 In the mid- and late 1990s, Anna Christensen displayed a growing interest in European comparative social security law, and took inter alia part in different comparative research projects at European level.This last phase of Anna Christensen’s research coincided with the creation of the Norma Research Programme together with Professor Ann Numhauser-Henning in 1996.The programme, based at the Faculty of Law at Lund University was, and still is, an interdisciplinary research programme studying the normative developments within the Social Dimension from a European integration perspective.