NET4SOCIETY is the international network of National Contact Points (NCPs) for Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) in the 7th European Framework Programme (FP7). National Contact Points are set up to guide researchers in their quest for securing EU funding. NET4SOCIETY offers dedicated networking workshops, specific high quality trainings, and mentoring to the SSH NCPs. The website provides a library of EC documents of key SSH relevance, and other documents of key interest. A best practice handbook and a database for the specific area of “Socio-economics and Humanities”, including a refined partner-search tool are in the making. To the research community, NET4SOCIETY offers access to funding opportunities, improved partner search facilities and brokerage events. An analysis of topics in all of the FP7 work programmes helps identify funding opportunities over and beyond Theme 8 „Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities“.
Keywords network; research; promotion of research; European Union; EU-programme;