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2008 

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European socio-economic research 

New Databases, Indicators and Tools 

Knowledge Economy, Welfare, Demography, 

Sustainable Development and Impact Assessment 

Sixth and Seventh European Research Framework Programmes 


Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities 

EUR 23605

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PROPOSAL TITLE 

225551 

EFIGE 

225368 

INGINEUS 

217266 

FINESS 

225149 

MONFISPOL 

217485 

VICO 

028519 

U-KNOW 

225281 

WIOD 

502049 

EUKLEMS2003 

506596 

PRIME 

502529 

KEI 

506022 

KEINS 

028270 

ACRE 

006187 

EURODITE 

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

I. Knowledge economy databases, tools and indicators 

European firms in a global economy: internal 

policies for external competitiveness 

Impact of networks, globalisation, and their 

interaction with EU strategies 

Financial systems, efficiency and stimulation of 

sustainable growth 

Modelling and implementation of optimal fiscal 

and monetary policy algorithms in multicountry 

econometric models 

Financing entrepreneurial ventures in Europe : 

impact on innovation, employment growth and 

competitiveness 

Understanding the relationship between 

knowledge and competitiveness in the enlarging 

European Union 

World input-output database: construction and 

applications 

Productivity in the European Union: 

a comparative approach 

Policies for research and innovation in the move 

towards the European research area 

Knowledge economy indicators: development 

of innovative and reliable indicator systems 

Knowledge-based entrepreneurship: innovation, 

networks and systems 

Accommodating creative knowledge: 

competitiveness of European metropolitan 

regions within the enlarged Union 

Regional trajectories to the knowledge 

economy: a dynamic model 

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PROJECT 

COORDINATOR 

Gianmarco 

OTTAVIANO 

Alireza NAGHAVI 

P. 

Christian DREGER 10 

Michel JUILLARD 

6 

8 

12 

Philippe MUSTAR 14 

Johannes STEPHAN 16 

Erik DIETZENBACHER 

18 

Bart VAN ARK 20 

Philippe LAREDO 22 

Ralf MÜNNICH 24 

Franco MALERBA 26 

Sako MUSTERD 28 

Stewart MACNEILL 30

028868 

MICRO-DYN 

44422 

MMECC 

028478 

PIQUE 

927646 

UPP 


028339 

RECWOWE 

028365 

ESS4 

513321 

LLL2010 

506394 

KASS 

217565 

SAMPLE 

029093 

INEQ 

216122 

YOUNEX 

28349 

JOBMOB AND 

FAMLIVES 

The competitiveness of firms, regions and 

industries in the knowledge-based economy: 

what room for job-rich growth in Europe? 

Mainstreaming methodology for estimating the 

costs of crime 

Privatisation of pubic services and the impact 

on quality, employment and productivity 

Understanding privatisation policy: political 

economy and welfare effects 

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Michael LANDESMANN 

II. Social databases, labour markets and indicators 

Reconciling work and welfare in Europe 

European social survey round 4: 

improving social measurement in Europe 

Towards a lifelong learning society in 

Europe: the contribution of the education 

system 

Kinship and social security 

Small area methods for poverty and living 

condition estimates 

Inequality: mechanisms, effects and policies 

Youth, unemployment, and exclusion in 

Europe: a multidimensional approach 

Job mobilities and family lives in Europe – 

modern mobile living and its relation to 

quality of life 

32 

Roger BOWLES 34 

Jörg FLECKER 36 

Carlo SCARPA 38 

PROJECT 

COORDINATOR 

P. 

Denis BOUGET 40 

Roger JOWELL 42 

Ellu SAAR 44 

Patrick HEADY 46 

Monica PRATESI 48 

Maurizio FRANZINI 50 

Marco GIUGNI 52 

Norbert SCHNEIDER 54

217322 

AMELI 

028987 

EUROCCUPATIONS 

28336 

MEADOW 

501767 

ASSESSING OC 

028857 

COMPARE 

028812 

SHARELIFE 


217523 

MULTILINKS 

217173 

REPRO 

216289 

ASPA 

217206 

MAFE 

501667 

THESIM 

028972 

PROMINSTAT 

Advanced methodology for European Laeken 

indicators 

Developing a detailed eight-country 

occupations database for comparative socioeconomic 

research in the European Union 

Measuring the dynamics of organisations and 

work: proposed guidelines for collecting and 

interpreting data on organisational change and its 

economic and social impacts 

Assessing organised crime: testing the 

feasibility of common European approach in a 

case study of the cigarette black market in the 

EU 

Toolbox for improving the comparability of 

cross-national survey data with applications 

to SHARE 

Employment and health at 50+: a life history 

approach 

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Ralf MUENNICH 56 

Kea TIJDENS 58 

Nathalie GREENAN 60 

Petrus C. VAN DUYNE 62 

Arthur VAN SOEST 64 

Axel BÖRSCH-SUPAN 

III. Demographic and migration databases and statistics 

How demographic changes shape 

intergenerational solidarity, well-being, and 

social integration: a multilinks framework 

Reproductive decision-making in a macromicro 

perspective 

PROJECT 

COORDINATOR 

P. 

66 

Pearl DYKSTRA 68 

Dimiter PHILIPOV 70 

Activating senior potential in ageing Europe Joop SCHIPPERS 72 

Migration between Africa and Europe 

Towards harmonised European statistics on 

international migration 

Promoting comparative quantitative research 

in the field of migration and integration in 

Europe 

Cris BEAUCHEMIN 74 

Michel POULAIN 76 

Albert KRALER 78

217384 

EDUMIGROM 

44468 

EACH-FOR 

022355 

FEMAGE 

Ethnic differences in education and diverging 

prospects for urban youth in an enlarged 

Europe 

Environmental change and forced migration 

scenarios 

Needs for female immigrants and their 

integration in ageing societies 

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Violetta ZENTAI 80 

Andras VAG 82 

Charlotte HOEHN 84 

IV. Impact assessment, modelling and sustainable development 


217397 

DEMETER 

028889 

EVIA 

028604 

ENBR 

216672 

CAP-IRE 

217381 

RUFUS 

225503 

PACT 

225383 

GILDED 

Development of methods and tools for 

evaluation of research 

PROJECT 

COORDINATOR 

P. 

Paul ZAGAME 86 

Evaluating integrated impact assessments Klaus JACOB 88 

European network for better regulation Andrea RENDA 90 

Assessing the multiple impacts of the Common 

Agricultural Policies (CAP) on rural economies 

Rural future networks Christina VON 

HAAREN 

Davide VIAGGI 92 

Pathways for carbon transitions Bertrand CHATEAU 96 

Governance, infrastructure, lifestyle dynamics 

and energy demand: European post-carbon 

communities 

94 

Nick GOTTS 98

FOREWORD 

The development of new and improved databases and indicators is - and will continue to be - a key part of the 

Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) programme. The European research funded by the Sixth and 

the Seventh Framework Programmes mostly addresses issues of the knowledge economy and society, welfare 

and demography. In these fields, several new databases have been built by European academics. 

The availability of complete, harmonized and innovative data is a pre-requisite for evidence-based European 

policies. It plays an important up-stream role in evaluating the relevance, costs and benefits of new initiatives 

on, for example, the challenges of globalisation, the impact of an ageing population, Community immigration 

policy and the reform of the EU budget. 

Focused on economics, the first section of this publication deals with datasets on: the internationalisation of 

European firms, global innovation networks, RTD indicators, fiscal and monetary policies, Input-Output tables, 

the performance of universities, the use of composite indicators, entrepreneurship, job flows, and on measures 

of economic growth, productivity and employment. 

The second section of the publication deals with social databases, labour markets and indicators. It includes the 

European Social Survey, the quantitative and qualitative data on work and welfare, the data on lifelong learning, 

kinship and social security, young people, organisational changes, crime, living conditions, occupations and 

health and on Laeken indicators. 

The third part of the publication is on demographic and migration databases and statistics. It deals with 

intergenerational care regimes, Africa-Europe migrations, the harmonisation of international migration statistics, 

education policies, gender issues and comparative research in the field of migration and integration. 

The final part is on impact assessment, modelling and sustainable development. It covers the further elaboration 

of macroeconomic and econometric tools to assess European policies including research and innovation policy, 

better governance at Member States and EU level, regional dynamics and the post-carbon society issues. 

The development and the creation of European economic and social databases are probably the most visible and 

accessible infrastructures coming from the SSH programme. Although not "official" data, the results of these 

research activities and surveys are very useful for European policy-making and the scientific community. 

Researchers cannot replace the work of the Statistical Offices. However, they can prepare the ground work for 

these Offices. Their research should anticipate and underpin what may become major EU policy issues in the 

next two decades. Further areas of research include new data management for statistics, indicators for the 

service economy and "beyond GDP" measurement. 

Along with more traditional data, techniques and indicators, these new aspects will improve foresight, 

forecasting, impact assessment and modelling of emerging policy issues related to the knowledge economy, 

social trends, globalisation and sustainability. 

Pierre Valette Jean-Michel Baer 

Head of Unit Director 

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European firms in a global economy: internal policies for external competitiveness 

EFIGE 

On a firm-level analysis, EFIGE provides a detailed assessment of the patterns and the 

challenges characterizing the performance of European firms both in domestic and 

international market. EFIGE creates an harmonized cross-country dataset on the 

internationalisation of European firms. 

Proposal: 225551 

Estimated EC contribution: 3 150 000 € 

Starting date: 2008 

Duration: 48 months 

Funding scheme: Large scale project 

Unit L2 

Project contact: 

Domenico ROSSETTI di VALDALBERO 

domenico.rossetti-di-valdalbero@ec.europa.eu 

The chances of European countries to grow, prosper 

and provide well-being to their citizens rest on the 

ability of their firms to become successful traders and 

producers in foreign markets within and outside the 

EU. 

EFIGE examines the pattern of internationalisation of 

European firms. With a clear focus on defining 

adequate and effective policy measures, it looks at the 

broad factors constraining or enhancing companies' 

foreign operations, like growth in size and 

productivity; type of ownership and corporate 

governance, access to financial markets, innovation, 

the macroeconomic environment. 

It will do so by combining theoretical and empirical 

research at the frontier of the academic and policy 

debate with the gathering of new data through a cross 

country survey. 

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Project coordinator: 

BRUEGEL 

BE - Brussels 

Contact: 

Gianmarco OTTAVIANO 

gianmarco.ottaviano@bruegel.org 

The main questions addressed by the project are: 

What are the features of European firms that successfully 

compete in international markets? 

To what extent do they contribute to productivity and 

employment? 

Does access to foreign market enhance firm performance 

through a learning process? 

Why are some countries more successful in international 

trade and foreign direct investment (FDI)? 

What are the policies that can improve a nation’s foreign 

trade performance? 

Does integration within the Single Market foster 

productivity improvements? 

Has the euro led to a wider participation of firms in crossborder 

business? 

What policies can promote the participation of other 

European firms that are currently excluded from 

international markets? 

What are the gains and the adjustments involved in 

reducing barriers to trade and (FDI)? 

What policies can best maximise gains and smooth 

adjustments?

European firms in a global economy: internal policies for external competitiveness 

Institutions/Partners/Country/Town 

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 

Departamento de Economía 

Klaus DESMET 

ES - Getafe 

EFIGE 

Centre d'Information et de Recherche sur l'Economie Mondiale 

Lionel FONTAGNE 

FR - Paris 

Centre for Economic Policy Research 

Thierry MAYER 

UK - London 

Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 

Laszlo HALPERN 

HU - Budapest 

Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung e.V. 

Claudia BUCH 

DE - Tubingen 

Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano 

Giorgio BARBA NAVARETTI 

IT - Torino 

UniCredit S.p.A. 

Enrica Elena BELLI 

IT - Roma 

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Impact of networks, globalisation, and their interaction with EU strategies 

INGINEUS 

INGINEUS integrates existing databases for the analysis of the extent and depth of global 

innovation networks throughout the world, and creates a new data set in representative 

markets that show what motivates firms in offshoring and outsourcing R&D and other 

knwoledge-intensive activities. 






Unit L2 




INGINEUS addresses the evolution of Global 

Production Networks (GPNs) into Global Innovation 

Networks (GINs), and the impact this new process of 

global capitalism has on knowledge intensive activities 

in the EU. 

Global sourcing and assembly arrangements have been 

around for some three decades. They were principally 

based on efficiency considerations. Thus, multinational 

firms (MNCs) outsourced parts of production processes 

to manufacturers in Asia and other low-cost locations 

around the globe, while retaining the most knowledge- 

intensive assets in the home country. 

This is no longer the case. MNCs increasingly scout 

the globe for locations where the right mix of local 

competences allows them to tap into sophisticated parts 

of value chains. This is not limited to advanced 

economies but more and more involves firms and 

regions in selected developing countries that position 

themselves as attractive knowledge-intensive locations 

in their own right. 

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Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei 

IT - Milano 

Contact: 

Alireza NAGHAVI 

alireza.naghavi@unimore.it 

INGINEUS studies the determinants of this process and 

analyses its implications both for the EU and its emerging 

partner countries in the developing world. 

First, it looks at the changing strategies of MNCs and the 

conditions under which it is favourable for them to 

offshore R&D and other knowledge-intensive parts of their 

production process. 

Second, it focuses on the evolving local capabilities in 

selected developing countries that allow them to claim 

increasingly complex parts of global value chains at much 

higher levels of technological sophistication than hitherto. 

Third, it analyses the consequences of the formation of 

GINs in the global economy and differentiates among their 

static and dynamic effects on growth, employment, and 

competitiveness in the EU. 

Finally, based on these insights, it derives policy 

recommendations that would allow the EU to benefit from 

the positive features of this process while mitigating its 

adverse consequences.

Impact of networks, globalisation, and their interaction with EU strategies 


Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional 

Eduardo DA MOTTA E ALBUQUERQUE 

BR - Belo Horizonte 

Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Science 

Xielin LIU 

CN - Beijing 

Copenhagen Business School 

Centre for Business and Politics 

Susana BORRAS 

DK - Frederiksberg 

Institute of Baltic Studies 

Marek TIITS 

EE - Tartu 

German Development Institute 

Andreas STAMM 

DE - Bonn 

Centre for Development Studies 

K. J. JOSEPH 

IN - Kerala 

International Institute of Information Technology 

Parthasarathy BALAJI 

IN - Bangalore 

Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano 

Giorgio BARBA NAVARETTI 

IT - Torino 

Stiftelsen Norsk Institutt for studier av forskning og 

utdanning Senter for innovasjonsforskning 

Heidi WIIG ASLESEN 

NO - Oslo 

Human Sciences Research Council 

Education, Science and Skills Development 

Jo LORENTZEN 

ZA - Pretoria 

INGINEUS 

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University of Pretoria 

Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) 

Helena BARNARD 

ZA - Pretoria 

University of Lund 

Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the 

Learning Economy (CIRCLE) 

Cristina CHAMINADE 

SE - Lund 

University of Sussex 

Nick VON TUNZELMANN 

UK - Brighton 

OECD Development Centre 

Andrea GOLDSTEIN 

FR - Paris


Financial systems, efficiency and stimulation of sustainable growth 

FINESS 

FINESS develops a survey-based dataset of the borrowing behaviour of households including 

socio-economic characteristics, borrowing habits, risk perception and exposure to exchange 

rate risk due to borrowing in foreign currency. The dataset will cover several EU countries, 

with particular focus on new Member States. 


Estimated EC contribution: 998 170 € 



Funding scheme: Collaborative project 

(small and medium scale focused research project) 

Unit L.2 

Project contact: Dominik SOBCZAK 

dominik.sobczak@ec.europa.eu 

The main purpose of FINESS is to get a clear 

understanding of the implications of ongoing financial 

market integration in Europe on economic growth, 

employment and competiti-veness, to identify likely 

future paths of the development and to draw policy 

relevant conclusions. 

Several main breakthroughs will be achieved throughout 

the project. 

On the macro-economic level, the role of financial 

systems and their transmission channels on growth will 

be explored by innovative and tailor made econometric 

techniques, taken dynamic interactions between 

financial, product and labour markets into account. 

A range of indicators to measure the degree of financial 

integration will be constructed, and their development in 

time will be addressed. 

Moreover, insights into the working of financial 

institutions will be provided for the micro-economic 

level. 


Deutsches Institut für Wirtschafsforschung 

Macro Analysis and Forecasting 

DE - Berlin 

Contact: 

Christian DREGER 

cdreger@diw.de 

http://www.finess-web.eu/ 

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The comparative approach undertaken by FINESS is 

especially useful to uncover catalysts and bottlenecks in 

the architecture of financial systems. 

By investigating unique datasets, the role of the financial 

structure, i.e., the banking sector, markets for private 

equity and venture capital, for improving efficiency and 

sustainable expansion of start ups and established firms 

is studied. 

The impacts of different degrees of financial integration 

on the portfolio decisions of households are explored 

with simulation models. 

Topics specifically related to the transition period of the 

new Member States as well as the gender dimension in 

turning impulses from the financial system into 

efficiency and growth are covered by the project. 

By fulfilling its goals, FINESS will provide in-depth 

knowledge on the relationship between financial systems 

and sustainable economic growth in a changing 

environment.

Financial systems, efficiency and stimulation of sustainable growth 


FINESS 

Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (CEPII) 

Olena HAVRYLCHYK 

FR - Paris 

University of Cambridge 

Faculty of Economics 

Sean HOLLY 

UK - Cambridge 

Institute For Economic Research (IFO) 

Department Business of Cycle Analyses and Financial Markets 

Timo WOLLMERSHÄUSER 

DE – Munich 

Universiteit Gent 

Financial Economics 

Rudi VANDER VENNET 

BE - Gent 

Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen 

Department of Economics - International Finance 

Claudia M. BUCH 

DE - Tübingen 

European Center Kutató És Tanácsadó Kft. (ICEG) 

Gábor PELLÉNYI 

HU - Budapest 

Institute for Market Economics (IME) 

Svetla KOSTADINOVA 

BG - Sofia 

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Modelling and implementation of optimal fiscal and monetary policy algorithms in 

multi-country econometric models 

MONFISPOL 

MONFISPOL develops four econometric models aimed at structuring optimal fiscal and 

monetary policies for the Eurozone. The project will also build a comprehensive database of 

state-of-the-art econometric models related to policy design, so that users are equipped with a 

powerful tool thanks to which they will be able to select the model whose characteristics suit 

them the most. Additionally, MONFISPOL will further develop DYNARE which is a widely 

used software tool providing an interface for powerful simulation and estimation of 

econometric models. 


Estimated EC contribution: 1 350 000€ 





Unit L2 



This project contributes to the evaluation of 

macroeconomic policy by advancing the analysis of 

optimal fiscal and monetary policy in monetary union 

such as the European one. 

