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E U R O P E A N
C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E
F O R M A T
Personal information
Name POHORYLES, RONALD J.
Address ICCR, SCHOTTENFELDGASSE 69, A-1070, VIENNA , AUSTRIA
Telephone (+43 1) 524 13 93 111
Fax (+43 1) 524 13 93 200
E-mail r.pohoryles@iccr-foundation.org
Nationality Austrian
Date of birth 05 APRIL 1952
WORK EXPERIENCE
• Dates (from – to) 1986 to present
• Name and address of employer ICCR, Schottenfeldgasse 69/1, A-1070 Vienna, Austria
• Type of business or sector Research Institute
• Occupation or position held Director/Chairman
• Main activities and responsibilities As Head of Research of an international research institute, responsible for the conceptualization,
implementation and supervision of numerous research projects – around 12 per year – many of
an interdisciplinary comparative nature involving partners abroad.
Focal research interests:
 European Integration with emphasis on public policy analysis;
 Science and Technology with emphasis on internationalisation;
 Social Policy and Multiculturalism;
 Environmental Sociology and Technological Integrated Assessment
• Dates (from – to) since 1989 to date
• Name and address of employer Innovation-The European Journal of Social Science Research
Schottenfeldgasse 69, 1070 Vienna, Austria
• Type of business or sector Scientific Journal (Routledge, Taylor&Francis)
• Occupation or position held Editor-in-Chief
• Main activities and responsibilities
• Dates (from – to) Since 1980 to date
• Name and address of employer Universities of Vienna, Innsbruck, Salzburg and Klagenfurt; IUC Dubrovnik
• Type of business or sector Universities
• Occupation or position held Senior Lecturer
• Main activities and responsibilities Teaching
• Dates (from – to) 1973 - 1986
• Name and address of employer Institute of Applied Sociology,
• Type of business or sector Research Institute
• Occupation or position held Senior Researcher and Member of the Board (1982-1986)
• Main activities and responsibilities Research

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EDUCATION AND TRAINING
• Dates (from – to) 1992
• Name and type of organisation
providing education and training
University of Innsbruck
• Principal subjects/occupational
skills covered
Comparative Political Systems
• Title of qualification awarded Venia legendi (Habilitation)
• Level in national classification
(if appropriate)
Universitätsdozent
• Dates (from – to) 1970 - 1980
• Name and type of organisation
providing education and training
University of Vienna
• Principal subjects/occupational
skills covered
Social and Political Science
• Title of qualification awarded Dr. Phil. (Ph.D.
• Level in national classification
(if appropriate)
PERSONAL SKILLS
AND COMPETENCES
Acquired in the course of life and career
but not necessarily covered by formal
certificates and diplomas.
MOTHER TONGUE GERMAN
OTHER LANGUAGES
ENGLISH
• Reading skills EXCELLENT
• Writing skills EXCELLENT
• Verbal skills EXCELLENT
FRENCH
• Reading skills EXCELLENT
• Writing skills EXCELLENT
• Verbal skills EXCELLENT
SOCIAL SKILLS AND
COMPETENCES
.
Working in research teams, Member of numerous national and international scientific
associations and President of the "The European Association for the Advancement of Social
Sciences"
ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS
AND COMPETENCES
As Research Director I have high competencies in management and organization. Development
and consolidation of a private non-profit research organization using a range of contractual and
other funding from public and private sources to develop innovative forms of academic activity in
collaboration with academic bodies, local authorities, voluntary organizations and the
commercial private sector.

