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Social Investment Package: Commission urges Member States to focus on growth and social cohesion
The Commission has adopted an important social initiative, the Social Investment Package (SIP), calling on Member States to prioritise social investment and to modernise their welfare states. It is an important evidence-based document in which also SSH research features quite visibly. In the 9 documents the SIP contains, reference is made to various SSH projects (CSEYHP, ASSPRO, COPE, IMPROVE...) as well as to innovation, health & other research initiatives.
Selection of experts for Horizon 2020 advisory groups
The call for expression of interest for the selection of experts for Horizon 2020 advisory groups has been launched by the Commission services.
METRIS - Monitoring European Trends in Social Sciences and Humanities
METRIS is a service, launched by the European Commission, with detailed information about the SSH research systems in 42 countries. On the METRIS website you have access to regularly updated national reports, synthesis reports and thematic analysis.
FP7 Calls for Proposals 2013 published
On 10 July 2012, the EU published new calls for proposals under the 7th Framework Programme for Research & Development, worth a total of EUR 8,1 billion. Two of these calls address Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities with a total budget of EUR 98 million for the year 2013.
Learn more about the deadlines and available topics.
Latest FP7 proposals to be evaluated in April and May 2011
285 proposals have been submitted for all 3 Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities Calls for Proposals. Expert evaluators have been chosen by enforcing strict selection criteria (scientific expertise, non-conflict of interest, geographical balance, gender, rotation). The remote evaluation of the eligible proposals will take place in April 2011 and the consensus meetings in Brussels in May 2011
New design implementation for the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities projects websites
In order to improve the dissemination of the research results of the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities projects funded under the 7th
Framework Programme, a set of initiatives and measures have been taken for the projects dedicated websites. A new design template for
the home and internal page of the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities funded projects' websites, prepared as a "visual
skin" for web developers for the two most common used Open Source CMS - Joomla and WordPress
- is downloadable here
(
7.7MB), together with complementary documentation:
- a brief guide aiming at facilitating the project coordinators in their web site process,
- the template prepared for Joomla and WordPress,
- the PSD & JPG files as well as the html files.
Forward looking activities added to the Research Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) website
Previously available on CORDIS, the Forward looking activities (e.g. Foresight and Forecast) of the "Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities"
theme are now available on this web site under a new menu item entitled " Forward looking activities ".
They are divided into four main areas:
The Foresight activities from before the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) are also available in a "Foresight archive".
Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities in Europe:
Building knowledge, engaging debates, and supporting policies
The Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) programme implements and disseminates results on EU research policies and activities that address changes facing the social, economic, political and cultural make-up of Europe. As such, the SSH area represents all sectors of European societies.
CORDIS SSH service
For practical information on EU-funded research in socio-economic sciences and humanities in the EU Research Framework Programme you can also visit the CORDIS SSH Service.