Horizon 2020 and FP7 projects

Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Europe through Public Administration Modernization towards Supplying and Exploiting Linked Open Statistical Data (OpenGovIntelligence)

Type: Horizon 2020

Duration: 2016-2019

RND project manager: Prof. Robert Krimmer

RND project team: Dr. Tarmo Kalvet, Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen, Maarja Toots

The OpenGovIntelligence project aims at stimulating sustainable economic growth in europe through fostering innovation in society and enterprises. Towards this end, OpenGovIntelligence suggests a holistic approach for the modernization of Public Administration (PA) by exploiting Linked open Statistical Data (LOSD) technologies. This includes new business processes, policies, and tools that will enable the active participation of the society and enterprises in data sharing and in the co-production of innovative data-driven public services.

Project partners: Centre for Research & Technology - Hellas (Greece), Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), roXML bvba (Belgium), Swirrl IT Limited (United Kingdom), Trafford council (United Kingdom), Flemish Government (Belgium), Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reconstruction (Greece), Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communication (Estonia), Marine Institute (Ireland), Public Institution Enterprise Lithuania (Lithuania), National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland)

Web: http://www.opengovintelligence.eu/

RND contact: robert dot krimmer at ttu dot ee

Smart City Center of Excellence (FINEST Twins)

Type: Horizon 2020

Duration: 2015-2016

RND project manager: Ralf-Martin Soe

RND project team: Prof. Rainer Kattel, Ralf-Martin Soe, Prof. Robert Krimmer, Dr. Veiko Lember, Prof. Wolfgang Drechsler, Dr. Erkki Karo, Dr. Piret Tõnurist

The purpose of the FINEST Twins project is to create a cross-border top city centre, with cities as living, economic and innovation environments as its research topics. Scientists, business and innovation clusters, top specialists from public and private sectors from Estonia and Finland are to participate, in order to make use of knowledge, innovation and entrepreneurship of both regions. Project also includes different regions in Estonia and Helsinki’s Uusimaa region. The purpose of the smart city top centre is to develop framework conditions necessary for innovations furthering the city environment, in order to draw international investments and act as a springboard to the international market for innovative solutions and undertakings.

The goal of the project is to create a test environment operating on scientific, innovative and business cooperation in order to improve the living environment and mobility, as well as cross-border services and the quality of life. The test environment is a so-called living lab, where near-commercialisation innovations can be tested out, as well as e-state solutions and other innovations within urbanisation and cities’ ecosystems.

Project partners: Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communication (EST), Forum Virium Helsinki (FIN), Aalto University (FIN)

Web: www.smarttwincity.eu

RND contact: ralf-martin dot soe at ttu dot ee

Learning from Innovation in Public Sector Environments (LIPSE)

Type: EU 7th Framework Project

Duration: 2013-2016

Project leader at RND: Prof. Rainer Kattel

RND project team: Prof. Rainer Kattel, Prof. Wolfgang Drechsler, Dr. Tarmo Kalvet, Dr. Veiko Lember, Dr. Piret Tõnurist

LIPSE research project identifies drivers and barriers to succesfull social innovation in the public sector in 11 EU countries and 7 policy sectors. Through studying social innovation and co-creation practices and processes in 11 European countries and 7 policy sectors, LIPSE will create and disseminate essential knowledge about public innovation. The project will firstly map institutional environments to study the role of social capital, innovation champions and leadership, using survey research and social network analysis. The project will then look at citizens' inputs into public innovation processes through participation, complaints and co-creation. This will be achieved by a) analysing the secondary administrative datasets from ombudsmen and national audit offices b) case studies in social and welfare servics and urban and rural regeneration and c) large scale survey research. It will then examine the use of risk management in innovation processes. A work package on innovation diffusion and adoption will assess what factors contribute to the succesfull upscaling of ICT-driven social innovations, with a focus on teleworking (as a way of new working) and e-procurement. Finally, the project will develop a comprehensive set of public sector social innovation indicators and explore future trends in social innovation through scenario-mapping with academic and practicioner experts. The dissemination of knowledge will be widespread, using websites, articles, books, road shows and conferences across Europe.