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Publications
Pohoryles, R.J., Towards a Green Economy as Cornerstone for Ensuring the Stability of Sustainable
Societies, Contribution to the 3rd European-Arab Dialogue, FNSt (2015)
Pohoryles, R.J. (ed.). Adam Smith Read in the Era of Globalization (Adam Smith gelesen im Zeitalter
der Globalisierung). Metropolis Verlag (2015)
Pohoryles, R.J. The Timeliness of Adam Smith’s Work (Zur Aktualität von Adam Smith). In: Pohoryles,
R.J. (ed.) Adam Smith Read in the Era of Globalization (Adam Smith gelesen im Zeitalter der
Globalisierung). Metropolis Verlag (2015)
Pohoryles, R. J. Our friend and mentor Martin Peterson. Obituary. Innovation: The European Journal
of Social Science Research 27, Nr. 2 (2015)
Pohoryles, R. J. Europe facing globalisation. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science
Research 27, Nr. 2 (2015)
Pohoryles, R. J. Excellent research, but insufficient valorization? The case of the European transport
research in the 7th Framework Programme. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science
Research 27, Nr. 4 (2014)
Pohoryles, R. J. (with M. Friedewald), Technology and Privacy. Innovation: The European Journal of
Social Science Research 26, Nr. 1-2 (2013)
Pohoryles, R. J., „25 years ago… and the next 25 years“. Innovation: The European Journal of Social
Science Research 25, Nr. 1 (2012).
Pohoryles, R. J. (with H.-L. Dienel). INNOCULT revisited: the impact of EU research programmes on
the Europeanization of research, national science and research policies and institutional innovation.
2012., in: Jansen, D. (2012), Towards a European Research Area. Baden-Baden : Nomos.
Pohoryles, R. J., „25 years ago… and the next 25 years“. Innovation: The European Journal of Social
Science Research 25, Nr. 1 (2012).
Pohoryles, R. J. and A. B. M. Vadrot. „Interdisciplinarity as a challenge“. Innovation: The European
Journal of Social Science Research 24, Nr. 4 (2011): 391–393.
Pohoryles, R. J. „Europe in the making–what role environmentalism; and, why should sustainable
development be less than environmentalism? “. Innovation–The European Journal of Social Science
Research 23, Nr. 4 (2010).
Pohoryles, R. J. (with A. B. M. Vadrot), „Multi-level governance, technological intervention, and
globalization: the example of biogenetic fuels“. Innovation–The European Journal of Social Science
Research 23, Nr. 4 (2010): 361–387
Pohoryles, R. J. and S. Bozic (2009), “Why bother with interdisciplinarity in the social and human
sciences?” Innovation–The European Journal of Social Science Research 22, Nr. 2 (2009): 143–145
Pohoryles, R. J. and A. Schadauer. „What future for the European social sciences and humanities?“.
Innovation–The European Journal of Social Science Research 22, Nr. 2 (2009): 147–187.
Pohoryles, R. J. „Sustainable Development, Innovation and Democracy“. Innovation 20, Nr. 3 (2007):
183–190.

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Pohoryles,R. . 2007. Do the Social Sciences Need to be Rethought and, hence, Innovated?. in: Van
Langenhove 2007: 15-48, Wien: Passagenverlag
Pohoryles, R. J., „Innocult revisited“. Innovation 19, Nr. 1 (2006): 107–116.
Pohoryles, R. J., “Knowledge Society and Knowledge Economy -What's New in the New Economy”, in:
K.G. Hammerlund & Tomas Nielsen (eds), A Case of Identities. Festschrift in honour of Martin Peterson.
Gothenburg University Press. 2006.
Pohoryles, R. J. (with L. Giorgi), Challenges to EU political integration and the role of democratization.
Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 18, Nr. 4 (2005): 407-418.
Pohoryles, R. J. (with Gerald Berger), “Policy Integration and Capacity-Building in Regional Sustainable
Development: Analysis of Experiences in Europe”. Conference Paper: Berlin Conference on the Human
Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. 2004
Pohoryles, R. J. „Vers une monopolisation et une renationalisation de la recherche européenne en
sciences sociales?“ Revue internationale des sciences sociales, Nr. 3 (2003): 519–527.
Pohoryles, R. J., „Towards monopolisation and re‐nationalisation of European social science research? Some
critical remarks on the 6th Framework Programme“. International Social Science Journal 55, Nr. 177 (2003): 463–
471.
Pohoryles, R. J., The Making of the European Research Area--a View from Research Networks“.
Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 15, Nr. 4 (2002): 325–340.
