Area 8: New Actions for building the European Research Area (ERA) in the social sciences and humanities

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Area 8New Actions for building the European
Research Area (ERA) in the social sciences and
humanities

• Presented by Prof. Theodoros Chadjipantelis
• Political Science Dept., Aristotle University

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Contents

• Why area 8?
• The instruments used
• The content of the measures
• Timing and indicative budgets

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Why area 8?

• addressing the ERA in SSH
• focussing on knowledge society objectives
• with a view to maximise the present and future
  potential of SSH to contribute
• includes
• strategy development
• assistance to the development of research
  infrastructures
• dissemination and exploitation
• forward looking aspects

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The instruments at hand

• STREPs CAs (call citizens 5)
• Specific Support Actions (call citizens 6)
• Expert groups and tenders (specific calls)

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STREPs / CAs

• 8.2.1 Understanding and measuring social
  sciences and humanities and their impact
• knowledge about social sciences and humanities in
  Europe their institutional context knowledge
  content functions and contributions in economy
  and society
• 8.2.2 Promotion and support for comparative
  research, methodologies and data generation
• promote and support comparative research through
  the development and diffusion of tools,
  methodologies, research designs and large scale
  data-sets of wide applicability for comparative
  research and across disciplines

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Specific Support Actions

• 8.3.1 Increasing the visibility and impact of
  research infrastructures and activities for
  social sciences and humanities in Europe
• to facilitate the mobilisation of research
  communities and to promote the use of research
  infrastructures (feasibility studies)
• 8.3.2 New approaches for policy-research
  dialogues in the ERA targeted dissemination of
  EU research in national and multi-national
  contexts
• national dissemination days

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Specific Support Actions

• 8.3.3 Promoting international research and
  policy cooperation in social sciences and
  humanities
• workshops and conferences
• 8.3.4 New converging technologies and their
  wider implications for a European KBS
• studies, workshops, meetings, conferences etc.

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Other To be implemented through expert groups
and tenders

• 8.4.1 Providing the basis of European RD
  indicators and statistics in the field of
  social sciences and humanities
• studies, linked with Eurostat and OECD
• 8.4.2 Stimulating the coherence of social
  sciences and humanities within Europe and the
  mobilization of its research communities
• a conference and a European Observatory of SSH
• 8.4.3 Enhancing the linkages between European
  data archives in social sciences and humanities
• an expert group to analyse needs

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Other To be implemented through expert groups
and tenders

• 8.4.4 Clustering projects in order to address
  key policy challenges for the EU
• 8.4.5 Improving and exploiting the knowledge
  base of social sciences and humanities in
  support of the knowledge based economy in Europe
• 8.4.6 Enhancing the integration of
  socio-economic dimension in European research
• 8.4.7 Promoting the participation of the
  humanities in the European Research Area

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Timings and indicative budgets

• Citizens 5 as indicated
• Citizens 6
• timing as Citizens 5
• budget 4 m
• Tenders and expert groups
• timing (as appropriate, calls within 2005)
• budget 4 M of which 3M in project-clusters