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Notes from the editor<br />

This report is aimed primarily at <strong>policy</strong> and decision-<strong>makers</strong> in the wider area of education and<br />

training. It is made of Briefing Papers that summarise the results of individual projects and of project<br />

clusters that were funded by DG-Research of the European Commission under the EU Fourth and<br />

Fifth Framework Programmes.<br />

The Briefing Papers were prepared by pjb Associates with funding from DG-Research and with the<br />

kind co-operation of the respective project co-ordinators.<br />

The electronic version of this report is available at: http://www.cordis.lu/citizens/publications.htm<br />

(under Reports).<br />

The text of the Briefing Papers may be reproduced freely. However, the project reports that the<br />

electronic version of the Briefing Papers gives access to (abstract, executive summary, state-of-theart<br />

report and final report of each project) remain the intellectual property of the respective research<br />

teams.<br />

Section 1 of this report presents the Briefing Papers of projects funded by DG-Research under the<br />

Fourth Framework Programme (1995-1998). All of these projects are now finalised.<br />

Section 2 of the report presents the Briefing Papers of the projects funded under the Fifth Framework<br />

Programme (1999-2002). At the moment that this report is going to the printers, most of these<br />

projects are still in progress and at different stages. The Briefing Papers of ongoing projects will be<br />

updated in 2004. The updated versions will be available at: http://www.cordis.lu/improving/socioeconomic/results.htm<br />

(under Research Results on Education and Training).<br />

In addition to individual projects, a number of project clusters were created in this area as a<br />

mechanism <strong>for</strong> getting the best results out of groups of projects on key themes, as well as obtaining<br />

other lessons <strong>for</strong> doing European-level research, which go well beyond the impact of individual<br />

projects. Section 3 of this report provides in<strong>for</strong>mation on these project clusters. The full cluster<br />

reports can be found at: http://www.cordis.lu/improving/socio-economic/res_clusters.htm<br />

Other activities.<br />

DG-Research has commissioned an independent, <strong>policy</strong>-oriented synthesis of key-results from<br />

education and training projects funded under FP4 and FP5 in four thematic areas: education; training;<br />

higher education; education, training, inequalities and social exclusion. The results of this work will<br />

be available in early 2004.<br />

In addition to the Briefing Papers of individual projects and of project clusters, a series of occasional<br />

newsletters has been produced that highlight some of the key findings of these projects (available at:<br />

http://www.pjb.co.uk/npl/index.htm#Newsletters)<br />

In<strong>for</strong>mation on research in the wider area of the social sciences funded in FP4 and FP5 (including ed.<br />

research) can be found at: http://www.cordis.lu/improving/socio-economic/home.htm<br />

More in<strong>for</strong>mation on research in the social sciences and the humanities in FP6 (including educational<br />

research) can be found at: http://www.cordis.lu/citizens/<br />

For further in<strong>for</strong>mation in relation to this report or in relation to EU-supported educational research:<br />

Dr. Angelos Agalianos<br />

European Commission DG-Research<br />

B-1049 Brussels<br />

Tel.: 0032-2-29.55.098<br />

E-mail: angelos.agalianos@cec.eu.int<br />

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