Investigación

Este sitio forma parte del portal Europa de la Comisión Europea, que informa sobre todo lo relativo a las políticas y actividades de la Unión. El sitio web de Investigación aspira a ofrecer información general sobre la investigación europea a un máximo de personas en su lengua materna.

La revista del Espacio Europeo de la investigación es reseach*eu. Pretende ampliar el debate democrático entre la ciencia y la sociedad, y está escrita por periodistas profesionales independientes. Presenta y analiza proyectos, resultados e iniciativas cuyos actores, hombres y mujeres, contribuyen a reforzar y a federar la excelencia científica y tecnológica de Europa. reseach*eu se publica en inglés, francés, alemán y español, a razón de diez números al año, por la Unidad de Comunicación de la DG de Investigación de la Comisión Europea.

"EDACwowe" (European Data Center for Work and Welfare) is the META-DATA-SHELL for European research and policy making in the areas of work and welfare. EDACwowe gives information on and direct links to comparative and national, quantitative and qualitative data on work and welfare and closely related fields. EDACwowe is developed within the EU Network of Excellence 'Reconciling Work and Welfare in Europe' (RECWOWE), with the support of the EU 6th Framework Programme, the University of Tilburg (NL), and the Danish National Centre for Social Research SFI (DK)".

Se establece la Red Europea de Planificación y Observación Espacial para apoyar la política de desarrollo y crear una comunidad científica europea en la esfera del desarrollo territorial. La meta principal estriba en el refuerzo del corpus de conocimientos general en lo que se refiere a las diferentes organizaciones territoriales, las tendencias y los impactos de la política dentro de una Unión Europea ampliada.

El Portal Europeo sobre la Base de Datos de las infraestructuras de Investigación proporciona informaciones sobre un gran número de infraestructuras de Investigación de interés intraeuropeo en todos los ámbitos de la ciencia. Abarca instalaciones, recursos y departamentos análogos que la comunidad científica utiliza para llevar a cabo investigaciones de alto nivel en sus ámbitos respectivos.

Franche-Comté is a region of 16 202 km² (3% of the area of France). The region consists of four departments: Doubs, Jura, Haute-Saône and Territoire de Belfort, and is situated in the north eastern corner of France close to the major cities of Lyon and Strasbourg and the highly industrialised regions of Rhône-Alpes and the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Regional research, mainly concerned in three establishments of higher education is carried out within 43 laboratories, with a total of almost 1 200 research scientists.

The Network on Civil Society and New Forms of Governance in Europe – the Making of European Citizenship aims at enhancing the understanding of social and democratic processes, citizenship and democratic participation in Europe.

The initiative intends to trigger the creation of a European spatial information infrastructure that delivers to the users integrated spatial information services. These services should allow the users to identify and access spatial or geographical information from a wide range of sources, from the local level to the global level, in an inter-operable way for a variety of uses. The target users of INSPIRE include policy-makers, planners and managers at European, national and local level and the citizens and their organisations. Possible services are the visualisation of information layers, overlay of information from different sources, spatial and temporal analysis, etc.

The INSPIRE Community Geoportal is Europe's Internet access point to a collection of geographic data and services within the framework of the infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) Directive. INSPIRE aims at making available relevant, harmonised and quality geographic information to support formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and activities which have a direct or indirect impact on the environment.

The geoportal does not store or maintain the data. It acts as a gateway to geographic data and services, distributed around Europe, allowing users to search, view or, subject to access restrictions, download geographic data or use available services to derive information.

IMISCOE is a Network of Excellence uniting 23 established European research institutes and over 500 researchers from all European countries and of all branches of the economic and social sciences, the humanities and law in pursuit of studies under the themes of international migration, integration and social cohesion. Since its inception in 2004, IMISCOE has worked to:

• A unique infrastructure to develop innovative research programmes
• Promote high-quality training for PhD students
• Publish the results of research and exchange migration data and expertise

This lexicon gives definitions of the main terms of European Spatial Planning. It includes notions and acronyms stemming from official texts (treaties, regulations, directives, reports, etc.) produced by diverse European bodies and institutions.

EQUALSOC is a Network of Excellence funded by the European Union’s Sixth Framework Programme (duration: 1 September 2005 – 31 August 2010).
EQUALSOC has been created to mobilise and develop research expertise across Europe on economic change, quality of life and social cohesion.
Its aim is to stimulate high quality comparative European research on social cohesion and its determinants; encourage the development of additional research centres; provide an infrastructure for training the rising generation of young researchers in the skills of comparative research; and facilitate access to the most recent results of research for the wider research community and for policy makers.
The central focus is on social cohesion and its dependence on social differentiation, assessing the relationships between the growing importance of knowledge in the economy, the different chances that individuals and groups experience with respect to the quality of life, and social cohesion.
Drawing upon the organisational experience acquired in previous successful EU networks, EQUALSOC is using a rich array of data from national research programmes and a European Social Survey module it participated in constructing.

Governance for Sustainability (G-FORS), a three year research project which brings together EURA members started in February 2006. The project funded by The EU Commission's Research Framework Programme 6 priority 7 (Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-Based Society - The Implications of European Integration and Enlargement for Governance and the Citizen) brings together the Metropolregion of Hannover, EUROCITIES as well as ten universities and research institutes.

CORDIS is an interactive Web-site that links together policy makers, managers of the European Union R&D activities with key players in research and industry. It provides in-depth coverage of European, national and regional research programmes as well as covering a wide range of innovation services. This helps to bridge Community and national policies on research, innovation and SMEs and to foster links between academia and industry across national and sectoral borders.

One of the primary aims of the network is to develop a robust knowledge base on social work, service users, policy, practice and education across Europe.