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| Newsletter of PLATON Project 1st issue: April 2006 |
| Issued by: Q-PLAN N.G. March, 2006 |
| PLATON Newsletter contains useful information for those interested in participating in EU research projects in Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) and/or wish to exploit the research results in this field. PLATON supports the participation of SMEs / SME groupings in SSH research and demonstrates the importance that SSH research can have in the long-term competitiveness of SMEs. |
While SMEs are striving to survive in an increasingly global marketplace, socio-economic studies and research activities can help them identify and benefit from new business opportunities and avoid threats that affect their business environment.Read more
PLATON targets SMEs and SME groupings (associations, networks, chambers, etc.) and addresses both poles of socio-economic research: organisations and institutes who conduct research as well as the final beneficiaries of research results. Read more
PLATON provides the opportunity to SMEs and SME groupings to learn about major socio-economic changes and how these (will) affect their business macro-environment. This way they can take proactive actions to respond better and immediate to changes, thus remaining competitive.Read more
Research organisations (e.g. universities, research centres, etc.) may find competent SMEs / SME groupings as partners in their SSH research projects and thus gain substantial benefits.Read more
SMEs make up a large part of Europe's economy by contributing up to 80% (source: EU Communication 10-11-2005) of employment. Therefore, SME friendly policies both at Community level and in Member States become even more important to unlocking the EU's potential.Read more.
RESORE is a European network for research in social sciences, co-funded by the EC, analysing changes in employment configuration since the nineties, considering employees' resources and related rights, articulating national trends and the impact of the European integration process. Read more.
Health and safety at work is one of the EU's most important social policy areas. Current trends in society and work organisation are creating new risks and put new demands on occupational safety and health research.Read more.
Baltic Business Development Network is an electronic and human network of Business Schools and Business Organizations specialized in Baltic Business. It provides SME-s with local information from all the countries that need to do better in business. Read more.
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In Rome (March 23-24, 2006), the PLATON partners presented the work progress to the Project Officer and agreed on action planning for the next semester. Significant work has been carried out up to now. The project partners identified research organisation and SMEs/SME groupings that are already active (as coordinators or partners) in EU-funded SSH research projects and carried out interviews with them.Read more.
PLATON is adopting a range of measures to help achieve its objectives. They include a wide range of activities devised for individual SMEs and groups of SMEs. These diversified activities, which will primarily take place in the 6 partners' countries, include...Read more.
The EC has launched a series of "dialogue workshops" with the objective of mobilising research in Social Sciences and Humanities for the benefit of citizens, policymakers, non-governmental organisations and business. Furthermore, a public consultation will be launched in May 2006 for formulating the SSH work programme for FP7. Read more.
Demographic change forces SMEs to react to this challenge. The initiative "New Quality of Life" (INQA) provides a database where SMEs can search for solutions provided by other enterprises.Read more.
The initiative "e-Business W@tch" (http://www.ebusiness-watch.org) monitors and analyses related developments and their impacts on different sectors of the European economy Read more.
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