WWWforEurope - Welfare, Wealth and Work for Europe (7RP)

Ing. Ivana Šikulová, PhD.

Members of project
Ing. Karol Frank, PhD.

• Basic informations
• Characteristics
• Outputs

• Duration of the project: 4/2012 - 3/2016

  Type of project: 7th Framework Programme

  Web site of the project: http://www.foreurope.eu/

• WWWforEurope started in April 2012 as a four year research project within the 7th Framework Programme funded by the European Commission.

  The research programme

  WWWforEurope will address essential questions for implementing socio-ecological transition:

  • What are the challenges to the European welfare state?
  • What is the impact of environmental sustainability on growth and employment?
  • What is the role of industrial and innovation policy as drivers for change?
  • What are necessary adjustments of governance structures at the European level?
  • What is the role of the regions in the socio-ecological transition?

  These investigations will be undertaken within a coherent framework which from the outset considers linkages between research topics and highlights how the different policy instruments work together. Finally research results will be bound together to a coherent strategy for socio-ecological transition.

  The mission

  With this robust research as a foundation the ultimate impact of the project will be to contribute to a change of the actual course of economic policy in the direction of a socio-ecological transition. To achieve this end and make an impact, WWWforEurope will engage in an ongoing dialogue with policy makers, stakeholders and representatives of civil society, supplying them with evidence based policy recommendations while at the same time integrating their expertise and their views in the design of the transition strategy to be developed.

   

  Project Facts

  Title:	WWWforEurope — Welfare, Wealth and Work for Europe
  Acronym:	WWWforEurope
  EU-funding:	FP7 Collaborative Research Project
  FP7 Theme:	SSH.2011.1.2-1 Europe moving towards a new path of economic growth and social development
  Grant Agreement no.:	290647
  Total Costs:	€ 10,474,889.40
  EC Contribution:	€ 7,999,858.25
  Start Date:	01/04/2012
  Project end:	31/03/2016
  Consortium:	33 partners from 12 European countries
  Project Coordinator:	Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)
  Key Words:	welfare state, institutional reforms, social and ecological innovations, high road strategy, biophysical constraints, ageing, wealth, globalisation, labour markets, post-industrialisation, migration

• Project outputs in 2012

  1^st Policy Brief

  First policy brief has been published by the EU and is now available on their Research and Innovation website with the title "Reconciling the short and the long run: governance reforms to solve the crisis and beyond"

  Authors: Karl Aiginger (WIFO), Olaf Cramme (Policy Network), Stefan Ederer (WIFO), Roger Liddle (Policy Network), Renaud Thillaye (Policy Network). Reviewed by Kurt Bayer (EBRD)

  Download Policy Brief

  Press release

  2nd Policy Brief

  Second policy brief has been published by the EU and is now available on their Research and Innovation website with the title “Policy options for the development of peripheral regions and countries of Europe”.

  Authors: Karl Aiginger (WIFO), Peter Huber (WIFO), Matthias Firgo (WIFO)

  Download Policy Brief

  Press release

  Project outputs in 2013

  The final versions of Milestone 23 have been published as a WWWforEurope Working Paper and made available on the project website.
  http://www.foreurope.eu/fileadmin/documents/pdf/Workingpapers/WWWforEurope_WPS_no016_MS23.pdf
  http://www.foreurope.eu/fileadmin/documents/pdf/Workingpapers/WWWforEurope_WPS_no017_MS23_Backgroundpaper1.pdf
  http://www.foreurope.eu/fileadmin/documents/pdf/Workingpapers/WWWforEurope_WPS_no018_MS23_Backgroundpaper2.pdf
  http://www.foreurope.eu/fileadmin/documents/pdf/Workingpapers/WWWforEurope_WPS_no019_MS23_Backgroundpaper3.pdf

  Project outputs in 2014

  ŠIKULOVÁ, Ivana - FRANK, Karol. Transition to market economy in the Central and Eastern European countries : comparative analysis. In European Scientific Journal : ESJ, september 2014, edition vol. 1, no. special, p. 532-542. ISSN 1857-7881.

  ŠIKULOVÁ, Ivana - FRANK, Karol. Transition to market economy in the Central and Eastern European countries - comparative analysis. Azores, Portugal 8-12-7.2014. In 2nd Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference, AIIC 2014 : proceedings [online]. - Kocani, Republic of Macedonia : European Scientific Institute, ESI, 2014, p. 526-536. ISBN 978-608-4642-24-4.