Project partners: Erasmus University Rotterdam (coordinator), Roskilde Universitty, University of Edinburgh, Radboud University Nijmegen, K.U. Leuven (Belgium), French National School of Administration, Bocconi University (Italy), ESADE Foundation (Spain), Matej Bel University (Slovakia), National School of Political Studies and Public Administration (Romania), Hertie School of Governance (Germany), Tallinn University of Technology

Web: www.lipse.org

Newsletters: No. 1 (November 2013) ; No. 2 (May 2014); No. 3 (October 2014); No. 4 (February 2015); No. 5 (June 2015).

RND contact: rainer dot kattel at ttu dot ee

Financialisation, Economy, Society and Sustainable Development (FESSUD)

Type: EU 7th Framework Project

Duration: 2012-2016

Project leader at RNS: Prof. Rainer Kattel

RND project team: Prof. Rainer Kattel, Prof. Jan A. Kregel, Prof. Mario Tonveronachi, Prof. Elisabetta Montanaro, Dr. Egert Juuse, Ton Notermans

FESSUD research programme will integrate diverse levels, methods and disciplinary traditions with the aim of developing a comprehensive policy agenda for changing the role of the financial system to help achieve a future which is sustainable in environmental, social and economic terms. The programme involves an integrated and balanced consortium involving partners from 14 countries that has unsurpassed experience of deploying diverse perspectives both within economics and across disciplines inclusive of economics. The programme is distinctively pluralistic, and aims to forge alliances across the social sciences, so as to understand how finance can better serve economic, social and environmental needs. The central issues addressed are the ways in which the growth and performance of economies in the last 30 years have been dependent on the characteristics of the processes of financialisation; how has financialisation impacted on the achievement of specific economic, social, and environmental objectives?; the nature of the relationship between financialisation and the sustainability of the financial system, economic development and the environment?; the lessons to be drawn from the crisis about the nature and impacts of financialisation? ; what are the requisites of a financial system able to support a process of sustainable development, broadly conceived?

RND coordinates the sub-theme: Regulation of the Financial Sector

Project partners: University of Leeds (coordinator), Universita' Degli Studi Di Siena, University of London, Fondation Nationale Des Sciences Politiques, Pour La Dolidarite ASBL, Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny W Poznaniu, Hochschule Fur Wirtschaft Und Recht Berlin, Centro De Estudos Sociais, Pannon Egyetem, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Middle East Technical University, Lunds Universitet, University of The Witwatersrand Johannesburg, Universidad Del Pais Vasco, Tallinn University of Technology

RND contact: rainer dot kattel at ttu dot ee

After 5 years of research and analyses, the FESSUD project is over. The FESSUD project has produced over 200 papers and reports, several policy briefs, books, videos etc. On the completion of the project, the final newsletter has been issued for reflecting the project results.

Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future

Type: EU 7th Framework Project

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Duration: 2011-2014

Project leader: Prof. Tiina Randma–Liiv

RND Participants: Prof. Tiina Randma-Liiv, Prof. Wolfgang Drechsler, Prof. Rainer Kattel, Prof. Ringa Raudla, Dr. Veiko Lember, Dr. Külli Sarapuu, Dr. Riin Savi

The COCOPS project seeks to comparatively assess the impact of New Public Management-style reforms in European countries. It will analyse the impact of reforms in public management and public services that address citizens’ service needs and social cohesion in Europe. Evaluating the extent and consequences of NPM’s alleged fragmenting tendencies and the resulting need for coordination is a key part of assessing these impacts.

RND coordinates the sub-theme 'Financial crisis - the emerging challenge to coordination in the public sector'.

Project partners include Eramsus University Rotterdam, Hertie School of Governance, University of Exeter, Cardiff University, Bocconi University, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, University of Cantabria,Corvinus University, National Center for Scientific Research, University of Bergen.

General coordinator: Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Web: www.cocops.eu

RND contact: Tiina dot Randma-Liiv at ttu dot ee

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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Europe through Public Administration Modernization towards Supplying and Exploiting Linked Open Statistical Data (OpenGovIntelligence)

Smart City Center of Excellence (FINEST Twins)

Learning from Innovation in Public Sector Environments (LIPSE)

Financialisation, Economy, Society and Sustainable Development (FESSUD)

Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future