 Thus, a follow-up event to the 2003 conference on the topic of «The Transparent Citizen» took place in April 2005.In November 2005, we conducted a meeting, "European Research Area and Beyond", in cooperation with the Swiss State Secretariat for Education and Research and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich as part of an international discussion forum on science policies.In August 2008, a follow-up event to the 2007 conference on the subject of «The Climate Change Challenge» was organized.