This work will result in the addition of new numerical 

tools, specially designed for the computation of optimal 

policy in large macroeconometric models. Such multicountry 

models are necessary to take into account the 

diversity of the countries making now the European 

Union. 

These new tools for the computation of optimal policy 

will be added to Dynare, a public domain platform for the 

simulation and estimation of dynamic stochastic general 

equilibrium models that is increasingly used in policy- 

making institutions and in academic research alike. 

New models are proposed to analyse the contribution of 

optimal policy to smooth shocks in a union of 

heterogeneous countries with rigidities in labour and 

financial markets. In that framework, special attention is 

given to the dynamics of public debt. 

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Centre pour la recherche économique et ses 

applications (CEPREMAP) 

Dynare Team 

FR - Paris 

Contact: 

Michel JUILLARD 

michel.juillard@ens.fr 

Systematic models comparison is made possible thanks to 

a database of macroeconomic models currently in use in 

policy making institutions around the world. New 

numerical tools are added to Dynare that provide the 

computation of optimal policy, either under commitment, 

in a timeless perspective or under discretion, for a general 

class of nonlinear models. 

Particular attention is given to correct linear quadratic 

approximation of these models. Extensions are proposed 

to deal with partial information. 

These tools shall also permit to perform Bayesian 

estimation of models under the assumption that the 

policies followed were optimal. Special emphasis is 

placed on the definition of priors. Given the complexity 

of the numerical computations, we stress speed of 

computation and the development of parallel algorithms. 

Altogether, this project should represent a very 

significant step forward towards better models and better 

tools for the formulation of macroeconomic policies.

Modelling and implementation of optimal fiscal and monetary policy algorithms in 

multi-country econometric models 


London Metropolitan University 

Business School 

Joseph PEARLMAN 

UK - London 

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 

Instituto de Análisis Económico 

Albert MARCET 

ES - Madrid 

University of Frankfurt 

Centre for Financial Studies 

Volker WIELAND 

DE - Frankfurt 

MONFISPOL 

Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC) 

European Commission – Joint Research Centre 

Euro-area Economy Modelling Centre 

Riccardo GIRARDI 

IT – Ispra 

University of Surrey 

Paul LEVINE 

UK - Guildford 

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Financing entrepreneurial ventures in Europe : impact on innovation, 

employment growth and competitiveness 

VICO 

VICO constructs a dataset of approximately 600 venture capital/private equity backed 

companies operating in medium- and high-tech industries, both in manufacturing and 

services, from Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, 

with longitudinal data including on investors, employment, balance sheets and patent over a 

period of 10 years. 







Unit L.2 



The aim of the VICO project is to assess the impact of 

Venture Capital and Private Equity (VC/PE) financing 

on the economic performance of European innovative 

entrepreneurial ventures as they are reflected by their 

innovation output, employment, growth, and 

competitiveness, and the role VC/PE investors play in 

helping these firms bridge their resource and competence 

gap beyond the provision of financing. 

Particular attention will be devoted to the institutional 

variety of VC/PE investors in Europe. 

We will consider factors affecting both the demand for 

and the supply of VC/PE financing, at micro and macrolevel. 

In particular, we will analyze how the effects of 

VC/PE financing on the economic performance of 

portfolio companies are moderated by: a) the 

characteristics of the investor; b) the characteristics of 

invested firms, and c) the characteristics of the business 

and institutional environment in which firms operate. 


Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris 

Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation 

Association pour la Recherche et le Développement des 

Méthodes et Processus Industriels 

FR - Paris 

Contact: 

Philippe MUSTAR 

philippe.mustar@ensmp.fr 

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In addition, we will examine specific open issues that 

play a crucial role for the development of the VC/PE 

sector in Europe, namely: a) the design of a mix of multilevel 

policy schemes targeting seed and pre-seed capital; 

b) exit mechanisms for VC/PE investors; and c) the 

European integration of the VC/PE sector and the 

internationalization of VC/PE investors. 

The project will benefit from a unique combination of 

qualitative (survey analyses and case studies) and 

quantitative empirical methodologies. 

As to these latter, the project will build and use a micro 

and macro cross-country panel type dataset with a rather 

long longitudinal dimension and wide coverage of EU 

countries so as to overcome some of the key weaknesses 

of the extant empirical literature. 

The consortium is a blend of well-known scientists from 

different disciplines (i.e. finance, innovation economics, 

entrepreneurship, management, policy science). 

Several of them have already collaborated in EU 

promoted research projects (such as the VCFUN project 

promoted by the PRIME Network of Excellence).

Financing entrepreneurial ventures in Europe : impact on innovation, 

employment growth, and competitiveness 


VICO 

Politecnico di Milano 

Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering 

Massimo Gaetano COLOMBO 

IT - Milano 

Università Carlo Cattaneo - LIUC 

Faculty of Economy 

Anna GERVASONI 

IT - Castellanza 

Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitoksen Kannatusyhdistys Ry. 

ETLA 

Terttu LUUKKONEN 

FI - Helsinki 

Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung Gmbh (ZEW) 

International Finance and Financial Management 

Tereza TYKVOVA 

DE - Mannheim 

Universidad Complutense de Madrid 

Economia Financiera y Contabilidad III 

Jose MARTI PELLON 

ES - Madrid 

University College London 

School of Slavonic and East European Studies 

Jennie HUGHES 

UK - London 

Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School 

Accounting and Finance 

Sophie MANIGART 

BE - Gent 


Faculty Economics and Business Administration 

Bart CLARYSSE 

BE - Gent 

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Understanding the relationship between knowledge and competitiveness in 

the enlarging European Union 

U-KNOW 

U-KNOW developed a firm level panel dataset on balance sheets and financial statements as 

well as the ownership structure for the period 1995-2005 for the following countries: Bosnia 

and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, 

Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine. The dataset comprises information for 

more than 94.000 manufacturing companies over 11 years, with overall 570.000 observations. 





Funding scheme: STREP 

Unit L.2 



U-Know assesses the factors that give rise to the public 

and private nature of knowledge. These include changing 

institutional arrangements, organisational conditions, 

incentive systems, socio-cultural attitudes, cognitive 

flexibility, and specific types of knowledge. How do 

those factors shape new understandings of knowledge 

itself, and hinder or foster knowledge creation, use, and 

dissemination? The STREP focuses on the 

interrelatedness of the enterprise, public science/higher 

education, and government spheres as the main agents to 

put the 'knowledge triangle' of education, research and 

innovation to work. The U-Know approach has an 

economic flavour but includes scientists from a variety 

of different backgrounds. A rigorous methodological 

framework is applied. The U-Know project goes beyond 

the application of monodisciplinary theories from 

orthodox approaches by using the 'Network Alignment' 

theory. This can be seen as complementary to the 'Mode 

2' and/or 'Triple Helix' approaches to knowledge 

production and interaction. 


Halle Institute of Economic Research (IWH) 

Départment Industrial and Regulatory Economics 

DE – Halle/Saale 

Contact: 

Johannes STEPHAN 

Johannes.stephan@iwh-halle.de 

http://www.iwh-halle.de/projects/uknow/index.html 

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Bringing all three together is a novelty applied as a tool 

to understand the role of knowledge in the European 

economy. Network alignment has been a key ingredient 

for economic growth in some East Asian countries. 

Building on this experience, the project undertakes 

comparative studies on a selection of European countries 

to identify network mis-alignment in sectoral, regional, 

and national innovation systems. This constitutes a key 

underpinning for extensive policy implications which 

contribute to the development of a broad-based third 

generation knowledge and innovation policy. This 

encompasses areas of learning and innovation in 

companies, institutions for higher education, research, 

and government itself. Policy advice supports the 

enhancement and alignment of knowledge communities 

in order to reinforce the competitiveness of European 

economies in accordance with the Lisbon agenda.

Understanding the relationship between knowledge and competitiveness in 

the enlarging European Union 


Birkbeck College, University of London 

Birgitte ANDERSEN 

UK - London 

U-KNOW 

Zentrum für Bildung und Wirtschaft, Forschungs- und Beratungsges gmbH 

Dietmar PAIER 

AT - Graz 

Grupul de Economie Aplicata 

Dragos PISLARU 

RO - Bucharest 

Institute for Economic Research 

Boris MAJCEN 

SI - Ljubljana 

NIFU STEP 

Per KOCH 

NO - Oslo 


G Nicholas VON TUNZELMANN 

UK - Falmer, Brighton 

Tartu Uelikool 

Urmas VARBLANE 

EE - Tartu 

University of Trento 

Maurizio PUGNO 

IT - Trento 

Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria 

Jo LORENTZEN 

ZA - Pretoria 

School of Economics, University of Cape Town 

Mike MORRIS 

ZA - Cape Town 

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 

David WALWYN 

ZA - Pretoria 

Western Cape Provincial Treasury 

Shirley ROBINSON 

ZA - Cape Town 

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World input-output database: construction and applications 

WIOD 

WIOD constructs a database of Input-Output tables covering the largest part of the world 

GDP that are linked to bilateral trade data within a ten years time series. 






Unit L2 

Project contact: Ian PERRY 

ian.perry@ec.europa.eu 

How has the increase in Chinese exports of textile 

products affected the employment of low skilled 

workers in German retail trade ? What would be the 

effects of a change in the European Union’s 

agricultural policy on global CO2 emissions? 

Economic and environmental policies are designed at a 

detailed level of industries and products, while 

production is characterized by an interdependent 

structure. Due to globalization, these interdependencies 

cross borders and the inclusion of trade is more than 

ever essential. Analyzing policy issues therefore 

requires an all encompassing database. Its construction 

is at the heart of this project and the following three 

aspects are crucial: 

a) input-output (IO) tables provide a description of the 

interdependent production structure. Taking the reach 

of internationalization into full - consideration requires 

a worldwide set of national IO tables (covering at least 

80% of world GDP) that are fully linked through 

bilateral trade data; 

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Rijksuniversiteit Groningen 

NL - Groningen 

Contact: 

Erik DIETZENBACHER 

h.w.a.dietzenbacher@rug.nl 

b) taking the dynamics of internationalization into account 

requires a time series (1995-2006) of such linked IO 

tables, in current and constant international prices; 

c) taking the effects of internationalization into 

consideration requires that other relevant information is 

appended. These so-called satellite accounts include labor 

data for different skill types, investment flows, and 

environmental and resources data. 

The first part of the project constructs such a unique 

database. The second part of the project applies the 

database to analyse the international interaction of socioeconomic 

and environmental objectives from a policy 

perspective. These are applications that use the database 

by directly employing IO and econometric techniques, and 

applications that use large scale models that employ the 

database. 

The project builds on several previous, EU-sponsored 

projects and is carried out by Europe’s leading experts in 

IO theory, data construction, interindustry models, and 

policy applications.

World input-output database: construction and applications 


Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) 

European Commission - Joint Research Center 

Peter KIND 

ES - Sevilla 

WIOD 

The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies 

Robert STEHRER 

AT - Vienna 

Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH (ZEW) 

Andreas LÖSCHEL 

DE - Mannheim 

Austrian Institute of Economic Research 

Kurt KRATENA 

AT - Vienna 

Hochschule Konstanz 

Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Gestaltung 

Jörg BEUTEL 

DE - Konstanz 

The Conference Board Europe 

Andrew TANK 

BE - Brussels 

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 

Norihiko YAMANO 

FR - Paris 

Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPS) 

Paul VEENENDAAL 

NL - The Hague 

Institute of Communication and Computer Systems 

Pantelis CAPROS 

EL - Athens 

Centrale Recherche SA 

Paul ZAGAME 

FR - Paris 

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Productivity in the European Union: a comparative approach 

EUKLEMS2003 

EUKLEMS2003 provides a detailed database on measures of economic growth, productivity, 

employment creation, capital formation and technological change at the industry level for all 

European Union Member States and US, Japan and Canada from 1970 onwards. 


EC Contribution: 4 994 680 € 




Unit L2 



EUKLEMS2003 has three main objectives: 

a) the construction of a detailed industry database on 

productivity, which contains statistics usable for 

monitoring progress made in achieving the Lisbon and 

Barcelona objectives and can be used for analysis of 

competitiveness of all fifteen EU economies relative to 

each other and relative to other major advanced 

countries; 

b) a methodological and data research; 

c) an analytical and policy-oriented research: 

• analysis of productivity, prices, structures and 

technology and innovation indicators; 

• research on labour market and skill creation; 

• research on technological progress and 

innovation; 

• research on linkages to firm level databases. 

EUKLEMS2003 aims to create a database on measures 

of economic growth, productivity, employment 

creation, capital formation and technological change at 

the industry level for all European Union Member 

States from 1970 onwards. This work will provide an 

important input to policy evaluation, in particular for 

the assessment of the goals concerning competitiveness 

and economic growth potential as established by the 

Lisbon and Barcelona summit goals. The database 

should facilitate the sustainable production of high 

quality statistics using the methodologies of national 

accounts and input-output analysis. The input measures 

will include various categories of capital, labour, 

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Project coordinator : 

Faculty of Economics 


Contact: 

Bart VAN ARK 

h.h.van.ark@eco.rug.nl 

http://www.euklems.net 

energy, material and service inputs. Productivity 

measures will be developed, in particular with growth 

accounting techniques. Several measures on knowledge 

creation will also be constructed. Substantial 

methodological and data research on these measures 

will be carried out to improve international 

comparability. There will be ample attention for the 

development of a flexible database structure, and for 

the progressive implementation of the database in 

official statistics over the course of the project. The 

database will be used for analytical and policy-related 

purposes, in particular by studying the relationship 

between skill formation, technological progress and 

innovation on the one hand, and productivity, on the 

other. To facilitate this type of analysis a link will also 

be sought with existing micro (firm level) databases. 

The balance in academic, statistical and policy input in 

this project is realised by the participation of fourteen 

organisations from across the EU, representing a mix 

of academic institutions and national economic policy 

research institutes and with the support from various 

statistical offices and the OECD. 

EUKLEMS2003 results are a: 

a) detailed industry-database on productivity; 

b) methodological and data research reports; 

c) policy recommendations based on analytical and 

policy-oriented research-final conference book with 

major contributions from the project.

Productivity in the European Union: a comparative approach 


National Institute of Economic and Social Research 

Mary O´MAHONY 

UK - London 

EUKLEMS2003 

Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales 

Michel FOUQUIN 

FR - Paris 

Centre for Economic and Business Research 

Svend HOUGAARD JENSEN 

DK - Copenhagen 

Netherlands Institute for Economic Policy Analysis 

Henry VAN DER WIEL 


Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung 

Bernd GOERZIG 

DE - Berlin 

Federaal Planbureau 

Chantal KEGELS 

BE - Brussels 

Istituto di Studi e Analisi Economica 

Carlo MILANA 

IT - Roma 

Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas 

Matilde MAS 

ES - Valencia 

Helsinki School of Economics 

Matti POHJOLA 

FI - Helsinki 

Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung 

Michael PENEDER 

AT - Vienna 

Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies 

Peter HAVLIK 

AT - Vienna 

Amsterdam Institute for Business and Economic Research, Free University Amsterdam (AMBER) 

Eric BARTELSMAN 

NL - Amsterdam 

The Conference Board Europe 

Robert McGUCKIN 

BE - Brussels 

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towards the European Research Area 

PRIME 

One of the PRIME aims is to measure the performance of the universities. An 

integrated dataset of microdata at the level of university across a number of European 

countries is provided. 





Funding scheme: Network of excellence 

Unit L2 

Project contact: Philippe KERAUDREN 

philippe.keraudren@ec.europa.eu 

PRIME stands for Policies for Research and Innovation 

in the Move towards the European Research Area. 

These policies are facing major transformations. The 

first relates to the changing dynamics of knowledge 

production, with the new "search regime" of the new 

leading (NBIC) sciences, and with the research 

intensification of many industries and services. The 

second is linked to the changing relationship between 

science and society, with the burgeoning of 

controversies and public debates about priorities and 

research practices (such as GM field trials). The third 

concerns the growing importance of both regional and 

European public authorities. This means that one can 

no longer simply equate public intervention with 

national policy and that we must fundamentally 

reassess our accumulated knowledge on R&I policies. 

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Association pour la Recherche et le 

Développement des Méthodes et Processus 

Industriels 

École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris - CSI 

FR - Paris 

Contact: 

Philippe LAREDO 

philippe.laredo@ensmp.fr 

silvere.dernouh@ensmp.fr 

http://www.prime-noe.org 

To address these challenges, PRIME fosters the 

emergence of a lasting structure to integrate the efforts 

of leading researchers in the field. PRIME gathers 42 

institutions, and within them 55 research groups and 

230 researchers from four main disciplines: economics, 

sociology, political sciences and management. It is 

organised around 3 research foci: changing rationales 

for public intervention, the emergence of multi-actor 

spaces and the governance of S&T in Europe, 

the transformations of public sector research. The 

conditions for a lasting infrastructure on SI&I 

indicators at the European level is explored and tested.

Institutions / Partners / Country / Town 


towards the European Research Area 

PRIME 

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V. 

Stefan KUHLMANN 

DE - München 


Benjamin MARTIN 

UK - Brighton 

The Victoria University of Manchester 

Maria NEDEVA 

UK - Manchester 

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas 

Luis SANZ-MENENDEZ 

ES - Madrid 

CERIS - Istituto di Ricerca sull'impresa e lo Sviluppo 

Emanuela REALE 

IT - Torino 

Universiteit Twente 

Arie RIP 

NL - Enschede 

Universiteit Maastricht 

Wiebe BIJKER 

NL - Maastricht 

Universiteit van Amsterdam 

Loet LEYDESDORFF 


Universiteit Utrecht 

Ruud SMITS 

NL - Utrecht 

University of Lausanne 

Dietmar BRAUN 

CH - Lausanne 

Università della Svizzera Italiana 

Benedetto LEPORI 

CH - Lugano 

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Knowledge economy indicators: development of innovative and reliable indicator systems 

KEI 

KEI provides a database on the available, selected, and key "missing" knowledge-based 

economic indicators, with target-country data for all economic sectors: high technology 

manufacturing, low and medium technology manufacturing, private services, and public 

services. 






Unit L2 

Project contact : Ian PERRY 


The project aims to develop and improve indicators for 

the knowledge economy, including the analysis of 

aggregation issues and the use of composite indicators. 

The project covers thirty European countries (the EU- 

27, Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland) and six non- 

European countries (the US, Japan, India, China, 

Australia and Canada). The KEI project reviews 

existing concepts and definitions of the knowledgebased 

economy and its key components. It develops 

main thematic areas in relation to Lisbon and 

Barcelona objectives. 

