Caucasus Research Resource Centers - Armenia

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Caucasus Research Resource Centers - Armenia
Yerevan, Armenia 2009
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What is CRRC ?
A regional network of resource and training
centers in Baku, Tbilisi and Yerevan. Partnership
between the Carnegie Corporation of New York,
the Eurasia Partnership Foundation, and local
universities Stable opportunities for integrated
research, training and collaboration for
researchers and policy practitioners in Social
Sciences, particularly in Economics, Sociology,
and Demography.
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What is CRRC ?
A regional network of resource and training
centers in Baku, Tbilisi and Yerevan. Partnership
between the Carnegie Corporation of New York,
the Eurasia Partnership Foundation, and local
universities Stable opportunities for integrated
research, training and collaboration for
researchers and policy practitioners in Social
Sciences, particularly in Economics, Sociology,
and Demography.
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What does CRRC try to achieve?

• OVERALL GOAL Strengthen social science research
  and public policy analysis in the South Caucasus.
• Outcomes
• Increasing the accessibility of high-quality
  up-to-date research resources
• Strengthening domestic capacity in social
  sciences
• Increasing the dialogue and collaboration between
  social science researchers and policy
  practitioners.

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What does CRRC offer?

• IT Laboratory/ Library
• Data Initiative
• CRRC Publication Fellowships
• Methodological Trainings and Lecture Series
• Conferences, Roundtables and Networking

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CRRC IT Lab
The IT Laboratory is equipped with 8 cutting edge
desktop workstations. The Lab offers high speed
Internet, together with statistical software
packages such as E-views, SPSS, STATA, CSPro,
MathLab, Statistica.
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CRRC Library
CRRC offers free access to libraries that house a
growing number of seminal works and current
journals and periodicals in the social sciences.
The library provides access to online databases
such as JSTOR, EBSCO Host, Project Muse, World
Bank databases.
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CRRC Data Initiative
The CRRC Data Initiative (DI) is a cross-border
effort initiated by CRRC from 2004 to collect
data annually on a wide variety of social,
political and economic indicators in the South
Caucasus region.
Focused on Demography, Education, Employment,
Migration, Health, Social Institutions,
Social Capital, Politics, Crime, and
Economic Condition
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CRRC Data Initiative
While the survey in 2004 was carried out only in
the capitals of the SC countries, the survey of
2005 encompassed also an internal region in each
country, and, since 2006 the survey had been
carried out in all regions of the mentioned
countries, in both urban and rural areas.
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CRRC Data Initiative

• Visit
• www.crrccenters.org
• Data Initiative Project
• to find
• Survey datasets (in SPSS format)
• Questionnaires and show cards Survey methodology
  document
• SPSS online crash course

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CRRC Publication Fellowships
To support outstanding researchers interested in
pursuing original policy-oriented research, in
2004, CRRC launched a Fellowship Program. CRRC
gives out grants to fellows to analyze policy
relevant issues in economics, sociology,
demography and other social science related
fields. Fellows often use data gathered under the
CRRC Data Initiative as well as new and existing
data sources to complete their research.
Grantees are selected through a competitive
process of both peer review and a selection
committee of leading practitioners and
researchers.
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Methodological Trainings and Lecture Series
CRRC organizes training courses, seminars and
lectures on a variety of social science topics,
attracting both local and foreign experts as
speakers or trainers, locally and
regionally. The CRRC methodological trainings
focus on modernizing the skill sets of local
researchers and providing hands-on opportunities
in using relevant statistical software packages.
These programs help strengthen research
production and promote direct examination of what
is really happening in todays economic and
social transformation in the South Caucasus.
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Conferences, Roundtables and Networking
CRRC draws researchers, public administrators,
and other policy practitioners from all three
South Caucasus countries to discuss and debate on
key public policy issues in the region and
cross-border trends in policy formation,
encouraging interdisciplinary dialogue among
researchers and practitioners. The center
provides information and educational assistance
to emerging public policy institutes, and
providing a variety of networking opportunities
for researchers and policy practitioners.
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