From the edge to cutting the edge research funding: a workshop for the transition-related SSH in Central Eastern Europe

The EU has sought to stimulate research collaborations for decades to enhance synergies among European research communities and to support its own policy goals. However, disparities remain in terms of overall participation, roles within cooperative research and financial contributions received, particularly between the Western/Northern parts of Europe and Southern, Central and Eastern European countries.

These differences can be seen in the Framework Programme as a whole, but are also visible across the transition-related thematic areas of climate, energy and mobility. Moreover, as another dimension of inequalities, epistemic boundaries still prevail with (i) the dominance of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) research, (ii) the under-representation of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), and (iii) limited cooperation between the two.

Workshop Agenda

  • Welcome from IRS and CEI; introduction to the SSH CENTRE project and workshop
  • Overview of main findings from Call for Evidence
  • Discussion of experiences and challenges, example topics: feeding SSH into climate-energy- mobility policy; involvement in EU projects; SSH-STEM cooperation
  • Wrap-up plenary on main challenges
  • Workshop session on how to overcome fragmentation and increase support
  • Wrap-up plenary on solutions

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Friday 28/03/2023, 10:00 am CET

Place:  CEI (Pécs, Hungary)

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The survey

This workshop, which participants completed ‘Transition-focussed Social Sciences & Humanities in Southern and Central Europe: Call for Evidence’ survey, will discuss the insights obtenied after gathering the views of over 100 climate, energy and mobility researchers who have worked in Southern and Central Eastern Europe (now or in the past).

Event held by RKI

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