KEI uses these themes to classify existing indicators 

and thoroughly explore data and indicator quality 

issues. Gaps have been identified and the way forward 

will be mapped, identifying innovative approaches to 

improve our understanding and appraisal of the 

knowledge economy. Composite indicators are 

analysed in detail using both statistical and 

participatory approaches, including the use of multi- 

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Eberhard - Karls Universität Tübingen 


Contact: 

Ralf MÜNNICH 

muennich@uni-trier.de 

http://www.kei.publicstatistics.net/ 

criteria methods, aggregation and weighting 

techniques, decomposition methods, and an evaluation 

of analytical and presentational techniques. Simulation 

methods are employed extensively to investigate the 

robustness of indicators and the conclusions based on 

them. 

The study evaluates the quality and accuracy of 

indicators and the underlying data and assess the 

innovative use of additional information to improve 

indicator quality. The state of the art analysis, as 

provided by KEI for the knowledge-based economy, 

benefits other policy objectives of the European Union 

and Commission services. It contributes to a 

methodological framework for building effective 

measurements of interdisciplinary issues such as 

sustainability, employment, social cohesion, and 

economic disparities. KEI also makes 

recommendations for the design and use of statistical 

reference systems.

Knowledge economy indicators: development of innovative and reliable indicator systems 


Joint Research Centre 

Andrea SALTELLI 

IT - Ispra 

Katholieke Universiteit 

Willem MOESEN 

BE - Brussels 

University of Maastricht - MERIT 

Anthony ARUNDEL 


Statistics Finland 

Mikael AKERBLOM 

FI - Helsinki 

KEI 

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Knowledge-based entrepreneurship: innovation, networks and systems 

KEINS 

KEINS developed several databases. The database on academic inventors identifies 

correlations between previously distinct datasets to produce a more accurate picture of 

patenting activity among European universities. The database on new innovators maps 

regional patterns of patenting activity among new European firms operating in dynamic 

technological sectors. The databases on knowledge intensive entrepreneurship in 

Eastern Europe contain original data collected from firms in 5 new EU Member States. 






Unit L2 

Project contact : Pia LAURILA 

pia.laurila@ec.europa.eu 

KEINS aims to discuss and refine current concepts of 

knowledge-based entrepreneurship (KBE), to explore 

the relationship between KBE and innovation, to define 

the role of networks of alliances, information, finance 

and social ties; to assess KBE in different sectoral and 

national systems of innovation; and to produce policy 

recommendations. KEINS purports to examine the 

relevance and features KBE in Europe. KEINS looks at 

three types of KBE: start-up entrepreneurship, 

corporate entrepreneurship and academic 

entrepreneurship. 

Entrepreneurs are seen as knowledge operators, 

dedicated to the integration of different knowledge 

assets and the creation of new ones. They may perform 

this function either by setting up new companies, or by 

activating social, financial, and expertise networks 

from within existing companies, universities or other 

organizations. KEINS will integrate different 

methodologies and approaches, ranging from 

appreciative and formal theorizing to case studies and 

quantitative empirical work. 

KEINS will add value to existing knowledge through: 

a) the development of an analytical methodology based 

on the critical review and effective integration of the 

literature relating to KBE, industrial dynamics, 

innovation networks and innovation systems. 

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Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi - CESPRI 

IT - Milano 

Contact: 

Franco MALERBA 

franco.malerba@unibocconi.it 

http://www.cespri.unibocconi.it/keins 

b) KBE is examined not only in terms of new firm 

formation, but also in terms of corporate 

entrepreneurship (knowledge creation/integration by 

established companies) and academic entrepreneurship. 

c) the broad scope of comparative analysis, including 

several Member States well spread all around the EU 

and possibly with the USA. 

KEINS' findings have direct policy relevance for 

coping with the European Paradox and finding ways 

for scientific and basic technological research to have a 

higher and more effective innovative and competitive 

impact. In particular, networks of all kinds have been 

aggressively promoted through the science, technology 

and industrial policies of both the EU and Member 

States. Extensive networking relationships have also 

developed independently between industry and 

universities. Few studies, however, have explored the 

impact of such networks on KBE. 

The system perspective has also pervaded recent EU 

policies for innovation. KEINS will help understanding 

how the specific national innovation systems, sectoral 

systems or regional systems impact on KBE. In 

addition, it will provide analysis about ways to foster 

the emergence of the European Research Area and the 

progress towards the establishment of the knowledgebased 

economy.

Knowledge-based entrepreneurship: innovation, networks and systems 


KEINS 

Max Planck Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften E.V. 

Ulrich WITT 

DE - München 

University College London 

Slavo RADOSEVIC 

UK - London 

Université Louis Pasteur 

Patrick LLERENA 

FR - Strasbourg 

Institute for Management of Innovation and Technology 

Maureen MCKELVEY 

SE - Göteborg 

Universidade Nova de Lisboa 

José MATA 

PT - Lisboa 

Center for Social and Economic Research Foundation 

Richard WOODWARD 

PL – Warsaw 

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Accommodating creative knowledge: compatitiveness of European metropolitan regions 

within the enlarged Union 

ACRE 

ACRE develops a survey-based dataset on the importance of different soft location 

factors in 13 metropolitan regions in the European Union. There will be over 3.500 

questionnaires and interviews performed on three target groups: knowledge-intensive 

graduates and workers, creative industry managers and high-skilled immigrants. 





Funding scheme: IP 

Unit L2 



In this project we aim to assess the impact of the 

emerging "creative class" and the rise of the "creative 

industries" on the competitiveness of EU metropolitan 

regions. While the traditional "hard" location factors 

that firms use will remain important for international 

competitiveness, new "soft" location factors that are 

mainly related to attracting the required "talent pool" 

would deserve increasing attention. The central 

research question we will address is: what are the 

conditions for creating or stimulating "creative 

knowledge regions" in the context of the extended 

European Union? We will compare the recent socioeconomic 

development trends and strategies in several 

metropolitan regions across Europe to get more insight 

in the extent to which creativity, innovation and 

knowledge are indeed the keys to a successful longterm 

economic development. The metropolitan regions 

in the ACRE project are: Amsterdam, Barcelona, 

Birmingham, Budapest, Dublin, Helsinki, Leipzig, 

Milan, München, Poznan, Riga, Sofia and Toulouse. 

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Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and 

International Development Studies (ADMIDSt) 

NL - Amstardam 

Contact: 

Sako MUSTERD 

s.musterd@uva.nl 

http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/acre 

With the results of this study the EU might seriously 

consider strengthening the profile of metropolitan 

regions within the EU area as regards creative 

knowledge branches and activities in the face of 

increasing competition with other growth regions in the 

world. The most important topic to consider is which 

metropolitan regions might develop as "creative 

knowledge regions", and which regions might not. This 

will depend on current positions in global and 

European networks and on historic development paths. 

In this research leading European experts with 

complementary disciplinary backgrounds from places 

with clearly different pathways concerning the creative 

knowledge economy will be brought together. This will 

help to significantly improve our understanding of the 

conditions that shape the emergence of a creative 

knowledge economy and of its importance for 

enhanced competitiveness.

Accommodating creative knowledge: compatitiveness of European metropolitan regions 

within the enlarged Union 


Universitat de Barcelona 

Montserrat PAREJA 

ES - Barcelona 

The University of Birmingham 

Alan MURIE 

UK - Birmingham 

Hungarian Academy of Sciences 

Zoltán KOVÁCS 

HU - Budapest 

University of Helsinki 

Mari VAATTOVAARA 

FI - Helsinki 

Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde e.V. 

Joachim BURDACK 

DE - Leipzig 

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität 

Guenter HEINRITZ 

DE - München 

Adam Mickiewicz University 

Tadeusz STRYJAKIEWICZ 

PL - Poznan 

Stockholm School of Economics in Riga 

Alf VANAGS 

LV - Riga 

New Bulgarian University 

Evgenii DAINOV 

BG - Sofia 

Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail 

Denis ECKERT 

FR - Toulouse 

Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca 

Terenzio MINGIONE 

IT - Milano 

University College Dublin 

Declan REDMOND 

IE – Dublin 

ACRE 

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Regional trajectories to the knowledge economy: a dynamic model 

EURODITE 

Through EURODITE, a major statistical analysis of regional knowledge indicators and 

inter-regional data informed by the social systems of innovation (SSI) approach is being 

undertaken. A typology of European regions and a regional benchmarking tool have been 

developed. 






Unit L2 

Project contact: Pia LAURILA 


The significance of knowledge for economic activity 

has grown exponentially since the 1980s with an 

increasing proportion of the workforce described as 

knowledge workers. The popular perception is that the 

'old economy' based on manufactured goods is giving 

way to one where less tangible products and services 

are key to economic success in advanced economies. 

Policy makers have thus sought to create conditions in 

which the economic and social returns of the 

knowledge-based society ("Lisbon") can be realised. 

However, progress has been slow and neither macro 

nor micro level policies have delivered innovation 

returns at the hoped for rate. In part this lack of success 

stems from a limited understanding of the nature and 

composition of the knowledge economy. 

EURODITE explores alternative paradigms of the 

knowledge economy based upon dynamic models. The 

project probes beneath popular notions by investigating 

in detail in the diversity of learning processes and 

knowledge dynamics and trajectories across Europe. It 

examines the assumption that regions and other spatial 

arrangements (such as "clusters" or "milieu") represent 

appropriate units of explanation and policy 

intervention. 

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Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS) 


Contact: 

Stewart MACNEILL 

s.macneill@bham.ac.uk 

http://www.eurodite.bham.ac.uk/ 

The specific objectives are to: 

a) carry out inter-disciplinary research to examine 

stocks and flows of knowledge in European regions 

and business sectors and identify key trends; 

b) consider the wider business and societal contexts of 

knowledge processes, for example in sectors, networks, 

markets, governance systems, education and science 

and in different social groups; 

c) undertake both quantitative and qualitative interregional 

comparisons to identify different pathways to 

the knowledge economy; 

d) produce a model of the micro-dynamics of economic 

knowledge and the interaction over time of knowledge 

stocks and flows amongst networks of firms and other 

organisations through case studies; 

e) identify the policy levels and coordination activities 

available to the EU, national and regional levels of 

governance to enhance knowledge dynamics and their 

contribution to regional development, competitiveness 

and economic and social cohesion; 

f) ensure the gender issues of the knowledge economy 

are mainstreamed and integrated into the research 

approach and outputs; 

g) provide opportunities for young researchers to learn 

about the knowledge economy and policy framework 

in other Member States.

Regional trajectories to the knowledge economy: a dynamic model 


Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV 

Christophe CARRINCAZEAUX 

FR - Pessac 

Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse 

Jérôme VICENTE 

FR - Toulouse 

4GRENOBLE ECOLE DE MANAGEMENT 

Jean-Jacques CHANARON 

FR - Grenoble 

University of Neuchâtel 

Olivier CREVOISIER 

CH - Neuchâtel 

Institut Arbeit und Technik im Wissenschaftszentrum 

Nordrhein-Westfalen 

Brigitta WIDMAIER & Ernst HELMSTADTER 

DE - Gelsenkirchen 

Phllipps-University of Marburg 

Simone STRAMBACH 

DE - Marburg 

Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH / 

Social Science Research Center Berlin 

Ulrich JÜRGENS 

DE - Berlin 

Aalborg University 

Henrik HALKIER 

DK - Aalborg East 

Center for Regional and Tourism Research 

Jesper MANNICHE & Tage PETERSEN 

DK - Nexö Bornholm 

Fondazione Rosselli 

Cristiano Antonelli 

IT - Torino 

Ca' Foscari University of Venice 

Giuseppe VOLPATO 

IT - Venice 

Fundação da Universidade de Lisboa 

Mário VALE 

PT - Lisboa 

Radboud University Nijmegen 

Ben DANKBAAR 

NL - Nijmegen 

Nordic Centre for Spatial Development 

Margareta DAHLSTROM 

SE - Stockholm 

EURODITE 

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Göteborg University 

Anders LARSSON 


Advantage West Midlands 

Nick COX 


University of Economics in Bratislava 

Milan BUCEK 

SK - Bratislava 

Institut za Ekonomska Raziskovanja (Institute for 

Economic Research) 

Peter STANOVNIK 


Polish Academy of Sciences 

Stanislaw WALUKIEWICZ 

PL - Warszawa 

Cardiff University 

Philip COOKE 

UK - Cardiff 

Università di Roma 

Riccardo CAPPELLIN 

IT -Roma 

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 

Robert KAISER 

DE - München 

European Association of Development Agencies 

Christian SAUBLENS 

BE - Brussels 

ASTER S. cons. p. a. 

Valeria BANDINI 

IT - Bologna 

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 

Joaquim BRUGUE 


Suleyman Demirel University 

Murat Ali DULUPÇU 

TR - Isparta 

Steirische Wirtschaftsforderung 

Gerd HOLZSCHLAG 

AT - Graz 

School of Social Sciences 

Teresa REES 

UK - Cardiff


The competitiveness of firms, regions and industries in the knowledge-based economy: 

what room for job-rich growth in Europe ? 

MICRO-DYN 

MICRO-DYN constructs European Map of Job Flows – a dataset of micro-, meso-, and 

macro-level variables describing different aspects of labour mobility within national labour 

markets in Europe. It captures changes in the level of employment at different breakdowns 

and level of aggregation across the EU countries. 






Unit L2 



MICRO-DYN (stands for 'Micro-Dynamics') is a 

project that attempts to tackle the issue of growth, 

employment and competitiveness in the knowledgebased 

European economy through a micro-founded 

firm-based approach. 

The nature of the analysis will be "bottom-up" i.e. 

moving from the micro-entities of economic actions 

and strategies at the enterprise level to sectoral, 

regional, national and European levels. The rationale 

for such an approach is that understanding the 

microeconomic foundations of innovation, 

competitiveness and growth at the firm level, as well as 

the firms interactions with the labour market, is key to 

understanding the nature of these phenomena at a more 

aggregated (regional, sectoral or macro) level and of 

the resulting aggregate economic performance. 

From a policy-perspective, this implies that the impact 

of corporate, industrial and regional strategies and 

policies at national and European levels can be really 

understood only through the changes they induce in 

individual firm behaviour. 

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The Vienna Institute for International Economic 

Studies (WIIW) 

AT - Vienna 

Contact: 

Michael LANDESMANN 

landesm@wiiw.ac.at 

http://www.micro-dyn.eu 

Integrated and comparable cross-country firm-level 

evidence will shape the core of the research effort 

undertaken within the project. The analysis will use as 

far as possible comprehensive data-sets across all 

European regions and industries. 

Statistical models of individual behaviour will be used 

which will be aggregated at sectoral, regional and 

national levels to recover the behaviour of aggregate 

variables. 

At the moment, there are very few such models around 

as different researchers have concentrated on different 

levels of aggregation with little exploration of their 

interdependence. The project mobilises a large network 

of top European researchers specialized in the relevant 

sub-fields necessary for the successful execution of an 

ambitious research programme.

The competitiveness of firms, regions and industries in the knowledge-based economy: 

what room for job-rich growth in Europe ? 


Centre for Economic and Strategic Research 

Nikolay MARKOV 

BG - Sofia 

Département d´Econométrie et Economie Politique, 

Université de Lausanne 

Marius BRÜLHART 

CH - Lausanne 

Institute for Applied Economic Research 

Harald STROTMANN 


Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 

László HALPERN 

HU - Budapest 


Gianmarco I.P. OTTAVIANO 

IT - Milano 

University of Oslo 

Jan FAGERBERG 

NO - Oslo 

Norwegian Institute of International Affairs 

Per Botolf MAURSETH 

NO - Oslo 


Lourens BROERSMA 


The Royal Institute of Technology 

Pontus B. BRAUNERHJELM 


University of Ljubljana 

Pavlic Damijan JOZE 


Universidad Compultense de Madrid 

Francisco Javier VELAZQUEZ 

ES - Madrid 

MICRO-DYN 

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University of Cambridge 

Paul Anthony KATTUMAN 

UK – Cambridge 

Alphamatics Limited 

Terry WARD 

UK – Royston 

Center for Social and Economic Research 

Ewa BALCEROWICZ 

PL – Warsaw 

ERUDIET – Université de Paris XII 

Claude MATHIEU 

FR – Creteil 

Polish National Bank 

Wojciech ROGOWSKI 

PL - Warsaw


Mainstreaming methodology for estimating the costs of crime 

MMECC 

MMECC aims at extending awareness of methodologies for estimating the costs of crime 

by developing a cost model based on good practice and a learning environment with 

reference data useful in helping policy-makers and practitioners from the Member States 

to use the model in their countries. 


EC Contribution: 677463 € 




Unit L2 

Project contact: Manuela ALFÉ 

manuela.alfe@ec.europa.eu 

The background to the project is that criminal justice 

agencies in a few EU states make significant use of 

cost of crime methodology and incorporate the 

resulting estimates in the appraisal (ex ante) and the 

evaluation (ex post) of interventions, projects and 

pilots. But in many states the methodology is not 

employed, resulting in a lack of means for developing 

an evidence base documenting the benefits of criminal 

justice interventions. 

The project has three principal goals. The first is to 

audit the methodology used for estimating the costs of 

crime across member states, and the use that is 

currently made of the methodology and the resulting 

estimates. The second is to bring together criminal 

justice policy analysts from member states and 

academic researchers from related fields to share 

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University of York 

Centre for Criminal Justice Economics and 

Psychology 

UK - YORK 

Contact: 

Roger BOWLES 

rab12@york.ac.uk 

http://costsofcrime.org 

findings about methodology for estimating the costs of 

crime and about using the findings. 

The third is to compile a series of resources including 

data, learning materials and interactive models for use 

by policymakers and others wishing to review the 

methodology for making estimates of the costs of 

crime, to explore examples of the application of the 

estimates in real-world criminal justice policy settings 

or to share their experience with others. 

The project has therefore developed a methodology for 

estimating the costs of crime so as to demonstrate how 

the resulting estimates can be used for purposes of 

supporting criminal justice policy analysis. For 

instance, it anticipates users with a variety of interests 

ranging from casual enquiries about the scale of the 

costs of crime to specific technical questions about 

how to estimate a particular component of the costs of 

a single offence type.

Mainstreaming methodology for estimating the costs of crime 

Institutions / Partners / Town / Country 

University of Manchester 

Anthony Ogus 

Manchester – GB 

Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada 

Nuno Garoupa 

Madrid – PT 

Universitat Pompeu Fabra 

Íñigo Ortiz de Urbina 

Barcelona – ES 

Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek- en Documentatiecentrum 

Debora Elizabeth Gabriëlla Moolenaar 

Den Haag – NL 

Home Office 

Richard Dubourg 

London – GB 

The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention 

Andreas Gårdlund 

Stockholm – SE 

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 

Ernesto Ugo Savona 

Milano – IT 

Matrix Research and Consultancy Ltd 

Jacque Mallender 

London – GB 

National Institute of Justice 

Edwin Zedlewski 

Washington, DC - US 

MMECC 

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Privatisation of public services and the impact on quality, employment and productivity 

PIQUE 

PIQUE develops a survey-based dataset on assessment of quality of different public services 

(including health care and social services) by their users for the following countries: 

Austria, United Kingdom, Poland, Belgium, Germany and Sweden). In each country, the 

survey is conduced by telephone on a fully representative sample of approximately 1000 

citizens. 






