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Factor Markets


Well functioning factor markets are a crucial condition for the competitiveness and growth of agriculture and for rural development. At the same time, the functioning of the factor markets themselves are influenced by changes in agriculture and the rural economy, and in EU policies. Member state regulations and institutions affecting land, labour, and capital markets may cause important heterogeneity in the factor markets, which may have important effects on the functioning of the factor markets and on the interactions between factor markets and EU policies.

MEDPRO – Mediterranean Prospects


MEDPRO – Mediterranean Prospects is a consortium of 17 highly reputed institutions from throughout the Mediterranean funded under the EU’s 7th Framework Program and coordinated by the Centre for European Policy Studies based in Brussels. At its core, MEDPRO explores the key challenges the countries in the Southern Mediterranean region (from Morocco to Turkey) will have to cope with in the next decades.

INNODRIVE - Intangible Capital and Innovations: Drivers of Growth and Location in EU


The importance of intellectual assets in generating innovation, and thus in promoting economic growth and competitiveness in the EU, is widely recognised. As evidence to this is the significance attached to R&D and innovation in the Lisbon Process. Yet, given its tacit nature, our knowledge of the contribution of intangible capital (a significant component of intellectual assets) to economic performance is far from comprehensive.

ANCIEN (Assessing Needs of Care in European Nations)


ANCIEN is a research project financed under the 7th EU Research Framework Programme. The project includes 20 partners from EU member states, started in January 2009 and will last 44 months. 

ECP (European Climate Platform)


Membership: initiated by the Climate Policy Research Programme (Clipore) of the Swedish Mistra Foundation and CEPS
Activities: Seminars, Conferences, Side Events at meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Publications: ECP Background Papers, ECP Reports