Pohoryles, R. J. (with L. Giorgi), „Improving communication between social sciences and policy making“,
in: OECD (2000), Social Sciences for Knowledge and Decision Making.. Also as: „Improving
communication between social sciences and policy making“. Social sciences for knowledge and
decision making. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 14, Nr. 4 (2001)
Pohoryles, R. J., and Giorgi, L., „Transport Policy and Research: What Future?“ in: Transport Policy and
Research: What Future? (2001): 246.
Pohoryles, R. J. (with L. Giorgi), The Democratization of Democracy: The Missing Link. Innovation: The
European Journal of Social Science Research 13, Nr. 4 (2000)
Pohoryles, R. J. (with L. Giorgi), Income analysis and social inclusion policies. Innovation: The European
Journal of Social Science Research 12, Nr. 4 (1999): 549-566.
Pohoryles, R. J. „Moving beyond aid: Research co-operation with Central and Eastern Europe“.
Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 12, Nr. 3 (1999): 305–322.
Pohoryles, R. J., and L. Giorgi. „ Social sciences in progress“. Innovation: The European Journal of
Social Science Research 12, Nr. 4 (1999).
Pohoryles, R. J., „The past and the future: Austria facing a new stage of RTD co-operation with its
neighbours“. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 12, Nr. 3 (1999): 377–396.
Pohoryles, R. J. and L. Giorgi. „ Social sciences in progress—the pragmatic approach of Henrik Kreutz.“.
Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 12, Nr. 4 (1999): 447–454.
Pohoryles, R. J., L. Giorgi, und P. Biegelbauer. The transformation of the research systems in Central
and Eastern Europe, „ICCR Working Papers“. 1998.
Pohoryles, R. J., (with V. Busch-Geertsema, A. Tosi, M. Higgins, and M. H. Soulet. „EUROHOME-
IMPACT“ (1995.)
Pohoryles, R. J., (with Giorgi, L., and P. Schlesinger). The post-socialist media: what power the West?:
The changing media landscape in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. Avebury, 1995.

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Pohoryles, R. J., (with Giorgi, L., S. Pohoryles-Drexel, and G. Schmid). The internal logic and European
transformations: five decisive years at the turn of the century. 1994.
Pohoryles, R.J. (with K. Burtscher), Clean Technology Innovationen und deren Verbreitung bei Klein-
und Mittelbetrieben. Research Report for the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research. 1994
Pohoryles, R. J. and S. Pohoryles-Drexel. „ Jewish identity after the Holocaust: The reconstruction of
the Viennese Jewry from the point of view of three generations“. European transformations: five decisive
years at the turn of the century: an innovation reader, 1988-1992, Nr. 1 (1994): 254.
Pohoryles, R. J., The Role of the Cities in Central Europe in the Process of Reconstruction. Final Report
to the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research. ICCR, 1993.
Pohoryles‐Drexel, S., und R. J. Pohoryles. „‘Black card’, or rational bargaining strategies? On the
difficulties involved in mastering technology effects by means of interactive processes“. Innovation: The
European Journal of Social Science Research 6, Nr. 4 (1993): 481–497.
Pohoryles, R. J., „Between society, politics and the market: The structure and future of science and
research against the background of the process of internationalization“. Innovation: The European
Journal of Social Science Research 6, Nr. 2 (1993): 195–210.
Pohoryles, R. J., und R. Richter. „ Current trends in European sociology”“. Innovation: The European
Journal of Social Science Research 6, Nr. 2 (1993): 123–130.
Kreutz, H., R. Pohoryles, und H. Rögl. Politische und administrative Weichenstellungen der
Hochschulreform und Hochschulexpansion. Inst. für Angewandte Soziologie, 1992.
Pohoryles, R. „The East and the West: What cooperation, what aid?“ Innovation: The European Journal
of Social Science Research 5, Nr. 1 (1992): 11–23.
Pohoryles, R. J., (with P. Schlesinger, und U. Wuggenig). „Los medios de comunicación en Europa.
Transformación de estructuras de un contexto cambiante“. Telos: Cuadernos de Comunicación,
Tecnología y Sociedad, Nr. 25 (1991): 54–59.
Pohoryles, R. „Multinational Integration and national education“. Higher Education in Europe 16, Nr. 4
(1991): 70–79.
