Objective With globalisation advanced through mergers, acquisitions and outsourcing, and work being constantly changed by new technology and organisational practices, EU citizens frequently find themselves in unforeseen and unusual situations, which call for their experimental ingenuity and entrepreneurship. It has been widely acknowledged that this volatility and unpredictability calls for a new society in which actors should be better informed and should be able to respond in diverse and flexible ways.Two divergent socio-economic models compete currently for the highest possible benchmarks: Anglo-American neo-liberal states that have used market mechanisms to pressurize institutions and companies to change and to force citizens to react; and Nordic welfare states that have enabled and empowered citizens to act by allowing experimental use of their institutions. The overall objective of the Translearn project is to develop a road map for transnational learning for how citizens in different socio-economic systems can make experimental use of existing institutions, create new governance modes and collaborative partnerships across sectors, level and divisions of interests.The overall objective will be reached through a step-wise inductive research process containing comparative cross-national analyses and multi-professional dialogues. The project will take four Nordic countries as a point of departure, and use Slovenia as a test case for transnational learning in small new member states. These inductive lessons from small European countries will allow for creation of new empirical and conceptual tools to compare the dynamics of change in other socio-economic models. A comparative assessment of the Nordic countries and EU countries will finally be used to point out various possible roads to growth and job creation. The project is designed to feed simultaneously into policy processes at several national and EU-levels. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managemententrepreneurshipsocial sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil societysocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemploymentsocial sciencessociologyglobalizationsocial sciencessociologysocial issuesunemployment Keywords encounters of transnational learning experimental use of the civil society and systems of governance national and cross-national comparative case studies national socio-economic models Programme(s) FP6-CITIZENS - Citizens and Governance in a knowledge-based society: Thematic Priority 7 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research Programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) CITIZENS-2004-3.2.1 - Development models to meet combined societal and economic objectives CITIZENS - Citizens and governance in a knowledge-based society Call for proposal FP6-2004-CITIZENS-5 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator AALTO-KORKEAKOULUSÄÄTIÖ (AALTO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION) EU contribution No data Address Otakaari 1 11000 AALTO Finland See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all HANDELSHOEJSKOLEN I KOEBENHAVN Denmark EU contribution No data Address Solberg Plads 3 FREDERIKSBERG See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data BI NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Norway EU contribution No data Address Nydalsveien 37 OSLO See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data STIFTELSEN NORSK INSTITUTT FOR STUDIER AV FORSKNING OG UTDANNING SENTER FOR INNOVASJONSFORSKNIG NIFU STEP Norway EU contribution No data Address Wergelandsveien 7 OSLO See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data LULEA TEKNISKA UNIVERSITET Sweden EU contribution No data Address Porsön LULEÅ See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI Slovenia EU contribution No data Address Kongresni trg 12 362 LJUBLJANA See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data