Targeted socio-economic research (TSER) invited, within the fourth framework program, proposals for research from the European research community on three main areas of economic and social research: (i) science and technology policy, (ii) education and training (ET) and labour market integration, and (iii)social integration and social exclusion. The increasingly severe economic and social problems facing European societies required a more co-ordinated and better funded and targeted research and policy response than before. The main objective of the TSER (1994-1998) program therefore was to build up both the knowledge base and research infrastructure for high quality, policy relevant, comparative European socio-economic research at both national and community level. In Area II, research in education and training, the objective was to help link advances in science and technology and rapid economic/technological change to the effectiveness of the linkage/relationship between ET systems - in building up human capital, labour market entry and in-firm insertion/training processes for attracting and using high quality labour. Within this broad area of research the program had three main objectives: to strengthen the European research base and improve communication and networking amongst European researchers, to develop and strengthen the knowledge base and to improve its quality and comparability, and to help apply it to the challenges facing European economies and societies. From 1998 until 2002, the key action (under the fifth framework program), builds upon and extends the work carried out in the TSER program. It is implemented through research and technological development (RTD) projects, thematic networks, research infrastructure and various types of accompanying measures.
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The volume from which this chapter is taken is indexed at TD/TNC 66.509. Volumes one and two are indexed at TD/TNC 66.507 and TD/TNC 66.508. Individual chapters from the three volume set are indexed from TD/TNC 66.510 to TD/TNC 66.540.
The first background report, published in two volumes, is indexed at TD/IRD 88.38 and TD/INT 58.286.
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