SYNOPSIS OF FP7 PROJECTS 2011 -...

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SOCIO-ECONOMIC SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

SYNOPSIS OF FP7 PROJECTS 2011 - 2012

Provisional addendum to the synopsis "European Research Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities – List of projects 2007-2010 in the 7th Framework Programme" 2010, EUR 24470 EN, ISBN 978-92-79-16227-5, doi: 10.2777/87149, 316 pages http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/pdf/synopsis-fp7-ssh-projects_en.pdf Complete version including all FP7 SSH projects to be published in 2014

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INTRODUCTION Within the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research and technological development (2007-2013), the Theme 8 “Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities” aims at mobilising European research in economic, political and social sciences and in the humanities in order to develop an understanding of EU relevant policy issues. These domains are: Growth, employment and competitiveness in a knowledge society: European research in socio-economic sciences and the humanities must support policies aimed at achieving competitive, innovative scieties that can create quality jobs. Combining economic, social and environmental objectives in a European perspective: This area addresses the need to sustain cohesive societies while accepting the scale of environmental challenges, which must be seen as a risk but also as an opportunity. Major trends in society and their implications: Research is needed to understand and facilitate strategies to tackle social changes like ageing populations, migration and multicultural societies. Europe in the world: Social sciences and the humanities can improve our understanding of the new multipolar worl and Europe's role in it. The citizen in the European Union: The issues addressed in this area relate to the development of European democracies, to the rights and obligations of European citizens and to the shared values in a diverse Union. Socio-economic and scientific indicators: New indicators for measuring new social and economic realities are needed for informed policy-making. Foresight: European research in forward looking activities aims at identifying major trends and outlining likely scenarios for the future of Europe. It builds new tools for forecasting the main social, economic, environmental and technological developments. The Framework Programme's Theme 8 “Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities” is implemented through regular calls for proposals. Financed research projects are carried out by consortia including at least three EU Member States or countries associated to the Framework Programme. This synopsis compiles basic information on the projects selected in 2010 and 2011 (call FP-SSH-2010-1-2-3-4 and call FP-SSH-2011-1-2-3). If you wish to be regularly updated about European Union research on socio-economic sciences and humanities, visit: http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/index_en.html. The Participant Portal is the interface with the participants in the Framework Programmes. It provides, in one spot, all services and information relevant for the participants in the Framework Programmes: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/. Finally, access to information on the EU funded research projects, their outcomes and their exploitation is available under the CORDIS web portal: http://cordis.europa.eu/.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Activity 1 – Growth, employment and competitiveness in a knowledge society Research area 1.1 – Changing role of knowledge throughout the economy

PROPOSAL TITLE PROJECT

COORDINATOR COUNTRY PAGE

266959 PICK-ME

Policy incentives for the creation of knowledge: Methods and evidence

Cristiano ANTONELLI IT 10

290683 LLLIGHT'in' EUROPE

Lifelong learning, innovation, growth and human capital tracks in Europe

Peer EDERER DE 12

Research area 1.2 – Structural changes in the European knowledge economy and society

266800 FESSUD

Financialisation, economy, society and sustainable development

?? UK 14

290647 WWWforEUROPE

Welfare, wealth and work for Europe Karl AIGINGER AT 17

290542 INNOSERV

Social platform for innovative social services

Johannes EURICH DE 21

Research area 1.3 – Strengthening policy coherence and coordination in Europe

266887 COCOPS

Coordinating for cohesion in the public sector of the future

Steven VAN DE VALLE

NL 23

266941 TEPSIE

The theoretical, empirical and policy foundations for building social innovation in Europe

Jeremy MILLARD DK 25

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Activity 2 – Combining economic, social and environmental objectives in a European perspective Research area 2.1 - Socio-economic development trajectories



266833 NEUJOBS

Employment 2025: How will multiple transitions affect the European labour market

Miroslav BEBLAVÝ BE 27

290693 FOODSECURE

Exploring the future of global food and nutrition security

Hans VAN MEIJL NL 31

266768 LOCALISE

Local worlds of social cohesion Martin HEIDENREICH DE 34

290488 COPE

Combating poverty in Europe: Re-organising active inclusion through participatory and integrated modes of multilevel governance

Martin HEIDENREICH DE 36

266806 FLOWS

Impact of local welfare systems on female labour force participation and cohesion

Per H. JENSEN DK 38

290613 IMPROVE

Poverty reduction in Europe: Social policy and innovation

Bea CANTILLON BE 40

266929 WILCO

Welfare innovations at the local level in favour of cohesion

Taco BRANDSEN NL 43

266992 GLOBAL-IQ

Impact quantification of global changes

Jan-Pierre AMIGUES FR 45

263962 SPREAD

Social platform on sustainable lifestyles

Cheryl HICKS DE 47

Research area 2.2 – Regional, territorial and social cohesion

266920 EUBORDERREGIONS

European regions, EU external borders and the immediate neighbours. Analysing regional development options through policies and practices of cross-border cooperation

James SCOTT FI 49

266834 SEARCH

Sharing knowledge assets: Interregionally cohesive neighbourhoods

Jordi SURIÑACH ES 52

290657 GRINCOH

Growth-innovation-competitiveness: Fostering cohesion in Central and Eastern Europe

Grzegorz GORZELAK PL 55

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Activity 3 – Major trends in society and their implications

Research area 3.2 – Societal trends and lifestyles



266813 ALICE RAP

Addictions and lifestyles in contemporary Europe – Reframing addictions project

Antoni GUAL ES 58

290563 FIDUCIA

New European crimes and trust-based policy

Stefano MAFFEI IT 63

Activity 4 – Europe and the world Research area 4.1 – Interactions and interdependences between world regions and their implications



266809 GREEN

Global re-ordering: Evolution through European networks

Richard HIGGOTT UK 66

290752 NOPOOR

Enhancing knowledge for renewed policies against poverty

Xavier OUDIN FR 69

266710 ENGOV

Environmental governance in Latin America and the Caribbean: Developing frameworks for sustainable and equitable resource use

Barbara HOGENBOOM

NL 72

290732 RURBANAFRICA

African rural city connections Agergaard JYTTE DK 74

266941 URBACHINA

Sustainable urbanisation in China: Historical and comparative perspectives, mega-trends towards 2025

François GIPOULOUX

FR 76

Research area 4.2 – Conflicts, peace and human rights

266931 CORE

The role of governance in the resolution of socio-economic and political conflict in India and Europe

J. Peter BURGESS NO 78

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290775 EUBORDERSCAPES

Bordering, political landscapes and social arenas: Potentials and challenges of evolving border concepts in a post-cold war world

James SCOTT FI 80

Research area 4.3 – Europe's changing role in the world

290454 TRANSWORLD

Redefining the transatlantic relationship and its role in shaping global governance

Riccardo ALCARO IT 83

Activity 5 – The citizen in the European Union Research area 5.1 – Participation and citizenship in Europe



266831 MYPLACE

Memory, youth, political legacy and civic engagement

Hilary PILKINGTON UK 85

290529 ANTICORRP

Anticorruption policies revisited. Global trends and European responses to the challenge of corruption

Bo ROTHSTEIN SE 88

290492 IRISS

Increasing resilience in surveillance societies

Reinhard KREISSL AT 91

Research area 5.2 – Diversities and commonalities in Europe

266767 EUCROSS

The europeanisation of everyday life: Cross-border practices and transnational identities

Ettore RECCHI IT 94

290805 FREE

Football research in an enlarged Europe: Identity dynamics, perception patterns and cultural change in Europe’s most prominent form of popular culture

Albrecht SONNTAG FR 96

266757 MELA

European museums in an age of migrations

Luca CERONE IT 98

290694 TENLAW

Tenancy law and housing policy in multi-level Europe

Christoph U. SCHMID DE 100

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Activity 6 – Socio-economic and scientific indicators Research area 6.2 – Developing better indicators for policy



290520 e-FRAME

European framework for measuring progress

Marina SIGNORE IT 102

Research area 6.4 – Use of indicators and related approaches for the evaluation of research policies and programmes

290597 SIMPATIC

Social impact policy analysis of technological innovation challenges

Reinhilde VEUGELERS

BE 105

Activity 7 – Foresight activities Research area 7.1 – Wide socio-economic foresight on key challenges



290705 VERA

Forward visions on the European Research Area

Philine WARNKE DE 107

Activity 8 – Horizontal actions Research area 8.1 – Mobilising the network of NCPs for specific tasks



263924 NET4SOCIETY2

Trans-national cooperation among National Contact Points for Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities (SSH NCPs)

Angela SCHINDLER-DANIELS

DE 109

Research area 8.2 – Support to the preparation of ERA/ERANET Plus projects

263903 NORFACE-II

New opportunities for Research Funding Agency cooperation in Europe II

Renée VAN KESSEL-HAGESTEIJN

NL 112

290431 FLASH-IT

Facilitating access to socio-economic research through information and communications technology

Diassina DI MAGGIO

IT 114

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Research area 8.3 – Career paths and patterns of SSH graduates

291827 HERA JRP CE

Humanities in the European Research Area – Joint Research Programme – Cultural encounters

Alice DIJKSTRA NL 116

290770 POCARIM

Mapping the population, careers, mobilities and impacts of advanced research degree graduates in the social sciences and humanities

Louise ACKERS UK 119

Other actions

277461 EUINTEGRATIO

European integration process in the new regional and global settings

Ewa LATOSZEK PL 121

METRIS III Monitoring European Trends in Social Sciences and Humanities

Viola PETER UK 123

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Project acronym and title

PICK-ME Policy incentives for the creation of knowledge: Methods and evidence

Contract number

266959

Activity/Area or Topic

Activity 1 – Growth, employment and competitiveness in a knowledge society Research area 1.1 – Changing role of knowledge throughout the economy Topic 1.1.1 – Demand-driven research and innovation policies for growth, welfare and wellbeing

Call FP7-SSH-2010-2

Estimated EC contribution

€ 1 838 819

Starting date 01/01/2011

Duration 42 months

Funding scheme Collaborative project (small or medium- scale focused research project)

Website http://www.pick-me.carloalberto.org/index.php

EC contact Heino NAU [email protected]

Project coordinator

FONDAZIONE COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO CENTRO SUPERIORE DI RICERCA E FORMAZIONE ECONOMICO-FINANZIARIA Moncalieri, Italy

Project contact Cristiano ANTONELLI [email protected] UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT Ron A. BOSCHMA Utrecht, Netherlands UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE - SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS Jackie KRAFFT Nice, France LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Simona IAMMARINO London, United Kingdom

Project partners

AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS Pablo D'ESTE CUKIERMAN Madrid, Spain

http://www.pick-me.carloalberto.org/index.php

mailto:[email protected]


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CASE - CENTRUM ANALIZ SPOLECZNO- EKONOMICZNYCH- FUNDACJA NAUKOWA Itzhak GOLDBERG Warsaw, Poland UNIVERSITÄT HOHENHEIM Andreas PYKA Hohenheim, Germany

THE SAMUEL NEAMAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF THE TECHNION LTD Daphne GETZ Haifa, Israel

The ongoing global economic crisis is seriously challenging advanced capitalistic economies. In the last year the GDP has fallen at dramatic rates, creating the conditions for the upsurge of unemployment, above all in areas characterized by specialization in mature industries. According to recent growth models and empirical evidence, innovation and knowledge creation represent the main factors able to improve the competitiveness and the long run perspectives of growth of countries. Yet, innovation and technology policies have mainly been designed by relying on a supply side perspective so as to affect the creation of knowledge by providing funds to carry out R&D activities and by enhancing education and training for researchers.

However, a debate has recently emerged about the need for grafting innovation and technology policies in a demand-oriented framework. The aim of this project is to provide an original contribution to the ongoing debate, advancing the understanding of the mechanisms through which demand-based innovation policies may stimulate effective knowledge creation process, and eventually trigger competitiveness and productivity growth. To this purpose, the research activity will consist of both theoretical models and empirical analyses, the results of which should be able to inform the policy design process. We shall distinguish between public and private demand for both final and intermediate goods and services and will analyze their effects on the generation, diffusion and exploitation of technological knowledge by articulating the research activity on different dimensions (regional, sectoral and institutional).

The research activity will be conducted by pursuing a great deal of multidisciplinarity and combining a number of diverse methodologies.

The results of the analyses will in turn provide the basis upon which a taxonomy of demand-oriented technology policies may be elaborated.

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LLLIGHT'in'EUROPE Lifelong learning, innovation, growth and human capital tracks in Europe

Contract number

290683

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 1 – Growth, employment and competitiveness in a knowledge society Research area 1.1 – Changing role of knowledge throughout the economy Topic 1.1.1 - Lifelong learning in Europe: appropriate skills for sustaining better jobs

Call FP7-SSH-2011-2


€ 2 694 856


Duration 45 months

Funding scheme Collaborative project (small or medium-scale focused research project)

Website http://www.lllightineurope.com

EC contact Monica MENAPACE [email protected]

Project coordinator ZEPPELIN UNIVERSITY Friedrichshafen, Germany

Project contact Peer EDERER [email protected] THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM John HOLFORD Nottingham, United Kingdom AARHUS UNIVERSITY Marcella MILANA Aarhus, Denmark IFO INSTITUT FÜR WIRTSCHAFTSFORSCHUNG Ludger WOESSMANN Munich, Germany

Project partners

WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITEIT Thomas LANS Wageningen, Netherlands

http://www.lllightineurope.com/



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RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERG Samuel GREIFF Heidelberg, Germany EKONOMICKA UNIVERZITA V BRATISLAVE Martina LUBYOVA Bratislava, Slovakia CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS Haizheng LI Beijing, China

INNOVATION & GROWTH ACADEMY Peer EDERER Naarden, Netherlands

Among all Europeans between 24 and 65 years old who had a tertiary educational degree in 2010, 82.8% were working. In the same age group, 68.3% who completed secondary schooling were working. Only 46% of those who did not complete secondary schooling were working. It is apparent that if Europe wants to be working, higher education is the necessary foundation for being competitive in the labour market. Since this is not only true for generations of future workers currently in school, but equally so for those who are today in their 30s, 40s and 50s, Lifelong Learning must be essential to continued employability. The cumulative investment necessary to generate higher education degrees alone for adults over the next two decades across Europe may be 3.5 trillion euro or about 1.4% of European GDP per year. Even higher investments are required in non-formal and informal Lifelong Learning. To help guide this investment, this research project will find answers to the following urgent questions: • How do successful enterprises actively employ Lifelong Learning for their competitive advantage? • Which public policy environments facilitate Lifelong Learning for such enterprises and entrepreneurs? • How does Lifelong Learning interact with and promote innovativeness on the enterprise level? • How much of which skills do European adults actually have? • What are the actual learning mechanisms in adult life that lead to these skills? • What are the causal effects of these skills on growth, competitiveness and social cohesion?

The research consortium includes nine universities and research institutes from four academic disciplines – macro-econometrics, innovation dynamics, educational systems, psychometrics – to establish empirically proven answers. All outputs of the project (models, reports and tools) are designed to guide, support and facilitate best practice and strategy among public policy officials, enterprise strategists, individual citizens and fellow scientists.

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FESSUD Financialisation, economy, society and sustainable development

Contract number

266800

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 1 – Growth, employment and competitiveness in a knowledge society Area 1.2 – Structural changes in the European knowledge economy and society Topic 1.2.1 – Changing the role of the financial system to better serve economic, social and environmental objectives

Call FP7-SSH-2010-1


7 923 728 €


Duration 60 months

Funding scheme Collaborative project (large-scale integrating project)

Website http://www.fessud.eu

EC contact Dominik SOBCZAK [email protected]

Project coordinator UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS Leeds, United Kingdom

Project contact Malcolm SAWYER [email protected] UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI SIENA Alessandro VERCELLI Siena, Italy

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON School of Oriental and African Studies Terry McKinley London, United Kingdom

FONDATION NATIONALE DES SCIENCES POLITIQUES Jerome CREEL Paris, France

Project partners

POUR LA SOLIDARITÉ Denis STOKKINK Brussels, Belgium

http://www.fessud.eu/



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UNIWERSYTET EKONOMICZNY W POZNANIU Alfred JANC Poznan, Poland

TALLINNA TEHNIKAULIKOOL Rainer KATTEL Tallinn, Estonia

HOCHSCHULE FÜR WIRTSCHAFT UND RECHT Eckhard HEIN Berlin, Germany

CENTRO DE ESTUDOS SOCIAIS Jose REIS Coimbra, Portugal

PANNON EGYETEM Peter PETE Veszprem, Hungary

NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS George ARGITIS Athens, Greece

MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY Galip YALMAN Ankara, Turkey

LUNDS UNIVERSITET Eric CLARK Lund, Sweden

UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND JOHANNESBURG Seeraj MOHAMED Johannesburg, South Africa

UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO Philip ARESTIS Leioa/Bizkaia, Spain

FESSUD research program integrates diverse levels, methods and disciplinary traditions with the aim of developing a comprehensive policy agenda for changing the role of the financial system to help achieve a future which is sustainable in environmental, social and economic terms. The programme involves an integrated and balanced consortium involving partners from 14 countries that has significant experience of deploying diverse perspectives both within economics and across disciplines inclusive of economics.

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The programme is distinctively pluralistic and aims to forge alliances across the social sciences, so as to understand how finance can better serve economic, social and environmental needs. The central issues addressed in the research proposal are: • to what extent and why has the growth and performance of national economies in the last 30 years

been dependent on the characteristics of the processes of financialisation; • how has financialisation impacted on the achievement of specific economic, social, and environmental

objectives; • the nature of the relationship between financialisation and the sustainability of the financial system,

economic development and the environment; • what lessons can be drawn from the crisis about the nature and impacts of financialisation; • what are the requisites of a financial system able to support a process of sustainable development,

broadly conceived; • which are the crucial policy measures that may establish in the EU a new model of sustainable finance

in the light of the objectives of the Lisbon. The original contributions of the project come from: • seeking to explore fully the interrelationship between the financial sector and the rest of the economy

and of society; • the adoption of a pluralistic approach to economics drawing on the full range of economic theories

and approaches; • the stress on an interdisciplinary approach where a range of social sciences are integrated into all

work packages; • the perspective that multiple methods of analysis have to be used; • putting the concept of sustainability at the heart of the project, with reference to the sustainability of

the environment, and of the social, economic and financial systems; • integration into systemic, and yet also country and sector specific analysis.

