By the end of the EdEN project it is obvious that the cooperation between the four partners has been a success: more than two dozens of researchers and assistants are affiliated with the project contributing to scientific papers or receiving essential training for future research. By the end of the project, but far from the end of the cooperation, researchers from at least two sides have been working on fourteen scientific papers, which is four more than originally proposed, improving the research performance of the coordinating institution greatly. Over a dozen researchers and assistants from Hungary have participated in training at internationally recognized partners; while the jointly organized scientific workshops have offered a critical mass of researchers pointing towards future collaborations. The final conference, as well as the other international conferences, provided the essential venue for CERSHAS being recognized within the international education-economics community.
As a direct spin-off of the EdEN network, the partners have been and are still planning to submit several additional project proposals and to establish a larger network of education economists. We have submitted a new Twinning proposal with a new Widening Country lead-partner, and also proposed a new, more focused research project aiming at testing an intervention in financial literacy.
From the start onwards, we aimed for a long term collaboration between the institutions. Thanks to the various initiatives organised within the network, thanks to the research visits to and from Hungary and thanks to the organisation of conferences in Hungary, we have reached this target.
