Priority 7 and 8 calls

3.1 (Prioirty 8): "3.1. Underpinning European integration, sustainable development, competitiveness and trade policies (including improved means to assess economic development and cohesion)." (p. 46, pdf)

"(Task 6) Significance of the service sector and related enterpreneurship: to advance knowledge of the nature and effects of the new modes of functioning of the economy, especially the development of services and rise in intangible assets (eg. harmonising micro, meso, and macro measurements and designing policies for the intangible economy); to analyse barriers to the implementation of new approaches to the measurement and management of value creation and the dissemination of usable practices of measurement and management of knowledge; to steer the existing European research and practioners efforts, towards measuring, reporting and managing intangibles."

Priority 7: "to develop an understanding of, and to address issues related to, the emergence of the knowledge-based society and new forms of relationships between its citizens, on one hand, and between its citizens and institutions, on the other."

Note: 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 (p. 7-8)

"2.2.2 Inequalities in society and their consequences Social inequalities present major challenges to many European and other societies and may affect their cohesion as well as their social and economic development. The objective is to understand how inequalities in society change, are reproduced, and their economic and social consequences. STREPs and/or CAs should address the effects of production and reproduction of social inequalities and their rise or fall; how such inequalities and their consequences vary between different European societies and in other regions of the world, including differences in social mobility. Other aspects which may be addressed include: the relations between social inequalities and economic and social performance (e.g. growth, productivity, quality of life, crime, social cohesion and the ìquality of societyî); cultural issues of inequality including the impact of inequalities on attitudes to others. The changing role of knowledge-related factors in inequalities - e.g. of knowledge aspects of cultural and social capital acquired by individuals, of qualifications of particular kinds, of access to knowledge-producing institutions, to training, acquisition of capabilities in seeking out relevant information - may be explored. Inequalities of various kinds and their interrelations should be considered. The actual and potential role of policies in relation to the above issues should be assessed, and gender perspectives should be included. Improvements of measures of inequality, including how changes in the use of public services and of public facilities which are ìfreeî or heavily subsidised could be included in the assessment of trends in inequality." p. 9

better! " 3.1.1. Linguistic diversity in a European knowledge based society The enlarged European Union is characterised by a considerable linguistic diversity ñ a key component of broader cultural diversity. This diversity may carry important implications for European policies and choices towards a knowledge based society. The objective is to examine the role and implications of linguistic diversity in European populations, specifically in view of the efforts to create a European knowledge based society which respects cultural diversities and cross-cultural understanding. IPs and/or NoE should address the historical, political and cultural developments which have shaped the current linguistic situation in Europe and which are important for its development in the future. Important factors, promoting or constraining linguistic diversity in Europe and likely developments should be identified and analysed. The role of language in European society, economy and culture needs to be considered. Special attention should be paid to the reasons for, and consequences of choices of a language as ëlingua francaí in economic, political, scientific, cultural and other contexts. The importance of foreign languages as a ìnew basic skillî in a diverse and cohesive European knowledge based society should be examined. In this context, the role of language not only as communication tool, but also as a carrier of cultural content should be assessed. Possible relations between multilingualism and openness and tolerance towards other cultures are of interest. "