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What is NEST-PROMISE?
What is NEST-PROMISE?NEST-PROMISE (NEST-Promoting Research on Optimal Methodology and Impacts) is a Specific Support Action project funded under the FP6 NEST programme (New and Emerging Science and Technology www.cordis.lu/nest/). The main objective of the project is to exemplify Europe's future needs in tackling unsolved questions and developing innovative concepts in science and technology backed up by visionary, high risk and multi and interdisciplinary research. NEST-PROMISE assembles a wide variety of complementary experiences and skills to help inform and strengthen HINGE - High Innovation/Gain/Expectation - programmes (including NEST), supporting existing and emerging research programmes and projects, which deal with these concepts or have the potential to do so, by analysing their specific methodologies and social impact. NEST-PROMISE is financed for the period from November 15, 2005 to November 14, 2007
What NEST-PROMISE aims to achieve?
NEST-PROMISE will survey NEST Like Programmes (NLP) on their methodology in terms of successes, failures, problems and solutions as well as measuring their social impacts through risk assessments. Moreover, it will focus on how the research carried out affects scientists' careers focusing especially on the categories of young scientists, female scientists or scientists from New Member States. NEST-PROMISE will inquire on existing NLPs, as programmes and projects may not realise they contain NEST elements that have a potential of optimising their benefits and cost-effectiveness, All these are aimed at providing NLP/HINGE programmes with practical, experience-validated tools to further refine and optimize the efficiency, fairness, cost-effectiveness, impacts and benefits of their policies, strategies and procedures.
NEST-PROMISE website
Website is a central part of the communication strategy of the NEST-PROMISE project.
On the NEST-PROMISE website you can find information concerning workshops organised by partners of the consortium and also information about different events which take place all over the world.
The Public Area of the website contains detailed information on the project activities and links to further information on HINGE programs. The Restricted Area is for internal use only and is dedicated to the management of the project NEST-PROMISE. It shall also serve for scientific and organisational communication by registered NEST project partners.