Unit L2 



PIQUE will address the issues of service quality, 

productivity and the quality of work and employment. 

The proposal is based on the assumption that the 

impact of liberalisation and privatisation of public 

services depends, first, on the form of liberalisation and 

privatisation and the mode of market regulation and, 

second, on the strategies companies pursue in their 

reaction to the opportunities and challenges involved. 

Company strategies and processes of change, in turn, 

are shaped by the institutional context of the national 

employment model. While the various forms of 

liberalisation and privatisation have attracted great 

scientific attention, business strategies, restructuring, 

work organisation and human resource policies so far 

have remained outside the focus of the research on 

liberalisation and privatisation. Yet, the impact on 

productivity, employment and the quality of public 

services depends on the answers companies find for 

new opportunities and challenges as well as on 

organisational restructuring, use of technology, labour 

relations and work design. 

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Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt 

AT - Vienna 

Contact: 

Jörg FLECKER 

flecker@forba.at 

http://www.pique.at/ 

PIQUE will study the form of regulation of 

liberalisation and privatisation in six countries and four 

sectors. It will explore changes in work, employment 

and labour relations as well as the productivity and 

quality of service provision. Special attention will be 

paid to the company level and the question of how 

liberalisation and privatisation impact on company 

management and organisation and on the provision of 

high-quality services at affordable prices. PIQUE 

project phases include: describing national modes of 

liberalisation and privatisation; assessing the impact on 

employment, labour relations and productivity through 

secondary analysis; understanding restructuring 

processes and the management of change through 

company case studies; assessing quality and 

accessibility by way of a quantitative users¿ survey; 

integrating results, developing policy recommendations 

and disseminating research findings.

Privatisation of public services and the impact on quality, employment and productivity 

Institutions / Partners / Town / Country 

London Metropolitan University 

Steve JEFFERYS 

UK - London 

PIQUE 

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven) 

Monique RAMIOUL 

BE - Leuven 

Instytut Socjologii, Universytet Warszawski (Institute of Sociology, Warsaw University) 

Wieslawa KOZEK 

PL - Warsaw 

Wirtschafts- und Sozialwirtschaftliches Institut in der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung 

Thorsten SCHULTEN 

DE - Düsseldorf 

Göteborgs Universitet 

Christer THÖRNQVIST 


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UPP 

UPP developed eight different datasets related to privatisation in different countries 

including political institutions and references from more than 20 countries (1997-2002), 

privatisation transactions in the Middle East and North Africa (MEDA) area (100 

countries, 1988-2006), ownership and control structures of companies in OECD countries 

(143 companies, 1996-2000), corporate ownership and company performance in the Czech 

Republic (over 230.000 records, 1996-2005), welfare measures for consumers and 

employees in the services of general interest sector (19 EU countries, 1975-2003), fiscal 

measures and institutions in Europe, privatisation indexes based on 190 listed privatised 

companies in Europe (1995-2005). 






Unit L2 



Privatisation is one of the main events of the economic 

history of the last decades. The privatisation record to 

date is impressive, both in developed and developing 

economies. Despite the relevance of the process and 

the extensive research recently carried out, several 

aspects of privatisation such as its determinants, 

methods, and economic and social implications warrant 

a systematic analysis and research efforts. Given the 

relevance of privatisation policy in the European 

context and in the markets for the services of general 

interest (SGI), it is imperative to analyse the record of 

privatisation and understand the causes behind failures 

in order to improve the process in the future. 

The project's main objectives are: 

a) to study the political and institutional incentives and 

constraints affecting privatisation; 

b) to analyse the interactions between private and 

public ownership and control of firms; 

c) to evaluate the welfare effect of privatisation 

policies on consumers, taxpayers and shareholders; 

d) to identify the most appropriate policies to make 

privatisation deliver the most desirable outcomes. 

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IT-Milano 

Contact: 

Carlo SCARPA 

cscarpa@eco.unibs.it 

http://uppproject.net/ 

To address these objectives, UPP is using the tools of 

political economy and welfare analysis, starting from 

the premises that privatisation is a political decision 

taken by governments at national/sub-national level 

and it has important consequences on the welfare of 

several stakeholders in the economy (consumers, 

taxpayers, employees and shareholders). The welfare 

effects of privatisation as perceived by different social 

groups are key element to establish the political 

sustainability of reform programmes, or the long-term 

reversal to public provision. UPP has adopted a 

multidisciplinary approach, mobilising researchers 

from economics, finance, political science, and judicial 

disciplines working in five universities, three research 

institutions, and one multi-lateral organisation of seven 

European countries.


Universitat Pompeu Fabra 

Humberto LLAVADOR 


Università degli Studi di Milano 

Massimo FLORIO 

IT - Milano 


Enrico PEROTTI 



UPP 

IFO Institute for Economic Research at the University of München 

Thiess BÜTTNER 

DE - München 

Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik - Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit 

Peter BECKER 

DE - Berlin 

Center for Economic Research and Graduated Education, Charles University 

Lubomír LÍZAL 

CZ - Prague 

Università degli Studi di Padova 

Ettore SCIMEMI 

IT - Padua 

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RECWOWE 

Within RECWOWE, the European Database Centre for Work and Welfare "EDACwowe" 

is the meta-data-shell for European research and policy-making in the areas of work and 

welfare. EDACwowe gives information on and direct links to comparative and national, 

quantitative and qualitative data on work and welfare. 





Funding scheme: NoE 

Unit L2 

Project contact: Marc GOFFART 

marc.goffart@ec.europa.eu 

The paramount objective of RECWOWE is to create a 

new, tightly integrated and durable European research 

network capable of overcoming the fragmentation of 

existing research on questions of work and welfare. 

The 4 primary tensions identified within RECWOWE 

are: flexicurity tension; work-life tension; job-quality 

tension; welfare regimes. 

RECWOWE will integrate existing research activities 

on two levels. By adopting a common focus on the 

various tensions that characterize the relationships 

between work and welfare, it will firstly promote 

knowledge focused on both simultaneously. Secondly, 

by constructing a network of specialists from different 

research domains and disciplines, it will create a basis 

for joint activities. The ultimate aim is the constitution 

of a 'virtual institute' federating the research excellence 

necessary to identify and understand the multiple 

tensions between work and welfare, as well as 

strategies for managing or resolving them. 

RECWOWE will innovate in the field of labour market 

and social protection research in three related ways. 

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Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Ange-Guepin 

FR - Nantes 

Contact: 

Denis BOUGET 

denis.bouget@univ-nantes.fr 

http://www.recwowe.eu 

http://www.edacwowe.eu 

The common focus on tensions will give rise to 

perspectives and questions for research that are 

currently lost in the 'void' between existing research 

domains and academic disciplines. The activity of the 

network will promote new institutional and individual 

collaborations, based on novel combinations of 

disciplinary and geographical expertise. Combining 

these new questions and collaborations, RECWOWE 

will ultimately be a source of innovative new research 

projects focused on the interface between work and 

welfare. RECWOWE will, finally, seek to effectively 

share the new knowledge that is built up through its 

activities. It will organize specific training actions for 

students and professionals. It will centralize and 

publicize existing and new sources of data on work and 

welfare, and disseminate analyses and findings through 

a dedicated structure. It will, finally, seek to generate a 

permanent two-way dialogue with political and social 

actors, so that its activities can most usefully inform 

the future choices of the European social model.


Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques 

Bruno PALIER 

FR - Paris 

University of Stirling 

Jochen CLASEN 

GB - Stirling 

Institut de hautes études en administration publique 

Giuliano BONOLI 

CH - Chavannes-pres-Renens 

London School of Ecnomics and Political Science 

Jane LEWIS 

GB - London 


Willem KOOPS 

NL - Utrecht 

Universidad de Oviedo 

Ana Marta GUILLEN RODRIGUEZ 

ES - Oviedo 

Institute for Research in Ecnomics and Business 

Administration 

Svenn Aage DAHL 

NO - Bergen 

Universität Bern 

Klaus ARMINGEON 

CH - Bern 

Stichting Katholieke Universiteit Brabant 

Wim VAN OORSCHOT 

NL - Tilburg 

Observatoire Social Européen, ASBL 

Philippe POCHET 

BE - Brussels 

National research and development Centre for Welfare 

and Health 

Mikko A. KAUTTO 

FI - Helsinki 

Université Catholique de Louvain 

Pascale VIELLE 

BE - Louvain-la-Neuve 

Masarykova Univerzita v Brne 

Tomas SIROVATKA 

CZ - Brno 


RECWOWE 

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Universität Hamburg, Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und 

Sozialwissenschaften 

Birgit PFAU-EFFINGER 

DE - Hamburg 

Universität Bremen 

Karin GOTTSCHALL 

DE - Bremen 

Aalborg Universitet 

Jørgen GOUL ANDERSEN 

DK - Aalborg 

Social Forsknings Instituttet 

Olli E. KANGAS 


University of Tampere 

Anneli Maria Irmeli ANTTONEN 

FI - Tampere 

Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy 

Dimitri A. SOTIROPOULOS 

GR - Athens 

Bocconi University 

Paolo Roberto GRAZIANO 

IT - Milano 

Warsaw School of Economics 

Ewa FRATCZAK 

PL - Warszaw 

Stockholms Universitet 

Barbara HOBSON 


Univerza v Ljubljani - Fakulteta Za Dru Bene Vede 

Anton KRAMBERGER 


Central European University 

Alex FISCHER 

HU - Budapest 


Colette FAGAN 

GB - Manchester 

Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 

Julia SZALAI 

HU - Budapest


European Social Survey round 4: 


ESS4 

ESS provides data on underlying value change within thirty countries of Europe. It is 

designed to provide a long-term account of the evolution of European societal trends 

changes (family, work, well-being, health) and of how its changing political and 

economic institutions interact over time with the changing attitudes and values of its 

citizens. ESS also raises the standards of data for comparative attitudinal research. It 

informs both academic debate and European governance. 






Unit L2 

Project contact: Manuela ALFE 

manuela.alfe@ec.europa.eu 

The European Social Survey (ESS) aims: 

a) to chart and explain shifts over time in Europe's 

social, political and moral climate in relation to its 

changing population patterns and institutions; 

b) to improve methods of European social 

measurement in comparative studies, particularly 

attitudinal studies; 

c) to develop a series of European social indicators, 

including attitudinal indicators that measure changes 

over time in the quality of life in different European 

nations. 

Three biennial rounds of the ESS have already been 

funded within the Fifth and Sixth Research 

Framework Projects, all co-funded by the European 

Science Foundation and some twenty-five national 

academic funding bodies throughout Europe. It is an 

academically-driven, uniquely rigorous comparative 

time series, helping to document and interpret 

hitherto inadequately-charted aspects of the European 

condition. Its wide-ranging questionnaire covers 

people's value orientations, their political and cultural 

perspectives, and the underlying social structure of 

their societies. A separate data collection exercise 

monitors major events during fieldwork as a 


City University 

Centre for Comparative Social Surveys, 

Department of Sociology 

GB - London 

Contact: 

Roger JOWELL 

ess@city.ac.uk 

http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/ 

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backdrop to an understanding of attitude change. The 

ESS has already established itself as a robust multinational, 

multi-funded programme of large-scale 

substantive and methodological research - an 

exemplar of the European research area at work. 

The ESS is among the first social science projects to 

receive funding to support its infrastructure – to 

sustain and improve its networks, accessibility, and 

methodology – and in 2005 was awarded Europe's 

top annual science award, the Descartes prize. It is 

also developing a world-wide reputation for both its 

rigour and utility. The survey covers now over 30 

countries and employs the most rigorous 

methodologies. In the first 18 months of its first 

public data release, more than 20,000 people across 

Europe and beyond had registered to use it. Seven 

books and countless articles based on its data are in 

preparation and a US clone has been funded by their 

American National Science Foundation.


Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) 

Kristine KOLSRUD 

NO - Bergen 

European Social Survey round 4: 


ESS4 

The Centre for Survey Research and Methodology (GESIS-ZUMA) 

Peter MOHLER 

DE - Mannheim 

Social and Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands - The Netherlands Institute for Social Research 

Ineke STOOP 


ESADE, Universitat Ramon Llull 

Willem SARIS 


Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 

Jaak BILLIET 

BE - Leuven 

University of Ljubljana 

Brina MALNAR 

SI – Ljubljana 

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Towards a lifelong learning society in Europe: the contribution of the education system 

LLL2010 

LLL2010 provides a transnational data sources on lifelong learning based on survey of 

1.000 adults learners in 12 European countries (complementing Eurostat's Adult 

Education Survey, which is analysed in its own right). This quantitative information is 

complemented by in-depth interviews and case studies of educational institutions and of 

SMEs. A European typology of basic patterns of participation in lifelong learning is 

developed and causal factors of cross-country differences are revealed. 






Unit L2 



LLL2010 aims at researching the tensions between the 

knowledge-based society, lifelong learning and social 

inclusion in the context of enlargement of the EU and 

of globalisation. It provides an analysis of the role 

played by education system in the enhancing of 

lifelong learning and dependency of this role on 

relevant institutions at micro, meso and macro levels. It 

provides an empirically based analysis of the adequacy 

of lifelong learning policies in Europe and their 

implications for different social groups, especially for 

socially excluded groups. It strengthens cooperation 

and infrastructure for international and 

multidisciplinary comparative research in the area of 

lifelong learning. Finally, it develops transnational data 

sources, on: 

a) individual learners (a survey of adult learners in 

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Scientific coordinator: 

Tallinn l University 

Institute for International and Social Studies 

EE - Tallinn 

Contact: 

Ellu SAAR 

saar@iiss.ee 

http://lll2010.tlu.ee/ 

schools and universities and data from Eurostat driven 

Adult Education Survey); 

b) educational institutions (interviews with schools' 

management and officials from education ministries); 

c) enterprises (interviews with SME management). 

The project is designed in a way to integrate into a 

coherent picture the different aspects - historical, 

political, institutional, economic, individual and 

methodological - related to participation in and access 

to lifelong learning. 

LLL2010 contributes to the best inclusive practices on 

lifelong learning.

Towards a lifelong learning society in Europe: the contribution of the education system 


Higher Institute for Labour Studies 

Ides NICAISE 

BE - Keuven 

The University of Surrey 

Linda MERRICKS 

GB - Guildford 

The University of Edinburgh 

Sheila RIDDELL 

GB - Edinburgh 

LLL2010 

The Educational Disadvantage Centre in Conjunction with the Centre for the Study of Human Development 

Paul DOWNES 

IE - Dublin 

Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research 

Odd Bjørn URE 

NO - Oslo 

Slovenian Institute for Adult Education 

Vida A. MOHORCIC SPOLAR 


TARKI Social Research Centre 

Péter ROBERT 

HU - Budapest 

Mykolo Romerio Universiteitas 

Rimantas VAITKUS 

LT - Vilnius 

Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 

Pepka BOYADJIEVA 

BG - Sofia 

State University of St.Petersburg 

Vladimir KOZLOVSKY 

RU - St. Petersburg 

3s Research Laboratory 

Jörg MARKOWITSCH 

AT - Wien 

National Training Fund 

Petra JEDLICKOVA 

CZ - Prague 

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KASS 

KASS collects and analyses field-work data on kinship networks and social assistance. 

Based on methods of ethnographic fieldwork, for which KASS developed an original 

Kinship Network Questionnaire, KASS highlights socio-economic factors affecting mutual 

aid between kin, the state welfare system. 






Unit L2 



The state and the family (including the whole network 

of relatives) are the two greatest providers of social 

security in modern Europe. Like the state, the family 

provides care, education, financial support, and help in 

finding employment. It also influences (and 

occasionally controls) choices involving career and 

marriage. However the role of the family is not 

constant over time and space. We know, from 

statistical sources and from sociological and 

ethnographic studies, that it varies greatly between 

different parts of contemporary Europe. Changing 

patterns of marriage, cohabitation and divorce, 

declining fertility and aging populations, also have 

implications for the family's social security role. 

Though the role of kinship in social security has 

important implications for state and EU policy on 

social security, gender discrimination and social 

exclusion, it remains relatively little understood - 

despite challenging contributions in recent decades 

from anthropology, economics and evolutionary 

theory. One reason for this is that conventional data 

sources such as census and surveys do not collect the 

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Scientific coordinator: 

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der 

Wissenschaften E.V. 

Institut für ethnologische Forschung 

DE - Halle 

Contact: 

Patrick HEADY 

heady@eth.mpg.de 

http://www.eth.mpg.de/kass/index.html 

full range of data needed to evaluate these theoretical 

developments. 

The only sort of data that is capable of capturing 

enough factual detail about kinship networks, while 

also investigating the way these relationships are 

actually experienced, is ethnographic fieldwork. One of 

the central ideas of this proposal is to use ethnographic 

methods, followed by both interpretative and 

mathematical analyses of the resulting data to 

illuminate the questions above. The second central idea 

is that current trends need to be understood in their 

historical context. The fieldwork studies will be carried 

out in eight European countries and will be placed in 

context by reviews of existing knowledge of the 

current social security role of kinship ties, and of the 

historical background. The implications for policy will 

be examined. Explanatory models of mutual assistance 

between kin will be developed and related to 

explanations of family forming behaviour. In the final 

phase of the project, policy experts will be invited to 

discuss the implications of these models for policy.


Max-Planck-Institut für Demografische Forschung 

Laura BERNARDI 

DE - Rostock 

Universität zu Köln 

Michael SCHNEGG 

DE - Köln 

Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von 

Wirtschaftssystemen 

Werner GÜTH 

DE - Jena 

Università degli Studi di Siena 

Pier Giorgio SOLINAS 

IT - Siena 

Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz 

Hannes GRANDITS 

AT - Graz 

Stichting Katholieke Universiteit 

Hans MARKS 

NL - Nijmegen 

universität Wien 

Gertraud SEISER 

AT - Wien 

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu 

Michal BUCHOWSKI 

PL - Poznan 

Österreichisches Institut für Familienforschung 

Johannes PFLEGERL 

AT - Wien 

Moscow School of Social and Economics Sciences 

Alexander NIKULIN 

RU - Moscow 


KASS 

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Södertörns Högskola 

David GAUNT 

SE - Huddinge 

Université de Paris X - Nanterre 

Georges AUGUSTINS & Martine SEGALEN 

FR - Nanterre 

Uniwersytet Miko Aja Kopernika 

Monika KWIECINSKA-ZDRENKA 

PL - Torun 

Université de Franche-Comté 

Sophie CHEVALIER-HART 

FR - Besançon 

Georg-August-Universität Goettingen 

Heidi ROSENBAUM 

DE – Göttingen 

Institut za Etnologiju I Folkloristiku 

Jasna CAPO ZMEGAC 

HR - Zagreb


Small area methods for poverty and living condition estimates 

SAMPLE 

SAMPLE enlarges the EU-SILC sample (European Survey of Income and Living 

Conditions) at the province of Pisa level (NUTS4 level). It collects and explores 

administrative databases locally available in some focus areas like poverty and 

inequalities. 





