The Consolidating Economics project, headed by Andreu Mas-Colell, receives six million euros to promote economics research (July 5th 2006) |
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Mas-Colell, professor of Departament of Economics and Business of UPF, is the coordinating-researcher. The Consolidating Economics (CE) project will receive a grant of six million euros over five years to consolidate and enhance the impact of economics research carried out by researchers affiliated to Spanish institutions within an international academic context This research project is the only one of seventeen proposals selected by the Spanish Ministery of Education and Science in the field of social sciences. The Spanish Ministery of Education and Science has created the Consolider-Ingenio 2010 program, aimed at leading Spanish research groups, to substantially improve the R+D situation in Spain. In particular, the CE project hopes to achieve an increase of 25% -over the next five years- in the bibliometric impact of papers written by members of the group in comparison with the previous five years. This will be a considerable challenge if we take into account that members of the CE group were responsible for writing the great majority of the 58 papers originating from Spain and published in the five most prestigious economics journals in the word during the period 2001-2005. Another important aim of the group is to develop the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, an institution intended to promote postgraduate studies in economics in order to lead Europe in this field and attract the best students and researchers in the world. Therefore, to promote, project and organize Spanish economics research will be the basic tasc of Consolidating Economics, a project coordinated by Andreu Mas-Colell and comprising researchers from the following institutions and groups: • Departament d'Economia i Empresa (UPF)
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