Forskningsnettverk

DESIGN OG VERDISKAPING

Samfunns- og næringslivsforskning (SNF) har fått forskningsfinansiering for perioden 2005-2006 fra Norges forskningsråd innen temaet design og verdiskaping. Prosjektet er fra 2007 videreført ved Institutt for geografi ved Universitetet i Bergen gjennom en rekke formidlingsaktiviteter som deriblant foredrag og internasjonale bokutgivelser.

JORDBRUKSØKONOMI I BERGEN

Den jordbruksøkonomiske forskningen i Bergen har base ved Samfunns- og næringslivsforskning (SNF ved Ivar Gaasland), og tilknytning til samfunnsøkonomimiljøet ved NHH (Rolf Jens Brunstad) og UiB (Erling Vårdal).

RECWOWE

The RECWOWE Network of excellence is a project financed by the European Commission’ Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). The paramount objective of RECWOWE is to create a new, tightly integrated and durable European research network capable of overcoming the fragmentation of existing research on questions of work and welfare.

RECWOWE’s major objective is to replace academic fragmentation with a durable and integrated new structure of scientific excellence at European level, focussing squarely on the dynamic relationship between labour markets and welfare regimes. All activities will be organised around the tensions that characterise these relationships. Four main tensions can be identified:

  • tensions between a call for more flexibility on the labour market (economic efficiency) and a need for security for the citizens (social justice);
  • tensions between families, work and welfare regimes;
  • tensions between the number of jobs created and their quality;
  • tensions created by the difficulties of adapting industrial social welfare systems to requirements of creating new jobs.

RECWOWE comprises 29 institutions of research, 17 universities and 11 other institutions (foundations, etc.). The partners gather together about 180 researchers and 80 PhD students who will work in the network. The current partners come from 17 countries: Belgium (2), the Czech Republic (1), Denmark (2), Finland (2), France (2), Germany (2), Greece (1), Hungary (2), Italy (1), the Netherlands (2), Norway (1), Poland (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (1), Sweden (2), Switzerland (2), the United Kingdom (4). Two non EU-countries are signatory participants: Norway and Switzerland. Apart from the need to bring together the leading European specialists of labour market and welfare regimes, the partners have been chosen to properly represent the variety of institutions which characterises the research on labour market and welfare regimes in Europe.