The workshop was targeted at European-based researchers and was held at the University of Manchester. The aim of the workshop was to bring together ecologists and evolutionary biologists from Europe to discuss current and future research in the emerging field of Community Genetics. The meeting was a mixture of invited talks and discussions.

List of speakers:
- J. Antonovics (The University of Virginia)
- A. Gatehouse (Newcastle University)
- P. Grime (The University of Sheffield)
- G. Iason (The Macaulay Institute)
- S. Zytynska (The University of Manchester)
- J. Ferrari (The University of Oxford)
- R. Preziosi (The University of Manchester)
- D. Shuker (The University of Edinburgh)
- F. Vavre (Université de Lyon)
- J. Wolf (The University of Manchester)