CAENTI operational objectives

The strategy of CAENTI will consist in promoting and supporting comparative research, with two specific operational objectives, according to the theme “ Promotion and support for comparative research, methodologies and data generation”.

1. The conception and the diffusion of tools, methodologies and research designs of territorial intelligence which are accessible, on the one hand, to the social sciences researchers and, on the other hand, to the actors of the sustainable development of territories;
2. The constitution of applicable data sets for multi-field research and territorial action.

This strategy lies on research, experiments and actions currently implemented. Regular scientific meetings open to researchers and actors outside the Coordination Action, will allow us to confront and evaluate them and, on this basis, to make progress towards the development of tools, methodologies, research procedures and homogeneous indicators at the European scale.

In order to enable a wide debate and an appropriation by the research community and the actors interested in tools and methods of territorial intelligence, the results of these works will serve as subjects of publications and communications in the framework of internal and external scientific and professional demonstrations with the network, and most particularly in the framework of the annual international conference of the CAENTI. These communications and publications will be referenced on the Internet portal. Tools will be made available on this portal, together with on-line services: technical information, training, and maintenance, etc. as well as off-line links to provide accompaniment services. Reports, communications, publications and tools will be downloadable with the agreement of the authors and editors. In the same way, right-free databases will be published on the portal. The communications, statistics about publications sales, consultations of data and indicators, the downloading and the use of the on-line services will be automatically provided and published on the portal to ensure the transparency of the results.