SPECIAL INITIATIVES & MEETINGS
	Coordinators / organizers / proponents
Working groups
MEASURING QOL THROUGH INDICATORS: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES	Andrew Sharpe	Centre for the Study of Living Standards - Canada
TRAINING ON MEASURING QOL: EXPERIENCES, PROJECTS AND PROPOSALS	Filomena Maggino & Elena Ruviglioni	Università degli Studi di Firenze - Italy
STUDYING AND MONITORING QOL IN ITALY: TOWARDS A NETWORK	Tommaso Rondinella	Lunaria – Italy
Seminars
WELFARE COMMUNITY INDEX: MEASURING RELATIONSHIP AND SOCIAL CAPITAL GAIN	Ugo Biggeri, Mariateresa Ruggiero & Simone Siliani	Fondazione Culturale Responsabilità Etica - Italy
CHILDREN AND QOL	Ermenegildo Ciccotti	Istituto degli Innocenti - Italy
	William O'Hare	Annie Casey Foundation - USA

Workshops
CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOMETRICS FOR QOL RESEARCH: IRT, DIF AND OTHER LATENT VARIABLE MODELING APPROACHES	Bruno Zumbo	University of British Columbia - Canada
	Anne Gadermann	University of British Columbia - Canada
POLICIES FOR HAPPINESS	Stefano Bartolini	Università di Siena – Italy
COMMUNITY TOURISM-BASED DEVELOPMENT AND QUALITY-OF-LIFE INDICATORS	Rhonda Phillips	Arizona State University - USA
EXPLORING NATIONAL ACCOUNTS OF WELL-BEING	Saamah Abdallah Juliet Michaelson	New Economics Foundation - UK
WEALTH CREATION THROUGH QUALITY OF LIFE COACHING AND “POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY” APPLIED TO BUSINESS CEOS AND EMPLOYEES	Michael B. Frisch	Baylor University - U.S.A.