Pohoryles, R. J., „Beyond Multi-Culturalism?“ Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science
Research 4, Nr. 2 (1991): 187–189.
Pohoryles, R. J., „Reflections on innovation: a change of the paradigm? Betrachtungen zur Innovation-
Wandel des Paradigmas“. Sociologia internationalis 28, Nr. 2 (1990): 217–231.
Pohoryles, R. (with D. M. Hoffmann, B. Rauscher, and H. Wintersberger). „The Limits of Consensus and
Continuity-A Challenge for the Austrian Welfare State?“, in: “Shifts in the welfare mix: their impact on
work, social services, and welfare policies”, Frankfurt/Main: Campus, 1990: 169.
Pohoryles, R. J., (with Jerschina, J., R. Kinnear, und R. J. Pohoryles). „ Educating Europe? “. Innovation:
The European Journal of Social Science Research, Nr. 1 (1990): 7–11.
Pohoryles-Drexel, S., und R. J. Pohoryles. „Multicultural integration as a challenge of social policy: A
case study of Soviet Jews in Vienna“. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 3,
Nr. 4-5 (1990): 673–712.
Pohoryles, R. J. (with R. Kinnear, und G. Muskens). „Language and Ethnicity “. Innovation: The
European Journal of Social Science Research 3, Nr. 3 (1990): 347–349.
Pohoryles, R. J. Die goldenen 70er Jahre?: Reformpolitische Optionen und gesellschaftliche
Herausforderungen im Modernisierungskontext. Bd. 3. Verband d. Wiss. Ges. Österreichs, 1990.

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Pohoryles, R. J., und S. Pohoryles‐Drexel. „Innovation policy and the service sector- an international
comparison (Innovationspolitik und Wirtschaftsdienste im internationalen Überblick)“. Innovation: The
European Journal of Social Science Research 2, Nr. 3 (1989): 255–329.
Pohoryles, R. J., und W. E. Eckstein. „The Austrian economic service sector in international comparison
(Die Situation der wirtschaftsnahen Dienstleistungsbetriebe in Österreich)“. Innovation: The European
Journal of Social Science Research, Nr. 2-3 (1989): 189–253.
Pohoryles, R. J., S. Pohoryles-Drexel, und W. E. Eckstein. „Can the service sector replace the industry.
An international comparison (Dienstleistung statt Industrie?: Der Beitrag der wirtschaftsnahen
Dienstleistungen zur Innovation: ein internationaler Vergleich.)“ VWGÖ, 1989.
Pohoryles, R. J., “Educational systems and European integration processes: Are there ‘needs’?“
Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 2, Nr. 1 (1989): 7–10.
Pohoryles, R. J., „Do Democracies need corruption? A pragmatic view on a widespread phenomenon:
Preface“. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 2, Nr. 4 (1989): 393–399.
Pohoryles, R. J., “Structural mobility” to overcome new social divisions societal and political approaches
in Austria in view of the recent trends of labour market segmentation. Innovation: The European Journal
of Social Science Research 1, Nr. 4–5 (1988): 747–768.
Pohoryles, R.J., „Teaching social sciences: Hommage à Henrik Kreutz“. Innovation: The European
Journal of Social Science Research 1, Nr. 4–5 (1988): 411–420.
Pohoryles, R.J., und W. E. Eckstein,. „Konflikte im Ökologiebereich?das Beispiel der Sonderabfalldebatte“.
Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 1, Nr. 4 (1988): 649-676.
Pohoryles, R. J., „Multinational integration and national education systems: some basic thoughts on the potential
consequences of Austria’s EU‐integration for the educational system“. Innovation: The European Journal of Social
Science Research 1, Nr. 4–5 (1988): 579–588.
Pohoryles, R. „Current trends in health policy in the working environment“. Innovation: The European
Journal of Social Science Research 1, Nr. 2–3 (1988): 299–331.
Pohoryles, R.J., und W. E. Eckstein,. „Public participation – a social innovation? (Bürgerbeteiligung als
gesellschaftliche Innovation?)“. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 1, Nr. 1
(1988): 29–46.