Funding scheme: Collaborative Project 


Unit L2 



It is well known that in order to ensure a good 

allocation of public funds and to guarantee the rights of 

final users of the statistics (government, research 

institutes and citizens), statistical data on monetary and 

supplementary poverty indicators have to be timely and 

effective. 

Effectiveness of statistical data is a function of their 

spatial relevance and accuracy. Often official data are 

referred only to wider domains (e.g. NUTS 2 level) 

and, sometimes, the finer is the required spatial detail 

(NUTS3, NUTS4 level) the less accurate is the 

estimate. 

Local Government has to know accurate data referred 

to local areas and/or small domains (NUTS3, NUTS4 

level) to: 

a) ensure monitoring of poverty and inequality; 

b) focus on special target consisting of segments of 

population at higher risk of poverty (elusive 

populations); 

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Department of Statistics and Mathematics 

Applied to Economics 

IT - Pisa 

Contact: 

Monica PRATESI 

m.pratesi@ec.unipi.it 

http://www.sample-project.eu 

c) appreciate the multidimensional nature of 

poverty and inequality with attention to the non 

monetary aspects of it (social exclusion and 

deprivation); 

d) measure the subjective aspects of poverty as they 

are perceived by local groups and populations. 

The aim of SAMPLE project is to identify and 

develop new indicators and models for inequality 

and poverty with attention to social exclusion and 

deprivation, as well as to develop, implement 

models, measures and procedures for small area 

estimation of these new indicators and models. This 

goal is achieved with the help of the local 

administrative databases. Local government 

agencies often have huge amount of administrative 

data to monitory some of the actions which witness 

situations of social exclusion and deprivation 

(social security claims for unemployment and 

eligibility for benefits from any of the programmes 

Social Security administers) of households and 

citizens.

Small area methods for poverty and living condition estimates 


Cridire - Università degli Studi di Siena 

Dipartimento di Metodi Quantitativi 

Achille LEMMI 

IT - Sienna 

SAMPLE 


The Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research 

Nikolaos TZAVIDIS 


Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 

Departamento de Estadística 

Isabel MOLINA 

ES – Madrid 

Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche 

Instituto de Estudios Operativos 

Domingo MORALES GONZÁLEZ 

ES - Elche 


Institute of Statistics and Demography 

Tomasz PANEK 

PL - Warsaw 

Province of Pisa 

European Politics Department 

Paolo PROSPERINI 

IT - Pisa 

Simurg Consulenze e Servizi Snc 

R&D 

Moreno TOIGO 

IT - Livorno 

Central Statistical Office 

GUS 

Józef OLEŃSKI 

PL - Warsaw 

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INEQ 

INEQ collected data and developed databases in the following fields: innovation, 

employment, wages and inequalities; trade, FDI and polarisation; income dynamics in 

European Union neighbouring countries; intergenerational income distribution and 

welfare policies. 






Unit L2 


Pia.laurila@ec.europa.eu 

The INEQ project aims at investigating -against the 

background of the global economy and the North- 

South relationships - the economic and social 

mechanisms that are producing inequality in Europe 

and the effects inequality has on economic 

performance and social integration. 

INEQ also identifies actual and possible policies at 

the national and EU levels. As to wage inequality, 

three key economic mechanisms will be studied, with 

a focus on EU countries and on a group of 

developing/neighbouring countries: technological 

change; global trade and FDI; finance. They will be 

integrated into a general economic modelling for EU 

countries that may allow to compare their relative 

importance and to simulate the impact of different 

policies. As to market income inequality in Europe 

account will be taken of non-wage income, of 

households composition and employment. Finally the 

redistributive role of Welfare states will allow to 

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Centro di Ricerca Interuniversitario sullo Stato 

Sociale 

IT - Siena 

Contact: 

Maurizio FRANZINI 

franzini@unisi.it 

http://www.criss-ineq.org 

investigate the dynamics of disposable income. 

Considering social processes, the gender, intergenerational 

and ethnic/immigrant factors leading to 

social polarisation and inequality will be addressed in 

the case of EU countries; at the global level, the 

social dynamics reacting to inequalities will be 

investigated focusing on the activities of non state 

actors and on collective mobilisations challenging 

current policies. 

In terms of policy, a variety of economic (taxation, 

expenditure, welfare reform, etc.) and social (on 

gender, immigrant, social rights) policies that affect 

inequality within Europe are analysed, showing how 

public policies contribute or restrain the inequality 

mechanisms and their effects. A set of blueprints will 

be prepared with detailed recommendations on how 

national and EU policies could contribute to reduce 

inequalities, both within Europe and, for their part, at 

the global level.


University of Paris Nord 

Jacques Mazier 

Paris – FR 

The University of Warwick 

Jan Aart Scholte 

Coventry – GB 

Universidad Complutense de Madrid 

Jose Molero 

Madrid – ES 


INEQ 

Kiel Institute for World Economics/Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel 

Matthias Lücke 

Kiel – DE 

Transformation, Integartion and Globalization Economic Research at the Leon Kozminski Academy of 

Entrepreneurship and Management, Warsaw 

Grzegorz W. Kolodko 

Warszawa – PL 

United Nations Research Institute for Social Development 

Kléber Ghimire 

Geneva 10 – CH 

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Youth, unemployment, and exclusion in Europe: a multidimensional approach 

YOUNEX 

YOUNEX generates new data on the personal life of unemployed young people, their 

perception of their situation, their life projects, their identity development, the intensity 

and quality of their social relations, their political participation, and their attitudes 

toward the political institutions and the society at large. It allows for comparative 

analyses across social groups and across countries. 







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This research aims to advance knowledge on the 

causes, processes, and perspectives for change 

related to the social and political exclusion of 

unemployed youth. 

The main objectives of YOUNEX are: To generate a 

new body of data on young unemployed, but also 

precarious youth; To advance theory and extend 

knowledge on the social and political exclusion of 

young unemployed; To provide practical insights 

into the potential paths for the social and political 

integration of young unemployed. 

The overall design of the research has: 

a) a multidimensional theoretical framework that 

combines macro-meso-micro-levels and explanatory 

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Université de Genève 

Laboratoire de Recherches Sociales et Politiques 

Appliquées (RESOP) 

CH - Genève 

Contact: 

Marco GIUGNI 

marco.giugni@politic.unige.ch 

http://www.younex.unige.ch/index.html 

factors while taking into account among others 

social and political exclusion; 

b) a cross-national comparative analysis of different 

institutional approaches to unemployment (France, 

Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden, and Switzerland); 

c) an integrated approach based on multiple 

sources, methods and practices towards 

unemployment. 

Bench-marking and best-practice analysis, 

multidimensional approach allowing to consider the 

European, national, or local public policy on the way 

people cope with the situation of unemployment.

Youth, unemployment, and exclusion in Europe: a multidimensional approach 


YOUNEX 

University of Siegen 

Dept. of Sociology - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 

Christian LAHUSEN 

DE - Siegen 

Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi 

Istituto di Pubblica Amministrazione e Sanità (IPAS) 

Simone BAGLIONI 

IT - Milano 

Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques 

Cevipof 

Manlio CINALLI 

FR - Paris 

Karlstad University 

Department of Working Life Science - Faculty of Economic Sciences, Communication and IT 

Birgitta ERIKSSON 

SE - Karlstad 

Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne 

Center for Scientific Research 

Slawomir NOWOTNY 

PL - Warsaw 

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Job mobilities and family lives in Europe modern mobile living 

and its relation to quality of life 

JOBMOB AND FAMLIVES 

JobMob and FamLives built a survey database on job-related spatial mobility of 

Europeans and its relation with the quality of life. A total of 7220 people, aged from 25 

to 54, were interviewed in 2007. The project focused on relevance, diversity, causes and 

consequences of mobility in terms of job career, family development and family 

relations, social integration, quality of life and subjective well-being. 






Unit L2 


Pia.laurila@ec.europa.eu 

The considerable rate of global social, economic, 

political, and demographic changes leads to 

increasing demands on mobility and flexibility of 

persons and institutions. As a consequence, new 

patterns of contingency and constancy, movement 

and integration, work and family are emerging. 

An extended mobility of employees is both a 

requirement and a precondition of the knowledgebased 

society and essential for social and territorial 

cohesion in Europe. One of the key challenges 

Europe faces in this situation is to understand how to 

encourage the flow of people and ideas across Europe 

without creating impairments regarding family 

formation, social integration, and individual well 

being. 

To improve this understanding is the main objective 

of this comparative research, covering six 

comprehensively selected European countries, 

representing varying levels of economic 

development, demographic situation, social 

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Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz 

Sozialwissenschaften, Medien und Sport, Institut 

für Soziologie 

Mainz DE 

Contact: 

Norbert SCHNEIDER 

norbert.schneider@uni-mainz.de 

http://www.jobmob-and-famlives.eu/ 

environments, and cultural traditions. The study is 

targeted at: 

a) mapping the demands and potentials of job 

mobility across selected regions, and identifying the 

barriers and triggers influencing the readiness to 

become mobile; 

b) identifying the consequences of job mobility for 

family formation (marriage, fertility, divorce), family 

relations (child care, coping, conflict management, 

division of labour), social integration, and individual 

well being; 

c) assessing the gender-specific issues in the field of 

mobility with a special focus on women, as our 

previous research suggests the costs of job mobility 

are higher for women; 

d) developing suggestions for adequate political 

measures to advance quality of life of mobile 

employees and their families in Europe, and 

balancing demands against readiness to move. 

The theoretical conception will be based on a 

dynamic social-structural approach on the macrolevel, 

combined with a rational-choice approach and 

stress theory on the micro-level of acting people.

Job mobilities and family lives in Europe modern mobile living 

and its relation to quality of life 


Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis 

Michel C. Hubert 

Brussels – BE 

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 

Estelle Bonnet 

Villeurbanne - FR 

Universität der Bundeswehr München 

Wolfgang Bonß 

Neubiberg - DE 

University of Warsaw 

Anna Giza-Poleszczuk 

Warsaw - PL 

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid 

Gerardo MEIL LANDWERLIN 

Madrid - ES 

JOBMOB AND FAMLIVES 

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Laboratoire de Sociologie Urbaine 

Vincent Kaufmann 

Lausanne - CH 

Université de Lausanne 

Eric Widmer 

Lausanne - CH 

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Advanced methodology for european Laeken Indicators 

AMELI 

AMELI aims at improving the methodology for indicators of social cohesion. It provides 

a benchmarking system that is both effective and workable and which allows to measure 

political impact. 







Unit L2 



The goal to turn the EU into the most competitive 

and dynamic economy by 2010 demands a full 

benchmarking system to monitor policy performance 

and their impact on progress. 

For this reason, the European Commission has 

engaged in selecting, collecting and analysing a set 

of indicators that are published each year. 

The Stockholm European Council has further 

emphasised the need for effective, timely and 

reliable statistics and indicators. 

A main challenge is to develop indicators for the 

main characteristics and key drivers. An utmost 

important and challenging area to be measured is 

social cohesion. 

Based on a clear definition of social cohesion, a 

universally-accepted high-quality and robust 

statistics to adequately measure social cohesion is 

required. 

Further, tools for measuring temporal developments 

and regional breakdowns to sub-populations of 

relevance will be of great importance. 


University of Trier 

Economic and Social Statistics Department 

DE - Trier 

Contact: 

Ralf MÜNNICH 

muennich@uni-trier.de 

http://www.ameli.surveystatistics.net/ 

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In order to measure social cohesion with Laeken 

indicators adequately while regarding national 

characteristics and practical peculiarities from the 

newly created EU-SILC, an improved methodology 

will be elaborated within AMELI. 

This will ensure that future political decision in the 

area of quality of life can be based on more adequate 

and high-quality data and a proper understanding of 

the Laeken indicators by the users. 

The study will include research on data quality 

including its measurement, treatment of outliers and 

nonresponse, small area estimation and the 

measurement of development over time. 

A large simulation study based on EU-SILC data 

will allow a simultaneous elaboration of the 

methodology focusing on practical issues aiming at 

support for policy. 

Due to the fact that the Laeken indicators are based 

on a highly sophisticated methodology the project’s 

outcome may also serve as a methodological 

complement for other Seventh Research Framework 

Project projects in the area of indicators.

Advanced methodology for European Laeken Indicators 


Statistisches Bundesamt 

Institute for Research and Development 

Manfred EHLING 

DE - Wiesbaden 

AMELI 

Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz 

School of Business/Institute for Competitiveness and Communication 

Beat HULLIGER 

CH - Olten 

Swiss Federal Statistical Office 

Statistical Methods Unit 

Monique GRAF 


Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich 

Register, Classification, Methods 

Thomas BURG 

AT- Vienna 

Statistics Finland 

Statistical Methodology R&D 

Timo Antti ALANKO 

FI - Helsinki 

Helsingin Yliopisto 

Department of Mathematics and Statistics 

Risto LEHTONEN 

FI – Helsinki 

Technische Universität Wien 

Department of Statistics and Probability Theory 

Matthias TEMPL 

AT - Vienna 

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Developing a detailed eight-country occupations database for 

comparative socio-economic research in the European Union 


EUROCCUPATIONS provides an Internet database with 1,500-2,000 occupations in the 

languages of the participating countries, including ISCO and NOC-codes, occupational 

titles, synonyms and CASMINX education code; frequency tables and gender, education 

and age distributions at aggregated levels per country; and for 150 benchmark occupations 

information about job content, required skill level, and competency profiles 






Unit L2 

Project contact: Tihamér LACZKÓ 

tihamer.laczko@ec.europa.eu 

EUROCCUPATIONS aims to build a publicly 

available database with the 1,500-2,000 most frequent 

occupations in the eight largest EU countries to be used 

in multi-country data-collection, be it large-scale 

surveys or case-studies. The database can be used in 

self-administered questionnaires by means of search 

tools or for recoding text-based reporting of 

occupations by means of recoding programs. For all 

occupations the database includes ISCO- and NOCoccupation 

codes, occupational titles, education and 

stratification code, and for 150 benchmark occupations, 

it holds information about job content, required skill 

level, and competencies. The information will be 

gathered via existing databases and via experts from 

interest organisations and social science researchers. 

Occupation is a key variable in social research, 

particularly the labour market, transitions from school 

to work, social stratification, gender wage gap, 

occupational structures or skill requirements. 

Classifications of industries and education are 

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Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam 

Faculty of Social Sciences 

NL - Rotterdam 

Contact: 

Kea TIJDENS 

tijdens@fsw.eur.nl 

http://www.euroccupations.org/main 

EU-harmonized, but occupational classifications are 

not. Most comparative, large-scale socio-economic 

datasets provide only highly aggregated, 1-digit 

information about occupations. In addition, tools are 

absent to collect comparable, disaggregated and 

reliable data on occupations across countries, be it 

large-scale surveys or case-studies. The 

EUROCCUPATIONS database will be tested for its 

usability and its search facilities for self-administered 

surveys and for text-based reporting of occupations 

recoding programs will be tested. In addition, the 

database will be tested for possible gender and skill 

bias. Finally, algorithms will be developed to derive 

stratification variables from the occupations in the 

database. The database will be promoted among the 

European research community and institutions in the 

European labour market by means of a website, offline 

versions of the database, conferences, web-based 

discussion platforms, and email newsletters.

Developing a detailed eight-country occupations database for 

comparative socio-economic research in the European Union 


Arbeid Opleidingen Consult 

Judith DE RUIJTER 

NL - Tilburg 


Tom VANDENBRANDE 

BE - Leuven 

University of Warwick 

Peter ELIAS 

GB - Coventry 

University of Amsterdam 

Marc VAN DER MEER 

NL - Amterdam 

Poznan University of Economics 

Piotr MICHON 

PL - Poznan 


Fundació Centre d'Iniciatives i Recerques Europees a la Mediterrània 

Maria CAPRILE 


Stichting Loonwijzer 

Paulien OSSE 


Centre d'études et de recherches sur les qualifications 

Sylvie-Anne MERIOT 

FR - Marseille 

Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Institut 

Reinhard BISPINCK 


AWWW GmbH Arbeitswelt 

Anni WEILER 

DE - Göttingen 

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II. Social databases, labour markets and statistics 

Measuring the dynamics of organisations and work: proposed guidelines for collecting and 

interpreting data on organisational change and its economic and social impacts 

MEADOW 

MEADOW is mapping and assessing existing quantitative data sources of the National 

and European Statistical System at the employer level and at the employee level. The 

Community Innovation Survey (CIS) has some questions related to organisational 

change but is based only on employer answers while MEADOW addresses also the 

employees. De facto, it expects a linked employer/employee survey of 1000 employers 

and between 1 and 25 employees per employer according to the size of the organisation. 

Both public and private sectors, both manufacturing and services will be covered. 





Funding scheme: CA 

Unit L2 




The MEADOW project proposes to set out 

Guidelines for collecting and interpreting harmonised 

data at the European level on organisational change 

and its economic and social impacts. 

The Guidelines will provide a framework within 

which existing European surveys on organisational 

change and work restructuring could evolve towards 

comparability, as well as providing norms for the 

construction of new survey instruments in the field. 


Centre d'Etudes de l'Emploi 

Dynamics of Organisations and Work Unit 

FR – Noisy-le-Grand 

Contact: 

Nathalie GREENAN 

greenan@cee.enpc.fr 

http://www.meadow-project.eu 

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MEADOW will provide an instrument for improving 

the empirical basis of research and policy on the 

relation between organisational change and key 

economic and social indicators in the knowledgebased 

economy, including productivity growth and 

innovative performance, and sustainable social 

equality in terms of access to jobs, work 

environments and influence at the workplace

Measuring the dynamics of organisations and work: proposed guidelines for collecting and 

interpreting data on organisational change and its economic and social impacts 


Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 

Edward LORENZ 

FR - Valbonne 

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of 

Leuven) 

Hubert COSSEY 

Monique RAMIOUL 

BE - Leuven 


Peter NIELSEN 

DK - Aalborg 

Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific 

Research 

Paulien M. BONGERS 

NL - Delft 

Italian National Research Council 

Daniele ARCHIBUGI 

IT - Roma 

Institute for Labour Studies 

Peter ESTER 

NL - Tilburg 

University of Maastricht 

Anthony ARUNDEL 


University of Kent 

Francis GREEN 

UK - Canterbury 

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Fôrderung der 

angewandten Forschung e.V. 

