From September 21 to September 25, 2008 the 2nd international symposium “Birth of Slavic states: condition and prospects for research” was held in Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. Researchers from France, Sweden, Czechia, Poland, Russia and Ukraine participated in it. The symposium was held within the framework of the scientific project initiated by the National Centre for Scientific Research and the Higher School of Applied Research of France (Paris – Sorbonne), the Institute of Archeology of Stockholm University and the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2005.
Sixteen reports were delivered at plenary and panel sessions, them being related to the issues, poorly covered in scientific literature, which are directly or indirectly connected to the appearance of the states of the early Middle Ages on the territory of the Central and South-East Europe. Particular attention must be paid to the problem of influence and mutual effects of autochthonous and foreign ethnoses on the state-forming processes in different regions of Europe.
Within the framework of the forum on the territory of Plisnesk archeological complex a field workshop was held, its main aim being to present the results of the expedition of the Institute of Archeology relating to state-forming processes in the Ukrainian Pre-Carpathian region, in particular, the ones connected with the fortifications of the Slavic city-state and constructions made simultaneously with them.
In the nearest future the project organizers intend to publish the results of their research in a collection of scientific papers.