Pohoryles, R.J., Innovation – only a technological and economic issue? (Innovation‐nur ein technisch‐
ökonomisches Problem?). Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 1, Nr. 1
(1988): 3–16
Pohoryles, R.J., „What power the media? The influence of the media in public affairs: an Austrian case
study“. Media, Culture & Society 9, Nr. 2 (1987): 209–236.
Pohoryles, R., und H. Rögl. „Benachteiligung durch Zweisprachigkeit? Einige empirische Argumente
zur Auseinandersetzung um den zweisprachigen Schulunterricht in Kärnten“. Demographische
Informationen (1985): 49–55.
Pohoryles, R.J., „Determinanten und Resultate der österreichischen Strafrechtsreform in den siebziger
Jahren“. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 10 (1981): 39–49.

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Research
Democratic Governance
 EUROPUB (Funding: FP 5): Monitoring the European Public Space (2006)
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the European Union finds itself at the crossroads. On the
one hand, the ambitious European project of ever closer collaboration has significantly advanced.
through the Eastern enlargement and the ever growing scope of economic integration. On the other
hand, institutional and implementation deficits place serious barriers to further integration and raise,
more urgently than before, the question of political integration – including its desirability and feasibility.
In short, the European Union finds itself in a serious legitimacy crisis.
There are three distinct narratives – responses to this question:
o The first considers further – efficient and effective – integration to be possible only
once a political integration framework has been agreed upon and put in place.
‘Institutional reform’ is term used to refer to these considerations, yet ultimately this
is also a discussion about the EU political multi-level governance system, a possible
Constitution and, for some, a state model.
o The second narrative with regard to the EU legitimacy crisis emphasises the absence
of a symbolically unifying European identity or ‘Europeanness’ among EU citizens and
sees the legitimacy deficit closely linked to an identity deficit. According to the
proponents of this narrative, as long as EU citizens are first and foremost ‘nationals’,
pledging their solidarity to those ‘like them’ within their national territorial
boundaries and identifying the latter as the legitimate and only sphere for politics,
the EU as a polity will remain lacking. It might therefore be more sensible to
concentrate any institutional reform efforts to rendering the EU an efficient expert-
led international cooperation framework for making policy rather than politics.
o The third narrative links the legitimacy crisis to a democratic deficit – the reason why
the European Union and the European integration project is not genuinely
recognised as both lawful and justifiable has to do with the fact that it is non-
transparent and unaccountable vis-à-vis its citizens, hence undemocratic.
Overcoming the legitimacy deficit thus requires overcoming the democratic deficit.
 PEACE-COM (Funding: FP6):PEACE PROCESSES IN COMMUNITY CONFLICTS: FROM
UNDERSTANDING THE ROOTS OF CONFLICTS TO CONFLICT RESOLUTION (2010)
Our aim in undertaking the research that is reported in this volume has been to investigate and help
European decision makers understand the origins and causes of conflicts currently taking place in
Europe, and evaluate their developments, as some of them may interfere with, and even threaten, the
standards of democracy the European Union seeks to promote. In order to do so, the PEACE-COM
project has studied community conflicts drawn from the range of possible types inside the European
Union and in its vicinity and the effects of accommodation policies or of Europeanisation on these
conflicts.
As most community conflicts, in Europe as well as in other parts of the world, are multicausal and
multidimensional, the PEACE-COM project has used an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from
several disciplines of the social sciences.

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 MoniQA (Funding: FP 6): Monitoring and Quality Assurance in the Food Supply Chain (2011)
The project deals with the harmonisation challenges within the EU and between EU and trading
countries. Within a Network of Excellence the ICCR team under my supervision was in charge of
analysing the governance of food safety including legislation, regulations and institutional practices in
the EU and its Member States and comparing these regulations with international agreements. The
field of food safety and quality is embedded in a complex system of multi-level governance. National
food regulatory systems are embedded in different cultural perceptions of food safety but also in
different systems of actors with often conflicting interests. In order to ensure that food safety can be
enjoyed by all minimum standards should apply to all foodstuffs. At the international level,
discrepancies as to the setting of standards might also occur due to different perceptions of
acceptable risk levels, i.e. the application of the precautionary principle.
