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NESOR - New Social Risks
in the European Knowlege Society

Project Objectives

The aim of this project under the EU Socrates Programme is to analyze the state of art in different European countries, to examine the approaches of the reforms and to revise the findings about the consequences of the reforms in order to derive a description of the role of the higher education in the European Social Model and to contribute to the design of long term strategy concern to the future of higher education in Europe and the social cohesion of the EU.

This project is focused on some of the main pillars of the New European Social Model as there are: employability, social inclusion and equal opportunities. The project proposed to revise the reference model of the Lisbon Strategy – the knowledge based society and economy – and the emerging new social inequalities based on the disposability and the use of knowledge in the emerging model of society, to look for the contribution of the universities to combat the new forms of social exclusion and to elaborate a model of higher education in the globalised knowledge based society.

The project insists on the key question, which is the relationship between higher education’s roles in reproduction of existing social structures and its roles in extending opportunities for social mobility and the achievement of greater social justice. Starting point will be the so called "European Social Model" and the concept of knowledge based society, which is on the background of the Lisbon strategy of the European Union.

Project Outcomes
The project will create a website for the presentation of the project, for the exposition of the elaborated documents and for the openness of a virtual discussion space on the mentioned issues.
Based on the research design it is proposed to elaborate reports in mentioned 3 thematic areas:

- Globalised Knowledge Society, new social risks and universities
- European Social Model and national educational policies
- The paradigm change form education to learning

These reports will be the starting point of the elaboration of the final report of the project corresponding to the issue:
The role and the profile of the universities in the Future European Knowledge Society: between economic and social imperatives.

In NESOR navreme will:
· together with University of Modena/Reggio Emilia, lead the work on the final work package on the role and profile of the universities;
· produce and develop research, reports and inquiries about European Higher Education;
· analyse the dynamics of the European Knowledge Society;
· contribute to the publications and web-site of the projects;
· disseminate and valorize the results of the project during all its development;
· participate in self-monitoring and self-evaluation activities;
· participate in transnational activities;
· participate in the activities of the Scientific Committee.

Participating Institutions:
- University of Barcelona (ES, legal representative, coordinator)
- University of Modena e Reggio Emilia (IT, project research)
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL, project research)
- University of Lodz (PL, project research)
- Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU, project research)
- navreme knowledge development (AT, project research)

Project web-site: www.nesor.eu

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