RedCLARA News - 2004/2010

During two weeks the Latin American Faculty for the Social Sciences (FLACSO) from Mexico will be the host of a Summer School, an initiative organized by FLACSO as part of the EULAKS project, approve in the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme, that aims to create a face-to-face linkage between young European and Latin American researchers and senior scholars in the social sciences and humanities with a focus on the design and implementation of public science, technology and innovation (STI) policies.

The activities, that will be held on August 17th to 30th under the theme "The rol of the social sciences in the construction of the knowledge-base society: European and Latin American perspectives", and will consist of seminars and workshops that are aimed at stimulating the discussion among students and provide them the theoretical and conceptual fundamentals for the formulation and elaboration of specific problems related to the dynamics of the evolving knowledge society in a comparative European-Latin American perspective.

The event will be open to 15 researchers from European countries and 15 researchers from Latin American and Caribbean countries and is targeted specifically to students of European and Latin American masters and doctorate in Social Sciences, young researchers studying the knowledge society with a multidisciplinary approach and journalists specialized in economic, industrial and technology.

A central purpose of the Summer School is to make a contribution to enhance the future participation of young Latin American and Caribbean social scientists in collaborative research projects in the European Community's Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.

Remote participation

Modules develop from 17th to 19th of August will be transmitted as virtual conferences in collaboration with the Virtual Conference Centre of the GLOBAL project, through Isabel platform, a tool that provides multipoint videoconferencing performance and enables the attendees to intervine and make remote questions. Video-streaming and Skype access will be also supported for those interested in just following the session.

Do you need more information about how to participate, the program and the expositors? Visit: http://isabel.dit.upm.es/mediawiki/index.php/EULAKS

About EULAKS

Connecting socio-economic research on the dynamics of the knowledge society in the European Union and Latin American and Caribbean countries, EULAKS, is a project funded by the European Community's Cooperation Programme (Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities) under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.

As a horizontal support action, EULAKS connects socio-economic research on the dynamics of the Knowledge Society in the European Union and Latin American and Caribbean Countries.
EULAKS fosters a shared understanding of the challenges in the construction of Knowledge Societies in Europe and Latin America through the support for networks and partnerships between social science communities of both regions.

EULAKS is integrated by de Social Innovation Center (ZSI), Austria; Latin American Faculty for Social Sciences (FLACSO), Mexico; Institut de Recherche Pour Le Developpement (IRD), France; University of the Republic (UDELAR), Uruguay; Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM), Mexico; The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom; and General Sarmiento National University (UNGS), Argentina.

For more information about the project, visit: http://www.eulaks.eu