 NODE-GOTHERGLO (Funding: Austrian Ministry of Science and Research: Governance,
Territoriality and Europeanization - Whither Welfare Regimes? (2010)
The extent to and mode in which national welfare regimes converge will determine the contours of the
European social model and the future of European social citizenship. Earlier studies on the
convergence of national welfare regimes have been based on the comparison of welfa re
expenditures and output indicators and suggest that convergence, if and when it takes place, occurs
slowly and within welfare ‘families’. The present study take s a political-sociological approach and
considers the convergence of national welfare regimes at two different levels, namely, the normative
level and that of policy / institutional practice.
 BASIC (Funding: FP 6): The Provision of Basic Services in the European Liberalised Markets
(2008)
The BASIC project investigates how to provide affordable and reliable basic services (public services,
services of general interest) for electricity, telecommunication, public transport and postal services in
Europe. At the moment the institutional and regulatory frameworks under which those services are
provided in the various European countries show a large variety of different possible models. The
research undertaken in BASIC aims to explain why certain models seem to work better than others
and under which circumstances.
 PRACTIS (Funding: FP7): Privacy – Appraising Challenges to Technologies and Ethics
(2011)
The PRACTIS project has assessed the potential impact of emerging technologies and new scientific
knowledge on privacy. It has explored novel policy options and legal procedures for addressing
individuals’ changing privacy needs in the light of new technologies, and has looked at new ethical
frameworks in law and the implementation of guidelines for new technology or product development.
Technologies such as nano, bio, info and cognition (NBIC) were scrutinized and new threats to privacy
were evaluated.

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URBANEYE (Funding: FP5): On the Threshold to Urban Panopticon? Assessing the Social and
Political Impact of the Use of CCTV in European Cities (2005)
URBANEYE was a comparative research project analysing the employment of CCTV in public
accessible space in Europe. It has assessed the social effects and political impacts in order to outline
strategies for its regulation. The project was realised by a multidisciplinary team assembling
criminologists, philosophers, political scientists, sociologists and urban geographers from six European
countries.
Public Participation in the Knowledge Based Societies: Specific Policy Areas
 AWARE (Funding: DG Environment, FP7): How to Achieve Sustainable Water Ecosystems
Management Connecting Research, People and Policy Makers in Europe (2011)
The purpose of the project was to develop and to document a new approach for enhancing
connectivity between research and policy making in the sustainable development of water ecosystems
employing the concept of integrated adaptive management. The investigation of three coastal case
studies and related interactive events on the European continent was intended to facilitate interplay
among multi-stakeholder groups, including the scientific community, civil society and policy makers,
with the aim of addressing ecological, social and economic factors affecting coastal regions. Public
participation and social learning were the key aspects of the project.
 MOVE-TOGETHER (Funding: DG Research, FP6): Raising Citizens Awareness and Appreciation
of EU Research on Sustainable Transport in the Urban Environment (2010)
The MOVE TOGETHER project has focussed on raising citizens’ awareness and appreciation of EU
research on sustainable transport in the urban environment. The ultimate aim of this awareness
exercise was to let people become fully conscious of the sustainability (economic, social and
environmental) implications of their transport choices in and for the urban environment in which they
live, and where the future generations are supposed to live. By the same token, people were made
aware of what EU transport research is doing and how the research results can help – if implemented
in European cities – to make urban transport more sustainable, i.e. safer, more secure, more efficient
and better for the environment, and to improve the quality of life.
 KNOWLEDGE NETWORK (Funding: DG Regio): Knowledge Network, Governance in Action
(2010)
The main objective of the Knowledge Network was to improve local policy and government by
reinforcing tools and actions in local participation and governance. The network of 21 partners from 11
countries worked together to improve the practices of governance. The results led to an improvment of
the use of information through an interactive database, to more cooperation, to a better exchange of
information and knowledge, to the gathering of more information from inhabitants for better policies, to
the use of new methods and to a more integrated approach of local governance at the regional and
cross regional level. As a scientific partner to this network, the ICCR has assembled and disseminated
best practice information on citizen participation at the regional level; provided support to partners with
the elaboration and application of a questionnaire on citizens’ needs and expectations from local
government; and to organize an international conference on violence and the perceptions of insecurity
in derelict urban areas.
