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LCSR Summer School Day 4

Courses become more complicated and reports are interesting as usual. Read atricle on the Lab website to know morel

LCSR Summer School Day 3

Today on Summer School: international migration trends, migrant values, nationalistic attitudes and guest lecture by professor Duelmer.

LSCR Summer School Day 2

Themes in Ageing, Well-Being and Health

LCSR Summer School Day 1

Our Summer School has begun yesterday by nice teambuilding evening and now "LCSR News Agency" starts to publish daily reportages from the Helios Hotel in the town of Zelenogorsk near Saint Petersburg where School is being held on the Website of the Lab. Reviews of participants' reports and guest lectures and all the information about other interesting events both formal and informal will be posted up here during the next two week.

LCSR Summer School – 2012 has started!

The 2nd  Summer School "Causal Models and Structural Equations" of the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research has started on June 1st, 2012 in Saint-Petersburg. Both courses on advanced statistical methods and progress reports presentations of LCSR researchers are sheduled.

S&T co-operation between the EU-Russia: status and prospects

On June 28-29, 2012 a meeting devoted to conditions and implementation prospects of the Seventh EU Framework Programme’s project ERA.Net RUS took place in the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research. A wide range of issues was discussed at the meeting, including results of the pilot joint competitions for Science and Innovation, protection of intellectual property created within the framework of joint projects, measures to increase effectiveness of scientific co-operation, etc.. Representatives of the EU evaluated effectiveness  of the pilot competitions and came out with recommendations for improving the competitive procedures.

25-29 June 2012 a short course “Foresight: Exploring the Future, Shaping the Present” took place at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR, University of Manchester, Manchester, Great Britain). The agenda of this training was devoted to exploring frameworks and methodology of Foresight.

S&T co-operation between the EU-Russia: status and prospects

Programme’s project ERA.Net RUS took place in the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research. A wide range of issues was discussed at the meeting, including results of the pilot joint competitions for Science and Innovation, protection of intellectual property created within the framework of joint projects, measures to increase effectiveness of scientific co-operation, etc.. Representatives of the EU evaluated effectiveness  of the pilot competitions and came out with recommendations for improving the competitive procedures.

Foresight: Exploring the Future, Shaping the Present

25-29 June 2012 a short course “Foresight: Exploring the Future, Shaping the Present” took place at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR, University of Manchester, Manchester, Great Britain). The agenda of this training was devoted to exploring frameworks and methodology of Foresight.

Foresight: Exploring the Future, Shaping the Present

25-29 June 2012 a short course “Foresight: Exploring the Future, Shaping the Present” took place at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR, University of Manchester, Manchester, Great Britain). The agenda of this training was devoted to exploring frameworks and methodology of Foresight.