnieks & Boomsma)

- The organisation of a symposium at the 6th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Arnhem, The Netherlands (24-28 August 1997) (Heinze)

- The organisation of four symposia at the 13th International Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), Adelaide, Australia (29 December 1998 - 4 January 1999) (Boomsma, Heinze, Pamilo, Ratnieks, Schmid-Hempel)

- The organisation of a symposium at the 7th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona, Spain (24-28 August 1999) (Boomsma)
 
 

last updated: 06/12/2000