Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH)
SSH gathers a series of academic disciplines, concerned with aspects of human society and culture and the relationships among individuals within a society. SSH as a whole has many branches ranging from anthropology to philosophy, and from gender studies to global studies, each of which is considered a social science itself. Branches include, but are not limited to: anthropology, archaeology, communication studies, economics, history, human geography, jurisprudence, linguistics, political science, psychology, public health, and sociology. The term is can also be used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of society", established in the 19th century.
As a cross-cutting issue of broad relevance, Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research is currently fully integrated into each of the general objectives of Horizon 2020. Embedding SSH research across Horizon 2020 is thus essential to maximise the returns to society from investment in science and technology. Topics like competitiveness, climate change, energy security or public health are complex and multi-faceted and need to be thout across disciplines. Indeed, the idea to focus Horizon 2020 around "Challenges" rather than disciplinary fields of research illustrates this new approach.
Examples of the role of SSH are:
- Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing, SSH research could provide the economic and social analysis necessary for reforming public health systems;
- Smart, green and integrated transport, SSH research analyses the socio-economic aspects of transport, prospective studies and technology foresight;
- Climate action and resource efficiency, SSH research tackles the cultural, behavioural, socio-economic and institutional change in order to move to a more self-reliant and resource efficient economy;
- Europe in a changing world, there will be a range of topics covering areas like new ideas, strategies and governance structures for overcoming the crisis in Europe, innovation in the public sector enabled by ICT, business model innovation, social innovation, European cultural heritage, history, culture and identity;
- Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies, the arts and humanities might be an essential source for creativity in development of services and product design.
You can search for funding opportunities related to social sciences and humanities in the new EC Funding and Tenders Portal.
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News
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PERFORM Hosted Its Final Event
PERFORM project held its final event on December 18, 2018 presenting the results achieved over the past four years in close collaboration with its partners.
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[Event & Call Announcement] ENTRENOVA (ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference)
It is a multi-disciplinary conference dedicated to examining, comprehending and discussion the economic, management, organizational, marketing and other issues related to innovation...
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[Event & Call for papers Announcement] The Great Powers influence on the security of small states
The Faculty of Security-Skopj organizes its tenth international scientific conference "The Great Powers influence on the security of small states" in June 2019. Each year the Faculty organizes...
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Events
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Designing future energy policies: Social sciences and humanities to accelerate the energy transition
Energy policies cannot fulfil their maximum potential if the knowledge stemming from social sciences and humanities research is not factored into the decision-making process. Citizens should be at the...
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ENTRENOVA (ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference) - with Call for Papers
It is a multi-disciplinary conference dedicated to examining, comprehending and discussion the economic, management, organizational, marketing and other issues related to innovation...
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International Conference on Research in Humanities and Social Sciences
International Conference on Research in Humanities and Social Sciences, happening on the 15th – 17th December 2018 at University of Belgrade, Serbia, aims to find innovative synergies...
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Organisations
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About SIC Social Innovation Community (SIC) is a Horizon 2020 funded project aiming to help deepen knowledge and capacity to act and grow social innovation and to support public and other decision-makers...
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European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities
The European Alliance of Social Sciences and Humanities (EASSH) is an association comprised of all actors in the social science and humanities community. EASSH was founded some years ago and at present...
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European Center of Sustainable Development
ECSDEV is an international, cross-disciplinary center covering all aspects of the environmental impacts of socio-economic development, founded in Rome on February 10, 2010. The definition of sustainable...
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Calls
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Call for papers - Perspectives of Employment Relations in Europe
In September 2019 the International Labor and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) will hold its 12th European Congress in Duesseldorf, Germany. The theme of the congress will be “Perspectives of ...
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Innovative and citizen-driven food system approaches in cities (CE-SFS-24-2019)
The proposals shall identify several food-related innovative approaches based on citizen science and engagement, to be practised in cities to foster sustainability of the food system. Proposals shall ...
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Horizon Prize for Social Innovation in Europe
Specific Challenge: Innovations are new or significantly improved goods, services, processes and methods which are social when they aim at gains for society rather than for the individual, i.e. when...
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Documents
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SOCIAL INNOVATION AS A PATH TO A SUSTAINABLE, RESILIENT AND INCLUSIVE EUROPE. The Declaration is a statement of intent from the Social Innovation community (SIC) to ensure that social innovation is...
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Social Innovation as a Trigger for Transformations - the role of research
This Policy Paper examines the role of Social Innovation in Social Sciences and Humanities(SSH) research, especially in those research projects funded under FP6 and 7, as well as Horizon 2020. ...
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Science has a very important role in the development of any society. A special dimension of social phenomena has been analyzed by social sciences like anthropology, economics, education, communication...
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Links
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Social Innovation country profiles (by SIC)
The Social Innovation Community presents some country profiles related to the Social Innovation. Find below those from WBC. Albania Bosnia and Herzegovina FR of Macedonia Serbia
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Social innovation initiatives can create products, services and models that answer to structural transformations of civic communities – but they are still fragile and unevenly diffused in central Europe...
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European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (Cost Action)
The “European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities” is a COST Action, starting in April 2016 and ending in April 2020. Proposed by a group of some 20 researchers from...
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Projects
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This H2020 project will accomplish the challenge of creating an innovative valorisation concept that will strengthen the position and impact generation of SSH research and contribute to innovation for...
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Births, mothers and babies: prehistoric fertility in the Balkans between 10000 – 5000 BC
This ERC funded project is hosted by the BIOSENSE INSTITUTE - RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN BIOSYSTEMS. The BIRTH project investigates the key biological and cultural...
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International Cooperation in Social Sciences and Humanities
The INTERCO-SSH project set out to assess the state of the Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH) in Europe and to understand the factors that facilitate or hinder international exchanges. It aimed...
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