New RECON publications Three new RECON reports were published in February 2012: Report 17 examines gender equality in the EU and member states (ed. Galligan); Report 18 deals with identity constructions in the New Europe (eds Brzezinska, Kurucz, Liebert and Sackmann); and Report 19 analyses the manifold character of the European financial crisis (eds Chiti, Menéndez and Teixeira). Read more.   RECON findings in brief The pamphlet 'Reconstituting Democracy in Europe - snapshots of findings' presents RECON's research in brief. It offers snapshots of selected findings from the various research fields to practitioners and policy makers, media and informed readers, civil society actors and interest groups, and other ‘stakeholders’. Read more.   RECON is a five-year research project with 21 partner institutions and more than 100 participating researchers across Europe and in New Zealand. RECON covers a wide range of academic fields, from political science, sociology, linguistics, and anthropology, to information science, law and legal theory, and economics. RECON is coordinated by ARENA – Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo.   RECON is an Integrated Project supported by the Sixth Framework Programme for Research. Project period: 1 January 2007 - 31 December 2011