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OECD Home › International futures programme Focus The OECD Bioeconomy to 2030 project is developing long‑term scenarios to explore how biotechnology-related developments in health, agriculture and industry are likely to impact on the economy and society. http://www.oecd.org/department/0,2688,en_2649_33707_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

International Futures Programme:Department

The Commission has adopted an important social initiative, the Social Investment Package (SIP), calling on Member States to prioritise social investment and to modernise their welfare states. It is an important evidence-based document in which also SSH research features quite visibly. In the 9 documents the SIP contains, reference is made to various SSH projects (CSEYHP, ASSPRO, COPE, IMPROVE...) as well as to innovation, health & other research initiatives. Read more The call for expression of interest for the selection of experts for Horizon 2020 advisory groups has been launched by the Commission services. METRIS is a service, launched by the European Commission, with detailed information about the SSH research systems in 42 countries. http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/index_en.html

RESEARCH - Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities

Hardware Innovation Workshop

Join MAKE for its second annual Hardware Innovation Workshop. This unique business event shines the spotlight on the most interesting and innovative tools and technology, platforms and projects, and devices and designs based on open source hardware. Expanded to include Maker Pro Open Workshop Series on Tuesday morning, attendees will meet the makers who are the entrepreneurs propelling the next industrial revolution - from familiar names and faces to upstarts and relative unknowns, making a name on the dynamic and promising business landscape that has morphed out of the maker movement. New this year: Maker Pro Open Workshops We've added a new component to the agenda for Tuesday morning for Maker Pros in-training. http://makezine.com/hardware-innovation-workshop/