SPECIFIC SUPPORT ACTION
financed under the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union
Priority 7 – Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-Based Society

Project Full Title: Towards FP7: Enlarging the SSH Research Agenda

Website: esshra.tubitak.gov.tr

Project Duration: 2 years and 4 months from March 2006

Coordinator: Prof. Dr. CANAN ERGIN, TUBITAK, Turkey

Bulgarian partner: KRASSIMIR NIKOLOV, BECSA

Project Summary:

(If you want to read the project summary, click here.)

Participants list:

Structure of ESSHRA:

The project’s governing bodies are the coordinator, the steering committee and conference organization committee. The organization of activities under the project includes 7 work packages. (If you want to see the structure of ESSHRA, click here.)

Project activities with BECSA’s participation:

Workshop in Istanbul within the project – March 2006

Distribution of a questionnaire under the project among over 400 representatives of the Bulgarian research community in the field of social sciences and humanities – May 2006

Workshop in Malta within the project under priority 7 of the Sixth Framework Programme of the EU – July 2006

Consultations within the project in Brussels at Unit “Social Sciences and Humanities” of DG “Research” of the European Commission in preparation of the Sofia Conference under the project – July 2006

Summary of the responses to the questionnaire received by 70 representatives of the Bulgarian research community in the field of social sciences and humanities – September 2006

Summary of the responses to the questionnaire about all project partners – September 2006

Workshop in Istanbul within the project – November 2006

Announcement of the conference "Adapting to integration in an enlarged EU", organised by BECSA under the ESSHRA project on 31st May - 1st June 2007 in Sofia (conference rationale in English) - January 2007

Electronic information page about the conference "Adapting to integration in an enlarged EU", organised by BECSA on 31st May - 1st June 2007 in Sofia (here) - April 2007

Information brochure about the conference "Adapting to integration in an enlarged EU" (in Bulgarian) (in English) - May 2007

Information brochure about the trans-national research projects in the social sciences and the humanities presented at the conference "Adapting to integration in an enlarged EU" (in Bulgarian) (in English) - May 2007

Programme and pictures from the conference “Towards a Knowledge Society: Is Knowledge a public good? Dynamics of Knowledge production and Distribution.”, organised by Association Euresearch (EURESEARCH) – Switzerland in cooperation with Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST) – Malta, in the framework of the ESSHRA project on 12th – 13th June in Bern, Switzerland (in English) – July 2007

Participation of BECSA`s president – Assos. Prof. Dinko Dinkov in panel “Policies for the knowledge society” in the framework of the conference “Towards a Knowledge Society: Is Knowledge a public good? Dynamics of Knowledge production and Distribution.”, held between 12th – 13th June in Bern, Switzerland – pictures – July 2007