Eva KIRNER 

DE - München 

Szociologiai Kutatointézet - Institute of Sociology, 


Csaba MAKO 

HU - Budapest 

MEADOW 

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Göteborgs Universitet 

Annika HARENSTAM 


National Institute of Economic and Social Research 

John FORTH 

UK - London 

Institut fûr Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 

Lutz BELLMANN 

SE - Nümberg


Assessing organised crime: testing the feasibility of common European 

approach in a case study of the cigarette black market in the EU 

ASSESSING OC 

ASSESSING OC provides an on-line database on existing conceptions of organised crime. 

It reviews existing data sources on criminal organisations and evaluates the usefulness of 

existing data. It focuses on four illicit economic sectors: drug trafficking, illegal 

immigration, trafficking in human beings and financial crime. 


EC Contribution: 495 400 € 




Unit L2 



This study aims at developing and testing a crossnational 

and cross-sectorial methodology for assessing 

the nature, social relevance and dynamics of patterns of 

criminal cooperation, taking the trafficking in untaxed 

cigarettes in the European Union as an object of study 

for a first pilot. The project will critically review 

existing conceptual approaches and data sources on 

organised crime. The range and quality of the existing 

data will be evaluated by comparing the data 

requirements set out by each identified approach with 

the available data, and by applying general criteria of 

reliability and validity. In a sector-by-sector analysis of 

the situation in the areas of drug trafficking, illegal 

immigration, trafficking in humans, and trafficking in 

contraband cigarettes the project will explore current 

possibilities and limits of a meaningful assessment of 

organised drawing on a review of academic, of fiscal 

and private sector material containing concept- 

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Tilburg University 

Faculty of Law 

NL - Tilburg 

Contact: 

Petrus C. VAN DUYNE 

petrus@uvt.nl 

http://www.assessingorganisedcrime.net/ 

ualisations and/or data on organised crime, the 

participants own expertise and invited external 

expertise from the law enforcement community, the 

project will propose a harmonised terminology, 

identify key properties meaningfully characterising 

organised crime, determine how these properties can be 

operationalised and how the derived data can be used 

to assess the nature, social relevance and 

developmental trends of diverse manifestations of 

organised crime. The proposed methodology will be 

tested in a case study of the cigarette black market in 

Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and the United 

Kingdom. Data will be obtained from judicial files and 

interviews conducted with law enforcement experts, 

private sector experts and offenders. The project will 

make recommendations on the implementation of the 

methodology in the areas of research, law enforcement, 

policy, and the private security sector.

Assessing organised crime: testing the feasibility of common European 

approach in a case study of the cigarette black market in the EU 



Andreas DE LEENHEER 

BE - Gent 

Freie Universitaet Berlin 

Peter LANGE 

DE - Berlin 

University of Durham 

Paulina LUBACZ 

GB - Durham 

University of Tartu 

Ain HEINARU 

EE - Tartu 

ASSESSING OC 

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Toolbox for improving the comparability of cross-national survey data with 

applications to SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) 

COMPARE 

COMPARE provides a multidisciplinary and cross-national panel database of micro data 

on health, socio-economic status and social and family networks of more than 30,000 

individuals aged 50 or over in Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, 

Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden and The Netherlands. 






Unit L2 



In a diverse continent like Europe, much can be learned 

from cross-national research using surveys among 

households and individuals. Often, however, such 

comparisons suffer from differences across countries 

and socio-economic groups in the way people answer 

survey questions, particularly self-evaluations of, e.g., 

health or quality of work. This proposal aims at solving 

this problem by developing widely applicable tools for 

comparative survey research among European citizens, 

called anchoring vignettes. Anchoring vignettes are 

short descriptions of, e.g., the health or job 

characteristics of hypothetical persons. Respondents 

are asked to evaluate the hypothetical persons on the 

same scale on which they assess their own health or 

job. Respondents are thus providing an anchor, which 

fixes their own health assessment to a predetermined 

health status or job characteristic. These anchors can 

then be used to make subjective assessments 

comparable across countries and socio-economic 

groups. The project will develop anchors that can be 

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CentER 

NL - Tilburg 

Contact: 

Arthur VAN SOEST 

a.h.o.vansoest@uvt.nl 

http://www.compare-project.org/ 

used in a broad range of domains (such as health; work 

disability; quality of life, employment and health care; 

satisfaction with political institutions) and that can be 

applied to typical EU sponsored cross-national surveys 

(such as the ECHP, ESS, SHARE and SILC). 

Specifically, anchors will be constructed for SHARE, 

the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in 

Europe, which currently covers some 22,000 

respondents of age 50 and older in eleven EU 

countries. We use SHARE as a testing ground since it 

addresses crucial domains of European public policy, 

such as health care, socio-economic status, 

employment and retirement. The vignettes will be used 

to construct improved indicators of health, well-being, 

job satisfaction, etc., helping Europe to create 

opportunities for more accurate and richer analyses of 

the consequences of ageing and the effects of socioeconomic 

and health care policies at the national and 

European level.

Toolbox for improving the comparability of cross-national survey data with 

applications to SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) 


University of Mannheim 


DE - Mannheim 

Université de Liège 

Sergio PERELMAN 

BE - Liège 

Universiteit Antwerpen 

Karel VAN DEN BOSCH 

BE - Antwerpen 

COMPARE 

Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education, Charles University, and Economics Institute, the 

Academy of Sciences 

Radim BOHACEK 

CZ - Prague 

Institut de Recherches et de Documentation en Economie de la Santé 

Anne LAFERRERE 

FR - Paris 

Regional Development Institute, Panteion University 

Antigone LYBERAKI 

GR - Athens 

Universita' degli Studi di Padova 

Guglielmo WEBER 

IT - Padova 

Warsaw University 

Michal MYCK 

PL - Warsaw 

Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros 

Pedro MIRA 

ES - Madrid 

Uppsala University 

Anders KLEVMARKEN 

SE - Uppsala 

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Employment and health at 50+: 

a life history approach to European welfare state interventions 

SHARELIFE 

SHARELIFE aims to shed light on the mechanisms through which welfare state 

interventions may be responsible for the differences in health and employment that can be 

seen among EU Member States and thus contribute to improved governance and policy 

design. SHARELIFE builds upon the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe 

longitudinal panel established in 2004 (SHARE). This amounts in life history data for 

about 25.000 women and men aged 50 and over in 13 countries ranging from Scandinavia 

to the Mediterranean. 






Unit L2 

Project contact: Giulia AMADUCCI 

giulia.amaducci@ec.europa.eu 

Health and work are key determinants of our wellbeing. 

They are thus major objectives of the European 

welfare state, e.g. of the Lisbon agenda. Yet, health and 

employment vary tremendously across EU member 

states. The aim of the SHARELIFE project is to shed 

light on the mechanisms through which welfare state 

interventions may be responsible for such differences 

and thus contribute to improved governance and policy 

design. 

SHARELIFE is based on three powerful features that 

allow for an innovative analysis of past and current 

welfare state interventions in Europe: 

First and foremost, it takes a life history approach, as 

the full effect of welfare state interventions on 

individuals can only be assessed over their entire life 

course and not by comparing concurrent policies and 

outcomes. Specifically, the project collects life history 

micro data to identify intervention points at which 

welfare state policies – such as education, income 

support programs, work place regulations, health care 

systems, old-age and disability pension systems – 

affect women and men at various points in their lives. 

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Mannheim University 

Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of 

Aging 

DE-Mannheim 

Contact: 


axel@boersch-supan.de 

http://www.share-project.org/sharelife/ 

Some interventions offset, others amplify each other, 

and they may have cumulative effects over the life 

course. Also, the timing of interventions is key to 

identifying their causal effects. 

Second, it uses a multidisciplinary approach that 

explicitly accounts for the interactions between health, 

work conditions and employment. Analysing health or 

employment in isolation ignores the interactions 

between health care and labour market policies. These 

interactions are long-term but the project believes that 

they are crucial in creating different health and 

employment outcomes. 

Finally, SHARELIFE bases its analyses on an 

innovative combination of life history, cross-sectional 

micro and institutional macro data that take account of 

general policy differences as well as the large 

heterogeneity of life circumstances in EU member 

countries which make similar policies work differently 

in different life circumstances.

Employment and health at 50+: 

a life history approach to European welfare state interventions 


Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia 

Agar BRUGIAVINI 

IT - Venezia 

Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf 

Johannes SIEGRIST 


Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam 

Johan MACKENBACH 


University of Lausanne 

Brigitte SANTOS-EGGIMANN 

CH - Lausanne 


Guglielmo WEBER 

IT - Padova 

SHARELIFE 

Centro Interuniversitario di Studi in Economia e Finanza 

Tullio JAPPELLI 

IT - Fisciano (SA) 


Arthur VAN SOEST 

NL - Tilburg 

Institute for Fiscal Studies 

James BANKS 

GB - London 

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How demographic changes shape intergenerational solidarity, well-being, 

and social integration: a multilinks framework 

MULTILINKS 

MULTILINKS develops a dataset containing information on policies in new Member 

States related to support for families and elderly care. The project also designs new 

indicators of intergenerational care regimes. 







Unit L2 


dominik.sobczak @ec.europa.eu 

The objective of this project is to investigate how 

changing social contexts, from macro-societal to 

micro-interpersonal, affect social integration, wellbeing 

and intergenerational solidarity across 

different European nations. Debates on ageing 

societies predominantly focus on the circumstances 

of the old. 

The MULTILINKS approach builds on three key 

premises. First, ageing affects all age groups: the 

young, the middle-aged, and the old. Second, there 

are critical interdependencies between family 

generations and between men and women. Third, the 

individual, dyad (parent-child, partners), family, 

region, historical generation, and country levels 

should be recognized and distinguished. 

Building from these premises, the following aspects 

will be examined: 

a) multiple linkages in families (e.g. transfers up and 

down family lineages, interdependencies between 

older and younger family members); 


Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic 

Institute (NIDI) 

NL – The Hague 

Contact: 

Pearl DYKSTRA 

dykstra@nidi.nl 

www.multilinks-project.eu 

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b) multiple linkages across time (measures at 

different points in time, at different points in the 

individual and family life course); 

c) multiple linkages between, on the one hand, 

national and regional contexts (e.g. policy regimes, 

economic circumstances, normative climate, 

religiosity), and, on the other hand, individual 

behaviour, well-being and values. 

By identifying intergenerational care regimes (i.e. 

combinations of child care provisions and provisions 

for the frail old) and their shortcomings, 

MULTILINKS will contribute to the substantive 

understanding of the risks of becoming socially 

isolated and/or lacking necessary supports. 

A consortium of eight partners organized in six 

teams will carry out the project. All partners are 

involved in the Gender and Generations Programme, 

a system of nationally comparative surveys and 

contextual databases, which aims at improving the 

knowledge base for policy-making in United 

Nations Economic Commission for Europe 

countries. Currently, data are available from twelve 

countries.

How demographic changes shape intergenerational solidarity, well-being, 

and social integration: a multilinks framework 


MULTILINKS 

Vrije Universiteit Brussel 

Faculty of Economic, Political and Social Sciences, Vakgroep 

Jan VAN BAVEL 

BE - Brussels 

Universiteit Antwerpen 


Dimitri MORTELMANS 

BE - Antwerpen 

Social Science Research Centre Berlin 

Demographic Development, Social Change, and Social Capital 

Chiara SARACENO 

DE - Berlin 

Norwegian Social Research 

Britt SLAGSVOLD 

NO - Oslo 

Utrecht University 

Social Science Faculty 

Aafke Elisabeth KOMTER 

NL - Utrecht 

Estonian Interuniversity Population Research Centre 

Kalev KATUS 

EE - Tallinn 

Universitá Commerciale Luigi Bocconi 

Carlo F. Dondena "Centre for Research on Social Dynamics" 

Arnstein AASSVE 

IT - Milano 

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Reproductive decision-making in a macro-micro perspective 

REPRO 

The Human Fertility Database (HFD) aims to fill the gaps in fertility data availability and 

comparability, providing detailed period and cohort fertility data for developed countries. 

It will contain data on birth counts, female populations, fertility rates, parity-specific birth 

probabilities, and various aggregated fertility indicators. The REPRO project mainly 

contributed to the initialisation of the work on the HFD and to checking, testing, and 

documenting the data for Austria, the Czech Republic, and, in part, also for Slovakia. 







Unit L.2 



The main objective of the REPRO project is to upgrade 

the existing knowledge and to generate new scientific 

and policy-oriented knowledge on the factors that drive 

changes in the birth rates and influence the 

reproductive decision-making of contemporary 

Europeans. 

REPRO incorporates analyses in macro, micro, and 

macro-micro perspectives. 

At the macro-level, we describe recent fertility trends 

observed across Europe and examine their association 

with selected macro-level social, economic and 

institutional indicators. At the micro-level we use the 

social-psychological theory of planned behaviour to 

analyse the process of reproductive decision-making. 

The theory will be developed to fit specific 

demographic research on fertility intentions of 

individuals as well as of couples. We also use panel 

data to obtain insights into the realisation or nonrealisation 

of fertility intentions. 

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Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 

Vienna Institute of Demography 

AT - Vienna 

Contact: 

Dimiter PHILIPOV 

Dimiter.philipov@eaw.ac.at 

http://www.repro-project.org 

To this end, we make use of economic, sociological, 

and cultural theoretical approaches whose application 

has proved useful. The analyses at the micro-level are 

furthered by inferences based on available qualitative 

surveys. The macro-micro approach integrates the 

findings reached at the macro and at the micro-level 

using comparable data sets on fertility intentions and 

behaviours available in most European countries and 

multi-level statistical techniques. 

This integrated approach sheds light on the impact and 

interrelatedness of diverse factors such as work 

patterns and employment, family formation, housing, 

gender roles and factors related to ideational change, 

cultural specifics and institutional settings. Finally, the 

integrated method of research generates knowledge 

that can be streamed into relevant policy construction 

and implementation. 

A synthesis of all findings will be performed to serve 

as a sound basis for drawing valuable policy 

implications.

Reproductive decision-making in a macro-micro perspective 


Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques (INED) 

Olivier THEVENON 

FR - Paris 

REPRO 

Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) 

Aat LIEFBROER 


Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi 

Carlo F. Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics 

Jane KLOBAS 

IT - Milano 

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 

Independent Research Group Culture of Reproduction 

Laura BERNARDI 

DE - Rostock 

Demographic Research Institute 

Zsolt SPÉDER 

HU - Budapest 

Statistics Norway 

Division for Social and Demographic Research 

Trude LAPPEGARD 

NO - Oslo 

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 

Coordination Research Council for Social Development and Social Eurointegration 

Atanas ATANASSOV 

BG - Sofia 

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe 

Population Activities Unit 

Andres VIKAT 

CH - Geneva 

University of Essex 

Institute for Social and Economic Research 

Maria IACOVOU 

UK - Colchester 

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Activating senior potential in ageing Europe 

ASPA 

ASPA develops a survey-based dataset on the attitudes of employers towards older 

workers, including human resources policies in relation to older employees, as well as on 

the influence of public policies in this area. Around 6.500 organisations will be questioned 

in United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Poland (1000 organisations in each), as 

well as Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands (500 organisations each). 







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The dejuvenation and ageing of Europe's population 

puts society for some major challenges. 

The development towards a knowledge-based society 

requires continued investment in new knowledge and 

skills. 

Given the ageing of the population and low fertility 

rates it also requires high(er) participation rates of 

females and people over fifty. 

So far, employers’ and governments’ policies have 

focused on human capital investments for the younger 

age categories and have stimulated older workers to 

retire at a relatively early age, instead of investing in 

sustainable workers throughout the life course. 

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Tjalling C. Koopmans Institute 

NL - Utrecht 

Contact: 

Joop SCHIPPERS 

j.schippers@econ.uu.nl 

This proposal aims for an ambitious, exhaustive 

examination of the forces and mechanisms behind 

employers’ and governments’ behaviour and the 

resulting societal arrangements. 

To that aim it will use large scale surveys for the 

analyses of employers’ behaviour and desk research 

and interviews to map government behaviour. 

Statistical and focus group analyses will be used to get 

insight in the participation and activity rates of people 

between 50 to 70. 

Next, the project tries to identify good practices at the 

company level and at the level of (national or local) 

government policies that contribute to continuous 

investment in knowledge and skills throughout the life 

course, resulting in high activity rates for people 

between 50 and 70.


Activating senior potential in ageing Europe 

ASPA 


Kène HENKENS 


University of Warwick 

Warwick Institute for Employment Research 

Kerry Ann PLATMAN 

UK - Coventry 

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales 

Centre d’Etude des Mouvements Sociaux (CEMS) 

Anne-Marie GUILLEMARD 

FR - Paris 

Hochschule Vechta 

Research Centre for Ageing and Society 

Frerich FRERICHS 

DE - Vechta 

Växjö University 

School of Management and Economics 

Centre for Labour Market Policy Research (CAFO) 

Dominique ANXO 

SE -Växjö 


Economy, Politics and Public Administration 

Per H. JENSEN 

DK - Aalborg 

Istituto Nazionale Ricovero e Cura Anziani 

Department of Gerontological Research 

Giovanni LAMURA 

IT - Ancona 

Jagiellonian University 

Institute of Sociology 

Jolanta PEREK-BIALAS 

PL - Cracow 

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MAFE 

MAFE collects statistical data in several countries (countries of departure and countries 

of destination). Three questionnaires are conceived for this purpose: a "Community" 

questionnaire, a "household" questionnaire and a "biographical" questionnaire. 







Unit L2 



African migration has become a major concern for 

European policy makers. 

New policy measures are engaged, but they rely on a 

poor understanding of the underlying causes and 

consequences of African migration. 

The MAFE project aims to overcome this lack of 

understanding by pursuing three interrelated 

objectives: 

a) to create a unique data set on Afro-European 

migration. Comparable data will be collected in both 

sending and receiving countries, i.e. in sub-Saharan 

Africa and Europe. The project aim is to replicate a 

survey applied to study Senegalese migration on 

new populations, i.e. Congolese and Ghanaians. The 

methodology used in the project is built upon keys 

studies on international migration in the world. The 

data will be representative, longitudinal and 

multilevel; 

b) to provide new analyses through innovative 

techniques. Using this new data, the MAFE project 

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Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques 

FR - Paris 

Contact: 

Cris BEAUCHEMIN 

cris.beauchemin@ined.fr 

http://mafe.site.ined.fr 

will employ methods of longitudinal data analysis to 

provide policy makers with new insights on the 

changing patterns and determinants of migrations 

between Africa and Europe, as well as on the 

socioeconomic changes associated with international 

migration; 

c) to foster a policy dialogue. MAFE fully integrates 

a process of policy dialogue in its design. Various 

stakeholders have already been consulted and will 

follow the development of the project. Research 

findings will be disseminated through various 

channels to reach a large audience (working papers, 

policy briefs, etc.). The MAFE database will be 

made available for the research community at the 

end of the project. 

