Second application round: Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities

Second application round: EU´s Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7), Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH). The deadline for applications is January 13, 2009.

Research funding can be applied for in the following fields:

SSH-2009-A
- Education in a European knowledge society
- Growth and service industries
- Public economic policy for growth
- New socio-economic concepts, paradigm shift and territorial dynamics in a long-term perspective
- Impacts of corporate social responsibility
- Social inequalities, their implications and policy options
- Changes in consumption and consumer markets
- Quality of work and impact on quality of life and economy
- Tolerance and cultural diversity
- Religion and secularism across Europe
- Competition and collaboration in access to oil, gas and mineral resources
- Perspectives from outside the EU on human rights, democracy and peace
- Independent media and democracy in Europe
- Vehicular languages in Europe in an era of globalisation: history, policy, practice
- Interrelation between collective representations and uses of history and cultural evolution in an enlarged Europe
- Culture in the creation of a European space of communication
- Indicators for the European service sector
- Data management for statistics
- The World and Europe in 2025
- Foresight on the long-term challenges for the Mediterranean area

SSH-2009-B 
- Cities and sustainable development (including partners from Developing countries)
- Climate induced changes in water resources in Southern Europe and neighbouring countries as a threat to security (coordinated with the Environment Research Programme)

SSH-2009-C
- Social platform on research for families and family policy (stakeholder participation, future research agenda)
- Geopolitics and the role of Europe in a changing world
- Foresight activities: Consolidating the information system for foresight (workshops)
- Measures to support the dissemination of research results

Call Fiche and more information:
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/cooperation/socio-economic_en.html