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WWWforEUROPE Welfare, wealth and work for Europe

Contract number

290647

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 1 – Growth, employment and competitiveness in a knowledge society Research area 1.2 - Structural changes in the European knowledge economy and society Topic 1.2.1 - Europe moving towards a new path of economic growth and social development

Call FP7-SSH-2011-1


€ 7 999 858


Duration 48 months

Funding scheme Collaborative project (large scale integrated research project)

Website http://www.foreurope.eu

EC contact Domenico ROSSETTI DI VALDALBERO [email protected]

Project coordinator ÖSTERREICHISCHES INSTITUT FÜR WIRTSCHAFTSFORSCHUNG Vienna, Austria

Project contact Karl AIGINGER [email protected] BUDAPEST SZAKPOLITIKAI ELEMZO INTEZET KORLATOLTFELELOSSEGU TARSASAG (Budapest Institute Hungary) Ágota SCHARLE Budapest, Hungary UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE - SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS Sarah DAHL Nice, France

Project partners

ECOLOGIC Anneke VON RAGGAMBY Berlin, Germany

http://www.foreurope.eu/



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FACHHOCHSCHULE JENA Dirk SCHLEGEL Jena, Germany LIBERA UNIVERSITÀ DI BOLZANO Susanne ELSEN Ancona, Italy GEFRA Gerhard UNTIEDT Münster, Germany JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE UNIVERSITÄT FRANKFURT AM MAIN Mareike SCHMITT Münster, Germany LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES Stefan KUHN Freiburg, Germany EKONOMICKY USTAV SLOVENSKEJ AKADEMIE VIED Ivana ŠIKULOVÁ Bratislava, Slovakia INSTITUT FÜR WELTWIRTSCHAFT Christiane KRIEGER-BODEN Kiel, Germany INSTITUTE FOR WORLD ECONOMICS OF THE HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Éva NAGY Budapest, Hungary KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN Sarah MALEVÉ Leuven, Belgium MENDELOVA UNIVERZITA V BRNE Petr ROZMAHEL Brno, Czech Republic ÖSTERREICHISCHES INSTITUT FÜR RAUMPLANUNG Erich DALLHAMMER Vienna, Austria POLICY NETWORK Kathryn SKIDMORE London, United Kingdom

RATIO Rolf HÖIJER Stockholm, Sweden

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UNIVERSITY OF SURREY Maria SEGA-BUHALIS Guildford, United Kingdom TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT WIEN Alexia FÜRNKRANZ-PRSKAWETZ Vienna, Austria UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA Veronica COLOMBO Cerdanyola del Valles, Spain HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN Renate UBACHS Berlin, Germany UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS IN BRATISLAVA Mikulas LUPTACIK Bratislava, Slovakia UNIVERSITEIT HASSELT Bas VAN AARLE Diepenbeek, Belgium UNIVERSITÄT KLAGENFURT Marina FISCHER-KOWALSKI Klagenfurt, Austria UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE Jim McGREGOR Dundee, United Kingdom UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE Franco SOTTE Ancona, Italy THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM May CHUNG Birmingham, United Kingdom PANNON EGYETEM Ádám TÖRÖK Veszprem, Hungary

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UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT Jürgen FINGER Utrecht, Netherlands WIRTSCHAFTSUNIVERSITÄT WIEN Sigrid STAGL Vienna, Austria ZENTRUM FÜR EUROPÄISCHE WIRTSCHAFTSFORSCHUNG Jürgen FINGER Mannheim, Germany COVENTRY UNIVERSITY David BAILEY Coventry, United Kingdom

IVORY TOWER David BAILEY Stockholm, Sweden

The objective of this 4-year project is to provide the analytical basis for a socio-ecological transition in Europe: the change to a new growth path with smart, sustainable and inclusive growth as is envisaged in the EU 2020 strategy. In order to support the transition, we analyse the need, the feasibility and best practice for change, specifying the institutional changes needed at all policy levels to implement these options. The old and new challenges Europe is facing define the starting point: globalisation, new technologies and post industrialisation, demographic change and ecology in the context of welfare systems that have come under stress due to high public deficits. The vision is that Europe will become a role model for a "high road growth path" which actively incorporates social and ecological goals, employment, gender and cultural aspects in an ambitious, forward looking way while continuing to be competitive in a globalised world. To achieve these objectives, the consortium will carry out and synthesise robust research in the areas covering the challenges to the welfare system, the biophysical dimension of socio-economic development, the identification of drivers towards socio-ecological transition, the role of governance and institutions on the European as well as the regional level. The consortium will benefit from ongoing dialogue with international experts in the form of expert panels and sounding boards, taking into account their views on the direction and feasibility for this new growth path. The project will be carried out by a consortium of 33 partners from universities and research institutes with international and interdisciplinary expertise. It represents 12 member states. High level Scientific and Policy Boards will monitor the analysis and the policy conclusions to guarantee the impact and dissemination of the results.

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INNOSERV Social platform for innovative social services

Contract number

290542

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 1 – Growth, employment and competitiveness in a knowledge society Research area 1.2 – Structural changes in European knowledge economy and society Topic 1.2.2 – Social platform on innovative social services

Call FP7-SSH-2011-3


€ 1 487 816


Duration 24 months

Funding scheme Coordination and support action

Website http://inno-serv.eu/

EC contact Heiko PRANGE-GSTÖHL [email protected]

Project coordinator UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG Heidelberg, Germany

Project contact Johannes EURICH [email protected] UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES HAMBURG Andreas LANGER Hamburg, Germany UNIVERSITY OF ROSKILDE Hanne Marlene DAHL Roskilde, Denmark DIAKONHJEMMET UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Olav Helge ANGELL Oslo, Norway

Project partners

BUDAPEST INSTITUTE Dorottya SZIKRA Budapest, Hungary

http://inno-serv.eu/



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ISTITUTO PER LA RICERCA SOCIALE Flavia PESCE Bologna, Italy UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON Chris HAWKER Southampton, United Kingdom UNIVERSITÉ PARIS I PANTHEON-SORBONNE Philippe EYNAUD Paris, France EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF SERVICE PROVIDERS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES Luk ZELDERLOO Brussels, Belgium SOLIDAR Adeline OTTO Brussels, Belgium

EUROPEAN NETWORK ON INDEPENDENT LIVING Jamie BOLLING Dublin, Ireland

INNOSERV will investigate innovative approaches in three fields of social services: health, education, and welfare. To do so, the project will focus on two levels: • the status quo of research in these fields and; • the input from practitioners who have developed innovative social services.

Special attention will be paid to the transferability of elements, the European value, effects on gender and migration issues as well as on promoting equality and building sustainability, future scenarios involving the quality of services in different perspectives (policy makers, service organizations, user groups etc.), and the accessibility and affordability of services. The final product will be a report indicating the key trends and key elements of innovative services in the fields of health, education, and welfare. It can be used to identify further research agendas as well as to develop new models of social services or to implement existing innovative approaches.

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COCOPS Coordinating for cohesion in the public sector of the future

Contract number

266887

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 1 – Growth, employment and competitiveness in a knowledge society Research area 1.3 – Strengthening policy coherence and coordination in Europe Topic 1.3.1 – The public sector of the future

Call FP7-SSH-2010-2


€ 2 698 927


Duration 42 months


Website http://www.cocops.eu

EC contact Heiko PRANGE-GSTÖHL

[email protected]

Project coordinator ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM Rotterdam, Netherlands

Project contact Steven VAN DE VALLE [email protected] HERTIE SCHOOL OF GOVERNANCE Gerhard HAMMERSCHMID Berlin, Germany UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN Per LÆGREID Bergen, Norway BOCCONI UNIVERSITY Edoardo ONGARO Milano, Italy UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA Judith CLIFTON Santander, Spain

Project partners

CARDIFF UNIVERSITY Rhys ANDREWS Cardiff, United Kingdom

http://www.cocops.eu/



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CORVINUS UNIVERSITY BUDAPEST Gyorgy JENEI Budapest, Hungary UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Oliver JAMES Exeter, United Kingdom KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN Christopher POLLITT Leuven, Belgium TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Tiina RANDMA-LIIV Tallinn, Estonia CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE Center for Studies and Research on Administrative and Political Sciences Philippe BEZES Paris, France

The COCOPS project seeks to comparatively and quantitatively assess the impact of New Public Management-style (NPM) reforms in European countries, drawing on a team of leading European public administration scholars. This evidence-based project focuses on the national level and the important policy domains of health and employment services, and the utilities of water, energy and transport. It will analyse the impact of reforms in public management and public services that address citizens’ service needs and social cohesion in Europe. Evaluating the extent and consequences of NPM’s alleged fragmenting tendencies and the resulting need for coordination is a key part of assessing these impacts. Subsequently, COCOPS will map and analyse innovative mechanisms in the public sector to improve policy coordination and its associated effects on economic competition, public sector performance, social cohesion and societal outcomes. The proposed research will contribute to our understanding of the impact of NPM by integrating sectoral and national analyses and to the development of future public sector reform strategies by drawing lessons from past experience, exploring trends and studying emerging public sector coordination practices. Drawing on existing large-scale datasets and innovative data collection in ten countries, the project intends to provide a comprehensive picture of the challenges facing the European public sector of the future. The empirical investigation will result in a transfer of innovative best practices across European member states and a futures study outlining key scenarios for the public sector of the future. It will contribute to maximal policy learning through the involvement of expert practitioner groups and other key stakeholders.

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TEPSIE The theoretical, empirical and policy foundations for building social innovation in Europe

Contract number

266941

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 1 – Growth, employment and competitiveness in a knowledge society Research area 1.3 – Strengthening policy coherence and coordination in Europe Topic 1.3.1 – New innovation processes including social innovation

Call FP7-SSH-2011-2


€ 2 497 125


Duration 36 months


Website http://www.tepsie.eu/


Project coordinator DANISH TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Taastrup, Denmark

Project contact Jeremy Millard [email protected] THE YOUNG FOUNDATION Will NORMAN London, United Kingdom RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERG Georg MILDENBERGER Heidelberg, Germany ATLANTIS CONSULTING Foteini PSARRA Thessaloniki, Greece UNIVERSIDADE CATOLICA PORTUGUESA Américo M. S. CARVALHO MENDES Lisboa, Portugal

Project partners

WROCLAW RESEARCH CENTRE Jan SKONIECZNY Wroclaw, Poland

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The European Commission’s Innovation Union strategy clearly places innovation at the centre of the policy agenda for meeting social challenges affecting Europe and its Member States. The field of social innovation is developing rapidly all over the world, with new institutions, methods and activities. However, at present the ability for Europe to coordinate and galvanise its undoubted potential across Member States is limited by the lack of the systematic and sophisticated infrastructures of support available to other fields. These include the absence of: • reliable metrics for assessing the effectiveness and impact of innovations, and of policies and

programmes to promote social innovation; • effective capital market instruments and financial supports; • suitable regulatory and policy frameworks for ensuring scale and impact; • a codified and widely understood set of methods; • networks and other vehicles to spread methods, learning and skills; • co-ordinated leadership; • enabling cultures.

This consortium of leading European research institutions and global experts in social innovation has designed a programme of work to build the theoretical, empirical and policy foundations for building social innovation in Europe. The objective of this research programme is to prepare the way for developing the tools, methods and policies which will be part of the EU strategy for social innovation. Its purpose is to strengthen the foundations for other researchers, policy makers and practitioners so that they can analyse and plan with greater confidence. As such the research programme will map the field, reviewing theories, models, methods and identifying gaps in existing practices and policies, as well as pointing towards the priorities for future strategies.

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NEUJOBS Employment 2025: How will multiple transitions affect the European labour market

Contract number

266833

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 2 - Combining economic, social and environmental objectives in a European perspective Research area 2.1 - Socio-economic development trajectories Topic 2.1.1 - Creating and adapting jobs in Europe in the context of a socio-ecological transition

Call FP7-SSH-2010-1


€ 7 902 328


Duration 48 months

Funding scheme Collaborative project (large scale integrated project)

Website http://www.neujobs.eu

EC contact Marc GOFFART [email protected]

Project coordinator CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN POLICY STUDIES (CEPS) Brussels, Belgium

Project contact Miroslav BEBLAVÝ [email protected] THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM John DOLING Birmingham, United Kingdom CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH – CASE Sebastien LECLERF Warsaw, Poland CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY Viola ZENTAI Budapest, Hungary TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT Marja Geessiena ELSINGA Delft, Netherlands

Project partners

GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH Erika SCHULZ Berlin, Germany

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SOCIETÉ EUROPÉENNE D'ÉCONOMIE Paul ZAGAME Paris, France ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE Iulia SIEDSCHLAG Dublin, Ireland INSTITUT SYNDICAL EUROPÉEN Maria JEPSEN Brussels, Belgium EUROPRISM RESEARCH CENTRE Leonor COUTINHO Lefkosia, Cyprus INSTITUTE FOR STRUCTURAL RESEARCH Agnieszka CHŁON-DOMINCZAK Warsaw, Poland UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT Marina FISCHER-KOWALSKI Klagenfurt, Austria INSTITUT FOR ADVANCED STUDIES Liliana MATEEVA Vienna, Austria INSTITUT FOR HUMAN SCIENCES János Mátyás KOVÁCS Vienna, Austria INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF LABOUR Hilmar SCHNEIDER Bonn, Germany LEIDEN UNIVERSITY Ferry KOSTER Leiden, Netherlands LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Iain BEGG London, United Kingdom LUISS UNIVERSITY Stefano MANZOCCHI Roma, Italy MANNHEIM UNIVERSITY Jan DRAHOKOUPIL Mannheim, Germany

MASARYK UNIVERSITY Tomáš SIROVÁTKA Brno Stred, Czech Republic

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NETHERLANDS INTERDISCIPLINARY DEMOGRAPHIC Joop DE BEER Amsterdam, Netherlands ROSKILDE UNIVERSIT Bent GREVE Roskilde, Denmark INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH Viliam PÁLENÍK Bratislava, Slovakia SLOVAK GOVERNANCE INSTITUTE Ctibor KOŠTÁL Bratislava, Slovakia THE CONFERENCE BOARD EUROPE Bart VAN ARK New York, United States of America TRANSPORT & MOBILITY Christophe HEYNDRICKX Leuven, Belgium UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND Martin MYANT Paisley, United Kingdom UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM Anton HEMERIJCK Amsterdam, Netherlands OBSERVATOIRE SOCIAL EUROPEEN David NATALI Brussels, Belgium

NEUJOBS is a research project financed by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. Its objective is to analyse likely future developments in the European labour market(s), in view of four major transitions that will impact employment and European societies in general. What are these transitions? The first is the socio-ecological transition: a comprehensive change in the patterns of social organisation and culture, production and consumption that will drive humanity beyond the current industrial model towards a more sustainable future. The second is the societal transition produced by the combination of population ageing, low fertility rates, changing family structures, urbanisation and growing female employment. The third transition concerns new territorial dynamics and the balance between agglomeration and dispersion forces. The fourth is a skills (upgrading) transition and the project is interested in its likely consequences for employment and (in)equality. By the end of the project, NEUJOBS seeks answers to questions such as: • What will European labour market(s) look like in 2025? What are the possible scenarios for

employment in the next decade?

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• Which sectors in the economy will be the drivers for employment growth and which groups in the society will be mostly affected?

• How will the socio-ecological transition influence employment destruction and creation? What is the role of policy makers, especially at EU level, in shaping and accompanying the transitions?

• How can the development of skills be guided to meet the challenges of a socio-ecological transition? • How can innovation be stimulated to contribute both to economic growth and to a more sustainable

production system? • How can a work-life balance be attained while remaining competitive and innovative? NEUJOBS organised its research in six groups: • Group 1 provides a conceptualisation of the socio-ecological transition that constitutes the basis for

the other work-packages. • Group 2 considers in detail the main drivers for change and the resulting relevant policies. Regarding

the drivers, the project analyses the discourse on job quality, educational needs, changes in the organisation of production and in the employment structure. Regarding relevant policies, research in this group assesses the impact of changes in family composition, the effect of labour relations and the issue of financing transition in an era of budget constraints. The regional dimension is taken into account, also in relation to migration flows.

• Group 3 models economic and employment development on the basis of the inputs provided in the previous work packages.

• Group 4 examines possible employment trends in key sectors of the economy in the light of the transition processes: energy, health care and goods/services for the ageing population, care services, housing and transport.

• Group 5 focuses on impact groups, namely those vital for employment growth in the EU: women, the elderly, immigrants and Roma.

• Group 6 is composed of transversal work packages: implications of NEUJOBS findings for EU policy making, dissemination of project results, project management and coordination.

Regarding its methodology, the project combines EU-wide studies based on existing datasets with national comparative research dealing with one country from each welfare typology. The output is based on a mix of quantitative and qualitative analysis and foresight activities. Special attention is given to policy making, welfare state developments and labour relations; a transversal task force will focus on the EU policy dimension. The quality of the project’s output is ensured via a Peer Review mechanism.

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FOODSECURE Exploring the future of global food and nutrition security

Contract number

290693

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 2 – Combining economic, social and environmental objectives in a European perspective Research area 2.1 – Socio-economic development trajectories Topic 2.1.1 – Economic, social and political conditions for satisfying the world food needs

Call FP7-SSH-2011-2


€ 7 998 000


Duration 60 months

Funding scheme Collaborative project (large scale integrated research project)

Website http://www.foodsecure.eu

EC contact Marie RAMOT [email protected]

Project coordinator STICHTING DIENST LANDBOUWKUNDIG ONDERZOEK LEI (part of Wageningen University and Research Center) Wageningen, Netherlands

Project contact Hans VAN MEIJL [email protected] UNIVERSITY OF BONN Center for Development Research Joachim VON BRAUN Bonn, Germany INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE David LABORDE Washington, United States of America

Project partners

FRENCH NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH Sebastien JEAN Paris, France

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN Johan SWINNEN Leuven, Belgium

http://www.foodsecure.eu/



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CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy Jikun HUANG Beijing, China INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS Cecilia ALEXANDRI Bucharest, Romania THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Timothy SWANSON Geneva, Switzerland INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS Michael OBERSTEINER Laxenburg, Austria JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies Robert M'BAREK Seville, Spain NETHERLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY Elke STEHFEST Den Haag, Netherlands PROSPEX Marc GRAMBERGER Keerbergen, Belgium SLOVAK AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY Jan POKRIVCAK Nitra, Slovakia UNIVERSITY OF ROMA TRE Luca SALVATICI Roma, Italy

INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Sébastien TREYER Paris, France

ETHIOPIAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION Ethiopian Economic Policy Research Institute Bekele HUNDIE Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

BRAZILIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CORPORATION Roberto Daniel SAINZ GONZALEZ Brasilia, Brazil

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CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT Nicolas BRICAS Paris, France

Long-term visions on global food and nutrition security and knowledge-based policies are required to face one of the biggest challenges for mankind: the widespread prevalence of hunger and food insecurity. Expanding consumption as well as volatility in global food prices over the past years have fuelled concerns about global food and nutrition security (FNS). The development of societal and technological solutions will require time and strong efforts. The FOODSECURE project aims to design effective and sustainable strategies for assessing and notably addressing the short- and long-term challenges of food and nutrition security. The project will provide a variety of analytical tools to experiment, analyse, and coordinate short- and medium-term policies. In doing so, the research will inform decision-making by a range of stakeholders in the EU and developing countries on consistent, coherent, long-term strategies to improve global FNS. FOODSECURE seeks to revisit and advance theory, recast and test evidence, in combination with rigorous analyses and stakeholder participation: • To better understand the determinants and different levels of causality underpinning global food and

nutrition security; • To improve the ability of decision makers to foresee and respond to future food and nutrition security

crises; • To provide guidance to stakeholders on critical pathways for technological and institutional change

and policies, and on the integration of a diversity of visions in a common framework.