The overall idea underpinning the project is that 

migration must not be seen only as a one-way flow 

from Africa to Europe. We rather argue that return 

migration, circulation, transnational practices are 

significant and must also be understood in order to 

correctly design migration policies.



Institute of Demography 

Bruno SCHOUMAKER 

BE - Louvain-la-Neuve 


MAFE 


Amsterdam institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDST 

Valentina MAZZUCATO 


Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar 

IPDSR 

Papa SAKHO 

SN – Dakar Fann 

University of Kinshasa 

Département des Sciences, de la Population et du Développement 

Jose MANGALU 

CD - Kinshasa 

University of Ghana 

Centre for Migration Studies 

Peter QUARTEY 

GH - Legon 

University Pompeu Fabra 

Department of Political and Social Sciences 

Amparo GONZALEZ-FERRER 


Forum Internazionale ed Europeo di Ricerche sull'Immigrazione (FIERI) 

Giovanna ZINCONE 

IT - Torino 


School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies 

Richard BLACK 

UK - Brighton 

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Towards harmonised European statistics on international migration 

THESIM 

THESIM has provided a complete overview of the situation regarding data collection in 

each of the EU Member States. It produced 25 country reports on the national situation on 

data collection on international migration, asylum, residence permits, citizenship including 

an analysis of the CIREFI data (Centre for Information, Discussion and exchange on the 

crossing of Frontiers and Immigration). 






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Migration has become a top priority for European 

Policy while international migration statistics are 

among the less reliable statistics within the field of 

socio-economic and demographic data. Already in the 

'70, this weakness has been pointed out by international 

bodies like UNECE Geneva. Within EUROSTAT, this 

problem has been faced continuously starting in 1990 

with the production of a first report on harmonisation 

of international migration statistics among the 12 EU 

Member States. Intense co-operation has been 

thereafter developed between all concerned 

international bodies in order to improve the situation 

including the writing of updated UN recommendations 

for international migration statistics. Some 

improvements effectively occurred but the goal of 

producing a set of data with sufficient reliability and 

minimal harmonisation and comparability is not yet 

achieved and policy-makers express more and more 

their strong needs for appropriate data. Concretely the 

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SPED/ESPO/GéDAP 

Centre d'Etudes de Gestion Démographique pour les 

Administrations Publiques 

BE - Louvain La Neuve 

Contact: 

Michel POULAIN 

crochet@vcra.ucl.ac.be 

http://www.uclouvain.be/14230.html 

THESIM project has served as a basic document for 

the implementation of the EU regulation of the 

European Parliament and the Council on Community 

Statistics on Migration and International Protection 

adopted in July 2007 (N° 862/2007). This regulation, 

with the scientific support of the THESIM project, will 

have a large impact in all EU countries on the way the 

data are collected in term of concepts, reliability and 

used data sources. It may involve the development of a 

new data collection system by EUROSTAT and 

progressively better data will be available for policymakers 

in order to develop and monitor European 

migration policy. 

A book under the title "THESIM: Towards 

Harmonised European Statistics on International 

Migration" has been published in 2006 with Michel 

Poulain, Nicolas Perrin and Ann Singleton as editors, 

Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 744 pages, ISBN 

2-930344-95-4

Towards harmonised European statistics on international migration 


THESIM 


Harri CRUIJSEN 


Unité "Comparaisons internationales" & Unité "Dynamique et renouvellement des populations" 

Xavier THIERRY 

FR - Paris 

ICSTAT 

Giambattista CANTISANI 

IT - Roma 

Central European Forum for Migration Research 

Marek KUPISZEWSKI 

PL - Warszawa 


Anne HERM 

EE - Tallinn 

International Centre for Migration Policy Development Research Department 

Michael JANDL 

AT - Vienna 

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Promoting comparative quantitative research in the 

field of migration and integration in Europe 

PROMINSTAT 

PROMINSTAT provides an online database containing essential technical information on 

migration and integration. Statistical datasets are provided for 27 European countries (25 

European Union Member States plus Norway and Switzerland). 

Proposition: 028972 





Unit L2 



With the Amsterdam Treaty and the increasing 

competence of the European Union in the field of 

migration, integration, anti-discrimination and asylum, 

the need for comparative data in the this area has been 

increasingly recognized. Social scientists, on the other 

hand, have a much broader agenda for comparative 

research, that goes beyond the immediate needs of 

policy makers and requires much more sophisticated 

data as well as knowledge about datasets that might be 

used for comparative research purposes. 

The objective of the project is to promote comparative 

quantitative research in the field of migration and 

integration. It will do so in three respects: 

First, an online accessible database will be established, 

based on a database developed in a pilot project and 

containing essential technical information on statistical 

datasets in twenty- seven European countries as well as 

the variables included in these dataset. 

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International Centre for Migration Policy 

Development 

Research and Policy (RaP) 

AT - Vienna 

Contact: 

Albert KRALER 

Albert.Kraler@icmpd.org 

http://www.prominstat.eu/drupal/?q=node/64 

Second national data collection systems will be 

systematically described in the form of brief country 

report which will provide essential contextual 

information necessary to understand statistical data in 

the area of migration and integration more generally. 

Third, and most important, thematic studies will 

explore the possibilities for, and the possible 

limitations on conducting research in a number of 

different thematic areas based on an evaluation of the 

datasets included in the database. 

Through the thematic studies, the online portal will 

also serve as a platform for the discussion of 

fundamental methodological problems in this field as 

well as a tool for dissemination of project result.


European Forum for Migration Studies 

Friedrich HECKMANN 

DE - Bamberg 

Swiss Forum for Migration and Population studies 

SFM 

Gianni D'AMATO 



Michel POULAIN 

BE - Louvain-La-Neuve 

Geographical Research Institute of the Hungarian 

Academy of Sciences 

JuditJAHÁSZ 

HU - Budapest 


Jeroen M.J. DOOMERNIK 


Statistics Norway 

Lars ØSTBY 

NO - Oslo 

Promoting comparative quantitative research in the 

field of migration and integration in Europe 

Department of geoeconomic, linguistic, statistical and 

historical studies for regional analysis, University of 

Rome "La Sapienza" 

Enrico TODISCO 

IT - Roma 

Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y 

Gasset 

Joaquín ARANGO 

ES - Madrid 

PROMINSTAT 

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Malmö University, International mIgration and Ethnic 

Relations 

Pieter BEVELANDER 

SE - Malmö 

Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Natural 

Sciences 

Dusan DRBOHLAV 

CZ - Prague 

Institut National d'Études Démographiques 

Xavier THIERRY 

FR - Paris 

University of Bristol 

Ann SINGLETON 

GB - Bristol 

Fundação da Universidade de Lisboa 

Maria Lucinda Cruz dos Santos FONSECA 

PT - Lisboa 

International Organization for Migration 


PL - Warsaw 

Statistics Denmark 

Anita LANGE 

DK - København 

Institute of Migration 

Elli HEIKKILÄ 

FI - Turku 

Malta Statistics Authority 

Reno CAMILLERI 

MT - Valetta


Ethnic differences in education and diverging prospects 

for urban youth in an enlarged Europe 

EDUMIGROM 

From macro-level investigations, EDUMIGROM will provide rich datasets on 

educational policies and their role in protecting minority ethnic youth against 

marginalisation and social exclusion. 







Unit L2 



The proposed research project aims to study how 

ethnic differences in education contribute to the 

diverging prospects for minority ethnic youth and 

their peers in urban settings. 

Through a comparative endeavour involving nine 

countries from among old and new Member States 

of the European Union, EDUMIGROM will explore 

how far existing educational policies, practices and 

experiences in markedly different welfare regimes 

protect minority ethnic youth against 

marginalisation and eventual social exclusion. 

Despite great variations in economic development 

and welfare arrangements, recent developments 

seem to lead to similar consequences for certain 

groups of second-generation immigrants in the 

western half of the continent and Roma in Central 

and Eastern Europe. 

Formally citizens with full rights in the respective 

States, people affiliated with these groups tend to 

experience new and intensive forms of involuntary 

separation, social exclusion, and second-class 

citizenship. 

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Central European University 

Center for Policy Studies 

HU - Budapest 

Contact: 

Violetta ZENTAI 

vzentai@osi.hu 

http://www.edumigrom.eu 

The project will critically examine the role of 

education in these processes of ‘minoritisation’. In 

ethnically diverse urban communities, schools often 

become targets for locally organised political 

struggles shaped by a broader political and civic 

culture of ethnic mobilisation. 

EDUMIGROM will investigate how schools operate 

in their roles of socialisation and knowledge 

distribution, and how they influence young people’s 

identity formation. 

The project will also explore how schools contribute 

to reducing, maintaining, or deepening inequalities 

in young people’s access to the labour market, 

further education and training, and also to different 

domains of social, cultural, and political 

participation. 

The results of macro-level investigations, a 

comparative survey and multi-faceted field research 

in local settings will provide rich datasets for intra- 

and cross-country comparisons and evidence-based 

policy-making.


Ethnic differences in education and diverging prospects 

for urban youth in an enlarged Europe 

Masarykova Univerzita Brno 

Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology 

Radim MARADA 

CZ - Brno 

Kobenhavns Universitet 

Department of Media, Cognition and Communication 

Bolette MOLDENHAWER 


EDUMIGROM 

Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2 

Laboratory for the Analysis of Social Problems and Collective Action (LAPSAC) 

Georges FELOUZIS 

FR - Bordeaux 

Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung 

Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) 

Sabine MANNITZ 

DE – Frankfurt am Main 


Institute of Sociology 

Maria NEMENYI 

HU - Budapest 

Universitatea Babes-Bolyai 

Centre for Gender Studies 

Eniko MAGYARI-VINCZE 

RO - Cluj-Napoca 

Slovak Academy of Sciences 

Institute for Sociology 

Zuzana KUSA 


Stockholms Universitet 


Barbara HOBSON 


University of Leeds 

School of Sociology and Social Policy 

Fiona WILLIAMS 

UK - Leeds 

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Environmental change and forced migration scenarios 

EACH-FOR 

EACH-FOR deals with statistical indicators able to measure environmental migration and 

refugee flows. It is a key input for scenario-building the natural and anthropogenic causes 

of forced migration towards Europe. 






Unit L2 



Forced migration is a movement in which an element 

of coercion exists, including threats to life and 

livelihood, whether arising from natural or man-made 

causes (e.g. movements of refugees and internally 

displaced persons). The changes of natural and manmade 

environment will probably be the most 

significant factors among the causes of forced 

migration. It is essential to get accurate information 

about the current and future triggers of forced 

migration in each country of origin and within Europe 

itself. The two year long project's general objectives 

are to support European policies, research and the civil 

society with 'forced migration' scenarios, and cooperate 

with other migration and environment degradation 

related projects and institutions. 

The objectives will be achieved by five interlinked 

research sequences: 

a) scenario-building the natural and anthropogenic 

causes of forced migration; 

b) analyzing direct (e.g. desertification) and indirect 

(e.g. conflicts) environmental effects on livelihoods; 

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ATLAS Innoglobe Tervezo es Szolgaltato Kft 

Research and Development 

HU - Budapest 

Contact: 

Andras VAG 

andras.vag@atlasco.hu 

http://www.each-for.eu/index.php?module=main 

c) predicting potential forced migration flows, with 

emphasis on environmental refugees; 

d) contributing to the preparation of statistical 

indicators to measure environmental refugee flows; 

e) dissemination. The study of the causes is a 

multidisciplinary and multisectoral process. 

The list of methodological tools contains all traditional 

elements of research from primary data collection via 

statistical analysis and environmental evaluation to 

modelling. The studied cases are selected from the 

following regions: Europe and Russia, NIS and Central 

Asia, Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Ghana, Middle 

East and Northern Africa, Latin America. The project 

will produce detailed sub-region or country level 

forced migration scenarios, including environmental 

refugees; presentation of causes leading to forced 

migration, with focus on environmental concerns; and 

an online running "environment degradation caused 

forced migration" model for demonstration and policy 

purposes.

Environmental change and forced migration scenarios 


EACH-FOR 

United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security 

Janos BOGARDI 

DE 

Erasmus University Rotterdam 

Henri Bernhard ENTZINGER 


University of Bielefeld, Center on Migration, Citizenship and Development 

Thomas FAIST 

DE - Bielefeld 

SERI Nachhaltigkeitsforschungs und kommunikations GesmbH 

Jill JÄGER 

AT - Vienna 

University of Liège - Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies 

François GEMENNE 

BE - Liège 

Universidad del País Vasco 

Oscar ÁLVAREZ GILA 

ES - Leioa 

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Needs for female immigrants and their integration in ageing societies 

FEMAGE 

FEMAGE develops a database and codebook (MIG database) able to help to compare 

internationally the attitudes of resident populations towards migrants, migration and 

integration. 





Instrument: STREP 

Unit L4 

Project contact: Florence BOUVRET 

florence.bouvret@ec.europa.eu 

The overreaching objectives are to generate knowledge 

about obstacles and needs for opportunity enhancement 

for economic and social integration of women 

immigrants in a life-course perspective, identify 

requirements for integrative interaction between 

immigrants and national population in the host country, 

build this knowledge into a platform for the policy 

deliberations among key policy stakeholders, and 

elaborate recommendations on needs for immigrants 

and support policies and services for their integration 

in view of population ageing in Europe. 

The comprehensive method of approach encapsulates 

findings from a small scale targeted survey of 

immigrant women, it capitalises on the already 

gathered but unexplored data among nationals of five 

new and three old member states regarding migration 

and integration of immigrants, and involves the key 

stakeholders in the policy deliberations in view to 

identify challenges to integration and expected needs 

for future immigration policies. 

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Bundesinstitut fuer Bevolkerungsforschung 

DE - Wiesbaden 

Contact: 

Charlotte HOEHN 

charlotte.hoehn@destatis.de 

http://www.bib-demographie.de/femage/ 

The project addresses directly women third-country 

nationals residing in eight EU countries. It will record 

their experiences, needs, attitudes and expectations 

concerning immigration and integration policies and 

practices and viewpoints regarding their own old age. 

The researchers' role is that of brokers between female 

immigrants, national population and the key policy 

actors - including social partners and NGOs working 

with immigrant women. The expected benefits are at 

the level of elaboration of facilitative measures for 

economic and social integration of immigrant women, 

mobilization of a broad population base in the host 

countries in view to foster better understanding of the 

long-term needs for migrants and their integration in 

ageing societies, consultations of stakeholders, and 

mobilization of the critical mass of institutions and 

researchers from nine member states to gain new 

knowledge to improve integration processes and 

services in the framework of the Lisbon agenda and 

process.

Needs for female immigrants and their integration in ageing societies 


FEMAGE 

Demographic Research Institute at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office 

Attila MELEGH 

HU - Budapest 

Population and Social Policy Consultants 

Dragana AVRAMOV 

BE - Brussels 

International Organization for Migration 


PL - Warszawa 

Masaryk University Faculty of Social Studies 

Ladislav RABUSIC 

CZ - Brno 

Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts 

Majda ERNIC ISTANIC 


Austrian Academy of Sciences 

Dimiter PHILIPOV 

AT - Vienna 

The Family Federation of Finland/Population Research Institute 

Ismo Richard SODERLING 

FI - Helsinki 


Kalev KATUS 

EE – Tallinn 

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Development of methods and tools for evaluation of research 

DEMETER 

DEMETER includes the development of the European econometric model NEMESIS and 

the world and European general equilibrium model GEM-E3. DEMETER will be 

grounded on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) indicators and new databases that 

take into account all the activities related to RTD (and not only RTD expenses), the 

knowledge spillovers between activities and countries and also other forms of intangible 

capital. 







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The Lisbon Agenda of increasing competitiveness of 

European countries by the «knowledge» has focussed 

attention on RTD and education policies. 

The evaluation of such policies is in the state of the art 

very difficult. If there exist quantifications of RTD 

increase on economic performance at a firm or sectoral 

level, the assessment of such performance on a whole 

community or a group of countries is less frequent. 

The link between RTD and economic performance has, 

during the last decades, changed a lot, rising a doubt on 

the former estimations: for instance the knowledge 

spillovers between countries linked to RTD has 

increased, the services activities linked to RTD has 

increased also much and then the measurement of RTD 

did change in significance. The importance of other 

forms of intangible capital (human, ICT, organisational 

capital…) has modified the link between RTD and 

innovation. 

The overall objective of this project is to build a system 

of tools based on applied modelling that can be used 

for the ex ante evaluation of research and innovation 

policies at sectoral and European level. 

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Centrale Recherche SA 

Laboratoire Erasme 

FR - Paris 

Contact: 

Paul ZAGAME 

danielle.schirmann-duclos@ecp.fr 

The method of the project will be a wide scope one. It 

will be based on micro, meso and macro economics, in 

order to give deep insight on the RTD incentives and 

the RTD performance; It will be grounded on Scientific 

and Technique and Innovation (STI) indicators and 

new databases that take into account all the activities 

related to RTD (and not only RTD expenses), the 

knowledge spillovers between activities and countries 

and also other forms of intangible capital. 

These insights will be used to modify the production 

block and demand of the two large scale detailed 

economic coverage models that have a good track 

record: the econometric model NEMESIS and the 

general equilibrium one GEM-E3 that will produce 

macro and detailed indicators in order to assess RTD 

and innovation policies in terms of STI indicators, 

competitiveness, growth, employment, budget deficits, 

welfare, environment and sustainable development.

Development of methods and tools for evaluation of research 


Universiteit Maastricht 

UNU-MERIT 

Luc SOETE 


DEMETER 

Institute of Communication and Computer Systems 

Energy-Economy-Environment Modelling Laboratory (E3Mlab) 

Pantelis CAPROS 

EL - Athens 

Federal Planning Bureau 

Francis BOSSIER 

BE - Brussels 


Center Economic Studies 

Denise VAN REGEMORTER 

BE - Leuven 

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 

CEMI-CDM 

Dominique FORAY 

CH – Lausanne 

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Evaluating integrated impact assessments 

EVIA 

EVIA analyses trends, innovations and outcomes of Impact Assessment within the EU and 

its Member States. Based on surveys in 27 Member States and EU studies, EVIA provides 

the definition of Impact Assessment, the variation of Impact Assessment and the indicators 

of quality of Impact Assessment. A Database containing information from 150 interviews 

with responsible Impact Assessment officers and stakeholders is available. 






