Community Research and Development Information Service - CORDIS

A strong and efficient Network of National Contacts Points (NCP) is not only elementary to the success of the Seventh EU Framework Programme but also to the realization of the European Research Area. The trans-national project NET4SOCIETY will strive to achieve this declared goal. For its proposed duration of three years, NET4SOCIETY will support the creation and establishment of a functional Network of Socioeconomic Sciences and the Humanities (SSH)-NCPs.

NET4SOCIETY will offer specific high quality training sessions (based on a questionnaire that will be sent to all SSH-NCPs), dedicated workshops, and mentoring and brokerage events. The project will provide targeted tools such as a best practice handbook and a database for the specific area of Socioeconomics and the Humanities, including a refined partner-search tool. These tools will be published on the project s dedicated Internet site (www.net4scociety.eu). Through the project NET4SOCIETY the first network of SSH-NCPs will be created. The Network consists of a total of 37 beneficiaries, including four NCPs from International Cooperation Partner Countries (ICPCs).