Socio-Economic Research Centre

ELFitness – LLP KA3 ICT

KICK OFF MEETING

Rome, 3-5 February 2011

◊ Funded in 1963 as a non-profit organization, Ceres research centre focuses its activities on economic and social issues.

◊ Ceres is member of International networks that cooperate in numerous projects and conferences and is well connected with national and international institutions.

◊ The methodology used by Ceres involves both work on desk and work in the field. Ceres uses advanced techniques of modern econometrics, managing large longitudinal, cross section and panel datasets.

1

◊ The research carried out by Ceres in the last fifteen years involve aspects specific to the structure and the quality of employment. In its research, Ceres analyses microdata and macrodata, harmonizing different data sources and suggesting strategies to improve data collection at national and international level.

◊ The research activity also focuses on the impact of technological, organizational, and market changes on the well being of workers in order to identify policies adequate to reduce/control such problems.

2

◊ Ceres is composed of members from the Universities

of Rome “La Sapienza”, Parma and Viterbo and

coordinates working groups of Italian and foreign

scholars in the implementation of its projects.

◊ Ceres carries out research study for the job

placement offices of the Universities of Rome Sapienza

and Roma III (SOUL system).

◊ Ceres also has a close and constant contact with

many international institutions in Europe.

4

◊ During the course of its activities, Ceres published various reviews dealing, directly or indirectly, with the relationship between education, training and labour.

◊ Quaderni di economia del lavoro (Labour Economics Workbooks) is a four-monthly magazine in which the basic results of the research conducted by Ceres’ collaborators are published. Every issue of the review is distributed to subscribers and to scholars and experts of Labour Economics and politics, trade unionists, entrepreneurs, public officials, at national or international level, and at local or regional level.

5

CERES - centro ricerche economiche e sociali

6

Ceres

7

KIND OF ACTIVITIES

QuestionnairesConstr/adaptation

Interviews

Comparative studies

Socio-labour

research in Italy

Discussion group

Dissemination:

Seminarspublications

E-learning courses

CERES - centro ricerche economiche e sociali

7

“THANK YOU FOR

ATTENTION”

CERESwww.ce-res.org

VIA Nomentana nuova 25ROME

TEL. 0039068541016Fax 0039068173016