Unit L.2 




Impact Assessment (IA) aims to support the policy 

process by informing decision makers, stimulating 

interdisciplinary cooperation, and supporting early 

consultation between different administrations and with 

stakeholders. However, IA may also have undesirable 

effects on the regulatory process, for example by 

enabling early lobbying activities, by delaying 

decisions, or by legitimising decisions that were not 

open to a public debate. One of the key challenges of 

IA is that it combines a number of different functions - 

analysis, transparency, participation, and integration - 

between which there may be tensions. Furthermore, IA 

encounters particular methodological challenges where 

new approaches to regulation are concerned. In this 

context, EVIA evaluates the use of IA procedures. It 

will be analysed if IA is an effective and efficient 

approach to committing regulatory units to generic 

objectives such as the improvement of competitiveness, 

the integration of environmental concerns or the 

consideration of social aspects. 

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Freie Universität Berlin 

Environmental Policy Research Centre 

DE - Berlin 

Contact: 

Klaus JACOB 

jacob@zedat.fu-berlin.de 

http://web.fu-berlin.de/ffu/evia/ 

This includes the analysis of the question of the effect 

of IA procedures on actual policy decisions. The research 

will explore the institutional factors of 

successful IA, and which tools and methods have been 

proven to be useful. 

To determine the conditions for successful IA the 

project will: a) develop a framework to assess the 

quality of IAs; b) study different approaches to IA in 

different countries regarding their institutional, 

procedural and substantial requirements and the use of 

tools and methods on different types of regulations; 

and c) conduct a survey on a large number of IAs for 

an empirical validation of the case study results. 

As a result, good practices will be identified with 

regard to institutional procedures (e.g. help desks, 

manuals, mechanisms of quality control) and to the use 

of methods and tools for IA in different institutional 

settings. It will be assessed which approaches are best 

suited for different types of regulations.


Evaluating integrated impact assessments 

EVIA 

Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH (ZEW) Mannheim 

Klaus RENNINGS 

DE - Mannheim 

Institute for European Environmental Policy 

David WILKINSON 

UK - London 

Avanzi srl 

Matteo BARTOLOMEO 

IT - Milano 

Institute for Prospective Technological Studies 

Luis DELGADO 

ES - Seville 

The University of Exeter 

Claudio RADAELLI 

UK - Exeter 

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 

Marleen VAN DE KERKHOF 

NL – Amsterdam 

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European network for better regulation 

ENBR 

ENBR sets up and operates a pan-European network aimed at improving and 

disseminating the current knowledge of regulatory processes, the use of better regulation 

tools as well as the degree and mode of implementation of Impact Assessment procedures 

in EU Member States. A database on 500 Impact Assessment called DIADEM is accessible 

to the public and contains information on Impact Assessments for 29 countries. 





Funding scheme: CA 

Unit L.2 

Contact project: 



The purpose of the European Network for Better 

Regulation (ENBR) is to set up and operate a pan- 

European network aimed at improving and 

disseminating the current knowledge of regulatory 

processes as well as the degree and mode of implementation 

of impact assessment procedures in EU 

member states. The main activities that will be 

performed by the network include: 

a) building a Database on Impact Assessment 

Development in European Member states (DIADEM); 

b) exploring the relationship between the type of 

impact assessment, on one hand, and various regulatory 

quality indicators (e.g. legitimacy, efficiency, 

effectiveness, advocacy and private sector involvement 

in regulatory processes); 

c) disseminating knowledge on the current 

methodologies used for regulatory impact assessment 

and sustainability impact assessment; 

d) development of a website aimed at collecting and 

sharing relevant information on better lawmaking in 

Europe; 

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Center for European Policy Studies 

CEPS Regulatory Affaires Programme 

BE - Brussels 

Contact: 

Andrea RENDA 

andrea.renda@ceps.be 

http://www.enbr.org/ 

e) performance of inter-disciplinary studies and 

analyses aimed at knowledge-sharing and lessondrawing; 

f) organisation of thematic workshops for the purpose 

of improving awareness of the relevance of impact 

assessment for better lawmaking and sustainable 

development; 

g) publication of Annual Progress Reports on the state 

of implementation of impact assessment in EU member 

states, including also policy suggestions for national 

governments; 

h) exploration of new lines of research on better 

lawmaking from a multi-disciplinary perspective; 

i) networking activity aimed at fostering the 

coordination/harmonisation of impact assessment 

procedures in EU Member States; 

j) ongoing dialogue with Commission and Council 

Working groups, with the Director and Experts of 

Better Regulation and with the OECD's Regulatory 

Reform Programme.


Institute for Advanced Studies 

Peter BIEGELBAUER 

AT - Wien 

Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali 

Guido Carli 

Stefano MANZOCCHI 

IT - Roma 

Erasmus University Rotterdam 

Roger VAN DEN BERGH 


London School of Economics and Political Science 

Robert LEONARDI 

UK - London 

The University of Manchester 

Colin KIRKPATRICK 


Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Nova de Lisboa 

Nuno GAROUPA 

PT - Lisbon 

Sihtasutus Poliitikauuringute Keskus PRAXIS 

Urmet LEE 

EE - Tallinn 

Politecnico di Milano 

Bruno DENTE 

IT - Milano 

Jacobs and Associates Europe Ltd 

Scott JACOBS 

IE - Dublin 4 

University of Haifa 

Eli SALZBERGER 

IL - Haifa 

Slovak Governance Institute - Institút pre dobre 

Spravovanú Spolounosu 

Katarina STARONOVA 


European network for better regulation 

ENBR 

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The University of Exeter 

Claudio RADAELLI 

UK - Exeter 

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 

Aristides HATZIS 

GR - Athens 

Instituto de Empresa 

Francisco MARCOS 

ES - Madrid 


Wlodzimierz SZPRINGER 

PL - Warsaw 

University of Osnabruck 

Andrea LENSCHOW 

DE - Osnabruck 

Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies 

Ulrika MÖRTH 


Business Research Company (BRC) 

Roman LADUS 

MD - Chisinau 

The Balkan Center for Regulatory Reform (BCRR) 

Andreja MARUSIC 

YU - Belgrade 

Association "Regulator Reforms Support Centre" 

(ARRSC) 

Nataliia LISUN 

UA - Kiev


Assessing the multiple impacts of the Common Agricultural Policies (CAP) 

on rural economies 

CAP-IRE 

CAP-IRE investigates the long-term socio-economic mechanisms of change in 

European rural areas, and, in particular, it develops concepts and tools to support future 

design of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The project builds a database by 

surveying 2400 households, mainly farms, in 9 European countries. The database contains 

reactions of households to the 2003 CAP reform, planned future of the households (also in 

relation to farming) and how future choices of households would be affected by different 

scenarios. 







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European rural areas are undergoing major changes, 

including the impacts of migration, changes in 

settlement patterns, demographic ageing, changes in 

the nature of rural-urban interactions, a decreasing role 

of agriculture in terms of income and employment, and 

changes in governance systems. 

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the main 

expenditure chapter of the EU and is directly affecting 

the economy of rural areas. Assessing the impact of the 

CAP will help in re-addressing the CAP in the wider 

framework of EU policy objectives. 

The objective of the project CAP-IRE is to develop 

concepts and tools to support future CAP design, based 

on an improved understanding of long term socioeconomic 

mechanisms of change in rural areas. 

The focus will be farm households as the reference 

agents in the connection between policy and socioeconomic 

change, as well as between agriculture and 

other sectors of the economy. 

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Universitá di Bologna 

Dipartimento di Economia e Ingegneria Agrarie 

IT - Bologna 

Contact: 

Davide VIAGGI 

davide.viaggi@unibo.it 

http://www.cap-ire.eu/default.aspx 

Concepts and tools will be developed, shaped by state 

of art literature and a wide empirical testing. Coverage 

includes case study regions in 9 countries of the EU. 

Account of the wider non-EU and non-rural scenarios 

will be taken. The first step of the project will be to 

devise concepts and tools able to fill the gaps in present 

knowledge on development in rural areas. In the 

second step, these concepts and tools will be applied in 

an empirical analysis of mechanisms of change in 

selected case study areas. In a third step, tools will be 

used to assess the impact of CAP in the selected areas. 

Expected results concern: 

a) an improved conceptual view of CAP relationships 

in the context of changing rural areas and a framework 

to assess reciprocal impacts between CAP and other 

drivers of change in a long term perspective; 

b) models and tools to assess changes in rural areas, 

with particular attention to the connection between 

CAP and other drivers; 

c) an assessment of present dynamics of change, 

including impacts of CAP in the selected case study 

areas.

Assessing the multiple impacts of the Common Agricultural Policies (CAP) 

on rural economies 


Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) 

European Commission - Joint Research Center 

Sergio GOMEZ Y PALOMA 

ES - Sevilla 

CAP-IRE 

Wageningen Universiteit 

Dept of Social Sciences, Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group 

L.H.G. SLANGEN 

NL - Wageningen 

Landbouw-Economisch Instituut (LEI) 

Department of Public Issues 

Nico POLMAN 

NL – Den Haag 

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 

Department of Agricultural Economics 

Basil MANOS 

EL - Thessaloniki 

Szkola Glowna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego 

Department of Farm Management 

Edward MAJEWSKI 

PL - Warsaw 

The University Court of the University of Aberdeen 

Business School 

Deborah ROBERTS 

UK - Aberdeen 

Universidad de Cordoba 

Departament of Agricultural Economics - Agricultural Engineering School 

Julio BERBEL 

ES - Cordoba 

Institute of Agricultural Economics 

Rural Development 

Dimitre NIKOLOV 

BG - Sofia 

Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique 

Economics and Sociology Unit of Rennes 

Laure LATRUFFE 

FR - Rennes 

Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research 

Institute of Socio-Economics 

Rosemarie SIEBERT 

DE – Leibniz 

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Rural future networks 

RUFUS 

RUFUS creates a database in order to build a typology of rural regions in Europe. The 

typology is based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative indicators and its aim is 

to characterise rural areas in terms of their potential for additional or alternative 

functionalities to adjust in different ways to structural and policy change. The focus is on 

'potentials' for alternative landscape functionalities. 


Estimated EC contribution: 1 399 331€ 





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As the objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy 

(CAP) shift from an agricultural-centred approach to 

wider rural development, the idea of multifunctionality 

of rural areas comes into play. 

This in turn brings the CAP into closer association with 

a wide range of sectoral policy regimes: regional 

policy, spatial planning, environmental management; 

social, energy policy, and others. Sectoral regimes 

interact in complex ways, and with a determining effect 

on the sustainable development of rural areas. 

RUFUS will provide policy-makers and stakeholders 

with better theoretical and practical understandings of 

how CAP measures interact with other forms of public 

intervention in rural development; and how policy 

regimes can be combined to ensure more sustainable 

development. 

RUFUS will investigate how rural development policy 

can be targeted at the specific endogenous potential of 

rural regions to encourage multiple functionality which 

goes beyond physical landscape potentials to include 

social and economic activities and opportunities. 

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover 

Institute of Environmental Planning 

DE - Hannover 

Contact: 

Christina VON HAAREN 

herrmann@umwelt.uni-hannover.de 

http://www.rufus-eu.de/ 

An interdisciplinary methodology will build into the 

analysis a qualitative analysis of the social dimension 

and endogenous potentials, alongside economic and 

ecological variables. 

RUFUS will establish a transdisciplinary conceptual 

framework on policy integration and rural 

multifunctionality. It will create a rural typology 

incorporating social aspects and endogenous potentials. 

Scenarios of rural futures - the trajectory of policy 

interaction processes - will be generated. These 

quantitative findings will be "tested" against the reality 

of stakeholder experiences of regional development 

dynamics through case studies using visualisation 

techniques. 

The relevance of the findings for other regions will be 

examined with the help of an expert panel. Special 

emphasis is given to combining findings with other 

research, setting them in the context of political goals 

and policy problems, and transposing them into 

practical and meaningful recommendations for action.


Technische Universiteit Delft 

Faculty of Architecture 

Vincent NADIN 

NL - Delft 

Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) 

Station Sad 

Marc BENOÎT 

FR - Mirecourt 

University of East Anglia 

School of Environmental Sciences 

Andrew LOVETT 

UK - Norwich 

Lunds Universitet 

Centre for Sustainability Studies 

Ann-Katrin BACKLUND 

SE - Lund 

Wageningen Universiteit 

Environmental Sciences 

Peter VERBURG 

NL - Wageningen 

Sprintconsult Wissenschaftliche Politikberatung 

Günter KROËS 

DE - Münster 

Rural future networks 

RUFUS 

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Pathways for carbon transitions 

PACT 

The PACT project develops two energy-related modelling tools: the back-casting approach 

(VLEEM for the very long term) and the world energy model POLES for 2050. In addition 

PACT will conduct a survey in high schools to compare and evaluate the human capital and 

social capital in relation to changes in post-carbon society (mentalities, values, 

representations). An on-line DEPLHI will describe plausible urban land use and transport 

schemes which could prevail by 2050. 







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Most "business-as-usual scenarios" built up till now 

have shown that hydrocarbon resources scarcity and 

the growing release of greenhouse gases will bring the 

world far away from sustainability over the next 

decades. Then, deep changes in behaviours away from 

´Business as usual´ are unavoidable long before the 

turn of the century in a move towards a post-carbon 

society. 

Urbanisation and mobility are probably the domains 

where these changes might be the most important and 

they will be necessarily driven and limited by socioeconomic 

and cultural forces that will dominate the 

century. They will induce further deep changes in 

behaviours of consumers and producers and are likely 

to deeply impact the use and production of bulk 

materials, large energy consumers and greenhouse gas 

emitters. 

To address these challenges, key milestones were 

defined by the EU: a 20% reduction (minimum) of CO2 

emissions by 2020 (compared to 1990) in Europe; and 

a reduction of the greenhouse emissions by 2050 and 

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ENERDATA 

FR – Gières 

Contact: 

Bertrand CHATEAU 

bertrand.chateau@enerdata.fr 

after, so as to limit the increase of the temperature due 

to climatic change within 2°C. 

In this framework, the PACT project objective is to 

provide strategic decision-support information to 

decision-makers to achieve these milestones. It will 

focus on 3 themes: 

a) what shape the energy demand, and how this should 

evolve towards post-carbon concept, from the 

infrastructures viewpoint, in relation to urbanisation 

and land-use schemes, and that of the lifestyles and 

behaviours, in relation to the available technologies; 

b) the question of urbanisation and land-use from the 

renewable energy perspective, including that of the 

systems; 

c) the role of social forces, actors, stakeholders in the 

transition process. 

PACT will address these issues in two phases: first, by 

developing the necessary analytical and conceptual 

framework, second in attempting to quantify scenarios 

of post-carbon societies at EU and world level by 2050 

and beyond, using enhanced versions of the VLEEM 

and POLES model.

Institutions/Contact person/Country/Town 

Arcelor Mittal Maizières Research 

Sustainability Department 

Jean-Pierre BIRAT 

FR - Maizières les Metz 

Pathways for carbon transitions 

PACT 

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung 

Fraunhofer ISI 

Wolfgang SCHADE 

DE – Munich 

Max-Planck Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften 

Institut für Plasmaphysik 

Thomas HAMACHER 

DE – Munich 

Istituto di Studi per l'Integrazione dei Sistemi 

Andrea RICCI 

IT – Rome 

Université Pierre Mendès France 

Odile BLANCHARD 

FR – Grenoble 

Laboratorio di Scienze della Cittadinanza 

Andrea DECLICH 

IT – Rome 

Metallurgical Research Institute 

Process Metallurgy Department 

Christer RYMAN 

SE – Lulea 


Dipartimento di Sociologia 

Silvio SCANAGATTA 

IT – Padova 

Turku School of Economics 

Finland Futures Research Centre 

Jyrki LUUKKANEN 

FI – Turku 

Energy Agency of Vysocina 

Zbyněk BOUDA 

CZ - Vysocina 

Corvinus University - Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research 

Michael LABELLE 

HU - Budapest 

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Governance, infrastructure, lifestyle dynamics and energy demand: 

European post-carbon communities 

GILDED 

GILDED will conduct a survey covering 500 households in Czech Republic, Germany, 

Hungary, The Netherlands and UK to examine various lifestyle types related to energy 

demand in urban and rural case-study areas. The results will allow to study the extent to 

which individual, social and contextual factors interact in influencing energy demand 







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In Europe, about 35% of all primary energy use and 

40% of all greenhouse gas emissions come from 

private households. While technological innovation can 

make low-carbon energy sources economically and 

environmentally viable, their impact in reducing 

carbon-intensive energy use will depend critically on 

broad public and political commitment to such a 

reduction. 

GILDED will target socio-economic, cultural and 

political influences on individual and household energy 

consumption through five regional case studies. Each 

case study focuses on a medium-sized city along with 

nearby rural areas. Investigating individuals’ lifestyle 

choices and their understanding of energy issues will 

provide insights into patterns of energy-related 

behaviours characterising emergent lifestyle types, and 

the particular drivers impacting on consumption 

decisions. 

The social, cultural and political contexts in which 

these behaviours are embedded will be addressed 

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Macaulay Land Use Research Institute 

Integrated Land Use Systems 

UK - Aberdeen 

Contact: 

Nick GOTTS 

n.gotts@macaulay.ac.uk 

through analysis of the structural factors and actors 

(from local to EU level), including governance 

networks, physical environments, and materialized and 

institutionalized transport and provisioning networks. 

This combined ‘top down’ and ‘bottom-up’ perspective 

on household consumption will be utilised to inform 

the analysis of an energy-reduction initiative or 

experiment in each case study region, in which 

stakeholder advisory groups guide the selection of an 

intervention of particular local relevance. 

Principles derived from the lifestyle, structural and 

initiative studies will be utilised to structure agentbased 

models of policy implementation and change 

response. Resultant policy recommendations will 

describe the necessary changes at systemic level that 

need to be initiated in order to develop an 

environmentally-friendly European model of energy 

policies that respond to the expectations and needs of 

European cities and rural communities.

Governance, infrastructure, lifestyle dynamics and energy demand: 

European post-carbon communities 

Institutions/Contact person/Country/Town 

Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung 

Transdisciplinary Methods and Concepts 

Fritz REUSSWIG 

DE - Potsdam 

GILDED 

Institute for Political Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 

EU Integration and globalization 

Imre KOVÁCH 

HU – Budapest 


Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, Experimental and Work Psychology 

Linda STEG 

NL – Groningen 

Institute of Systems Biology and Ecology 

Department of Socio-ecology 

Eva CUDLÍNOVÁ 

CZ - Ceske Budejovice 

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EUR 23605 - European Socio-economic Research - New Databases, Indicators and Tools 

2008 — 108 pp. — 21,0 x 29,7 cm 

Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities 

ISBN 978-92-79-10156-4 

ISSN 1018-5593 

DOI 10.2777/24786

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This publication highlights the major European academic initiatives aimed at developing new, complete and 

harmonized economic and social databases and indicators in the fields of the knowledge economy, welfare and 

demography. This background is a pre-requisite for evidence-based European policies and for improving forecast, 

foresight, impact assessment and modelling in emerging policy issues related to globalisation, social trends 

and sustainability. 

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