The eGovernance project was triggered by the Commission’s Action Programme for reducing administrative burden on businesses. The main objective of this Action Programme was to reduce administrative burden by 25% by 2012. One of the recommendations that came forth is the introduction of the...

Zur Förderung des Hochschulstandortes Deutschland gibt es eine Vielzahl von Förderprogramme für Studienaufenthalte und Forschungsprojekte bieten. Am bekanntesten ist im Bereich der Forschung sicherlich die DFG. Im Bereich der Studierendenförderung sind es neben dem DAAD verschiedene...

Benchmarking has recently achieved a major importance as a support tool for policy-making, inparticular at the EU level and in the context of the Lisbon process. Benchmarking has become acommon tool in policy support, especially in the most innovative policy fields where institutionallearning is...

In a recent Communication1, the European Commission has outlined a new strategic framework, i2010 – European Information Society 2010, laying out broad policy orientations in relation to ongoing Information Society developments. The framework promotes an open and competitive digital economy...

This article proposes a relatively simple indicator, DIDIX, that wasdeveloped in an EU -funded project to benchmark and track national digital divideswithin EU member states. Based on the relative diffusion of computers and theInternet in four disadvantage d socio-demographic groups (compared to...

This presentation describes the project BISER in 28 selected regions in Europe.

Der wohl wichtigste unter diesen nächsten Schritten (der Verwaltungsmodernisierung; Anm. Redaktion EconBiz) muss ... darinbestehen, nicht mehr nur einzelne Fragmente einer Verwaltungsleistungüber das Internet anzubieten (wie etwa die Information über Zuständigkeitenund Öffnungszeiten oder...