GDRI-INTI, International Research Group “International Network of Territorial Intelligence” started January 1, 2011, for four years, at the end of an international scientific evaluation organized by the CNRS. It gathers seven research teams from five countries: MSHE, ThéMA and ESO (France), OLE (France), SEGEFA (Belgium), DISUFF (Italia) and TAG (Argentina).

Its main aim is the consolidation of the integration of European researches in Territorial Intelligence in order to give them an international dimension.

The next scientific events of ENTI, in Pecs, Marne-la-Vallée, Liège and Gatineau will be the opportunity to restructure the research project of ENTI by deepening the work plan of new-LiFE.

The project new-LiFE, put forward by ENTI for the 7th European research programme, about the topic “Europe moving towards a new path of economic growth and social development”, was submitted on Februar 2th.

How can Europe maintain economic growth and social welfare despite the financial crisis and the ecological challenges?

39 research centres and in Europe and around the world (17 european countries, 4 international countries, more than 200 researchers and stakeholders) are associated with the project new-LiFE “A development driven by well being for a successful socio-ecological transition in Europe” through the European Network of Territorial Intelligence, ENTI.

New-LiFE is based on the assumption that a new path of development driven by well-being and ensuring a minimum standard of quality of life for all can be crucial to the success of socio-ecological transition, it must be:

• based on cooperation and territorial observation,

• driven by a plural design of innovation,

• based on co-constructed knowledge across territories and

• animated by a participatory territorial governance.

Following the publication of a new FP7-SSH call for project on July 20, 2010, the Summer School of Territorial Intelligence held on July 22-23, 2010, in Marne-la-Vallée (France), focused on the opportunities of response to the new call, taking into account the evaluation of job-LIFE as a promising but incomplete proposal.

A new topic, very close to our previous proposal job-LIFE, has been suggested and a timetable for response was established.

According to the evaluation of job-LIFE, we will clear the state of art as the structure of the project, give a detailed work plan at the level of the tasks performed by each researcher, and the budget, rebalance the consortium towards North and East Europe, better the transversal implication of the partners, introduce evaluation in the management and deepen diffusion.

The project "Cooperate and observe for a successful socio-ecological transition in Europe", " new-LIFE" for short, meets about topic "Europe moving towards a new path of economic growth and social development" of the call project to the 7th Framework Programme for Research of the European Community for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration1 published on July 20, 2010 in the 8th thematic “Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities”.

Guidelines

new-LIFE is a "large scale integrated research project" entered in activity 8.1 “Growth, employment and competitiveness in a knowledge society – the European case".

“In order to succeed the socio-ecological transition” in a context of crisis characterized by many global challenges, the EU must adapt its policy framework and common rules "to strive for accelerated transformation of the financial, economic and environmental structures and policies as well as modernisation of social welfare and development of high quality standards of the environment."

new-LIFE is also in "paths towards sustainable development", characterized at “combining economic, social and environmental objectives” and cultural ones, in Europe and worldwide.

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