Final RECORD conference

The conference marks the final event of the RECORD project, which aimed at establishing a knowledge transfer between established EU Member States and Accession States in the area of benchmarking methodology. Over the past two years, experts from 10 institutions from 9 countries, of which 6 were Accession States, have held joint workshops to diffuse the methodology of benchmarking, review the Accession states centres of excellence and crucially, to determine the competitive characteristics of the Centres of Excellence that have been identified. This conference will explain the Benchmarking process and offer a prototype mapping of Excellence in the Accession States; and discuss the policy options that arose out of the work. There are ample opportunities for interaction with the project team and other policy makers.,