The project considers the diversity of FNS challenges in countries and regions as well as the need for greater global and regional coordination to improve global FNS. The food system is analysed in relationship to the ecosystem, energy markets and financial markets, all of which are potential sources of shocks that can disrupt the food system. In addition, FNS is examined in light of fundamental societal trends and changing attitudes towards food consumption and production. The EU is one of the major players in food agricultural markets and one of the most significant of development assistance. The Common Agricultural Policy plays an important role in ensuring sustainable production of food. Improving the knowledge base on the food and nutritional situation in the world will clearly provide added value, both for Member States and EU external action. Better-informed decision-making will help to prevent policy and market failures in this complex domain. Several EU policies are addressed: development aid, climate change, trade, common agricultural policy, renewable energies and sustainability criteria. The project helps in identifying and designing policy actions in these areas to best avoid short- and long-term risks and take advantage of opportunities.

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LOCALISE Local worlds of social cohesion

Contract number

266768

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 2 – Combining economic, social and environmental objectives in a European perspective Research area 2.1 – Socio-economic development trajectories Topic 2.1.2 – Local welfare systems favouring social cohesion

Call FP7-SSH-2010-2


€ 1 415 059


Duration 36 months


Website http://www.localise-research.eu


Project coordinator UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG Oldenburg, Germany

Project contact Martin HEIDENREICH [email protected] EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY Ronald MCQUAID Edinburgh, United Kingdom BOCCONI UNIVERSITY Paolo Roberto GRAZIANO Milano, Italy UNIVERSITY OF BORDEAUX Thierry BERTHET Bordeaux, France

Project partners

STOCKHOLM CENTER FOR ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH Christina GARSTEN Stockholm, Sweden

http://www.localise-research.eu/



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UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW Sławomir MANDES Warsaw, Poland

Radical changes in the local governance of social cohesion in many Member States of the European Union are the focus of LOCALISE’s research on the organisational challenges of an integrated social and employment policy. The multiple needs of the most vulnerable groups in society require the integration of formerly separate policy fields. This creates positive dynamics for reducing social inequalities, fostering social cohesion and enhancing labour market participation – the crucial objectives of the new EU2020 strategy. Local activation policies are framed by Member States’ policies and patterns of regional inequality. But the shift of competences to the local level, the involvement of new actors and a closer collaboration of different agencies create new demands in inter-organisational coordination. • How do different institutional contexts influence local worlds of social cohesion? • How do local actors deal with the conflicts and dilemmas caused by integrated social cohesion

policies? • What impact do these policies have on social inequality and the conception of social citizenship?

LOCALISE addresses these questions by integrating multiple disciplines, and partners experienced in European and Social Policy research. A common theoretical and methodological approach guides the research in each work package. LOCALISE will create a critical mass of research in three key areas: we first analyse how European programmes, national governance patterns and the regional socio-economic context affect the local governance of social cohesion. Secondly, LOCALISE studies how 18 local entities in six European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden and United Kingdom) cope with the challenges of an integrated social cohesion policy. Finally, the project analyses the impact of these policies on social inequalities, citizenship and the most vulnerable social groups.

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COPE Combating poverty in Europe: Re-organising active inclusion through participatory and integrated modes of multilevel governance

Contract number

290488

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 2 - Combining economic, social and environmental objectives in a European perspective Research area 2.1 – Socio-economic development trajectories Topic 2.1.2 - Combating poverty in Europe: a key question of human dignity and social cohesion

Call FP7-SSH-2011-2


€ 1 993 865


Duration 36 months

Funding scheme Collaborative project (small and medium scale focused research project)

Website http://www.cope-research.eu


Project coordinator UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG Jean Monnet Centre for Europeanisation and Transnational Regulations Institute for Social Sciences School of Social and Political Science Oldenburg, Germany

Project contact Martin HEIDENREICH [email protected] UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH School of Social and Political Science Daniel CLEGG Edinburg, United Kingdom

Project partners

UNIVERSITY OF MILANO Dipartimento di Studi del Lavoro e del Welfare Maurizio FERREIRE Milano, Italy

http://www.cope-research.eu/



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UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW Institute of Sociology Wiesława KOZEK Warsaw, Poland LUND UNIVERSITY School of Social Work Håkan JOHANSSON Lund, Sweden

NORWEGIAN SOCIAL RESEARCH Bjorn HVINDEN Oslo, Norway

To combat poverty, European strategies propose implementing active inclusion policies. However, these policies face serious conceptual questions and governance challenges. Practical implementation is problematic in that social exclusion is a multidimensional problem that goes far beyond financial poverty, necessitating the participatory co-production of individual opportunities. In addition, the complex social needs of the most excluded groups require the integration of different policy fields and the involvement of beneficiaries, civil society and public agencies in the co-production of welfare. This project focuses on the political and organisational challenges of this complex governance model which has evolved from European, national and local policies. Investigating the co-production of active inclusion in a multilevel, multidimensional and multistakeholder perspective addresses key questions: How can the combat against poverty be organised in practice? How do European, national and local institutions shape the co-production of active inclusion? How do beneficiaries participate in these policies and how does this shape their life courses? The COPE project integrates multiple disciplines and experienced social policy researchers. A common theoretical and methodological approach guides the research in each work package. First, COPE contextualises poverty as a multidimensional challenge. Secondly, COPE will study how minimum income schemes for three different groups (lone mothers, long-term unemployed, working poor) are organised in five EU countries (Italy, Germany, Poland, Sweden and the UK) and how they cope with multilevel and multistakeholder modes of co-producing active inclusion policies. As these countries cover different welfare regimes, the results will have direct EU-wide relevance. To conclude, COPE will analyse the impact of these approaches on the individually perceived situation of the poor and the life courses of the most vulnerable social groups.

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FLOWS Impact of local welfare systems on female labour force participation and cohesion

Contract number

266806

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 2 – Combining economic, social and environmental objectives in a European perspective Research area 2.1 – Socio-economic development trajectories Topic 2.1.2 - Local welfare systems favouring social cohesion

Call FP7-SSH-2010-2


€ 2 697 421


Duration 40 months


Website http://www.flows-eu.eu

EC contact Pilar GONZALEZ PANTALEON [email protected]

Project coordinator AALBORG UNIVERSITY Aalborg, Denmark

Project contact Per H. JENSEN [email protected] UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG Birgit PFAU-EFFINGER Hamburg, Germany UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA Lluís FLAQUER Barcelona, Spain UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÂ Teppo KRÖGER Jyväskylâ, Finland TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN Evelyn MAHON Dublin, Ireland

Project partners

MASARYK UNIVERSITY Steven SAXONBERG Brno Stred, Czech Republic



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CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY Eva FODOR Budapest, Hungary POLYTECHNIC O DI MILANO Constanzo RANCI ORTIGOSA Milano, Italy UNIVERSITY OF TARTU Dagmar KUTSAR Tartu, Estonia UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS Sue YEANDLE Leeds, United Kingdom MAISON DES SCIENCES DE L'HOMME ANGE-GUEPIN Pascal CAILLAUD Nantes, France

The aim of FLOWS is to analyse how local welfare provision affects the labour market participation of women, and how female employment in turn affects the life-course (of women and men), structures of inequality, social cohesion and hence the sustainability of the European social model. Two types of welfare provision have been singled out to be of major importance for female employment: care (both for children and elderly care) and human capital investments (vocational training and life-long learning). The coverage and quality of services, the welfare mix (public, private and in between), partnerships, and governance structures most favourable for the employment of women and social cohesion will be identified based on a comparison of eleven cities in eleven European countries. The project analyses the political autonomy of local political actors vis-à-vis national and EU policy making, including culture as an important explanatory variable. Culture is included in two dimensions: First, women’s disposition to participate on the labour market is seen as culturally embedded, while cultural ideals and values play an important role in how policies are perceived and rendered practically useful by women (thus definitions of ‘the good mother’ vary socially and geographically, whereby some mothers, for instance, would prefer not to use day-care facilities but instead take care of their children themselves). Second, local cultural values and belief systems condition creativity among political actors and stakeholders, and thus impact on local policies, which may divert from national or international intentions. The project thus provides a basis for understanding how culture may constrain the transferability of best practices from one country/locality to another. Overall this project will pave the way for evidence-based urban policy recommendations for local welfare system improvement in order to enhance economic growth, female employment and social cohesion.

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IMPROVE Poverty reduction in Europe: Social policy and innovation

Contract number

290613

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 2 – Combining economic, social and environmental objectives in a European perspective Research area 2.1 – Socio-economic development trajectories Topic 2.1.2 – Combating poverty in Europe: a key question of human dignity and social cohesion

Call FP7-SSH-2011-2


€ 2 699 856


Duration 48 months


Website http://www.improve-research.eu


Project coordinator UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERPEN Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy Antwerpen, Belgium

Project contact Bea CANTILLON [email protected] ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOICS AND BUSINESS Research Centre Panos TSAKLOGLOU Athens, Greece TÁRKI SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE István György TÓTH Budapest, Hungary

Project partners

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion John HILLS London, United Kingdom

http://www.improve-research.eu/



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UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX Institute for Social and Economic Research Holly SUTHERLAND Colchester, United Kingdom WIRTSCHAFTSUNIVERSITÄT WIEN Institute for the Environment and Regional Development Andreas NOVY Vienna, Austria UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI URBINO CARLO BO Yuri KAZEPOV Urbino, Italy

UNIVERSITY OF TURKU Department of Social Policy Veli-Matti RITAKALLIO Turku, Finland

This research project takes as its starting points:

• the long standstill in poverty reduction, especially for people of working age; • the complementarity between employment, economic growth and social inclusion that is focal in

the EU 2020 strategy and; • the emergence of socially innovative policies and actions in the margins of the European welfare

states.

It aims at the evaluation of the Lisbon decade in terms of policies and actions against poverty at European, national and sub-national level and at improving the understanding of the interrelationships between employment, social protection and social inclusion and between institutionalised macro level social policies and innovative local action. The research will develop new tools for monitoring poverty, social policy and social innovative practices. For the first time cross-nationally comparable reference budgets will be computed for several Member States. The project views sustainable growth strategies, effective employment policies and adequate social designs as the drivers of every strategy to reduce and eliminate poverty and social exclusion. It considers local socially innovative practices as laboratories to complement and modify these macro-level policies. The quantitative analysis of poverty trends in the past, the adequacy of existing policies and the implications of alternative scenarios for employment and tax-benefit-services schemes to meet the 2020 poverty targets will therefore be complemented with in-depth studies of selected cases of local social policies.

The two central questions driving the ImPRovE project are:

• How can social cohesion be achieved in Europe?

• How can social innovation complement, reinforce and modify macro-level policies and vice versa?

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Among other objectives, the project strives to:

• provide better insight into past poverty trends, including during the recent downturn, and sketch possible scenarios for reaching the Europe 2020 poverty reduction target using micro-simulation techniques;

• identify best practices of social innovation by in-depth studies of over twenty local initiatives of social innovation;

• contribute to the construction of better indicators of minimum income policies, poverty and social exclusion;

• formulate policy recommendations on how employment policies, social policies, social services and local practices of social innovation can complement and reinforce one another for the purpose of enhancing social cohesion in Europe.

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WILCO Welfare innovations at the local level in favour of cohesion

Contract number

266929

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 2 – Combining economic, social and environmental objectives in a European perspective Research area 2.1 – Socio-economic development trajectories Topic 2.1.2 – Local welfare systems favouring social cohesion

Call FP7-SSH-2010-2


€ 2 471 642


Duration 36 months


Website http://www.wilcoproject.eu


Project coordinator RADBOUND UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN Nijmegen, Netherlands

Project contact Taco BRANDSEN [email protected] WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER Annette ZIMMER Münster, Germany POLITECNICO DI MILANO Costanzo RANCI ORTIGOSA Milano, Italy UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE Sandro CATTACIN Geneva, Switzerland

Project partners

UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Teresa MONTAGUT Barcelona, Spain

UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB Gojko BEŽOVAN Zagreb, Croatia

http://www.wilcoproject.eu/



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CENTRE DE RECHERCHE ET D’INFORMATION SUR LA DÉMOCRATIE ET L’AUTONOMIE Laurent FRAISSE Paris, France WARSAW UNIVERSITY Renata SIEMIENSKA-ZOCHOWSKA Warsaw, Poland UNIVERSITY OF KENT Lavinia MITTON Canterbury, United Kingdom ERSTA SKÖNDAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Marie NORDFELDT Stockholm, Sweden JUSTUS-LIEBIG UNIVERSITY Adalbert EVERS Giessen, Germany EUROPEAN RESEARCH NETWORK Rocío NOGALES Liège, Belgium EUROPEAN RESEARCH SERVICES Oliver PANZER Münster, Germany

THE NETWORK OF INSTITUTES AND SCHOOLS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE Ludmila GAJDOSOVA Bratislava, Slovakia

WILCO examines, through cross-national comparative research, how local welfare systems favour cohesion through social innovation. It looks into a missing link between social innovations at the local level and their successful transfer and implementation to other settings. The project examines social innovation in cities, not as a disconnected phenomenon, but as an element in a tradition of welfare that is part of particular socio-economic models and the result of specific national and local cultures. The results will be used, through strong interaction with stakeholders and urban policy recommendations, to link immediately to the needs of practitioners.

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GLOBAL-IQ Impact quantification of global changes

Contract number

266992

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 2 – Combining economic, social and environmental objectives in a European perspective Research area 2.1 - Socio-economic development trajectories Topic 2.1.3 - Analysis of the impact of global changes

Call FP7-SSH-2010-2


€ 2 698 155


Duration 36 months


Website http://www.global-iq.eu

EC contact Perla SROUR-GANDON [email protected]

Project coordinator FONDATION JEAN-JACQUES LAFFONT, TOULOUSE SCIENCES ÉCONOMIQUES Toulouse, France

Project contact Jean-Pierre AMIGUES [email protected] FONDAZIONE ENI ENRICO MATTEI Monica EBERLE Milano, Italy INTERNATIONALES INSTITUT FÜR ANGEWANDTE SYSTEMANALYSE Magdalena HÖLLHUBER Vienna, Austria POTSDAM INSTITUT FÜR KLIMAFOLGENFORSCHUNG Lena REUSTER Potsdam, Germany GÖTEBORGS UNIVERSITET Mohammed BELHAJ Göteborg, Sweden

Project partners

UNIVERZITA KARLOVA V PRAZE Marketa SYCHROVSKA Prague, Czech Republic

http://www.global-iq.eu/



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ISTITUTO DI STUDI PER L'INTEGRAZIONE DEI SISTEMI Carlo SESSA Roma, Italy LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Bhimlabye DHEERMOJEE London, United Kingdom FONDATION POUR L'ÉTUDE DES RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES ET DU DÉVELOPPEMENT Theresa CARPENTER Geneva – Switzerland WIENER INSTITUT FÜR INTERNATIONALE WIRTSCHAFTSVERGLEICHE Magdalena HÖLLHUBER Vienna, Austria

CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC POLICY RESEARCH Francois JOSEPH London, United Kingdom

World societies experience today large transformation processes both in the social, economic and environmental dimensions. These transformations are usually described under the heading of "global change", to emphasize the increasing interactions between them. The objective of the proposal is three-fold: • to provide significant advances in the estimation of socio-economic impacts of global challenges – at

global, European and regional scale; • to identify optimal adaptation strategies; • to evaluate total costs and the optimal mix of adaptation and mitigation against global changes. Work Package 1 (WP) examines the sources, interactions and characteristics of global changes, including the emergence of fast-growing economies, environmental degradation, competition on the use of exhaustible resources, international competitiveness issues. A primary objective of the proposal is to estimate socio-economic impacts arising from global changes by using economic models. The consortium is endowed with a large set of state-of-the-art, internationally renowned, modelling tools. Models will be further expanded and enriched in WP3. Key areas of research will be: agriculture, forestry, land use, energy, EU competitiveness, labour, international trade. The socio-economic impact of these challenges on key sectors/areas will be examined with the enhanced set of models in WP4 and WP5. While in WP4 impacts of global challenges will be studied assuming limited adaptive capacity, in WP5 optimal adaptation strategies will be examined. WP5 will also inform on total costs of global challenges and on the optimal mix of mitigation and adaptation. In WP2 will develop empirical and theoretical insights on key issues which will have a value per se and will also be used to enhance models in WP3. WP6 will complement the analysis of WP4 and WP5 developing theoretical innovations concerning discounting, risk and ambiguity and by testing them numerically with models.

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SPREAD Social platform on sustainable lifestyles

Contract number

263962

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 2 - Combining economic, social and environmental objectives in a European perspective Research area 2.1 - Socio-economic development trajectories Topic 2.1.4 - Social platform on sustainable life style

Call FP7-SSH-2010-4


€ 1 423 082


Duration 24 months


Website http://www.sustainable-lifestyles.eu


Project coordinator UNEP/WUPPERTAL INSTITUTE COLLABORATING CENTRE ON SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION Wuppertal, Germany

Project contact Cheryl HICKS [email protected] ASHOKA FRANCE Arnaud MOUROT Paris, France DEMOS HELSINKI Aleksi NEUVONEN Helsinki, Finland ECOINSTITUT BARCELONA Bettina SCHAEFER Barcelona, Spain

Project partners

EUROHEALTHNET Caroline COSTONGS Brussels, Belgium

http://www.sustainable-lifestyles.eu/



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ENERGY RESEARCH CENTRE OF THE NETHERLANDS Maaike BROUWER Petten, Netherlands POLITECNICO MILANO Anna Rita ANCORA Milano, Italy REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER FOR CEE COUNTRIES Zoltan Szabolcs ERDÉLYI Szentendre, Hungary LUND UNIVERSITY The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics Jenny LIEDHOLM Lund, Sweden

THE NORTHERN ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY Leida RIJNHOUT Brussels, Belgium

The concept of sustainable lifestyles refers to patterns of behaviour shaped by personal and social interactions and conditioned by environmental and socio-economic contexts that aim at improving well-being and health of present and future generations. Sustainable lifestyles embrace economic, social, technical, cultural, legal and environmental aspects at individual, local, national, EU and international levels. Sustainable lifestyles are a relatively new idea in sustainable consumption and production domain and comprehensive research agenda and policy strategy for promoting it in the EU is missing. The SPREAD project aims to fill this gap by consolidating existing body of knowledge from research projects and experiences of stakeholder networks, comprising researchers, health and education experts, industry, services and civil society representatives. It aims to create scenarios of sustainable lifestyles in 2050 through a social platform, focusing on sustainable living, moving, consuming and healthy living and by setting up a peoples’ forum and an online platform hosting an ongoing dialogue open to public. By using the back-casting approach a roadmap with a timeline on how to achieve sustainable lifestyles will be developed. To support European policy makers in their work on sustainable lifestyles the project will develop a research agenda for the future.

