FP7Staff exchange2012–2015

SHUMED · Sustainable Human Development for MED Countries

FP7 — People (Marie Curie Actions)

Duration
2012-12-01 → 2015-11-30
EU contribution
€224,200
Participants
4
Scheme
MC-IRSES

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Results in brief

Sustainable Human Development for MED Countries

The SHuMED project is aimed to support and strengthen the different existing collaboration actions between Europe and Mediterranean Partner Countries for research and research training in the field of the sustainable human development. During the last few years, sustainable human development has represented one of the most important policy goals at global level. This aim is achieved thanks to the exchange period, that has let the researchers to plan future collaborations. Moreover, exchanging programmes of researchers was an important activity for promoting knowledge transfer between EU and MED Countries, with 4 main impacts: 1. The assessment and comparing of the level of sustainable human development of the European and Mediterranean Partner Countries; 2. The understanding of sustainable management by firms in turbulent economies; 3. The improvement of innovation and learning capabilities of targeted Countries; 4. The building of the EU-MED network of Research Centres and Clusters, in order to link communities of scholars.

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Project objective

The SHuMED project proposal is aimed to support and strengthen the different existing collaboration actions between Europe and Mediterranean Partner Countries (MCP) for research and research training in the field of the sustainable development and the relating monitoring initiatives, thanks to the staff exchange opportunities offered by IRSES. This multidisciplinary exchange programme aims at propose a corporate-view approach for measuring the level of human development in sustainability terms by considering the contribution of corporates and their networks.The programme has 5 Work Packages. WP1 (‘management’) will define the management structure of the project. WP 2 (‘methodologies’), through the expected 4 Training Activities in the 4 target MCP Countries, will develop the Sustainable Human Development Index (SHDI). In this work package, starting from the SHDI macroeconomic model and thanks to the research and to the knowledge transfer coming from the training sessions in MCP, processes of joint learning and coevolution will be analysed. WP 3 (‘case studies on human development’), strictly connected with WP2, will analyse some case studies in Europe, thanks to the numerous visits foreseen in Italy and Spain. These case studies will support the analysis of processes that could affect research practices in the area of sustainable human development and corporate social responsibility. Associated partners that will support the project in EU Countries will be the target users of this SHDI (not only using but also contributing in enhancing the index). The WP4, with its reporting activities, will contribute to analyse the dynamic capabilities of SMEs within networks and clusters in order to develop a tool for enhancing and monitoring them. The final WP 5 (‘communication and dissemination’) will define the communication and dissemination strategy of the project.The project duration is 36 months.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI ROMA TRE · ROMACoordinatorItaly
  • UNIVERSITA DI PISA · PisaItaly
  • UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA · BARCELONASpain
  • VILNIAUS GEDIMINO TECHNIKOS UNIVERSITETAS · VilniusLithuania

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union