Unibo Team Leader: Prof.ssa Rosa Bernardini Papalia, Dip. di Scienze Statistiche "Paolo Fortunati - STAT"
BLUE-ETS is a project on official business statistics and, specifically, on one of EU NSIs key challenges; that is, providing high quality and robust statistical information, for better policy and socio-economic research, and to support the renewed Lisbon Strategy, while:
- reducing the response burden;
- simplifying and setting priorities;
- cutting costs on enterprises, that stem from red-tape, over-regulation and duplications;
- modernizing and re-engineering the methods for the production of statistics;
- making data collection less burdensome and providing more information.
Along with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, BLUE-ETS key aim is to support and contribute to the success of the EU Commission Communications MEETS Decision including Better Regulation for Growth and Jobs in the European Union; Action Programme for Reducing Administrative Burdens in the European Union; and the Reduction of the response burden, simplification and priority setting in the field of Community statistics. Accordingly, BLUE-ETS is expected to contribute to the success of the EU MEETS Decision. Accordingly, the project is tailored on MEETS objectives, especially to "better and more-cost-effective statistics", by
- Distilling and spreading "EU-wide" frontier knowledge, stemming from different EU NSIs’ lessons from experience, on how to address common issues, which would allow to share problems, which are akin and involve applying knowledge in both collecting, producing and making available business statistics to governments and the public at large;
- Learning from each other as to how "chart best" a common strategy and a road to cost-effectively and successfully address the MEETS challenges, without repeating mistakes;
- Converging towards a coherent, common or compatible, cost-effective and efficient "EU state of the art" or "best practice" in Business Statistics.
Coordinator
Istituto Nazionale di Statistica – National Institute of Statistics-ISTAT (Italy)
Other participants
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM – UNIVERSITA’ DI BOLOGNA
- Dip. di Scienze Statistiche
- Resp. Scientifico: Prof.ssa Rosa Bernardini Papalia
Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek – Central Office of Statistics-CBS (Netherlands)
Statistisk Sentralbyrå – Statistics Norway-SSB (Norway)
Institut Informatiky a Statistiky – Institute of Informatics and Statistics-INFOSTAT (Slovakia)
Centre for European Policy Studies-CEPS (UE)
Univerza v Ljubljani – University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II" (Italy)
Universität Trier (Germany)
Università degli Studi di Bergamo (Italy)
University of Southampton (UK)
Statistiska Centralbyrån – Statistics Sweden-SCB (Sweden)
Statistični urad Republike Slovenije – Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia-SORS (Slovenia)
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit – Institute for Employment Research-IAB (Germany)
Start date 01/04/2010
End date 31/03/2013
Duration 36 months
Project cost 3.394.000 EURO
Project Funding 2.666.250 EURO
Subprogramme Area Data management for statistics
Contract type Small or medium-scale focused research project