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EUBORDERREGIONS European regions, EU external borders and the immediate neighbours. Analysing regional development options through policies and practices of cross-border cooperation

Contract number

266920

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 2 – Combining economic, social and environmental objectives in a European perspective Research area 2.2 – Regional, territorial and social cohesion Topic 2.2.1 – EU regions and their interactions with the neighbourhood region

Call FP7-SSH-2010-2


€ 2 644 320


Duration 48 months


Website http://www.euborderregions.eu/

EC contact Heiko PRANGE-GSTÖHL

[email protected]

Project coordinator UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND-KARELIAN INSTITUTE Joensuu, Finland

Project contact James SCOTT [email protected] INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES Alexander CHVOROSTOV Vienna, Austria PEIPSI CENTER FOR TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION Margit SÄRE Tartu, Estonia

Project partners

EUROPEAN INSTITUTE FOR REGIONAL AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT Grzegorz GORZELAK Warsaw, Poland

http://www.euborderregions.eu/



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TARKI SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE Endre SIK Budapest, Hungary CENTRO STUDI DI POLITICA INTERNAZIONALE Andrea STOCCHIERO Roma, Italy UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ-BARENTS INSTITUTE Aileen ESPIRITU Kirkenes, Norway UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY George PETRAKOS Volos, Greece NORDREGIO Petri KAHILA Stockholm, Sweden UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA Xavier FERRRER-GALLARDO Barcelona, Spain MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY Ayca ERGUN Ankara, Turkey CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT SOCIAL RESEARCH Elena NIKIFOROVA Saint Petersburg, Russia LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FÜR REGIONALENTWICKLUNG UND STRUKTURPLANUNGHans-Joachim BÜRKNER Erkner, Germany

UNIVERSITY OF ROME "LA SAPIENZA" Filippo CELATA Roma, Italy

http://www.euborderregions.eu/consortium/partners/6

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EUBORDERRREGIONS investigates the manifold consequences of increasing cross-border interaction for the development of regions at the EU’s external borders and, in this way, contribute to scientific and policy debate on the future of economic, social and territorial cohesion within the EU. Importantly, the project will contextualise development issues in selected EU “Borderlands” with regard to interaction between the EU and countries of the immediate “neighbourhood”. Within the context of these challenges, the regions at issue here are struggling to define new opportunities for social and economic development and are also attempting to create greater capacities for territorial cooperation with other regions. Despite all criticisms levelled at the European Commission, the EU as market and political institution has been absolutely essential in preparing the ground for greater economic and political interaction. Much will therefore depend on how EU policies and policy discourses translate into political capital for local/regional cross-border cooperation in the new borderlands. At the same time, the issue of capacity building and exploitation of the benefits of strategic cross-border co-operation must be clearly addressed at the local and regional level. As such, these border regions will be treated as interfaces between development dynamics and policy frameworks operating within the EU, on the one hand, and in neighbouring countries, on the other. In doing this, the project will also contribute to the state of the art of policy-oriented research on regional development and cohesion within Europe.

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SEARCH Sharing knowledge assets: Interregionally cohesive neighbourhoods

Contract number

266834

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 2 – Combining economic, social and environmental objectives in a European perspective Research area 2.2 – Regional, territorial and social cohesion Topic 2.2.1 – EU regions and their interactions with the neighbourhood region

Call FP7-SSH-2010-2


€ 2 636 942


Duration 36 months


Website http://www.ub.edu/searchproject


Project coordinator UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Barcelona, Spain

Project contact Jordi SURIÑACH [email protected] UTRECHT UNIVERSITY Ron BOSCHMA Utrecht, Netherlands UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY George PETRAKOS Volos, Greece UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI Raffaele PACI Cagliari, Italy

Project partners

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Simona IAMMARINO London, United Kingdom

VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Edward M. BERGMAN Vienna, Austria

http://www.ub.edu/searchproject



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BRUNEL UNIVERSITY Maurizio BORGHI London, United Kingdom UNIVERSITY OF SAINT-ETIENNE CNRS - Gate Lyon Saint-Etienne Corinne AUTANT-BERNARD Saint-Etienne, France UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS Attila VARGA Pécs, Hungary LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY OF HANNOVER Javier REVILLA DIEZ Hannover, Germany UNIVERSITY OF TARTU Maaja VADI Tartu, Estonia THE STATE UNIVERSITY Higher School of Economics Anatoly VISHNEVSKY Moscow, Russia UNIVERSITY OF CADY AYYAD Aomar IBOURK Marrakesh, Morocco INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR BLACK SEA STUDIES Zefi DIMADAMA Athens, Greece EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN Senén FLORENSA Barcelona, Spain HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM Michael BEENSTOCK Jerusalem, Israel

TUBITAK Serhat CAKIR Ankara, Turkey

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The EU has experienced successive enlargements in recent years with the incorporation of new countries. These have changed the EU map, broadening frontiers and thus appearing new neighbouring countries. The integration of them offers new opportunities but also implies some risks. Even though the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has demonstrated to be an integration tool, which has provided an effective and clear framework to establish cooperation links within neighbouring countries, some are important areas with considerable potential for further progress. SEARCH focuses attention on some areas which so far have been neglected in the analysis of the impact of the ENP but which are of central interest in the economic literature on cohesion. Divided in 8 Work Packages (WP): • WP1 will obtain a background framework; • From WP2 to WP5, scientific research will be carried out analysing different aspects that ENP should

strengthen in the future; • WP6 will collect and analyse the policy implications from previous research; • WP7 will communicate the research results and the policy recommendations through the correct

communication channels to the potential users; • WP8 will ensure the coordination of the SEARCH project consortium.

It includes a remarkable well-balanced consortium with partners from 16 different countries, different backgrounds and expertise, giving an extensive vision to focus adequately to the project’s objective of identifying policies that will strengthen the relationship between the EU and the neighbouring countries (NCs). Main impacts will be the advance on the research on ENP state of the art, obtaining relevant results for contributing to the formulation of future ENP, the involvement of relevant communities, stakeholders and practitioners in ENP research, the critical mass of resources involved and the establishment of a basis to develop new strategic partnership among EU and NCs.

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GRINCOH Growth-innovation-competitiveness: Fostering cohesion in Central and Eastern Europe

Contract number

290657

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 2 – Combining economic, social and environmental objectives in a European perspective Research area 2.2 – Regional territorial and social cohesion Topic 2.2.1 – Addressing cohesion issues in Central and Eastern Europe

Call FP7-SSH-2011-2


2 697 875 €


Duration 36 months

Funding scheme Collaborative project (small or medium-scaled focused research project)

Website http://www.grincoh.eu


Project coordinator UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI Warsaw, Poland

Project contact Grzegorz GORZELAK [email protected] WIENER INSTITUT FÜR INTERNATIONALE WIRTSCHAFTSVERGLEICHE Michael LANDESMANN Vienna, Austria

MAGYAR TUDOMANYOS AKADEMIA KOZGAZDASAG- ES REGIONALIS TUDOMANYI KUTATOKOZPONT Károli FAZEKAS Pecs, Hungary

Project partners

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Slavo RADOSEVIC London, United Kingdom

UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE John BACHTLER Glasgow, United Kingdom

http://www.grincoh.eu/



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INSTITUT FÜR WIRTSCHAFTSFORSCHUNG HALLE Jutta GŰNTHER Halle, Germany

POLITECNICO DI MILANO Roberta CAPELLO Milano, Italy

ACADEMIA DE STUDII ECONOMICE DIN BUCUREŞTI Daniela-Luminita CONSTANTIN Bucarest, Romania

ITÄ-SUOMEN YLIOPISTO James W. SCOTT Kuopio, Finland

UNIVERSITY OF PECS Attila VARGA Vasvari Pal, Hungary

INSTITUTE OF BALTIC STUDIES Marek TIITS Tartu, Estonia

INSTITUT ZA EKONOMSKA RAZISKOVANJA Jose P. DAMIJAN Ljubljana, Slovenia

GRINCOH is an international research project that is made up of theoretical, empirical, methodological and policy-oriented elements. The undertaking carries out an ambitious analysis of cohesion processes and policies for new Central and Eastern EU Member States. The project addresses two issues affecting Central and Eastern European economies: • the disjuncture between fast productivity growth and poor performance in developing innovative

capacities for longer-term sustainable growth; • the pronounced economic, social and environmental territorial disparities resulting from accelerated

growth.

The project's objectives are: • analysing the regional disparities between CEECs and other EU Member States, and with a view to

developing scenarios for CEECs up to 2020 under different assumptions of political frameworks, institutional conditions and development strategies;

• seeking to facilitate the development of long-term visions of CEECs through quantitative and qualitative assessments of possible future impacts (costs and benefits) of policy options;

• identifying the implications for sustainable growth – based on innovation and the development of technological capabilities – and greater economic, social and territorial cohesion;

• advice on future policy options, especially for EU Cohesion policy.

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The envisaged research explores whether and how CEE development strategies can shift towards an ‘innovation-driven process of development’, vital for sustainable growth (and cohesion) in the current global and European context. The project covers in depth the international context, innovation and entrepreneurship, skills and labour market inclusion, social policy tasks, territorial cohesion, institutional changes, and the shape of a consistent cohesion policy framework at regional, national and EU levels. By implementing this project, a pan-European network for comparative regional analysis based on interdisciplinary and multilevel approaches is being established. This consortium, involving 12 partners from 10 countries, also bridges gaps that exist not only between EU and national policies in terms of achieving cohesion objectives, but also between EU Regional Policy and EU-funded research through the 7th Framework Programme. The consortium combines expertise from different relevant disciplines including econometrics, microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis, regional studies, expertise in the evaluation of EU policies (particularly cohesion policies), and a thorough knowledge of the territorial areas under consideration.

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ALICE RAP Addictions and lifestyles in contemporary Europe – Reframing addictions project

Contract number

266813

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 3 – Major trends in society and their implications Research area 3.2 – Societal trends and lifestyles Topic 3.2.1 – Addictions and lifestyles in contemporary European societies

Call FP7-SSH-2010-1


€ 7 978 226


Duration 60 months

Funding scheme Collaborative project (large scale integrating research projects)

Website www.alicerap.eu

EC contact Cristina MARCUZZO [email protected]

Project coordinator FUNDACIO PRIVADA CLINIC PER A LA RECERCA BIOMEDICA Barcelona, Spain

Project contact Antoni GUAL [email protected] AARHUS UNIVERSITET Vibeke ASMUSSEN FRANK Aarhus, Denmark BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP LIMITED Deborah COHEN London, United Kingdom DAPARTAMENT DE SALUT - GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA Lidia SEGURA Barcelona, Spain ECLECTICA SAS DI BECCARIA FRANCA, ERMACORA ANTONELLA Franca BECCARIA Turin, Italy

Project partners

EUROPAISCHES ZENTRUM FÜR WOHLFAHRTSPOLITIK UND SOZIALFORSCHUNG Irmgard EISENBACH-STANGL Vienna, Austria

http://www.alicerap.eu/



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FUNDACIÓN ESADE Tamyko YSA Barcelona, Spain GESELLSCHAFT FÜR ANGEWANDTE SOZIALFORSCHUNG Walter FARKE Gutersloh, Germany HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO Pekka SULKUNEN Helsingin Yliopisto, Finland INSTITUT FÜR THERAPIEFORSCHUNGGEM Gerhard BÜHRINGER Munich, Germany IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE Anne LINGFORD-HUGHES London, United Kingdom INSTITUT ZA RAZISKAVE IN RAZVOJ UTRIP ZAVOD Matej KOŠIR Grosuplje, Slovenia INSTITUTO DA DROGA E DA TOXICODEPENDÊNCIA Fernanda FEIJÃO Lisbon, Portugal INSTYTUT PSYCHIATRII I NEUROLOGII Jacek MOSKALEWICZ Warsaw, Poland IVO STICHTING INSTITUUT VOOR ONDERZOEK NAAR LEEFWIJZEN & VERSLAVING Dike VAN DE MHEEN Rotterdam, Netherlands KING'S COLLEGE LONDON Patricia CONROD London, United Kingdom LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY Harry SUMNALL Liverpool, United Kingdom LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE Virginia BERRIDGE London, United Kingdom

MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION Betsy THOM London, United Kingdom

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UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Peter ANDERSON Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom PANSTWOWA AGENCJA ROZWIAZYWANIA PROBLEMOW ALKOHOLOWYCHKrzysztof BRZOZKA Warsaw, Poland RAND EUROPE CAMBRIDGE LTD Priscilla HUNT Cambridge, United Kingdom SUCHT INFO SCHWEIZ Gerhard GMEL Lausanne, Switzerland STICHTING TRIMBOS-INSTITUUT NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION Franz TRAUTMANN Utrecht, Netherlands STICHTING ALCOHOLPREVENTIE Avalon DE BRUIJN Utrecht, Netherlands STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET Jan BLOMQVIST Stokholm, Sweden TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT DRESDEN Jürgen REHM Dresden, Germany TERVEYDEN JA HYVINVOINNIN LAITOS Christoffer TIGERSTEDT Helsinki, Finland THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM Yehuda NEUMARK Jerusalem, Israel

THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD Petra Sylvia MEIER Sheffield, United Kingdom UNITED NATIONS INTERREGIONAL CRIME AND JUSTICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE Kriistina KANGASPUNTA Turin, Italy

UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DEL PIEMONTE ORIENTALE AMEDEO AVOGADROFabrizio FAGGIANO Vercelli, Italy

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UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO Giuseppe ORTOLEVA Turin, Italy UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT Jan G. RAMAEKERS Maastricht, Netherlands UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM Jan Jacob SIKKEMA Amsterdam, Netherlands UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN Maurice MITTELMARK Bergen, Norway UNIVERSITETET I OSLO Olav GJELSVIK Oslo, Norway UNIVERSITETET I STAVANGER Hildegunn SAGVAAG Stavanger, Norway UNIVERSITY OF KENT Ben BAUMBERG Canterbury, United Kingdom UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING Martine STEAD Stirling, United Kingdom UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE David MILLER Glasgow, United Kingdom ZENTRUM FÜR ANGEWANDTE PSYCHOLOGIE, UMWELT- UND SOZIALFORSCHUNG Dirk SCHRECKENBERG Hagen, Germany

INSTITUT CATALA DE LA SALUT Miquel CASAS Barcelona, Spain

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ALICE RAP (Addiction and Lifestyles in Contemporary Europe - Reframing Addictions Project) is a five year European research project that brings together over 100 scientists from more than 25 countries and 29 different disciplines. It aims to analyse the place and challenges of addictions and lifestyles to the cohesion, organization and functioning of contemporary European society. Through an integrated multidisciplinary research, a wide range of factors will be studied through a foresight approach to inform a redesign of effective addictions governance. Ownership will be described by an historical study of addiction through the ages, an analysis of public and private stakeholder views, and through image analyses of professional and citizenship views. A study of how addictions are classified and defined will be followed by estimates of their health, social and economic impact. Determinants of addiction will be investigated through a coordinated and cohesive social, economic and biological analysis of initiation, transition into problem use and transition into and out of dependence. The business of addiction will be analyzed through studies of revenues, profits and participants in legal and illegal trade, the impact of suppliers on addictive substance use and behaviours, and analyses of webs of influence on policy responses. Addictions governance will be studied by describing the views and forces that determine the ways societies steer themselves and by stock taking of present governance practices to old and emerging addictions. Youth as customers will be analyzed through considering the impacts of new technologies on promoting and mitigating use, by studying the interrelations of culture and biology, and by determining features that promote resilience and nudge young people to reduce problematic use. The project itself is professionally managed from a partnership perspective to promote a coordinated and integrated approach to the high volume of research and its policy implications.

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FIDUCIA New European crimes and trust-based policy

Contract number

290563

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 3 - Major trends in society and their implications Research area 3.2 - Societal trends and lifestyles Topic 3.2.1 - Criminal behaviour and policy responses in the European Union

Call FP7-SSH-2011-2


€ 2 699 880


Duration 36 months

Funding scheme Collaborative project (small or medium scale focused research project)

Website http://www.fiduciaproject.eu


Project coordinator UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA Dipartimento di Scienze penalistiche Parma, Italy

Project contact Stefano MAFFEI [email protected] CENTER FOR EUROPEAN POLICY STUDIES (CEPS) Sergio CARRERA Brussels, Belgium CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRACY Maria YORDANOVA Sofia, Bulgaria EUROPEAN PUBLIC LAW ORGANISATION Piji PROTOPSALTIS Athens, Greece

Project partners

THE EUROPEAN INSTITUTE FOR CRIME PREVENTION AND CONTROL affiliated with the UNITED NATIONS Natalia OLLUS Helsinki, Finland

http://www.fiduciaproject.eu/



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UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Birkbeck College Institute for Criminal Policy Research Mike HOUGH London, United Kingdom MAGYAR TUDOMANYOS AKADEMIA TARSADALOMTUDOMANYI KUTATOKOZPONT Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Zsolt BODA Budapest, Hungary LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Methodology Institute Jonathan JACKSON London, United Kingdom MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN Department of Criminology Rita HAVERKAMP Freiburg, Germany

NUSIKALSTAMUMO PREVENCIJOS LIETUVOJE CENTRAS Evaldas VISOCKAS Vilnius, Lithuania UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Sociology department Federico VARESE Oxford, United Kingdom POLIS AKADEMISI (TUBITAK) Crime Prevention Research Center Osman DOLU Ankara, Turkey

UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA Departamento de Derecho público general Ana Isabel PEREZ CEPEDA Salamanca, Spain

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The FIDUCIA project will shed light on a number of distinctively 'new European' criminal acts that have emerged in the last decade as a consequence of technological developments and the increased mobility of populations across Europe. The objective of the project is to develop policy responses to “new” forms of deviant behaviours that are also highly relevant to responding to 'conventional' forms of criminality. The FIDUCIA concept stems from the idea that public trust (in latin, 'fiducia') in justice is critically important for social regulation, in that it leads to public acceptance of the legitimacy of institutions of justice and thus compliance with the law. The project will investigate whether a change of direction in criminal policy – from deterrence strategies and penal populism to procedural justice and trust-based policy – is desirable, and in what terms. While traditional research is primarily concerned on 'why people break the law', the focus in FIDUCIA is on 'why people obey to the law'. The FIDUCIA consortium will conduct four case studies of new forms of criminality that reflect – in various ways – the development of supra-national structures and processes across Europe. The four crime categories are:

• trafficking of human beings; • trafficking of goods; • the criminalisation of migration and ethnic minorities; • cyber-crimes.

In addition, FIDUCIA will examine questions of criminalisation; assess the importance of public trust in justice and beliefs about the legitimacy of the criminal justice system; and explore whether trust-based regulation makes sense at a supra-national level. The findings will inform an innovative model of 'trust-based' policy with a raft of far-reaching recommendations for politicians and law-makers in Member States and the institutions of the European Union.

