Project “Future jobs for a better life”

Jean-Jacques GIRARDOT (University of Franche-Comté)

27/11/2009 6:12 am

The seventh international conference of territorial intelligence, held in Salerno from 4th to 6th of November achieved its two goals.

It showed that culture can be considered as the fourth pillar of sustainable development and that it constitutes an important element in the development of territories.

It helped organize the convergence of the research axes of the ENTI, European Network of Territorial Intelligence and the guidance of call for the projects for FP7, the 7th Framework Program for Research and Development of the European Union, published on 30th of July.

The conference brought together nearly one hundred participants from nineteen countries worldwide, and there were fifty participants online. Over one hundred people visited the blog of the conference every day.

After the end of the coordination action caENTI, supported by the FP6 from March 2006 to February 2009, ENTI had reorganized its research axes, as well as its research and dissemination activities in the continuity of caENTI.

 

In September ENTI suggested to answer the last call for projects of the FP7 in the activity “Combining economic, social and environmental objectives in a European perspective – Paths towards sustainable development” on the topic “Creating and adapting jobs in Europe in the context of a socio-ecological transition” as a “large scale integrating project addressing an important societal challenge”.

The assembly of ENTI redefined the research program suggested by the board and formulated three research axes and three transversal topics. The axes are

  • [Transition] Territory as place and territorial intelligence as process of the socio-ecological transition and of the combination of economic, social, environmental and cultural objectives of sustainable development.
  • [Indicators] The multi-dimensional character and the accessibility of territorial indicators of the sustainable development, knowledge, methods, tools and protocols of scientific and applied analysis of indicators
  • [Governance] Territorial governance for sustainable development

[Vulnerability] (of territories and people), [Culture], and [Gender] are the transversal topics.

 

Six research axes were developed for the project "Future jobs (for a) better life" to be proposed by ENTI for FP7. They match the ambitions of ENTI and the issues in the call for projects.

  • [life] What are the aspirations to well-being? How territorial factors can affect the representations of the quality of life?
  • [combination] How to reduce tensions between economic, social, environmental and cultural sustainable development in order to achieve a harmonious combination of these objectives? Which territories are relevant and which are the useful indicators for sustainable development?
  • [jobs] What is the situation and what are the trends in occupational structure and location of jobs in Europe and worldwide? How employment, activity and well being are structured?
  • [systems] What are the scenarios of evolution of territorial systems of employment including education, training, access to employment and improved conditions of employment? What are the territorial indicators for such systems?
  • [innovation] How socio-ecological innovation in territories can improve territorial job systems in social cohesion at national and local level? What are the appropriate policies, management styles and actions of local governance?
  • [globalization] This transversal theme concerns comparative analisys in the context of globalization.

They were grouped into three "main guidelines", whose scientific coordinators were appointed:

 

ENTI

FP7 Project

[transition], territory, territorial intelligence
[indicators] of sustainable development
[vulnerability

Main guideline 1: jobs, activity and well being
Guénaël DEVILLET, Université de Liège (Belgique)

[life]Better life
[combination]
[jobs] Future [jobs]

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[governance]
[gender]

Main guideline 2: territorial jobs systems and innovation
Blanca MIEDES, Universidad de Huelva (Spain)

[systems] territorial jobs systems
[innovation] social and ecological innovation
[dissemination]
[culture]

Main guideline 3: Communication and dissemination
Cyril MASSELOT, Université de Franche-Comté (France)

Communication and territorial governance
WP Dissemination
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