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Final SEARCH Academic Conference: CALL FOR PAPERS

search — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:34:22 +0000

SEARCH Project will host the Final SEARCH Academic Conference on February 10th-11th 2014 in Barcelona.

The European Union’s relations with its Southern and Eastern neighbours will be the focus of the Final SEARCH Academic Conference. Organized by the EU-funded research project SEARCH (FP-SSH-2010-2.2.1), the Conference is open to attendance and to present papers by all interested parties.

The SEARCH consortium is exploring the integration process between the EU and its Neighbourhood Countries (which include non-EU states in Eastern Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa).

Representatives of the SEARCH consortium and external academics will present their findings at the Conference, highlighting the issues related with the following topics:

(a) Trade flows, FDI and location choices.
(b) Migration, human capital and social capital.
(c) Technological activities and innovation diffusion in the EU and interactions with Neighbouring regions.
(d) Social, cultural and institutional environment.

• Submission:

The accepted papers will be presented in plenary sessions that will complement the 2 keynote speakers’ presentations. Abstracts of the Papers (500-800 words) should be sent in pdf format to search.project@ub.edu before September 15th, 2013. Detailed abstracts will also be considered, but full papers will be favoured. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered for one presenter of each selected paper. Ten papers will be selected to be presented in this Conference.

Final Papers should have a length of 12-15.000 words.

Deadline for abstracts of the papers submission: September 15th 2013.
Selection decision on the abstracts to be announced: October 8th 2013.
Preliminary programme: October 30th 2013.
Deadline for full Papers submission: December 20th 2013.
Final programme: January 10th 2014.

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Fourth SEARCH Progress Meeting

search — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:55:03 +0000

The Fourth SEARCH Progress Meeting was held on 4th and 5th April 2013 in Moscow.

Third SEARCH Progress Meeting and SEARCH Interim Policy Workshop

search — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:00:17 +0000

Deliverable 1.3

search — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:57:10 +0000

Deliverable 3.1 “ Conceptual framework for the assessment of the impact of differentiated/incomplete integration on both the new member states (NMS) and the neighbouring countries (NCs) “ submitted to the Commission on Mach 2012.

Second SEARCH progress meeting and Second Advisory Board meeting

search — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:53:24 +0000

The second SEARCH progress meeting and the Second Advisory Board meeting will be held in Cagliari on September 20th and 21st, 2012. See the agenda of the meeting in the following link.

SEARCH Survey Workshop

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:41:08 +0000

SEARCH Survey Workshop was organized on the 20th-21st of January in Hannover.

Objectives:

Discuss altogether the inputs of the workshop participants concerning the survey
Decide on the thematic blocks of the questionnaire of the survey
Cover organizational issues of the survey: survey countries, survey regions, subcontracting partners, firms, timing etc.
Incorporate all the ideas of the workshop participants in a comprehensive common outcome defining further steps

Participants:

The following seven WP2 & WP5 members did attend the workshop: Dimitris Kallioras (UTH), William Bartlett (LSE), Andrea Ascani (LSE), Rebekka Vedina (UTARTU), Anna Maria Pinna (CRENoS), Paula Cusi (IEMED), Gunther Maier (WU).

LUH Team is going to conduct a specific firm survey

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:18:55 +0000

The LUH team is going to conduct a specific firm survey within the WP2 and WP5 of the SEARCH Project. The objective of the survey is to provide comparative, task-specific micro data of the survey countries by covering the central themes of the both work packages, namely location choices, institutional environment, business culture, human capital and skills development. The survey is going to be carried out in Ukraine, where there is already an established subcontracting partner, Kiev National Economic University, and in one of the other ENP states, possibly Morocco. Around 900 firms, both domestic and foreign firms from the EU, will be surveyed from two or three regions of the above countries.

The building blocks of the questionnaire for the survey are planned to be: fact sheet, location choices and patterns, business environment, impact of FDI, human capital and skills development. Moreover, firm-level qualitative case studies will be selected from the top European investors (from the EU-15 and from the EU-12) operating in the ENP states, specifically those in the Eastern Europe region and the Mediterranean region in order to gain comparative qualitative insights into the determinants of the location decisions in the areas with special reference to the role of intangible assets.

First SEARCH progress meeting

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:09:27 +0000

Kick off meeting

admin — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:45:03 +0000

The kick off meeting was held in Barcelona on Septembre12th, 2011.

See the agenda of the meeting in the following link.

SEARCH website online!

admin — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:40:29 +0000

Welcome to the newly launched SEARCH website!
All the project progresses, results, good practices and policy recommendations will be published here.