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GREEN Global re-ordering: Evolution through European networks

Contract number

266809

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 4 – Europe and the world Research area 4.1 – Interactions and interdependences between world regions and their implications Topic 4.1.1 - Europe facing a rising multi-polar world

Call FP7-SSH-2010-1


€ 7 944 718


Duration 48 months

Funding scheme Collaborative project (large scale focused research project)

Website http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/csgr/green/

EC contact Simon SCHUNZ [email protected]

Project coordinator UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK Coventry, United Kingdom

Project contact Shaun BRESLIN [email protected] UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM Jonathan ZEITLIN Amsterdam, Netherlands UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES Mario TELO Brussels, Belgium COPENHAGEN BUSINESS SCHOOL Leonard SEABROOKE Copenhagen, Denmark

Project partners

CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY Eva VAS Budapest, Hungary

FUNDACION PARA LAS RELACIONES INTER NACIONALES Y EL DIALOGO EXTERIOR Richard YOUNGS Madrid, Spain

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/csgr/green/



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INSTITUTO PER GLI STUDI DI POLITICA INTERNATIONALE Antonino VILLAFRANCA Milano, Italy NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Jan-Morten TORRISSEN Oslo, Norway UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY Comparative Regional Integration Studies Luk VAN LANGENHOVE Brugge, Belgium BOSTON UNIVERSITY Vivien SCHMIDT Boston, United States of America UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN Mills SOKO Cape Town, South Africa FACULTAD LATINOAMERICANA DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES Diana TUSSIE Buenos Aires, Argentina NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies Seow Lian SNG Singapore, Singapore PEKING UNIVERSITY Yong WANG Beijing, China UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Mark BEESON Crawley, Australia WASEDA UNIVERSITY Shujiro URATA Tokyo, Japan

GR:EEN studies the current and future role of the EU in an emerging multi-polar world through a programme of stock-taking, multi-disciplinary research and complementary activities. It aims at a better understanding of the prospective directions of the emerging global governance structures and Europe’s place in them. Analysis will focus on the extant actors from the 20th century, the 21st century rising powers, the increasingly influential non-state actors (from both civil and non-civil society) and the new transnational regulatory networks of public and private policy makers and regional agencies. While multi-polarity, with Europe as a pole, is a possibility alternative scenarios are also plausible. A shift from a trans-Atlantic to

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trans-Pacific locus of power, or the “depolarization” and fragmentation of authority are such alternatives; both could marginalize Europe’s influence. But they are questions to be researched; not assertions to be made. The project has 5 components: • conceptual analyses of an emerging multi-polar world and the theory and practice of international

organisation and networks in that world; • evolving EU policy and practice; • the effects of regional leadership from Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Americas; • projects on the EU and multi-polarity within the fields of human rights and security, energy, resources

and environment, trade and finance; • a foresight study detailing scenarios for EU policy towards the emerging world order. The research will

be theoretical, policy-oriented and with an interactive dissemination strategy to assure feedback from its target-publics.

The work will be undertaken by a manageable consortium of partners (from Belgium, UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Hungary, Spain, Italy and Norway) with a strong track-record of collaboration on these issues accompanied by leading institutes from the USA, Argentina, Singapore, China, Australia, South Africa and Japan to act as hub-and-spokes for their regions.

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NOPOOR Enhancing knowledge for renewed policies against poverty

Contract number

290752

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 4 – Europe and the world Research area 4.1 – Interaction and interdependence between world regions and their implications Topic 4.1.1 - Tackling poverty in a development context

Call FP7-SSH-2011-1


€ 8 000 000


Duration 60 months


Website http://www.nopoor.eu/


Project coordinator INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT Marseille, France

Project contact Xavier OUDIN [email protected] GIGA GERMAN INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL AND AREA STUDIES Gero ERDMANN Hamburg, Germany INSTITUT FÜR WELTWIRTSCHAFT Research Area Poverty Reduction, Equity and Development Rainer THIELE Kiel, Germany UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Centre for the Study of African Economies Anke HOEFFLER Oxford, United Kingdom UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Rafael DE ARCE Madrid, Spain

Project partners

FACULTÉS UNIVERSITAIRES NOTRE-DAME DE LA PAIX DE NAMUR Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et de gestion Jean-Philippe PLATTEAU Namur, Belgium

http://www.nopoor.eu/



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CEPS - CENTRE D'ÉTUDES DE POPULATIONS, DE PAUVRETE ET DE POLITIQUES SOCIO-ÉCONOMIQUES - Population-Emploi Mathias KUEPIE Esch sur Alzette, Luxembourg OIKODROM-FORUM NACHHALTIGE STADT, VEREIN FÜR NEUE STADTEBAUKULTUR Forum Nachhaltige Stadt Heidi DUMREICHER Vienna, Austria GRUPO DE ANALISIS PARA EL DESARROLLO ASOCIACION Martin BENAVIDES Lima, Peru UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO Instituto de Economia João SABOIA Rio de Janeiro, Brasil UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Kirsten SEHNBRUCH Santiago, Chile INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO Y DE ESTUDIOS SUPERIORES DE MONTERREY Graduate School of Public Administration and Public Policy Araceli ORTEGA DIAZ Nuevo Leon, Mexico CONSORTIUM POUR LA RECHERCHE ECONOMIQUE ET SOCIALE Fatou CISSE Dakar, Senegal THE GHANA CENTER FOR DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT LBG Edward Mr AMPRATWUM Accra, Ghana UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN South African Labour and Development Research Unit Thomas BOSSUROY Rondebosch, South Africa UNIVERSITY OF ANTANANARIVO Faculty of Law Economics Management and Sociology Herinjatovo RAMIARISON Antananarivo, Madagascar VIEN KHOA HOC XA HOI VIET NAM Center for Analysis and Forecasting Thang NGUYEN Hanoi, Viet Nam

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CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS SOCIETY Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics Ashwini DESHPANDE Delhi, India CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE Centre de Sciences Humaines, USR 3330, mixed research unit of the French External Affairs Ministry and CNRS Basudeb CHAUDHURI Paris, France

NOPOOR aims to build new knowledge on the nature and extent of poverty in developing countries to provide policy makers with a broader and comprehensive understanding of poverty. NOPOOR will explore new and uncharted dimensions of the multidimensional phenomenon of poverty. The project aims at reaching an understanding of poverty entry and exit processes that is needed for achieving MDGs and for making more effective the policies. Nineteen experienced partners are involved in the project, which includes ten teams from developing and emerging countries in three regions (Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia). These countries have implemented different poverty reduction policies, and this will form the basis for the comparative and case studies approach taken. The project will identify key mechanisms that explain the persistence and exacerbation of poverty, which have been altered by the insertion of developing countries into the globalization process, including trade, aid, FDI and migration, and by the growing interdependence of economies. Causes may differ between countries. This calls for policies and actions to be tailored to each poor country’s characteristics, including their access to resources, political regime, quality of institutions and governance. These points are developed by various approaches, including political economics, and different methods: surveys, econometric studies and case studies. NOPOOR will put significant resources into generating new knowledge from original surveys, database work and qualitative work. It will also look forward to future scenarios. Conclusions will be oriented to policy recommendations. Beyond this contribution to scientific knowledge, NOPOOR will pursue an active policy of dissemination and capacity building, including training of young Southern researchers and the implementation of a permanent network with National Institutes of Statistics (NIS). The project is policy-oriented. NOPOOR will accompany the EU's agenda for its policy against poverty by consultations, guidance notes, and policy briefs on issues relating to the program. The review of MDG will constitute an important point of focus in the future years.

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ENGOV Environmental governance in Latin America and the Caribbean: Developing frameworks for sustainable and equitable resource use

Contract number

266710

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 4 - Europe in the world Research area 4.1 - Interactions and interdependences between world regions and their implications Topic 4.1.2 - Collective challenges for Latin American and Caribbean Countries

Call FP7-SSH-2010-3


€ 2 699 310


Duration 48 months

Funding scheme Collaborative project (small or medium scale focused research projects)

Website http://www.engov.eu/en


Project coordinator UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation Amsterdam, Netherlands

Project contact Barbara HOGENBOOM [email protected] CONSEJO LATINOAMERICANO DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES Carolina MERA Buenos Aires, Argentina UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA Institut de Ciència y Tecnología Ambientals Joan MARTINEZ ALIER Barcelona, Spain

Project partners

INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT Mina KLEICHE DRAY Marseille, France

UNIVERSITY OF OSLO Centre for Development and the Environment Benedicte BULL Oslo, Norway

http://www.engov.eu/en



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UNIVERSIDADE DE BRASÍLIA Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Donald Rolfe SAWYER Brasilia, Brazil UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA Unidad Xochimilco David BARKIN Xochimilco, Mexico UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE Instituto de Estudios Avanzados Cristian PARKER Santiago, Chile GINO GERMANI RESEARCH INSTITUTE Héctor SEJENOVICH Buenos Aires, Argentina UNIVERSIDAD ANDINA SIMÓN BOLÍVAR Pablo ANDRADE Quito, Ecuador

The central objective of ENGOV project is to understand how environmental governance is shaped in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and to develop a new analytical framework for environmental governance in the region. The project will focus on both formal and informal practices of management around renewable and non-renewable natural resources, how they are perceived, contested and reshaped in the context of rapid and complex social, political, economic and environmental changes at local, national, and global levels. In order to do so, the concept of environmental governance provides a comprehensive approach linking theory and practice. Latin American and Caribbean countries have come to occupy a key position in the global debate on environmental governance, and the climate crisis has further stressed the international importance of the region. This project will focus on the obstacles and possibilities for sustainable production systems that can generate both economic development and a more equitable distribution of benefits in order to decrease poverty, exclusion, and environmental degradation in LAC. It will depart from the region’s experience with environmental governance, analyse recent initiatives, and explore options for institutional innovation and inclusive approaches towards natural resource use and management. The project will build on available "knowledges" and generate new information which will be widely disseminated among all relevant user groups (social movements, academics, state institutions and private sector) to support them in developing future strategies and activities. The project uses multi-disciplinary and multi-scalar methods, including stakeholders in all the project phases to discuss and compare contexts and outcomes in different LAC regions, and to develop innovative tools for learning processes and communicating its results.

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RURBANAFRICA African rural city connections

Contract number

290732

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 4 – Europe and the world Research area 4.1 – Interaction and interdependence between world regions and their implications Topic 4.1.2 - Connections between rural areas and cities in sub-Saharan Africa

Call FP7-SSH-2011-2


€ 2 694 863


Duration 48 months


Website


Project coordinator UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN Institute of Geography and Geology Copenhagen, Denmark

Project contact Agergaard JYTTE [email protected] UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT The Faculty of Geosciences Paul VAN LINDERT Utrecht, Netherlands LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY Department of GEOGRAPHY KATHERINE GOUGH Loughboroug, United Kingdom INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT Human Settlements Group, International Institute for Environment and Development Cecilia TACOLI London, United Kingdom

Project partners

UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE II - LE MIRAIL Geography Bernard CHARLERY DE LA MASSELIERE Toulouse, France



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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA Faculty of Agriculture & Center for GIS and Remote Sensing Emmanuel TWARABAMENYE Butare, Rwanda SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE Dept. Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Faculty of Agriculture Evelyne E. LAZARO Morogoro, Tanzania UNIVERSITE DE DSCHANG Martin KUETE Dschang, Cameroon UNIVERSITY OF GHANA Department of Geography and Resources Paul William KOJO YANKSON Legon-Accra, Ghana

The overall objective of the African Rural-City Connections (RurbanAfrica) project is to explore the connections between rural transformations, mobility, and urbanization processes and analyze how these contribute to an understanding of the scale, nature and location of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. The RurbanAfrica project will advance the research agenda on rural-city connections in sub-Saharan Africa by addressing a range of crucial components: agricultural transformations, rural livelihoods, city dynamics, and access to services in cities. In this respect the project will challenge a number of generally accepted ‘truths’ about rural and city development, and the importance and implication of migration in shaping these. It will thereby question the overall negative interpretations of the economic role of rural-urban mobility and migration in sub-Saharan Africa and generate new insights into the relationship between rural-city connections and poverty dynamics. The project includes nine partners: four European, one international, and four sub-Saharan African. RurbanAfrica focuses on four country cases: Rwanda, Tanzania, Cameroon and Ghana and examine in-depth two rural-city connections in each of the case countries. Research is organized into six work packages: agricultural transformation, rural livelihoods, city dynamics, access to services, knowledge platform and policy dialogue, and synthesis, dissemination and management. Central to the approach is the on-going integration of policy research, policy dialogue, knowledge sharing and empirical research. Through ongoing collaboration between senior and junior researchers from European and sub-Saharan African partners, and co-supervising of PhD students, the project will contribute to capacity building and potentially impact curriculum development. The research and dissemination process will be supported by a scientific advisory board, with members from European and sub-Saharan African research institutions

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URBACHINA Sustainable urbanisation in China: Historical and comparative perspectives, mega-trends towards 2025

Contract number

266941

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 4 – Europe and the world Research area 4.1 – Interaction and interdependence between world regions and their implications Topic 4.1.3 - Understanding urbanisation trends and processes in contemporary China

Call FP7-SSH-2010-3


€ 2 697 060


Duration 48 months


Website http://www.urbachina.eu/


Project coordinator CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE Centre Chine Corée Japon, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Paris, France

Project contact François GIPOULOUX [email protected] EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY Department of Urban and regional Economics Debin DU Shanghai, China DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTER OF THE STATE COUNCIL Research Department of Development Strategy and Regional Economy Li SHANTONG Beijing, China

Project partners

UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Services and Enterprise Research Unit Peter DANIELS Birmingham, United Kingdom

CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Institute of Finance and Trade Economics Pengfei NI Beijing, China

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LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Athar HUSSAIN London, United Kingdom CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Institute of Geographical Science and Natural Resources Research Division of Human Geography and Regional Development Weidong LIU Beijing, China ISTITUTO DI STUDI PER L'INTEGRAZIONE DEI SISTEMI Andrea RICCI Roma, Italy INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA Claudia BINA Lisbon, Portugal RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA School of Environmental and Natural Resources Zhong MA Beijing, China ANHUI ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE RESEARCH Xie XIANZHEN Hefei, China

URBACHINA project combines the knowledge and expertise from a number of different disciplines to provide new and innovative insights and scenarios that can be used to guide urbanization in China over the next 40 years. A key strength of the proposal is the use of 'thematic pairs' of European and Chinese researchers who will lead and deliver the research and dissemination associated with work packages organized around a set of key themes. Each work package team comprises leading experts who will utilize state-of-the-art knowledge, methods and techniques from economic geography, anthropology and history to test a suite of hypotheses founded on historical and comparative perspectives on urbanisation trends and process in the EU and China. While each of the four core research teams will deliver significant added value through the work packages, there is also provision in the proposal for extensive cross-project collaboration based on four defined topics: • The institutional foundations and policies for urbanisation; • The issue of land property in urbanisation and the development of real estate markets in cities; • The need for environmental infrastructures delivering connectivity and services for the urban

population; • The relationships between urban development, traditions, and modern lifestyles in cities.

These four topics are treated as different layers within a comprehensive analysis of a single process - urbanisation in China - that links historical experiences, comparative dimensions and possible future scenarios. This framework provides a firm foundation for multi-faceted interactions between scholars, officials and business in Europe and China. It will also provide the basis for extensive dissemination of URBACHINA outputs using a variety of media designed to engage policy makers and ordinary citizens.

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CORE The role of governance in the resolution of socio-economic and political conflict in India and Europe

Contract number

266931

Activity/Area or Topic Actvity 4 – Europe and the world Research area 4.2 – Conflicts, peace and human rights Topic 4.2.1 - Cultures of governance and conflict resolution in India and Europe

Call FP7-SSH-2010-3


€ 2 366 173


Duration 36 months

Funding scheme Collaborative project (small/medium-scale focused research project for specific cooperation actions dedicated to international cooperation partner countries(SICA))

Website http://www.projectcore.eu


Project coordinator INTERNATIONAL PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE Oslo, Norway

Project contact J. Peter BURGESS [email protected] MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY Oliver RICHMOND Manchester, United Kingdom BERGHOF RESEARCH CENTRE FOR CONFLICT MANAGEMENT Ulrike PETRI Munich, Germany INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Nona MIKHELIDZE Roma, Italy CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY Elena STAVREVSKA Budapest, Hungary

Project partners

UNIVERSITY OF DELHI Navnita BEERA New Delhi , India

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JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY Amit PRAKASH New Delhi, India BENARES HINDU UNIVERSITY Malaviya Centre for Peace Research Priyankar UPADHYAYA Varanasi, India MAHANIRBAN CALCUTTA RESEARCH GROUP Ranabir SAMADDAR Calcutta, India PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ASIA Sumona DASGUPTA New Delhi, India

The project aims to analyse how socio-economic and political intra-state conflicts are being perceived and dealt with through current governance initiatives in India and the EU. It seeks to understand how increasingly globally articulated norms, rules and policies of governance are transforming and affecting social, political and economic conflicts on local levels. Through concrete case studies, it will assess the effect and impact of governance initiatives on conflicts where issues of identity mobilization and minority rights are prominent. The project will foster knowledge on the dynamics of conflict and peace in relation to changes in the political governance of states acting within an increasingly interdependent world. The project analyses the premises and operational initiatives in conflict transformation processes through a combination of fieldwork, statistical analysis and theory development. The case studies of the project encompass recent governance practices in Bihar, Bosnia, Cyprus, Georgia, North East India and Kashmir. These studies are conducted in collaboration between Indian and European research teams. The results will prepare the ground for systematic analysis, theoretical innovation and policy recommendations. The CORE project will result in a variety of outputs, including a report series addressed to EU and India policy makers and the wider public; two large international conferences; a database mapping key governance initiatives, scientific articles and working papers, policy reports, a published project publication, a high profile web forum for enhanced communication between researchers, policy makers, practitioners and the wider public.

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EUBORDERSCAPES Bordering, political landscapes and social arenas: Potentials and challenges of evolving border concepts in a post-cold war world

Contract number

290775


Activity 4 - Europe and the world Research area 4.2 - Conflicts, peace and human rights Topic 4.2.1 - The evolving concept of borders

Call FP7-SSH-2011-1


€ 6 982 429


Duration 48 months

Funding scheme Collaborative project ( large scale integrating project)

Website

EC contact Patricia POSTIGO-McLAUGHLIN [email protected]

Project coordinator

ITÄ-SUOMEN YLIOPISTO Kuopio, Finland

Project contact James SCOTT [email protected] STICHTING KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT Nijmegen School of Management Henk VAN HOUTUM Nijmegen, Netherlands MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY Ayca ERGUN Ankara, Turkey RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Institute of Geography of Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir KOLOSSOV Moscow, Russia

Project partners

UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA Xavier FERRER-GALLARDO Cerdanyola del Valles, Spain



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UNIVERSITY OF TROMSOE Johan SCHIMANSKI Tromsoe, Sweden THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST Cathal MCCALL Belfast, Ireland BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV David NEWMAN Beer Sheva, Israel UMEA UNIVERSITET Nira YUVAL-DAVIS Umea, Sweden UNIVERSITÁ DEGLI STUDI DI BERGAMO Gianluca BOCCHI Bergamo, Italy UNIWERSYTET GDANSKI Ilona SAGAN Gdansk, Poland V. N. KARAZIN KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Olga FILIPPOVA Kharkiv, Ukraine CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDY SOFIA Diana MISHKOVA Sofia, Bulgaria LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR REGIONALENTWICKLUNG UND STRUKTURPLANUNG Hans-Joachim BÜRKNER Erkner, Germany CEPS - CENTRE D'ETUDES DE POPULATIONS DE PAUVRETE ET DE POLITIQUES SOCIO-ECONOMIQUES Christophe SOHN Esch sur Alzette, Luxembourg

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE UNIVERSITE PIERRE MENDES FRANCE UNIVERSITE JOSEPH FOURIER GRENOBLE 1 Anne-Laure AMILHAT Paris, France

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MAGYAR TUDOMANYOS AKADEMIA KOZGAZDASAG- ES REGIONALIS TUDOMANYI KUTATOKOZPONT Zoltán HAJDÚ Pecs, Hungary AUTONOMNAYA NEKOMMERCHESKAYA ORGANIZACIYA CENTR NEZAVISIMIIH SOCIOLOGICHESKIH ISSLEDOVANII Elena ZDRAVOMYSLOVA Sint Petersburg, Russia HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO Henrik STENIUS Helsingin Yliopisto, Finland

UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON Philip MARFLEET London, United Kingdom

Conceptual change in the study of borders must be seen in relation to fundamental social, economic and geopolitical transformations that have taken place in the past decades. Major paradigmatic shifts in scientific debate, and in the social sciences in particular, must also be considered. Recognising the close interrelationships between social change and paradigm shifts the EUBORDERSCAPES project will analyse the evolving concept of borders in terms of a mutually linked emergence of 'post-national', 'post-colonial', 'post-modernist' and 'post-communist' strands of inquiry. State borders are the frame of reference, rather than ethnographic/anthropological boundaries. However, this approach emphasises the social significance and subjectivities of state borders while critically interrogating 'objective' categories of state territoriality and international relations. The research proposed here will, furthermore, not only be focused at the more general, at times highly abstract, level of conceptual change. This approach will also allow us to compare and contrast how different and often contested conceptualisations of state borders (in terms of their political, social, cultural and symbolic significance) resonate in concrete contexts at the level of everyday life.

