Socio-Economic Research Centre
ELFitness – LLP KA3 ICT
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Rome, 3-5 February 2011
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◊ 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.
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◊ 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.
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◊ 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.
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◊ 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.
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KIND OF ACTIVITIES
Ceres
Dissemination:
Seminars
publications
Questionnaires
Constr/adaptation
Interviews
Discussion group
Comparative
studies
Sociolabour
research in
Italy
CERES - centro ricerche
economiche e sociali
E-learning
courses
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CERES - centro ricerche
economiche e sociali
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FOR
ATTENTION”
CERES
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