It further decided upon several new initiatives directly linked to the objectives of the institute amongst which: the EIB Prize(s) to stimulate excellence in European economic and social research and for the implementation of such research results; the Social Innovation programme rewarding innovative ideas and innovative social models or policies; the Financial Literacy Programme with EIB staff sharing knowledge and expertise; and the artist development programme linking its existing art collection with new initiatives that help bring about innovative artistic projects.

Identify needs and priorities for basic, clinical, translational and social research in the field of rare diseases and modes of fostering them, and promote interdisciplinary cooperative approaches to be complementarily addressed through national and Community programmes.

This monitoring exercise will be supervised by a scientific research team, comprising Lacave Allemand Associates, in cooperation with the MERIT research laboratory (United Nations University-Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology).

Jochen Blaschke, researcher at the Berlin Insititute for Comparative Social Research, will speak about "Migration policies and integration".

They are at the disposal of all institutes members of the European Consortium for Political Research (Essex), of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (Michigan) and of all those interested in social science research.

It should be noted that economic and social research will be conducted under all the other specific programmes, e.g. through socio-economic impact studies, socio-economic analyses of the transfer of RTD results or the training and mobility of economic and social science researchers.