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TRANSWORLD Redefining the transatlantic relationship and its role in shaping global governance

Contract number

290454

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 4 – Europe and the world Research area 4.3 – Europe's changing role in the world Topic 4.3.1 - Transatlantic relations in the context of global governance architecture and relationships with other powers

Call FP7-SSH-2011-2


€ 2 500 120


Duration 42 months


Website http://www.transworld-fp7.eu

EC contact Heino NAU [email protected]

Project coordinator INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Roma, Italy

Project contact Riccardo ALCARO [email protected] THE GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE UNITED STATES - A MEMORIAL TO THE MARSHALL PLAN Ken CROGNALE Washington, United States of America THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH Angela NOBLE Edinburg, United Kingdom FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN Thomas RISSE Berlin, Germany

Project partners

FONDATION NATIONALE DES SCIENCES POLITIQUES Anne-Marie LE GLOANNEC Paris, France

SABANCI UNIVERSITY Meltem Muftuler BAC Istanbul, Turkey

http://www.transworld-fp7.eu/



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THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Paul CURTIN London, United Kingdom EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE Francesco FRANCIONI Florence, Italy UNIVERSITÁ DEGLI STUDI SI SIENA Pierangelo ISERNIA Siena, Italy UNIVERZITA KARLOVA V PRAZE Lenka Anna ROVNÁ Praga, Czech Republic UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM Hans RATTINGER Mannheim, Germany THE EUROPEAN OMNIBUS SURVEY Steve SCHWARZER Brussels, Belgium AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Michelle EGAN Washington DC, United States of America

In the area of global flux, emerging powers and growing interconnectedness, transatlantic relations appear to have lost their bearings. As the international system fragments into different constellations of state and non-state powers across different policy domains, the US and the EU can no longer claim exclusive leadership in global governance. Not only the ability, but also the willingness of the US and the EU to exercise leadership together can no longer be taken for granted. Political, economic, and social elites on both shores of the Atlantic express different views on whether the US and the EU should be bound together, freelance, or seek alternative partnerships in a confusing multipolar world. Traditional paradigms to understand the transatlantic relationship are thus wanting. A new approach is needed to pinpoint the direction transatlantic relations are taking. TRANSWORLD provides such an approach. By combining an inter-disciplinary analysis of transatlantic relations, including desk research, in-depth interviews, an elite survey and a sophisticated Delphi exercise to elaborate solid policy proposals, TRANSWORLD would: • ascertain, differentiating among four policy domains (economic, security, environment, and human

rights/democracy), whether transatlantic relations are drifting apart, adapting along an ad hoc cooperation-based pattern, or evolving into a different but resilient special partnership;

• assess the role of a re-defined transatlantic relationship in the global governance architecture; • provide tested policy recommendations on how the US and the EU could best cooperate to enhance

the viability, effectiveness, and accountability of governance structures. In so doing, TRANSWORLD, which features a thirteen-partner transatlantic consortium of attested academic, policy, dissemination and management excellence, would contribute to an inter-disciplinary transatlantic research area, with in-built connections to policy making.

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MYPLACE Memory, youth, political legacy and civic engagement

Contract number

266831

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 5 – The citizen in the European Union Research activity 5.1 – Participation and citizenship in Europe Topic 5.1.1 - Democracy and the shadows of totalitarianism and populism: the European experience

Call

FP7-SSH-2010-1


€ 7 994 449


Duration 48 months

Funding scheme Collaborative project (large scale focused research project)

Website http://www.fp7-myplace.eu

EC contact Simona ARDOVINO [email protected]

Project coordinator UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK Department of Sociology Warwick, United Kingdom

Project contact Hilary PILKINGTON [email protected] THE MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY Department of Sociology Gary POLLOCK Manchester, United Kingdom TALLINN UNIVERSITY The Institute for International and Social Studies Airi-Alina ALLASTE Tallinn, Estonia

Project Partners

UNIVERZITA SV CYRILA A METODA V TRNAVE Department of Political Science Ladislav MACHÁČEK Trnava, Slovakia

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UNIVERSITÄT BREMEN Institute Labour and Economy Jochen THOLEN Bremen, Germany FRIEDRICH-SCHILLER-UNIVERSITÄT JENA Institute of Sociology Klaus DÖRRE Jena, Germany ITÄ-SUOMEN YLIOPISTO Department of Social Sciences Vesa PUURONEN Kuopio, Finland SYDDANSK UNIVERSITET Faculty of the Social Sciences Carsten YNDIGEGN Odense, Denmark CENTRO DE INVESTIGACAO E ESTUDOS DE SOCIOLOGIA David CAIRNS Lisboa, Portugal

STATE INSTITUTION OF ULYANOVSK STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE 'REGION' Elena OMEL’CHENKO Ulyanovsk, Russia DAUGAVPILS UNIVERSITATE Faculty of Humanities Anita STASULANE Daugavpils, Latvia EURASIA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION - GEORGIA Koba TURMANIDZE Tbilisi, Georgia INSTITUT DRUSTVENIH ZNANOSTI IVO PILAR Benjamin PERASOVIĆ Zagreb, Croatia

UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA Department of Political and Social Sciences Mariona FERRER-FONS Barcelona, Spain

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DEBRECENI EGYETEM Institute of Political Science and Sociology István MURÁNYI Debrecen, Hungary

PANTEION UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES Alexandra KORONAIOU Athens, Greece

MYPLACE explores how young people's social participation is shaped by the shadows (past, present and future) of totalitarianism and populism in Europe. Conceptually, it goes beyond the comparison of discrete national "political cultures" or reified classifications of political heritage ('post-communist'/'liberal democratic'); it is premised rather on the pan-European nature of a range of radical and populist political and philosophical traditions and the cyclical rather than novel nature of the popularity they currently enjoy. Empirically, MYPLACE employs a combination of survey, interview and ethnographic research instruments to provide new, pan-European data that not only measure levels of participation but capture the meanings young people attach to it. Analytically, through its specific focus on "youth" and the historical and cultural contextualization of young people's social participation, MYPLACE replaces the routine, and often abstract, iteration of the reasons for young people's 'disengagement' from politics with an empirically rich mapping of young people's understandings of the civic and political space that they inhabit. In policy terms, MYPLACE identifies the obstacles to, and facilitators of, young people's reclamation of the European political arena as a place for them. The specific objectives of MYPLACE are: • To contextualise young people’s civic engagement in regional, national and European historical

contexts; • To map and understand the process of the (re-)production, transmission and (re)interpretation of

local, national and pan-European political heritage and experience; • To measure attitudes to, and participation, in political organisations, social movements and civic

action programmes among young people in Europe and to understand how these attitudes and engagements are differentiated along lines of gender, ethnicity, class and region;

• To measure views on legitimate forms of political representation and action within the context of different democratic heritages;

• To map the range of youth activism across Europe and the ways in which young activists are networked inter-regionally and trans-nationally;

• To understand the appeal of radical, extreme or populist movements to young people and its relationship to regional, national and European political heritage;

• To inform and assist policy and practitioner agencies to chart and evaluate the political responses to populism in the youth related policies of political parties and within young people's own activism.

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ANTICORRP Anticorruption policies revisited. Global trends and European responses to the challenge of corruption

Contract number

290529

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 5 - The citizen in the European Union Research area 5.1 - Participation and citizenship in Europe Topic 5.1.1 - Corruption and resistance to corruption in the private and public sphere

Call FP7-SSH-2011-1


€ 7 999 182


Duration 60 months


Website http://www.anticorrp.eu


Project coordinator GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET Quality of Government institute Gothenburg, Sweden

Project contact Bo ROTHSTEIN [email protected] HERTIE SCHOOL OF GOVERNANCE Alina MUNGIU-PIPPIDI Berlin, Germany EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE Department of Social and Political Sciences Donatella DELLA PORTA Florence, Italy

Project partners

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON School of Slavonic and East European Studies Alena LEDENEVA London, United Kingdom

HELLENIC FOUNDATION FOR EUROPEAN AND FOREIGN POLICY (ELIAMEP) Dia ANAGNOSTOU Athens, Greece

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TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL Robin HODESS Berlin, Germany UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM History, Archaeology and European Studies Guy GELTNER Amsterdam, Netherlands THE GALLUP ORGANISATION EUROPE Nicolas SCHARIOTH Brussels, Belgium UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BERGAMO Dipartimento di Scienze dei Linguaggi, della Comunicazione e degli Studi Culturali Davide TORSELLO Bergamo, Italy UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI PERUGIA Istituzioni e Società Roberto SEGATORI Perugia, Italy GIGA GERMAN INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL AND AREA STUDIES Christian VON SOEST Hamburg, Germany CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRACY Alexander STOYANOV Sofia, Bulgaria BASEL INSTITUTE ON GOVERNANCE Public Sector Governance Department Jan Christoph RICHTER Basel, Switzerland

BUDAPESTI CORVINUS EGYETEM Corruption Research Centre Institute of Sociology and Social Policy Zoltán SZÁNTÓ Budapest, Hungary SOCIETATEA ACADEMICA DIN ROMANIA Irina Madalina DOROFTEI Bucarest, Romania

SABIEDRISKAS POLITIKAS CENTRS PROVIDUS Valts KALNINS Riga, Latvia

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HACETTEPE UNIVERSITESI Political Science and Public Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Muhittin ACAR Ankara, Turkey SKOLA KOMUNIKACIE A MEDII Department of Analyses Andrej SKOLKAY Bratislava, Slovakia PARTNERSHIP FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT Ana GAJZER Zagreb, Croatia INICIATIVA KOSOVARE PER STABILITET Ms Engjellushe MORINA Pristina, Kosovo

THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM School of Politics and International Relations Paul M. HEYWOOD Nottingham, United Kingdom

The central objective of ANTICORRP is to investigate and explain the factors that promote or hinder the development of effective anticorruption policies and impartial government institutions. ANTICORRP directly addresses the objective in the Work Programme by examining what the causes of corruption are, how corruption can be conceptualized, measured and analysed, what the impact of corruption on societies is and how policy responses can be tailored as to deal effectively with this phenomenon. The starting point for this project is the following: the knowledge about the very negative impact that corruption has on a great number of factors that are important for human well-being (economic prosperity, population health, life satisfaction, gender equality, social trust, political legitimacy, etc.) is now well established. At the same time, knowledge about how corruption can be successfully fought by political means is much less developed. While this project concentrates on corruption in Europe, ANTICORRP also has a global scope. The project will identify general global trends concerning corruption and select "over-performing" and "under-performing" countries in terms of their progress towards less corrupt governance regimes and conduct more detailed qualitative analyses of these cases. The project includes participants from anthropology, criminology, economics, gender studies, history, legal studies, political science, public policy and administration and sociology at twenty-one units in sixteen European countries. Research will be conducted using a various set of methods including historical case-studies, large-scale surveys and ethnographical approaches. The project will strive to ensure that the research findings are spread to policy makers and the general public by using high profile multimedia and data visualisation tools, as well as research-to-policy workshops at different levels and for different target audiences.

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IRISS Increasing resilience in surveillance societies

Contract number

290492

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 5 – The citizen in the EU Research area 5.1 – Participation and citizenship in Europe Topic 5.1.2 - Surveillance and the challenges for democracy and an open society

Call FP7-SSH-2011-2


€ 2 596 770


Duration 36 months


Website http://irissproject.eu

EC contact Sylvie ROHANOVA [email protected]

Project coordinator VEREIN FÜR RECHTS-UND KRIMINALSOZIOLOGIE Vienna, Austria

Project contact Reinhard KREISSL [email protected] TRILATERAL RESEARCH & CONSULTING LLP David WRIGHT London, United Kingdom THE UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING William WEBSTER Stirling, United Kingdom

THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH Nisha PATEL Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Project partners

EOTVOS KAROLY KOZPOLITIKAI NONPROFIT KOZHASZNU KORLATOLT FELELOSSEGU TARSASAG Ivan SZEKELY Budapest, Hungary



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AUSTRIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Johann ČAS Vienna, Austria THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD Clive NORRIS Sheffield, United Kingdom HAMBURG UNIVERSITY Nils ZURAWSKI Hamburg, Germany VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL Paul DE HERT Brussels, Belgium THE OPEN UNIVERSITY Kirstie BALL Milton Keynes, United Kingdom UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA Gemma GALDON CLAVELL Barcelona, Spain FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG Michael FRIEDEWALD Munich, Germany INSTITUTT FOR FREDSFORSKNING STIFTELSE J. Peter BURGESS Oslo, Norway UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE Marco LOMBARDI Milano, Italy UNIVERZITA KOMENSKEHO V BRATISLAVE Erik LASTIC Bratislava, Czech Republic

UNIVERSITÄT DER BUNDESWEHR MÜNCHEN Wolfgang BONSS Munich, Germany

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IRISS (Increasing resilience in surveillance societies) will investigate societal effects of different surveillance practices from a multi-disciplinary social science and legal perspective. It will focus on the effects that surveillance practices introduced to combat crime and terrorism can have on citizens in open and democratic societies. It will review surveillance systems used in fighting crime and terrorism and will examine the driving forces that have led to the spread of these practices. It will review current research on public attitudes towards surveillance, the impact of surveillance on civil liberties and citizens' trust in political institutions. In a set of case studies, the impact of surveillance on the everyday lives of citizens will be analysed in detail. These studies will focus on the relations between citizens and the state, between citizens and private sector institutions and between citizens. Based on the findings from these case studies, a series of comparative empirical social experiments will be conducted to test different attitudes towards surveillance in different democratic contexts. These experiments will investigate citizens' attitudes towards surveillance and the extent to which democratic rights can be exercised under existing regimes of surveillance and how these rights can be strengthened. The empirical research will inform an analysis designed to explore options for increasing social, economic and institutional resilience. IRISS will produce a better understanding of how surveillance affects different types of societies and how different groups react to surveillance. It will produce a comprehensive account of resilience options, focussing on strengthening democratic processes and public discourse about appropriate reactions towards threats against open democratic societies. The consortium will involve stakeholders in expert workshops, an international advisory board and by other means.

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EUCROSS The europeanisation of everyday life: Cross-border practices and transnational identities

Contract number

266767

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 5 – The citizen in the EU Research area 5.2 – Diversities and commonalities in Europe Topic 5.2-1 - European Identities: Inner and outer perceptions of European and the EU

Call FP7-SSH-2010-2


€ 1 744 058


Duration 36 months


Website http://www.eucross.eu/cms/


Project coordinator UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO DI CHIETI-PESCARA Pescara, Italy

Project contact Ettore RECCHI [email protected] GESIS - LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FUR SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTEN Michael BRAUN Mannheim, Germany AARHUS UNIVERSITET Adrian FAVELL Aarhus, Denmark INSTITUT BARCELONA D'ESTUDIS INTERNACIONALS Juan DÍEZ MEDRANO Barcelona, Spain

Project partners

UNIVERSITY OF YORK Mike SAVAGE York, United Kingdom

UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI Dumitru SANDU Bucarest, Romania

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The EUCROSS project examines the relationship between the manifold activities of EU residents (nationals, mobile EU citizens, and third-country nationals) across the borders of nation states and their collective identities. Specifically, the project will: • map out individuals’ cross-border practices as an effect of European integration and globalisation; • assess the impact of these practices on collective identifications (also controlling for the inverse causal

process).

Which cross-border practices are more likely to foster some form of identification with the EU – e.g., contacts with foreign friends and/or unwanted foreigners, periods of labour mobility abroad, buying property abroad, business and tourist travel, or consumer relations with international companies? Under which contextual and individual conditions do these experiences promote a higher sensitivity to ‘Europe’ – rather than the "local" or the "global" – as an identity catalyst? Which social groups are more prone to adopt a European mindset in the wake of the Europeanisation of everyday life? To disentangle empirically the factors and mechanisms that link together the cross-border practices facilitated by European integration, globalisation and/or other dimensions of collective identity, we adopt a two-stage, mixed quantitative/qualitative approach. In the first stage, we will carry out a quantitative survey among nationals, intra-EU movers (Romanian citizens) and third-country nationals (Turkish citizens) who reside in six European countries (Denmark, Germany, Italy, Romania, Spain and the United Kingdom). In the second stage, we will interrogate, via in-depth interviews, the meaning given by individuals to cross-border practices, their collective identifications, and the role that the European Union, globalisation, and the nation play in these personal narratives, among a select typology of respondents to the quantitative survey.

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FREE Football research in an enlarged Europe: Identity dynamics, perception patterns and cultural change in Europe’s most prominent form of popular culture

Contract number

290805

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 5 – The citizen in the EU Research area 5.2 – Diversities and commonalities in Europe Topic 5.2.1 - The anthropology of European integration

Call FP7-SSH-2011-2


€ 2 433 357


Duration 36 months


Website http://www.free-project.eu


Project coordinator ÉCOLE SUPÉRIEURE DES SCIENCES COMMERCIALES D'ANGERS Angers, France

Project contact Albrecht SONNTAG [email protected] KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET Gertrud PFISTER Copenhagen, Denmark LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY Borja GARCÍA Loughborough, United Kingdom MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY Özgehan SENYUVA Ankara, Turkey

Project partners

UNIVERSITÄT STUTTGART Wolfram PYTA Stuttgart, Germany

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UNIVERSITÄT WIEN Alexandra SCHWELL Vienna, Austria UNIVERSITAT DE VALÈNCIA Ramon LLOPIS-GOIG Valencia, Spain UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE-COMTE Paul DIETSCHY Besançon, France

UNIWERSYTET IM. ADAMA MICKIEWICZA W POZNANIU Michal BUCHOWSKI Poznan, Poland

The FREE project aims at understanding the impact of the most popular and most widely shared of all expressions of popular culture - football - on identity dynamics in an enlarged Europe. In a truly interdisciplinary perspective, FREE seeks to explore an apparently non-political, but fully existing sub-cultural European public space of communication: the European football scene in the largest sense. FREE will bring together different approaches to this European public space: • it will study how collective memories of popular culture have emerged during the history of European

football, what trace they have left in mutual perception patterns across the continent and to what extent cultural commonality may grow out of historically grown diversity in the field of everyday culture;

• it will carry out multidimensional empirical research work that is innovative both in design and scope, in order to produce new insight into the complex identity dynamics resulting from processes of europeanisation of football and strongly increased mobility over the last two decades;

• it will attempt to shed light on the issues raised by the growing feminisation of the game such as gender construction and attitudes toward traditional patterns of identification;

• it will provide an in-depth analysis of changing perceptions of European approaches to football governance as a legitimacy-enhancing project and produce strategic recommendations for policymakers and other stakeholders in this field.