 RAISE (Funding: DG Research, FP6): Raising Citizens and Stakeholders Awareness, Acceptance
and Use of New Regional and Urban Sustainability Approaches in Europe (2007)

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The project was aiming at raising the awareness and testing the acceptance and usability of results
achieved by the recently closed or ongoing EU research projects on urban sustainability. RAISE was a
project within the sub-priority on Global Change and Ecosystems.
Citizens were asked to formulate their view on the acceptance and on the use of selected urban
sustainability approaches, technologies and solutions coming from EU research findings in a
sequence of three preparatory meetings, whose results were presented in a final conference in
Brussels, involving also stakeholder representatives and politicians.
Science, Research and Technology: Towards a socially, economically and
ecologically sustainable Europe
 TIPS (Funding: FP7): Enhancing the capacity of EU transport projects to transform
research results into innovative products and services (2013)
This projects aims at analysing the research framework of finished and ongoing national and EU-
funded R&D projects with regards to exploitation of R&D results taking into consideration the following
socio-economic challenges: eco-innovation through decarbonisation and efficient use of natural
resources; safe and seamless mobility; and competitiveness through innovation
 WIN-WIN (Funding: FFG/BMVIT): Sustainable energy supply: Production and import of
biomass and biofuels (2012)
The aim of the project was to give an overview of the supply and demand for biofuels specifically
dealing with the situation in Europe and that in threshold and developing countries using case studies
as examples. The cases selected were Sweden and France as importing EU-countries on the one
hand, and Senegal as a (potential) exporting nation, on the other. European documents frequently
refer to the double effect of using biofuels in the struggle against climate change, which would mean a
win-win situation as regards development co-operation. But this only applies under specific conditions.
 HEALTHGOVMATTERS (Funding: FP7): Health Governance Matters: A Social Science and
Ethnographic Study of Patient and Professional Involvement in the Governance of
Converging Technologies in Medicine (2012)
HealthGovMatters was a collaborative research project in the Seventh Framework Programme
‚Science in Society’ initiative. The project has focused on new imaging (predictive and diagnostic)
technologies, computer implants and new pharmaceuticals/devices which are being developed and
implemented in the fields of genetics and neurology - two key sites in which new technologies enabled
by the synergism of developments in such core fields as nanotechnology, biotechnology, information
technology and cognitive sciences are being integrated. Often referred to as 'converging technologies',
their integration in the area of medicine is viewed as holding the potential to vastly improve ICT
capacity for medical data management and information generation and to provide the foundation for
the translation of research knowledge into clinical trials and clinical practice.
 SITPRO Plus (Funding: FP7): Study of the Impacts of the EU Transport RTD Projects (2011)
The SITPRO Plus project has assessed the impacts of transport projects funded by the European
Commission within the 5th and 6th Framework Programmes for Research and Technological
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and to provide the European Commission with a methodology for impact assessment in ongoing and
future Framework Programmes.
 KNOWLEDGE NBIC (Funding: FP7): Knowledge Politics and New Converging Technologies
(2011)
The project dealt with the development of the new paradigm of 'converging technologies'.
Technological convergence is the paired claim for a unifying science, which often accompanies
convergence discourses, appeared credible.
Biotechnology had already established itself as the leading science for technological development in
the 1990s. Nanotechnology and cognitive science now appeared to make it possible to make the next
quantum leap and integrate biology and physics. This development was not peripheral, nor simply one
more fad in the never-ending struggle for more public and private research funding. The converging
technologies or CT paradigm enabled the resurgence of the chemical worldview in science and
technology. There are now many studies in the US and in Europe dealing with the issue. In Austria,
the Academy of Sciences is running the so-called NANO-TRUST project with support from the Ministry
of Transport, Technology and Innovation.
