Long Live QMSS

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• Long Live QMSS
• Henk Stronkhorst, Head of Social Sciences Unit
• QMSS Conference
• Prague, 20-23 June 2007

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Main points

• ESF Social Sciences and quantitative methods
• 1. Networking and Training (such as QMSS QMSS2
  ?)
• 2. Collaborative Research (such as HumVIB)
• 3. Research Infrastructure (such as ESS)

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ESF Member Organisations
75 MOs in30 countries Research funding
organisations Research performing
organisations Academies
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The ESF Mission

• Mission
• The ESF provides a common platform for its Member
• Organisations in order to
• Advance European research
• Explore new directions for research at the
  European level
• Through its activities, the ESF serves the needs
  of the
• European research community in a global context

• Values
• Excellence
• Openness
• Responsiveness
• Pan European
• Ethical awareness and human values

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ESF Committees

• Science Advisory Board
• Standing Committees
• Physics and Engineering Sciences PESC
• Life, Environmental, Earth Sciences LESC
• Medical Science EMRC
• Humanities SCH
• Social Sciences SCSS
• Role strategy, links to MOs, proposal review
• Expert Boards and Committees

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• ESF Science Strategy
• ESF Science Synergy
• ESF Science Management

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ESF portfolio of instruments
ESF Activities
Synergy
Management
EURYI
COST
EuroBioFund
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Research Networking Programmes

• Coordination of major scientific endeavours over
  a four or five-year period
• Supported by ESF Member Organisations through
  additional à la carte funding
• Typically include workshops, inter-laboratory
  exchanges, fellowship programmes and
  dissemination
• Core Steering Group of 8-12 scientists
• May link to other initiatives, including the
  Framework Programme
• Financing in the range of 90k - 250k per annum

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Current RNPs in Social Sciences

• Chris Skinner (UK)......2003 -
  2007
• Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
  (QMSS)
• Luziano Arcury (IT).....2003 -
  2008
• European Social Cognition Network (ESCON)
• Stefano Battilossi (ES)2006 -
  2010
• Globalizing Europe Economic History Network
  (GLOBALEURONET)
• Monique Florenzano (Fr)
  ....................... ...............2006 -
  2010
• Public Goods, Public Projects, Externalities
  (PGPPE)
• Paul Atkinson (UK) .. 2006 -
  2010
• Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences in
  Europe (EUROQUAL)
• Hans-Peter Blossfeld (DE) 2006
  2010
• TransEurope Research Network (TRANSEUROPE)
• Nikolas Rose (UK). ..2007 -
  2011

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Latest RNP competition

• 44 applications in social sciences
• Externally peer-reviewed by 3 experts
• Ranked by SCSS Advisory Group
• Jakob de Haan (Nl)Galin Gornev (Bu)
• Henryk Domanski (Pl)Rainer Kattel (Ee)
• Anne Kovalainen (Fi) John Coakley (Ie)
• Zdenka Mansfeldova (Cz)
• Monica Roman (Ro) Luisa Lima (Pt) Savvas
  Savvides (Cy)
• Then decision by SCSS and other SCs

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RNPs in Social Sciences requested from 2008
onwards

• Zsofia Viranyi (At)......2008 - 2011
  
• Evolution of Social Cognition Comparisons and
  integration across
• a wide range of human and non-human animal
  species (CompCog)
• (joint RNP of LESC and SCSS)
• Angela Dale (UK) ... ..2008 -
  2011
• Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciencs (2)
  (QMSS2)
• (RNP related to SCSSt)
• Claudine Pirus (Fr) 2008 -
  2012
• The European Children Cohorts Network
  (EUCCONET)
• (joint RNP of EMRC and SCSS)

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À la carte mechanism

• ESF Member Organisations are asked to subscribe
  to these programmes individually and pay for them
• In QMSS 19 countries participated
• You can contact the SCSS member of your country
  to show interest
• By end of 2007 the result of QMSS2 and others
  will be known

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EUROCORES Vision
Funding agencies to join forces to support
cutting edge research on complex or broad
questions
Create critical mass in scale scope and in a
global context
Bottom-up and researcherlead, in consultation
with the MOs to create New approaches, New
Knowledge and New Synergy
Complement EC FP and national programmes
Strives for highest scientific quality and
optimal European value
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Two Stages in Development of EUROCORES Programmes
Months
Months
Themes
Programmes
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Outline proposals Call
Call for EUROCORES themes
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Outline proposal selection
Selectionby ESF SCs and Science Advisory Board
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3.5
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Commitmentsfrom MOs Including Preparatory
workshops
9.5
8.5
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• Programme launched in 2007
• HumVIB
• Cross-national and Multi-level Analysis of Human
  Values, Institutions and Behaviour

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Proposers of Theme

• Richard Sinnott, University College of Dublin
• 6 co-proposers from the UK, The Netherlands,
  France, Germany, Spain and Hungary.

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Overall Objective

• HumVIB is designed to analyze values, attitudes
  and behaviour in their social, economic,
  political, institutional and cultural context

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Specific Research Goals

• combine unprecedented individual-level data
  resources now available
• comprehensive system-level and contextual data
• appropriate new methods of multi-level analysis

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ESS Review

• 1999 Blueprint for ESS by ESF SCSS
• 2000 Grant application to EC approved for central
  coordination
• Fieldwork from 2002 onwards
• After 3 Rounds, ESS Review planned November
  2007 to April 2008
• Review Panel members suggestions still welcome
• Scientific secretary for the Panel needed

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QMSS thank you !

• Thanks to all persons involved in success of
  QMSS
• Instructors and their staff
• Participants
• Funders
• Members of Steering Committee and Executive Group
• Caroline Eckert others at ESF
• Local organizers, also in Prague
• coordinator Julia dArrigo !!!
• chair Chris Skinner !!!

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