Through an ambitious dissemination strategy the FREE project aims at increasing awareness among citizens, stakeholders and policy makers about the issue of cultural diversity and commonality in the field of popular culture and its often underestimated impact on the political, economic and social dimensions of the European integration process.

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MELA European museums in an age of migrations

Contract number

266757

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 5 - The citizen in the European Union Research area 5.2 – Diversities and commonalities in Europe Topic 5.2.2 - Library and museum

Call FP7-SSH-2010-2


€ 2 699 880


Duration 48 months

Funding scheme Collaborative project (small or Medium scale focused research project)

Website http://www.mela-project.eu

EC contact Louisa ANASTOPOULOU [email protected]

Project coordinator POLITECNICO DI MILANO Dipartimento di Progettazione dell'Architettura Milano, Italy

Project contact Luca CERONE [email protected] UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI L'ORIENTALE Marina GUIDETTI Naples, Italy UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW Joe GALLOWAY Glasgow, United Kingdom UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Nicola DOLMAN Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Project partners

MUSEUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE Myriam NECHAD Paris, France

COPENHAGEN INSTITUTE OF INTERACTION DESIGN Simona MASCHI Copenhagen, Denmark

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CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE Davide CERESA Roma, Italy THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART Alan SELBY London, United Kingdom

CONSORCI DEL MUSEU D'ART CONTEMPORANI DE BARCELONA Joan ABELLA Barcelona, Spain

MeLa* (European Museums in an Age of Migrations) aims to delineate new approaches for museums in relation with the conditions posed by the migrations of people, cultures, ideas, information and knowledge in the global world. It aims moreover to evaluate how much these changes can interfere with the organization, communication strategies physical structures and the architecture of the exhibition places. Its main objectives are to advance knowledge in the field and to support museum communities, practitioners, experts and policymakers in developing new missions and forms of museums and libraries “an age of migrations”. Museums, as institutions for the conservation and transmission of cultural values, today are in the middle of a process involving the construction of a pluralistic civic community, which should be able to express the variety and dynamics of people's ever-changing needs, as well as the multiplicity of contemporary transnational culture. The project proceeds from the European Call "Reinterpreting Europe’s cultural heritage: towards 21st century libraries and museums?" It intends to define new strategies for the multi- inter-transcultural organization of the conservation, exhibition and transmission of knowledge, in ways and forms that could reflect the conditions posed by the migration of people and ideas in the global world, as well as its influences on the European Union process during last thirty years. MeLa* is an interdisciplinary four-year programme aimed at reflecting on the role of museums and libraries, dealing with several complex and crucial issues such as history, socio-cultural and national identity, the use of new technologies and, last but not least, exhibition design and museography. The project intends to fulfil its objectives through the cooperation of nine European partners, including different universities, two museums, one research institute and one small enterprise. Each partner contributes to the research through different research tools and methods; some are more innovative, such as ‘Brainstorming’ modules and ‘Research by Art’, while some others are more traditional, such as desk research and conferences.

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TENLAW Tenancy law and housing policy in multi-level Europe

Contract number

290694


Activity 5 - The citizen in the EU Research area 5.2 – Diversities and commonalities in Europe Topic 5.2.2 - Rule of law and justice in a multilevel governance system

Call FP7-SSH-2011-2


€ 2 692 526


Duration 42 months

Funding scheme Collaborative project

Website http://www.tenlaw.uni-bremen.de/


Project coordinator

UNIVERSITÄT BREMEN Bremen, Germany

Project contact Christoph U. SCHMID [email protected] UNIVERSITÁ DI PISA Elena BARGELLI Pisa, Italy TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT Hendrik PLOEGER Delft, Netherlands TARTU ULIKOOL Irene KULL Tartu, Estonia

Project partners

UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI Sergio NASARRE AZNAR Tarragona, Spain

LUNDS UNIVERSITET Per NORBERG Lunds, Sweden

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UNIWERSYTET SLASKI Magadalen HABDAS Katowice, Poland MEDNARODNA FAKULTETA ZA DRUZBENE IN POSLOVNE STUDIJE ZAVOD Goran DAKOVIC Celje, Slovenia UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON Peter SPARKES Southampton, United Kingdom

METROPOLITAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE József HEGEDÜS Budapest, Hungary

Private tenancy law is existentially affecting the daily lives of European citizens, as about one third of them depend on rental housing. That notwithstanding, it constitutes a nearly blank space in comparative and European law. This is due to its national character, its political nature and its embeddedness in widely diverging national housing policies, which ultimately reflect different welfare state models. At the same time, however, different parts of EU law and policy do affect tenancy law significantly, albeit indirectly. Thus, EU social policy against poverty and social exclusion extends to selected issues of housing policy. EU non-discrimination rules extend to the provision of housing, and several consumer law directives apply to tenancy contracts, too. Moreover, if the Common Frame of Reference were one day to develop into an optional instrument, tenancy law issues now regulated by national general contract law might be covered as well - though without any legislator having co-ordinated the ensuing juxtaposition of European contract law and national tenancy regulation. Against this background, this project sets out to provide the first large-scale comparative and European law survey of tenancy law. In a first step, it analyses national tenancy laws and their embeddedness in, and effects on, national housing policies and markets. In a second step, the effect of EU legislation on national housing policy in general and national tenancy law in particular will be analysed in a comparative perspective. In a third step, a proposal for a better co-ordinating role of the EU in tenancy law and housing policy, in particular through an OMC process developing common principles of good “tenancy regulation”, will be designed. This research matches well several priorities of the Stockholm programme given tenancy law’s intimate relation to social human rights and a system of law and justice working for the benefit of European citizens, in particular vulnerable groups.

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e-FRAME European framework for measuring progress

Contract number

290520

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 6 - Socio-economic and scientific indicators Research area 6.2 – Developing better indicators for policy Topic 6.2.1 – Beyond GDP – measuring economic performance and societal progress

Call FP7-SSH-2011-3


€ 1 495 065


Duration 30 months

Funding scheme Coordination and support action (coordination action)

Website http://www.frame-online.net

EC contact Marianne PAASI [email protected]

Project coordinator ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI STATISTICA Roma, Italy

Project contact Marina SIGNORE [email protected] CENTRAAL BUREAU VOOR DE STATISTIEK Jan Pieter SMITS Den Haag, Netherlands UK OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS Stephen HICKS Newport, United Kingdom INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA STATISTIQUE ET DES ETUDES ECONOMIQUES Claire PLATEAU Paris, France

Project partners

ROMANIAN ACADEMY NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH Emil DINGA Bucharest, Romania

FONDAZIONE ENI ENRICO MATTEI Francesco BOSELLO Milano, Italy

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GESIS - LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTEN Heinz-Herbert NOLL Mannheim, Germany FONDATION NATIONALE DES SCIENCES POLITIQUES Danielle SCHWEISGUTH Paris, France ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT Marco MIRA D'ERCOLE Paris, France NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION Charles SEAFORD London, United Kingdom THE YOUNG FOUNDATION Nicola BACON London, United Kingdom UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI SIENA Achille LEMMI Siena, Italy UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE Mauro GALLEGATI Ancona, Italy THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Mary O'MAHONY Birmingham, United Kingdom RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN Marcel TIMMER Groningen, Netherlands ZENTRUM FÜR EUROPÄISCHE WIRTSCHAFTSFORSCHUNG Marcus KAPPLER Mannheim, Germany UNIVERSITÄT TRIER Ralf MÜNNICH Trier, Germany UNIVERSITÀ DI PISA Monica PRATESI Pisa, Italy

UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT Hans SCHMEETS Maastricht, Netherlands

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The E-FRAME coordination action "European Framework for Measuring Progress" contributes to the latest political agenda of the European Commission in the area of Beyond the GDP and therefore to the priorities identified in the Europe 2020 strategy. The coordination action will focus on the following general objectives: stocktaking of available results and of ongoing research activities on progress measurement; foster a European debate over the measurement issues; propose guidelines for the use of existing indicators; propose a coherent way of “delivering” information include advanced ICT tools; identify new research topics for future investigation; propose ways to harmonize NSIs’ initiatives in progress measurement area. e-Frame will thus ensure a coordination of Beyond GDP activities putting at the centre of the action the national statisticians so to lead to improved statistics and measurement, including stocktaking of past, recent and ongoing research in the Framework programme and ESSnet projects. As the final target of activities is the use of indicators within EU policies and in particular at the Europe 2020 strategy, guidelines and recommendations will be proposed for future activities within the European Research Area and the European Statistical System. The project will lead to identify and develop relevant indicators of the measurement of progress which need to be disseminated to different stakeholders and future research needs in proposing guidelines and, in particular, through the publication of a handbook on the use of progress indicators. The 19 partners-consortium is formed by major European National Statistical Institutes and, together with universities, research centres and civil society, will see the participation of the International Organization OECD. Collaboration with Eurostat is foreseen.

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SIMPATIC Social impact policy analysis of technological innovation challenges

Contract number

290597

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 6 - Socio-economic and scientific indicators Research area 6.4 - Use of indicators and related approaches for the evaluation of research policies and programmes Topic 6.4.1 - Impact assessment of EU policies

Call FP7-SSH-2011-1


€ 2 696 560


Duration 36 months


Website

EC contact Domenico ROSSETTI DI VALDALBERO [email protected]

Project coordinator BRUEGEL Brussels, Belgium

Project contact Reinhilde VEUGELERS [email protected] KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN Sarah MALEVÉ Leuven, Belgium UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT Wilma COENEGRACHTS Maastricht, Netherlands SEURECO Danielle SCHIRMANN-DUCLOS Paris, France

Project partners

INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS Pantelis CAPROS Athens, Greece



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UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID Maribel RODRÍGUEZ VILLA Madrid, Spain BUREAU FÉDÉRAL DU PLAN Sarah MALEVÉ Brussels, Belgium IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE Shaun POWER London, United Kingdom

INSTITUT ZA EKONOMSKA RAZISKOVANJA Boris MAJCEN Ljubljana, Slovenia

The objective of SIMPATIC is to provide policy makers with a comprehensive and operational tool box allowing for a better assessment of the impact of research and innovation policies in Europe. SIMPATIC represents a unique bottom-up project, bringing together micro and macro researchers with expertise in evidence-based policy analysis and impact assessment of research and innovation policies, thus allowing EU innovation policy makers to better address "Europe 2020" challenges. Insights from micro-analysis and micro-evidence, including SIMPATIC’s own frontier pushing ex-post policy impact analysis of R&D subsidies and tax credits, will be used as input in SIMPATIC’s sectoral EU macro models, NEMESIS and GEM-G3. These models have already regularly served in the assessment of innovation and environmental policies in Europe, and have thus proven their strength as support tools for ex ante and ex post assessments of EU policies. With SIMPATIC project, these models will be upgraded to include the latest insights from micro models in order to better respond to the new, grand challenges of RTD policies, including environment and social inclusion. SIMPATIC will thus develop and use the best possible evidence and methodologies to simulate the impact of a number of research and innovation policy alternatives, providing new insights into the potential impact of various policy alternatives, thus contributing to advancing impact assessment and evidence based innovation policy design in Europe.

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VERA Forward visions on the European Research Area

Contract number

290705

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 7 - Foresight activities Research area 7.1 - Wide socio-economic foresight on key challenges Topic 7.1.1 - Forward visions on the European Research Area

Call FP7-SSH-2011-3


€ 1 459 370


Duration 30 months


Website http://www.era-visions.eu/


Project coordinator FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG Munich, Germany

Project contact Philine WARNKE [email protected] UNITATEA EXECUTIVA PENTRU FINANTAREA INVATAMANTULUI SUPERIOR, A CERCETARII, DEZVOLTARII SI INOVARII Luciana BRATU Bucharest, Romania UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE Ton WENNINK Enschede, Netherlands UNIVERSITÉ DE MARNE LA VALLÉE Pascal JANOTS Marne la Vallée, France

Project partners

AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Susanne GIESECKE Vienna, Austria

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UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER Liz FAY Manchester, United Kingdom TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS Torsti LOIKKANEN Espoo, Finland CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES SCIENTIFICAS Eusebio JIMÉNEZ ARROYO Madrid, Spain EU JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE (IPTS) Vincenzo CARDARELLI Brussels, Belgium

CENTRE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION Alexander DEGELSEGGER Vienna, Austria

The VERA project aims to provide relevant strategic intelligence for the future governance and priority-setting of the research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) system in Europe and for better adapting science, technology and innovation policy to the shifting global environment and upcoming socio-economic challenges. For this purpose VERA carries out an in-depth stocktaking of RTDI related forward looking activities in Europe and internationally and a thorough review of trends and drivers of long-term change of European RTDI governance. On the base of these insights VERA develops scenarios on the evolution of the European Research Area, assesses the critical issues for the ERA’s future capabilities emerging from these scenarios, explores subsequent strategic options and ultimately generates a set of policy recommendations for responsive and future oriented multi-level, multi-domain RTDI policy strategies. VERA is conceptualised as a continuously progressing two-way communication process among ERA actor groups from society, industry, academia and policy across domains, levels and regions. It is setting up a strategic conversation between these stakeholders that evolves through several carefully tailored stages in order to jointly discover shared visions and strategic options around the ERA’s future perspectives towards 2020 and far beyond. VERA is exploring gradual evolution following from current patterns of change – but is also explicitly embracing transformative and disruptive developments with a long-term horizon. The VERA project is led by a consortium of 10 internationally renowned institutes from 9 EU countries involving a team of more than 20 researchers with outstanding expertise both in terms of relevant knowledge and forward looking methodology and excellent contacts with RTDI stakeholders in Europe and the world.

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NET4SOCIETY2 Trans-national cooperation among National Contact Points for Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities (SSH NCPs)

Contract number

263924

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 8 – Horizontal actions Research area 8.1 – Mobilising the network of NCPs for specific tasks

Call FP7-SSH-2010-4


€ 1 799 739


Duration 24 months


Website http://www.net4society.eu


Project coordinator DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FÜR LUFT- UND RAUMFAHRT Bonn, Germany

Project contact Angela SCHINDLER-DANIELS [email protected] ÖSTERREICHISCHE FORSCHUNGSFÖRDERUNGS-GESELLSCHAFT Andrea HÖGLINGER Vienna, Austria NATIONAL DOCUMENTATION CENTRE NATIONAL HELLENIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION Evi SACHINI Athens, Greece THE ICELANDIC CENTRE FOR RESEARCH Aðalheiður JÓNSDÓTTIR Reykjavik, Iceland

Project partners

EURESEARCH Regina SCHNEIDER Bern, Switzerland

IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Sorcha CARTHY Dublin, Ireland

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MATIMOP-ISERD Smadar HIRSH Tel Aviv, Israel APRE Diassina DI MAGGIO Roma, Italy ASSOCIATION ECONOMY AND DEMOCRACY Rossitsa CHOBANOVA Sofia, Bulgaria BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY Larissa TITARENKO Minsk, Byelorussia RESEARCH PROMOTION FOUNDATION Eleana GABRIEL Nicosia, Cyprus MALTA COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Anthea FABRI Kalkara, Malta NORGES FORSKNINGSRÅD Tom-Espen MØLLER Oslo, Norway INSTYTUT PODSTAWOWYCH PROBLEMOW TECHNIKI POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK Małgorzata KRÓTKI Warsaw, Poland NATIONAL AUTHORITY FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH Ecaterina GICA Bucharest, Romania CENTRE FOR SCIENCE RESEARCH AND STATISTICS Anastasia GUROVA Moscow, Russia TUBITAK Seda GÖKSU Ankara, Turkey

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR OPTICAL ENGINEERING Natalija SAZENOVA Riga, Latvia

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A strong and efficient Network of National Contact Points (NCPs) is not only elementary to the success of the Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities (SSH) Programme of the 7th EU Framework Programme but also to the realization of the European Research Area. The trans-national SSH NCP cooperation project NET4SOCIETY2 strives to increase the awareness for and the visibility of the SSH Programme and its “new approach” while endorsing a strong NCP network dedicated to increasing the professionalism of its members. NET4SOCIETY2 strengthens and enhances the existing SSH NCPs´ network NET4SOCIETY. NET4SOCIETY2 offers web-based tools for easing SSH NCP work, specific high quality training sessions, expert exchanges and dedicated workshops. NET4SOCIETY2 organizes large international SSH events to promote the relevance of SSH research in Europe and the FP7 SSH Programme. To support the specifications of the “new approach” these large events include interdisciplinary brokerage events. The project provides a dedicated SSH Research Directory for the specific area of Socio-economics and the Humanities, and a refined partner-search support system. These tools will be published on the project’s dedicated Internet site. NET4SOCIETY2 continues the work of the 2008-2011 SSH network NET4SOCIETY. The Network consists of a total of 60 NCPs representing 53 countries, including NCPs from International Cooperation Partner Countries (ICPCs). NET4SOCIETY2 is open to all SSH-NCPs. A core group of Work Packages leaders, including the Third Country Contact Points, works closely together with the co-ordinator to implement the project’s objectives. All SSH NCPs are invited to be involved either as "beneficiary" or as third parties ("national expert") and are thus entitled to access all network events and tools and share in the network's pool of information.

