The conference is intended to stimulate and facilitate the preparation of new innovative projects for the 7^th Framework Programme for Research and Development, to encourage co-operation and possible building of consortia by researchers with the aim of enhancing the quality and usefulness of official statistics.

The conference is combined with the ETK (Exchange of Technology and Know-how) which aims to provide a forum where producers of official statistics and developers of statistical methods and tools can meet, network and identify problems to be solved.

The objectives are to have an overview of the methodological and technological developments in statistics, to develop and promote new research orientations, to disseminate and demonstrate state-of-the-art results in statistics. The idea is also to put together NSIs and researchers in order to inform each other of the different needs for research as well as already available research results coming from 5^th Framework Programme for Research and Development (FP5), FP6 and current activities in FP7 projects.

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