On 26 November, a Workshop "Brussels in the European Research Area" was held at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
The Workshop was first in a series of workshops in the framework of the Brussels in the European Research Area project,
The project focuses on three main research objectives related to the Prospective Research for Brussels (PRFB) call on ‘Evaluation and optimisation of the research and innovation policies of Brussels’ moving beyond mainstream debates on innovation that focus mainly on technological and market-led innovations by proposing a broader perspective of social innovation, specifically innovation of public policies, investigating the European geography of research focusing on the role of the Brussels-Capital Region and in comparison with
other capital regions in Europe, and analysing the multilevel governance of Brussels focusing on the role of research for policy innvoations. Building on the research objectives, the project consists of three main research stages:
The project is conducted by Dr Nicola Francesco Dotti and coordinated by Dr Bas Van Heur (VUB Cosmopolis). The project is supported by the Brussels Studies Institute.
More about the project and its expected outcomes can be found under this link.
The presentations & results of the Workshop are available here.