Maria Joao RODRIGUES

Presentation

The Lisbon agenda is currently the agenda for socio-economic development of the European Union. It was adopted by the European Council of Lisbon in 2000 and it is reshaping many of the Community policies as well as being translated into National Reform programmes in all Member States. An international dimension is also emerging.

The purpose of this Lisbon Agenda Group is to bridge between this European agenda and the research agenda of socio-economic sciences, involving top experts at international level. This method was also used in the genesis of the Lisbon strategy.

A particular focus should be put on long-term and strategic issues.

Approach Statement

This Lisbon Agenda Group will take into account the following key references in developing its work:

• In search of another development model
• Testing paradigm shifts in the theoretical frameworks
• Keeping a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach
• Identifying differences, divergences, convergences and ground for common identity
• Encompassing the internal and external relationships in Europe
• Focusing on long term issues, not forgetting about short term implications
• Analysing policies in their institutional frameworks
• Key concepts to be used: growth regime, knowledge economy, learning and innovation, welfare regime, sustainable development, governance levels and instruments, global order
• Keeping in mind our readers
• Enjoying Europe as an unique experiment

Members

In order to meet these objectives, the project team is composed by researchers who were selected according to the following criteria:

• A leading role in their specific fields by designing research programmes and developing research networks at international level
• Complementary competences in order to cover the main scientific fields connected with the Lisbon Agenda
• Good awareness of this agenda as well as a long experience of interdisciplinarity work

Name	Country	Institution	Main issues of specialisation
BERGHMAN, Jos	Belgium	Department of Sociology, University of Leuven	Social protection
BEGG, Iain	United Kingdom	London School of Economics	European Policies
BOYER, Robert	France	CNRS, UMR 8545- PSE, Paris CEPREMAP, Paris EHESS, Paris	Structural reforms and growth regimes
CASTELLS, Manuel	Spain USA	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Barcelona University of California, Berkeley	Information society, Societal trends
CORIAT, Benjamin	France	CEPN-IIDE, Université Paris XIII	Industrial organisation
DRECHSLER, Wolfgang	Germany Estonia	Tallinn University of Technology	Public administration
GOETSCHY, Janine	France	Université Paris X Nanterre Institut d'Etudes Européennes, Brussels	Employment, Labour relations
LUNDVALL, Bengt-Ake	Denmark China	Aalborg University, Denmark Tsinghua University, China	Innovation policy
PADOAN, Pier-Carlo	Italy Belgium	University of Rome, La Sapienza College of Europe, Bruges	Macro-economic policies
RODRIGUES, Maria Joao	Portugal Belgium	ISCTE - Higher Institute of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Lisbon Université Libre de Bruxelles - Institut d'Etudes Européennes	Economic and Social Policies (coord.)
SOETE, Luc	The Netherlands	MERIT; University of Maastricht INTECH, United Nations University	Growth and Technological Change
TELO, Mario	Italy Belgium	Institut d'Etudes Européennes Université Libre de Bruxelles	Governance
TÖRÖK, Ádám	Hungary	University of Veszprém Budapest University of Technology and Economics	Industrial policy