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NORFACE-II New opportunities for Research Funding Agency cooperation in Europe II

Contract number

263903


Activity 8 - Horizontal actions Research area 8.2 - Support to the preparation of ERANET/ERANET Plus projects

Call FP7-SSH-2010-4


€ 300 000


Duration 18 months


Website http://www.norface.org


Project coordinator

NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK Den Haag, Netherlands

Project contact Renée VAN KESSEL-HAGESTEIJN [email protected] FONDS ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTLICHEN FORSCHUNG Christoph BÄRENREUTER Vienna, Austria FORSKNINGS- OG INNOVATIONSSTYRELSEN Kristoffer Brix BERTELSEN Copenhagen, Denmark SIHTASUTUS EESTI TEADUSFOND Kati KIO Tallinn, Estonia SUOMEN AKATEMIA Jyrki HAKAPÄÄ Helsinki, Finland AGENCE NATIONALE DE LA RECHERCHE Jean-Michel RODDAZ Paris, France

Project partners

DEUTSCHE FORSCHUNGSGEMEINSCHAFT Eckard KÄMPER Bonn, Germany

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THE ICELANDIC CENTRE FOR RESEARCH Allyson MACDONALD Reykjavik, Iceland IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Sorcha CARTHY Dublin, Ireland NORGES FORSKNINGSRAD Hege TORP Oslo, Norway FUNDAÇÃO PARA A CIENCIA E A TECNOLOGIA Jose BONFIM Lisbon, Portugal JAVNA AGENCIJA ZA RAZISKOVALNO DEJAVNOST REPUBLIKE SLOVENIJE Marko Perdih Ljubljana, Slovenia SWEDISH RESEARCH COUNCIL Lisbeth SÖDERQVIST Stockholm, Sweden ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL Stephen STRUTHERS Swindon, United Kingdom

NORFACE is a partnership between twelve research councils to increase co-operation in research and research policy in Europe. The twelve (I counted 14 !) partners involved are the research councils for the social sciences from Estonia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Canada and Austria participate in NORFACE as associate partners. This partnership is built on a history of less formal co-operation and joint activities between the Nordic and UK research councils. NORFACE formalises this existing working relationship and provides a framework and a vision for a durable multi-national strategic partnership in research funding and practice. NORFACE was launched in FP6. It was an ambitious programme of communication, enquiry, sharing of experience and action. Over the five project years (2004-2009) the partners engaged in a range of initiatives designed to deliver new levels of co-operative research policy and practice. NORFACE-II, launched in June 2011 under FP7, works on the identification of research needs with a view to developing joint initiatives. An important part of the project is focussed on exploiting data infrastructures in the social sciences. By discussing national and international strategic initiatives, developing mechanisms to exploit data and co-ordinating a joint approach NORFACE-II can contribute to the development of European data infrastructures for the social sciences. NORFACE-II aims at further deepening and strengthening the established trans-national cooperation, but also at broadening the activities of the network and its European impact.

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FLASH-IT Facilitating access to socio-economic research through information and communications technology

Contract number

290431


Activity 8 – Horizontal actions Research area 8.2 – ICT-based networking and exploiting of SSH projects and results

Call FP7-SSH-2011-3


€ 499 775


Duration 24 months


Website http://www.flash-it.eu


Project coordinator

AGENZIA PER LA PROMOZIONE DELLA RICERCA EUROPEA (APRE) Roma, Italy

Project contact Diassina DI MAGGIO [email protected] SPIA UG Terry MARTIN Berlin, Germany ETHNIKO IDRYMA EREVNON Evi SACHINI Athens, Greece POUR LA SOLIDARITÉ ASBL Maria Magdalaena TANCAU Brussels, Belgium

Project partners

SYNBEA SARL Francois TAMARELLE Marseille, France

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The general objective of the project is to contribute to increased dissemination and exploitation of the SSH projects research findings. The project, taking also advantage of new ICT-based technologies and tools, will: • Provide consolidated information arising from FP6 & FP7 SSH research projects and activities

addressing major societal challenges on issues close to the main political priorities of the EU identified in the new Europe 2020 strategy: 1. Innovation Union (including economic and social innovation, social cohesion and demographic changes); 2. Youth; 3. Employment; 4. Poverty;

• Develop effective communication tools (such as Policy Snapshots, Policy Research Alerts, E-newsletters, multi-stakeholder policy dialogue workshops, roundtables, interactive and innovative web platform), engaging all relevant SSH players such as European, national and local decision-makers and multipliers (policy makers, journalists, academics, industry, civil society organisations);

• Improve access to research data as results of SSH projects focusing on common rules and frameworks to be applied in data management, exploring the possibilities of ex-ante and ex-post coordination with FP funded projects;

• Expected outputs: Evaluation of the opportunities offered by new forms of ICT for networking and clustering ongoing SSH research projects and enable exchange and knowledge transfer between projects/clusters of projects;

• Assessment and collection of best practices among SSH research projects in exploiting ICT technologies for knowledge transfer and dissemination of results & key messages targeting different stakeholders;

• Dissemination of relevant SSH projects results through effective communication tools;

• Analysis of the state of the art related to the usage of Open Access pilot to identify data standards to be applied by the projects;

• Connection with European SSH Research Infrastructure for designing and implementing data management plans for future inclusion of SSH projects.

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HERA JRP CE Humanities in the European Research Area – Joint Research Programme – Cultural encounters

Contract number

291827

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 8 – Horizontal activities Research area 8.3 – Major trends in society and their implications

Call FP7-ERANET-2011-RTD


€ 6 000 000


Duration 60 months


Website http://heranet.info/hera-joint-research-programme-2

EC contact Pilar GONZALEZ PANTALEON [email protected]

Project coordinator NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK Den Haag, Netherlands

Project contact Alice DIJKSTRA [email protected] FONDS ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTLICHEN FORSCHUNGMonika MARUSKA Vienna, Austria DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FÜR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV Angela SCHINDLER-DANIELS Cologne, Germany STYRELSEN FOR FORSKNING OG INNOVATION Jette KIRSTEIN Copenhagen, Denmark SIHTASUTUS EESTI TEADUSAGENTUUR Toomas MERESSOO Tartu, Estonia SUOMEN AKATEMIA Kustaa MULTAMÄKI Helsinki, Finland

Project partners

HRVATSKA AKADEMIJA ZNANOSTI I UMJETNOSTI Jelena DUKIC Zagreb, Croatia

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THE ICELANDIC CENTRE FOR RESEARCH Magnus Lyngdal MAGNUSSON Reykjavik, Iceland IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Maria O'BRIEN Dublin, Ireland LIETUVOS MOKSLO TARYBA Asta ALEKSANDRAVICIENE Vilnius, Lithuania FONDS NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE Susanne RICK Luxembourg, Luxembourg NORGES FORSKNINGSRAD Solbjørg RAUSET Oslo, Norway FUNDACAO PARA A CIENCIA E A TECNOLOGIA José BONFIM Lisbon, Portugal MINISTRSTVO ZA VISOKO SOLSTVO, ZNANOST IN TEHNOLOGIJO Davor KOZMUS Ljubljana, Slovenia VETENSKAPSRADET - SWEDISH RESEARCH COUNCIL Arne JARRICK Stockholm, Sweden THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL Lucy PARNALL Swindon, United Kingdom FONDS VOOR WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK Olivier BOEHME Brussels, Belgium FONDS NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE Monique SEPTON Brussels, Belgium

NARODOWE CENTRUM NAUKI Anna PLATER-ZYBERK Krakow, Poland

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The HERA Joint Research Programme Cultural Encounters (HERA JRP CE) consortium will establish a single joint transnational programme for multi-disciplinary research into the causes and consequences of cultural encounters. To understand cultural encounters is to understand the history and meaning of Europe itself, from the earliest periods of human settlement to the present day. Its effects impact on the activities of everyday life to the broader arenas of ideology and societal institutions. HERA JRP CE will invite transnational project proposals that address general historical and theoretical issues, as well as those that investigate more focused aspects of cultural encounters. The programme will investigate the phenomenon of cultural encounters in spatial terms as well as temporal terms. The new knowledge generated by the HERA JRP Cultural Encounters will be disseminated to inform and develop effective European policies in all these areas. Research Funding Organisations from 18 countries have pooled a substantial amount of their national funding (€ 13.955.935) for this transnational funding scheme thus increasing the efficiency and impact of public research funding. EC support is requested to the level of 33% of the total contribution to the joint call budget. Commission support will be used to top-up research funding alone. All other costs will be carried by the HERA JRP CE partners. The selection phase for the HERA JRP CE involves the final preparatory activities for the Call for Proposals, capacity building activities to inform researchers in all participating countries and a commonly-agreed two-stage evaluation process involving an independent, international Review Panel and remote assessments by experts. In the research phase, the HERA JRP CE also supports scientific networking activities in order to foster new innovative research and implement knowledge transfer activities to stimulate wider public awareness about the important contributions of new humanities research.

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POCARIM Mapping the population, careers, mobilities and impacts of advanced research degree graduates in the social sciences and humanities

Contract number

290770

Activity/Area or Topic Activity 8 - Horizontal actions Research area 8.3 - Career paths and patterns of SSH graduates

Call FP7-SSH-2011-3


€ 996 847


Duration 30 months

Funding scheme Coordination and support action (supporting action)

Website http://www.liv.ac.uk/law-and-social-justice/POCARIM/index.htm

EC contact Monica MENAPACE [email protected]

Project coordinator THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL Liverpool, United Kingdom

Project contact Louise ACKERS [email protected] CENTRO DE ESTUDOS PARA A INTERVECAO SOCIAL Heloísa PERISTA Lisbon, Portugal UNIVERZITA MATEJ BELA v IN BANSKA BYSTRICI Alexandra BITUSIKOVA Banská Bystrica, Slovakia PENZUGYKUTATO ZARTKORUEN MUKODO RESZENYTARSASAG Annamaria INZELT Budapest, Hungary UNIVERSITÉ DE LAUSANNE Katherine GEDDIE Lausanne, Switzerland INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION Kupiszewski MAREK Geneva, Switzerland

Project partners

AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS Carolina CAÑIBANO Madrid, Spain

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LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY Heike JÖNS Loughboroug, United Kingdom CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICHERCHE Emanuela REALE Roma, Italy KOC UNIVERSITY Zeynep AYCAN Istanbul, Turkey OXFORD RESEARCH AS Tor Borgar HANSEN Kristiansand, Norway

This project is focused on increasing our understanding of the career paths and employment patterns and contribution of doctoral graduates in the social sciences and humanities. The study focuses on three objectives: • Identification of the dimensions of the population and its core characteristics and assess trends in

their employment; • Identify the diversity of post-doctoral career paths in the SSH field; • Assessment of the contribution that this diverse group of research-trained graduates make to

Europe’s knowledge based economy and society (their ‘impact’). In order to respond effectively to these objectives a team of national experts has been put together. All the team have extensive experience of work in this area from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and specific research skills. The team (11 beneficiaries) represents 10 European countries. The national "reach" of the team is however much broader with all participants having engaged in cross-country research spanning the EU and beyond (12 countries). The work is distributed across 8 work packages combining a range of research review, policy analysis, statistical analysis with fresh survey research and qualitative interviews. The study incorporates an integrated impact strategy commencing at project start-up through close engagement with the stake holder and user communities and SSH researchers themselves. An active dissemination programme comprising text and web-based dissemination with 5 Regional Workshops and international quality level academic publication commitments. The results of this work will provide an important and entirely new evidence base enabling us to respond to the three objectives outlined above and shape the future of social sciences and humanities at European and National level.

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EUINTEGRATIO European integration process in the new regional and global settings

Contract number

277461

Activity/Area or Topic Other actions Polish Presidency conference 2011

Call FP7-Adhoc-2007-13


149 618 €


Duration 12 months


Website http://www.euintegratio.eu


Project coordinator WARSAW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS Warsaw, Poland

Project contact Ewa LATOSZEK [email protected]

Project partners INSTYTUT PODSTAWOWYCH PROBLEMÓW TECHNIKI POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK Warsaw, Poland

"European integration process in the new regional and global settings" - EUintegRATIO - is a Polish Presidency Conference, hosted by the Warsaw School of Economics, held in Warsaw on 19-20 October 2011. The conference programme focuses on topics considered to be essential for the single market under the new settings, defined by globalization, technological and demographic change, the world economic and financial crisis, environmental change, scarcity of resources, political uncertainty, etc. The conference made itself a platform where researchers, politicians and representatives of other sectors of the economy shared their expertise and their diverse points of view regarding EU integration issues. The conference had two broad goals: firstly, to propose recommendations referring to different targets formulated in the Europe 2020 Strategy; secondly, to suggest research topics crucial for strengthening the integration process of the EU in its multidimensional aspects. The conference consisted of two plenary sessions and four parallel sessions. The plenary sessions aimed at ‘setting the scene’ by referring to both innovation and integration processes in striving for a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth of the EU. Speakers pointed out to the need for enhancing integration

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processes through taking full advantage of Europe’s intellectual capital as well as human capital, social capital and structural capital. The debate entitled "Towards stability of the financial system after the global financial crisis" covered the most important issues connected to the financial system reforms in the European Union. The focal point of the discussion was how to enhance the integration processes to ensure effective recovery from the financial and economic crisis as well as long term financial stability in the EU. A key-note speaker was Professor Mario Monti, president of Bocconi University of Milan, who had a speech on “Europe 2020: integration process in the European Union – main directions of reforms”. Mr Monti talked about the necessary reforms to bring EU back on the growth track. In his opinion, future growth would only come through deeper economic integration. The parallel sessions included discussions on social policy reforms in the context of ongoing demographic change in Europe. The main drivers of reforms were considered to be population ageing accompanied by a projected shrinking of the labour force and as the need for labour market transformation. Another point of interest was the main dilemmas and prospects of pension systems, including the expected effects of the already implemented pension reforms in some EU countries. Up for debate were also some specific issues of European energy policy aspects and energy security. The speakers highlighted the need for a truly common energy policy in Europe, and also the need for investments in infrastructure and new technologies. The conference proceedings were published in a volume entitled "European Integration Process in the New Regional and Global Settings" and are also available on the website of the conference - www.euintegratio.eu.

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Contract number

151364-2009


€ 500 000


Duration 18 months

Funding scheme Framework service contract

Website http://www.metrisnet.eu


Project coordinator Technopolis Group

Project contact Viola PETER [email protected]

Project partners Institutional affiliations: ARC Fund Minerva Latvian Academy of Sciences Nomisma Research and Higher Education Monitoring and Analysis Centre (MOSTA) Georgia Tech Science Metrix Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Sociology i-BIZ Institute of Social Sciences IVO PILAR LOGOTECH Rambol oy Tom Martin & Associates University of Minho CNR CSIC IFQ Institut für Forschungsinformation und Qualitätssicherung University Manchester IDEA Consult NIFU Front-Consulting (IT) A Bigger Splash (English editing) Individual experts

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METRIS - Monitoring European trends in Social Sciences and Humanities aims to support the European Research Area (ERA) in the social sciences and the humanities by increasing awareness of the structures, resources and ways of functioning of different national systems in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) and new developments in these systems. The aim is not only to support international collaboration in SSH but also to support national level research decisions in awareness of the broader European context. METRIS is a service addressed to all decision-makers concerned with social sciences and humanities, and all those interested in the ERA such as research policy-makers, managers of programmes and research institutions, researchers in SSH and other stakeholders such as users of SSH research, philanthropic and other civil society organisations. The service, launched by the European Commission, DG-Research and Innovation, in 2009, covers all EU-27 countries and 15 non-EU countries. METRIS functions through a network of correspondents who provide information for each participating country, operating under the editorial supervision of a management team, and with comments and contributions from a network of national validators, knowledgeable individuals nominated by relevant national administrations. METRIS benefits from the organization of expert group discussions organized by the European Commission, addressing emerging trends in the content and method of SSH research, and has the ambition to provide for the development of a lively forum for discussions of science and science policy practice in SSH in Europe. The specific objectives of METRIS III are to further develop the system of collection and monitoring in form of national reports and improve the online system by providing a Dashboard visualisation module. In-depth analysis on specific aspects will be provided in the form of special reports such as scientific performance, financial aspects etc. The information provided on-line as well as in form of reports provide a wealth of detailed information on the SSH systems.

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TABLE OF ACRONYMS PROPOSAL TITLE COUNTRY PAGE

ALICE RAP 266813

Addictions and lifestyles in contemporary Europe – Reframing addictions project

ES 58

ANTICORRP 290529

Anticorruption policies revisited. Global trends and European responses to the challenge of corruption

SE 88

COCOPS 266887

Coordinating for cohesion in the public sector of the future

NL 23

COPE 290488

Combating poverty in Europe: Reorganising active inclusion through participatory and integrated modes of multilevel governance

DE 36

CORE 266931

The role of governance in the resolution of socio-economic and political conflict in India and Europe

NO 78

e-FRAME 290520

European framework for measuring progress IT 102

ENGOV 266710

Environmental governance in Latin America and the Caribbean: Developing frameworks for sustainable and equitable resource use

NL 72

EUBORDERREGIONS 266920

European regions, EU external borders and the immediate neighbours. Analysing regional development options through policies and practices of cross-border cooperation

FI 49

EUBORDERSCAPES 290775

EUBORDERSCAPES Bordering, political landscapes and social arenas: Potentials and challenges of evolving border concepts in a post-cold war world

NL 80

EUCROSS 266767

The europeanisation of everyday life: Cross-border practices and transnational identities

IT 94

EUINTEGRATIO 277461

European integration process in the new regional and global settings

PL 121

FESSUD 266800

Financialisation, economy , society and sustainable development

UK 14

FIDUCIA 290563

New European crimes and trust-based policy IT 63

FLASH-IT Facilitating access to socio-economic research through information and communications technology

IT 114

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FLOWS 266806

Impact of local welfare systems on female labour force participation and cohesion

DK 38

FOODSECURE 290693

Exploring the future of global food and nutrition security

NL 31

FREE 290805

Football research in an enlarged Europe: Identity dynamics, perception patterns and cultural change in Europe's most prominent form of popular culture

FR 96

GLOBAL-IQ 266992

Impact quantification of global changes FR 45

GREEN 266809

Global re-ordering: Evolution through European networks

UK 66

GRINCOH 290657

Growth-innovation-competitiveness: Fostering cohesion in Central and Eastern European Commission

PL 55

HERA JRP CE 291827

Humanities in the European Research Area – Joint Research Programme – Cultural encounters

NL 116

IMPROVE 290613

Poverty reduction in Europe: Social policy and innovation

BE 40

INNOSERV 290542

Social platform for innovative social services DE 21

IRISS 290492

Increasing resilience in surveillance societies AT 91

LLLIGHT'in'EUROPE 290683

Lifelong learning, innovation, growth and human capital tracks in Europe

DE 12

LOCALISE 266768

Local worlds of social cohesion DE 34

MELA 266757

European museums in an age of migrations IT 98


UK 123

MYPLACE 266831

Memory, youth, political legacy and civic engagement

UK 85

NET4SOCIETY2 263924

Trans-national cooperation among National Contact Points for Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH (NCPs)

DE 109

NEUJOBS 266833

Employment 2025: How will multiple transitions affect the European labour market

BE 27

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NOPOOR 290752

Enhancing knowledge for renewed policies against poverty

FR 69

NORFACE-II 263903

New opportunities for Research Funding Agency cooperation in Europe II

NL 112

PICK-ME 266959

Policy incentives for the creation of knowledge: Methods and evidence

IT 10

POCARIM 29070

Mapping the population, careers, mobilities and impact of advanced research degree graduates in the Social Sciences and Humanities

UK 119

RURBANAFRICA 290732

African rural city connections DK 74

SEARCH 266834

Sharing knowledge assets: Interregionally cohesive neighbourhoods

ES 52

SIMPATIC 290597

Social impact policy analysis of technological innovation challenges

BE 105

SPREAD 263962

Social platform on sustainable lifestyles DE 47

TENLAW 290694

Tenancy law and housing policy in multi-level Europe DE 100

TEPSIE 266941

The theoretical, empirical and policy foundations for building social innovation in Europe

DK 25

TRANSWORLD 290454

Redefining the transatlantic relationship and its role in shaping global governance

IT 83

URBACHINA 266941

Sustainable urbanisation in China: Historical and comparative perspectives, mega-trends towards 2025

FR 76

VERA 290705

Forward visions on the European Research Area DE 107

WILCO 266929

Welfare innovations at the local level in favour of cohesion

NL 43

WWWforEUROPE 290647

Welfare, wealth and work for Europe AT 17

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