Open Evidence participates in the “Assessment of different communication vehicles for providing Environmental Footprint information”

Posted February 2, 2015

Posted by Federica Porcu

How to know what products have more or less impact on the environment? There are various ways in which information about environmental footprint of products is provided. Consumers and businesses would, however, benefit from more unified and transparent information. Therefore, the European Commission has entrusted Open Evidence to test different business-to-business and business-to-consumer communication vehicles, […]

Open Evidence participates in the study on “European Union Low Emitting cars” (EULES)

Posted February 1, 2015

Posted by Federica Porcu

Road transport is one of the main sources of air pollution. Cars alone are responsible for around 12% of total EU emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the main greenhouse gas. In order to help consumers purchase less polluting vehicles, the European Commission is considering a voluntary emission standard. It should also encourage manufactures to produce […]

Kick-off meeting of the support action to the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing

Posted January 23, 2015

Posted by Federica Porcu

Today, 30 people from the 14 European organisations partner of the PROEIPAHA project (Funka Nu, Swedish ICT, Open Evidence, Central Denmark Region, VTT, AENOR, Nordic Healthcare Group, PAU Education, EHMA, ERRIN, Tecnalia, RESAH, Inovamais and Outsight) are meeting at the premises of the Open University of Catalunya in Barcelona. The PROEIPAHA project coordinates efforts to support […]

Emergence by Design webinar “How to Evaluate Social Innovation? ICT tools for Dynamic Evaluation”

Posted January 19, 2015

Posted by Federica Porcu

The webinar is the second of two webinars planned within the scope of communication activities of the MD project. The aim of the study is to support promoters for social change by developing a community around new theory, practices and tools. The purpose of this second webinar is to present the ICT tools developed by […]

Open Evidence wins the tender for the study on industry participation in the Framework Programmes

Posted January 18, 2015

Posted by Federica Porcu

Open Evidence, together with Ernst & Young, has won the tender for the study “An analysis of the role and impact of industry participation in the Framework Programmes” as part of the European Commission studies to evaluate the performance of FP7. The goal of the study is to analyse industry participation in FP6 and FP7 […]

The Final Report on the Study on Online Gambling published

Posted November 25, 2014

Posted by Federica Porcu

The Final Report on the Study on Online Gambling, conducted a.o. by Open Evidence Staff within the LSE & Partner Consortium, has been published The main objective of the study was to assess the behavioural response of consumers of online gambling services to protective measures tested in experimental settings. The measures tested in two behavioural […]

OE/IDC policy brief on data-intensive government

Posted November 5, 2014

Posted by Federica Porcu

In the context of our study with IDC on the EU data market, we have recently published a short report on the implications of big data for government. Here’s a summary of content: Big data already plays an important role in government by delivering better public services and supporting more effective policies. Potential savings are […]

Presentation of the Results of the Kublai project Evaluation – Rome, 21st of October 2014

Posted November 5, 2014

Posted by Federica Porcu

On Tuesday October 21st 2014 took place in Rome the presentation of the results of the evaluation of the Kublai project carried out by Open Evidence within the scope of the event “Kublai – Punto a capo: Valutazione e prospettive di un’esperienza pilota di innovazione sociale”. The aim of the event was to start from […]

Keynote at the #icitycamp2014 – Barcelona 14th November 2014

Posted November 5, 2014

Posted by Federica Porcu

ICityProject is an European project to make easier the opening of Governments’ ICT infrastructures (information system) and offer them to third parties to develop services of public interest. A consortium of cities, companies and institutions are working together to carry out the project. Bologna and Genova, with the leading of Barcelona, shape the cities consortium. Companies […]

Give your contribution to the mapping of alternative funding mechanisms for scientific research

Posted October 18, 2014

Posted by Federica Porcu

Research and innovation policy is evolving towards an increase in the “innovation policy mix”, in a culture of experimentation of novel approaches to innovation in policy-making. As part of this trend, research funding itself has substantially evolved in recent years in order to meet the challenges of increased international competition and respond to the results […]

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