Job-LIFE : submission on february 2nd
We wish you in the name of the steering committee of ENTI and of the project job-LIFE, an excellent year of 2010 and the success of the current projects.
ENTI, "European Network of Territorial Intelligence", is a structure opened to all those who wish to contribute to its program of research which is conceived around three axes and around three transverse themes.
Three axes, defined by the board of ENTI in continuity of the caENTI "coordination action European Network of Territorial Intelligence" (from March, 2006 to February, 2009) are:
- [ Territories] Territories as place and territorial intelligence as mean of the socio-ecological transition and of the combination of economic, social, environmental and cultural objectives of sustainable development
- [ Indicators] Accessibility of the indicators of the sustainable development for the territorial actors, scientific generic methods and action tools for indicators analysis
- [ Governance] Territorial governance for sustainable development
Three transversethemes are:
- [ Vulnerability] Vulnerability of territories and vulnerable populations
- [ Culture] The culture as fourth objective of the sustainable development of territories
- [ Gender] Gender and sustainable development of territories
“Future jobs (for a) better life”, shortly said Job-LIFE, is a project responding to the last call for project of the 7th Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration Activities of the European Union, in the theme “Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities” of the Cooperation Work Programme 2010.
Job-LIFE will answer as a “Large scale integrating project addressing an important societal challenge” to topic SSH.2010.2.1-1 Creating and adapting jobs in Europe in the context of a socio-ecological transition, in area 8.2.1. “Socio-economic development trajectories” of the activity 8.2. “Combining economic, social and environmental objectives in a European perspective – Paths towards sustainable development”.
It will be manage by the « Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique » (National Centre for Scientific Research) of France, for a period of four years and a budget of 10 million euros, of which 8 million grant from the European Commission.
Objective of the project
The objective of the project “Future jobs, better life” is to establish a prospective for jobs in Europe at a territorial level in 2025 in the framework of the socio-ecological transition with new development trajectories characterized by the combination of the objectives of the sustainable development.
A recent report by the European Commission " The World in 2025" broadly characterized the global prospective by two trends: rising Asia and the socio-ecological transition.
The first trend is a geographical one at continental level. At the beginning of the industrial revolution, Europe was the political, military, economical and social centre of the world with a production model based on the struggle against nature, the struggle between social classes and the exploitation of other continents.
During the twentieth century, the geographical center of the development moved from Europe to the United States and engendered the development of the consumer society generalizing the wasting of the fossil and natural resources in the developed countries. The report plans the movement from center towards Asia in the first quarter of this century is going to grow the climatic urgency.
The socio-ecological transition will try to respond jointly to the social and environmental emergency resulting from a development mode based on the waste of fossil natural and human resources, the pursuit of short-term financial gain as exclusive objective and patterns of bureaucratic top-down planning.
Structure of the project
- The first axis A {life quality} “Work, territories and life quality in the combination of the objectives of the sustainable development”, shortly {life quality}, will present a global and prospective analysis of the mutation of values and work through the combination of the economic, social, environmental and cultural objectives of the sustainable development.
- The second axis B {job systems} “Territorial job systems, innovation and governance for creating and adapting jobs in the socio-ecological transition” will concentrate on the study of the territorial systems of employment, sectors and " clusters " on which base themselves at present the evolution of the industry and the services and on their monitoring. it will study the dynamics of the social and ecological innovation on which bases itself the socio-ecological transition within the framework of the society of the knowledge. It will also analyze at the national level as European the indispensable transformations of the governance to promote the job creation and the transformations of the employment which characterize the socio-ecological transition.
- The third Axis C {dissemination} "Communication, culture, education and dissemination for new development trajectories" will question the process of information and communication for the co-construction of new social and cultural models. It will model the educational and formative practices in and by the sustainable development ; an ethical point of view on the sustainable development will be elaborated from cultural, multicultural and patrimonial approaches, to imagine new cultures of the activity. Finally, this axis will assure the scattering of the results of the project, from a reflection on the mediation and the popularization of the scientific principles which lead us.
We are firmly ingaged in this project which must be deposited at the European Commission before February 2nd.
Jean-Jacques GIRARDOT
Guenaël DEVILLET
Blanca MIEDES
Cyril MASSELOT