 EURO-COOP (Funding: FP6): Regional Innovation Policy Impact Assessment and
Benchmarking Process: Cooperation for Sustainable Regional Innovation (2009)
The main objective of the project was to develop a research and innovation policy impact assessment
system at the regional level in order to improve the measurement of the various impacts of regional
research and innovation policies. This impact assessment system was developed in a way that has
ensured transferability and applicability to all regions in Europe and their different circumstances.
The outcomes were a strategic impact assessment methodology for the regions and guidelines for a
benchmarking process.
 FORESIGHT (Funding: FP5): A Foresight Exercise to Help Forward Thinking in Transport
and Sectoral Integration (2008)
FORESIGHT for TRANSPORT was an innovative exercise which intended to break new ground in the
assessement of future trends and options regarding mobility. Building on cross-sectional policy
integration, it has identified those factors that drive or should drive mobility and transport development
and will outline how to realise sustainable mobility. Focal points were:
a) the implications of non-transport policies on mobility and, subsequently, on transport policy;
b) the implications of societal changes, namely, globalisation, technological advancement and
demographic change on mobility and, subsequently, on transport policy.
 BRIDGE2TURKEY (Funding: Europe-Bridges of Knowledge Programme): Bringing and
Realizing Information Dissemination Goal of the European Union to Turkey (2008)
The Bridge2Turkey project was aiming at enhancing the capacity of SMEs and NGOs in the Aegean
Region of Turkey to prepare for the implementation of the Acquis Communautaire on Food Safety,

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Regional, Transportation and Competition policies.
 TRANS-TALK (Funding: FP5): Thematic Network on Policy and Project Evaluation
Methodologies (2007)
The thematic network TRANS-TALK brought together scientists, professionals and policy-makers who
have worked on the development of policy and project evaluation methodologies in different settings,
and/or have used these in their work, to discuss the commonalities and differences among various
methodologies with a view to elaborating a framework for their integration.
Current State and Future of the Social Sciences in an Interdisciplinary and
Transdisciplinary Environment
 PARADIGM SHIFTS (Funding: BMWF): The Future of Social Sciences and Humanities:
Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Approaches (2012)
The study looks at the paradigm shift in science and research and look at the relevance of social
sciences and humanities for policy, economy and society. Science and research have undergone a
remarkable shift of attention. Science and research have not only to meet the traditional criteria of
excellence, validity and reliability, but have to be evaluated against the criteria of valorisation.
 SSH-FUTURES (Funding: FP6): Social Sciences and Humanities Futures (2010)
SSH-FUTURES has studied the opportunities for complementary development and closer coupling of
social sciences and humanities (SSH) in Europe and their mutual interactions with social demands
and hence with knowledge produced in other disciplines. The value of this approach is to provide
information for improving research policies targeted at the SSH in Europe. In order to get a better
understanding of the potential of the SSH, the project looks at the ways in which the social sciences
and the humanities can and do have an impact on societies, their political institutions and economies.
This report proposes starting from a new typology: knowledge production is necessary, in academic
research, but in an 'instrumental way' and in (policy) consulting and advice. This means that the ‘offer’
of and the ‘demand’ for social science knowledge have to get closer together. This necessitates a
close collaboration between the research teams that act as knowledge providers and the stakeholders.
• PLATON+ (Funding: FP6): Strengthening the Role of Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH)
in the ERA Development (2009)
The main purpose of this project was to provide an overview of the European research funding
structure, and to shed light on the general role of social sciences and humanities in interdisciplinary
research programmes. Topical to this was the perception of social sciences and humanities (SSH) by
natural, agricultural, medical scientists and engineers. The projects under examination were based on
a structured random sampling of different EU-Research Programmes under FP6.
 INNOCULT (Funding: FP5): Internationalisation of Research: Institutional Innovation,
Culture and Agency in the Framework of Competition and Co-operation (2009)
The INNOCULT study was aiming at the analysis of the ongoing research policies in Europe and tries
to identify policies as much as strategies for the internationalisation of RTD, and, more specifically, for
enhancing the opportunities for co-operation. Within these general aims, the project has concentrated
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at National Science and Technology Potentials, Innovation in Public Institutions and Socio-cultural
Challenges.