This document allows you to identify successful coordinators for your networking activities, it also informs about interesting projects ongoing in the respective fields (see list of research areas below) - results of which could maybe also be exploited in the Balkan region.

The following research areas were supported in this first call:

Activity 1 - Growth, employment and competitiveness in a knowledge society
Research area 1.1 - Changing role of knowledge throughout the economy
Research area 1.2 - Structural changes in the European knowledge economy and society
Activity 2 - Path towards sustainable development
Research area 2.1 - Socio-economic development trajectories
Research area 2.2 - Regional, territorial and social cohesion
Activity 3 - Major trends in society and their implications
Research area 3.1 - Demographic changes
Research area 3.2 - Societal trends and lifestyles
Research area 3.3 - Cultural interactions in an international perspective
Activity 4 - Europe and the world
Research area 4.1 - Interactions and interdependences between world regions and their implications
Research area 4.2 - Conflicts, peace and human rights
Activity 5 - The Citizen in the European Union
Research area 5.1 - Participation and citizenship in Europe
Research area 5.2 - Diversities and commonalities in Europe
Activity 6 - Socio-economic and scientific indicators
Research area 6.1 - How indicators are used in policy?
Research area 6.2 - Developing better indicators for policy
Research area 6.3 - Provision of underlying official statistics
Research area 6.4 - Use of indicators and related approaches for the evaluation of research policies and programmes
Activity 8 - Strategic activities
Topic 8.1 - Emerging needs
Topic 8.2 - Horizontal measures to support international cooperation
Topic 8.3 - Measures to support dissemination of research
Topic 8.4 - Trans-national cooperation among National Contact Points (NCP) for Socio-economic sciences and Humanities

Some projects can be identified with a reference to SEE / WBC, for example:

• GE.M.IC Gender, Migration and Intercultural Interactions in the Mediterranean and South East Europe: an interdisciplinary perspective. Proposal nr. 216065; coordinator Dr Maria STRATIGAKI, EL with project partner from the WBC: "EUROBALKAN" Institute, Skopje - Research Center in Gender Studies

• JAD-PbP Just and durable peace by piece, Proposal nr. 217488; coordinator Dr Karin AGGESTAM, SE with a focus on the Middle East, the project will also examine and compare EU:s peacebuilding strategies in Western Balkans and the Middle East.

In the project NET4SOCIETY on trans-national co-operation among National Contact Points for Socio-economic sciences and the Humanities, the following WBC partners are involved:

• Ministry of Education and Science of Albania, Directorate of Scientific Research (Shpresa RAMA)
• Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of Croatia, Directorate for International Cooperation (Lada BENZON)
• Ministry of Science of Serbia (Suzana VOJINOVIC)
• Agency for International Scientific, Educational, Cultural and Technical Cooperation of Montenegro, Department for International Scientific and Technical Cooperation (Tamara TOVJANIN)

Source:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/pdf/ssh_fp7_project_synopsis_en.pdf