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Policy Areas

• Digital Economy
  • Modelling the Digital Economy
  • ICTNET: European Network for the Research on the Economic Impact of ICT
  • Measuring the diffusion of embedded systems in EU (EMBS)
    
    
• ICT Industry Analysis
  • PREDICT: Prospective Insights on R&D in ICT
    • PREDICT 2012 REPORT: An Analysis of ICT R&D - EU & beyond (online report)
      
    • Modelling the economic impact of EU ICT R&D expenditure - Seville, 16 April 2012
    • International Conference: "Global ICT industry: changing landscape? - The future of European ICT R&D" -
      Brussels, 19-20 October 2011
    • Conference: "ICT Research and Innovation Challenges in Eastern European Member States (EEMS)" - Budapest (Hungary), 11 November 2011
    • International Workshop: The ICT landscape in BRICS countries: lessons from emerging economies (R&D, innovation and trade) - Johannesburg, 5 October 2011
    • Asia ICT Conference - Brussels, 16-17 February 2011
      
  • COMPLETE: COMPetitiveness by Leveraging Emerging Technologies Economically
    • WEB 2.0
    • Displays
    • RFID
    • Robotics
    • Video Games Software
    • Embedded Software in automotive
      
  • Patent intelligence for policy support
    • Conference: Patent Statistic, Innovation management and IPR - "Innovation and Regulation in Digital Services” Chair/ JRC-IPTS - Paris, 5 June 2012
    • 4rd Workshop: The Output of R&D activities: Harnessing the Power of Patents Data - Seville, 24-25 May 2012
    • 3rd workshop: The Output of R&D activities: Harnessing the Power of Patents Data - Seville, 13-14 June 2011
    • 2nd workshop: The Output of R&D activities: Harnessing the Power of Patents Data - Seville, 27-28 May 2010
  • EIPE: European ICT Poles of Excellence
    • IGICT: ICT, Growth and regional development
    • ICT-REG: Regional location of ICT industries in EU regions
    • ANDALUCIA
      
  • Rethinking Innovation and Industrial policies in the EU&US (INDPOL)
    • Final Conference of the ESSLimit project: ICT and Innovation: Accessing and linking Microdata for Firm-level Economic Analysis - Seville, 9-10 October 2012
    • International Workshop: " Investigating Industrial and Innovation policies for Growth: Contrasting experts views"- Seville, 2-3 November 2011
      
  • Media and Content Industry (MCI)
    • Final international conference "The Dynamics of Media and Content Industries" - Brussels, 25-26 October 2012
    • Validation workshop of the IPTS Study: "Statistical, ecosystems and competitiveness analysis of the Media and Content industries" - Seville, 27-28 October 2011
    • Expert workshop: The economics of Media and content industry (MCI): Approaches, case study, economic effect of the digital transition - Seville, 30-31 May 2011
      
  • Trends in European public and private investments in ICT R&D (REDICT)
    
  • Internationalisation of European ICT activities (INVICTA)
  • IS take-up in the New Member States and the Candidate Countries
    
    
• Learning & Skills
  • OEREU - Open Educational Resources in Europe 
  • SCALE CCR: Up-Scaling Creative Classrooms in Europe
  • The use of ICT for the assessment of Key Competences (COMPASS)
  • DIGCOMP: Digital Competence: Identification and European-wide validation of its key components for all levels of learners
    
  • FutLearn: The Future of Learning: New Ways to Learn New Skills for Future Jobs
    
  • ICEAC: Creativity and Innovation in Education and Training in the EU Member States
    
  • LEARNCOM: Pedagogical innovations in new ICT-facilitated learning communities
  • Learning 2.0: The Impact of Web 2.0 Innovations on Education and Training in Europe
    
  • NMSeL: Next steps in developing IS Services in the New Member States: eLearning
    
  • eLFUT or Future of Learning: Learning Spaces in 2020
    
    
• Economic Aspects of eHealth
  • MAFEIP: Monitoring and Assessment Framework for the EIP on Active and Healthy Ageing
  • European Hospital Survey: Benchmarking deployment of e-Health services (2012–2013)
  • SIMPHS 1: Strategic Intelligence Monitor on Personal Health Systems
  • SIMPHS 2: Strategic Intelligence Monitor on Personal Health Systems
  • EPIS: European Perspectives on Information Society
    
    
• Inclusion & Cultural Diversity
  • ICT for integration of immigrants & ethnic minorities (IEM)   
    • ICT-IEM L2: ICT for learning the host country's language by adult migrants in the EU
  • ICT in support of domiciliary carers
  • ICT and Youth at Risk of Social Exclusion
  • The role of intermediaries in eInclusion
    • MIREIA - Measuring the Impact of eInclusion Actors
  • Digital Games for Empowerment & Inclusion (DGEI)
    • Expert Workshop on Digital Games for Empowerment and Inclusion - 23-24 January 2012 (Seville, Spain)
  • Digital Competences for Inclusion
  • Learning 2.0 & Inclusion
  • ICT for Employability
    
    
• Digital Living & Identity
  • SEA-SoNS: Socio-economic Assessment of the Benefits of Social Networks for Organisations
  • eID survey: EU27 survey of electronic identity, privacy and data protection
  • Searching and Retrieving Digital Information
    • Search Engines
    • Mobile Search
      • Expert Workshop: Exploring the Future of Mobile Search - 9th June 2010 (Ghent, Belgium)
    • Enterprise Search
      • Expert Workshop: Exploring the Future of Enterprise Search - 13-14 October 2011 (Seville, Spain) 
    • CHORUS: Coordinated approacH to the EurOpean effoRt on aUdiovsual Search engines
    • CHORUS+: Coordinated approacH to the EurOpean effoRt on aUdiovsual Search engines
  • eID Barriers: Study on technical, organisational and legal barriers to the integration of the EU digital identity sector
    
  • Biometrics
  • FIDIS: Future IDentity of Information Society [Network of Excellence]
    
  • Study on RFID Technologies: Emerging Issues, Challenges and Policy Options
    
  • SWAMI: Safeguards in the World of Ambient Intelligence
    
  • DT: Digital Territories

• eGovernance
  
  • CROSSOVER: Bridging Communities for Next Generation Policy Making
  • CROSSROAD: A Participative Roadmap for ICT Research in Electronic Governance and Policy Modelling
  • EXPGOV: Exploring emerging ICT-enabled governance models in European cities
    
    
• Social Computing

 

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