Conferences and EventsINDICSER Conferences and Events
INDICSER is a collaborative project, so there are a number of workshops and events. The latest event was the mid-term conference, held in Valenica in April 2011. This was a great opportunity for participants to share their work, and helped reinforce the informal networks and collaborations that have been made through the project.
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End of project conference
We may be only half way through INDICSER, with a lot of interesting work still to be done, but we are already planning for the end-of-project conference! It is scheduled to be held in Budapest, 27 - 28 September 2012. More details will be available in 2012, but if you are interested in the work and the outcomes, please contact us, either at the
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Find out about our previous events and meetings by clicking on the titles below.
1. INDICSER Kick off meeting, London, February 2010
2. WP2 (Innovations and Intangible Measures), Mannheim, June 2010
3. WP5 (Health Services), Valencia, June 2010
Meeting on WP5 (Health Services), Valencia, June 2010
An INDICSER meeting on WP5 (Health Services) was held on 24-25 June, hosted by IVIE. In attendance were representatives from BHAM, NIESR, CEPS, Tarki as well as IVIE . Paul Schreyer from OECD, the author of an influential report on measuring the volume output of education and health services, also participated as a guest. The discussion covered both methodology and data sources and planning so that INDICSER can meet its deliverables deadlines. The discussion led to a number of conclusions. International data sources are unlikely to be very useful in constructing output measures for health services since they lacked the required information on activities and unit costs. The participants agreed to concentrate largely on gathering data on activities, unit costs and in hospital mortality rates at a detailed level for a few countries, namely the UK, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. This will be supplemented by data on gender and age and waiting times, which are potentially useful for explaining variations in output but should not appear directly in the index. Both national and international data will be gathered on inputs. The team will also undertake reviews of data availability on outcomes but concentrating on those for a few major diseases such as cancer and heart conditions. The meeting coincided with a public seminar entitled "New Developments in Health Metrics" , held at the University of Valencia on 25 June 2010, at which participants from BHAM, NIESR and IVIE presented previous research. A short summary of the seminar, and a copy of the programme, can download below, or is available on the BBVA Foundation-Ivie Seminar webpage.
 Seminar programme June2010.pdf
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4. Financial Markets and Financial Stress: Impact on Services, Brussels, March 2011
Workshop on Financial Markets and Financial Stress: Impact on Services This was a joint INDICSER-SERVICEGAP event, held at CEPS on March 8th 2011. Recent research suggests that much of the gap in EU-US productivity growth was due to developments in services sectors. The EC seventh framework programme has funded two projects INDICSER and SERVICEGAP, that focus on aspects of service sector performance. This workshop considered specifically financial markets and impacts of financial crises on performance at the sector level, with presentations from representative of the University of Birmingham, University of Groningen, and NIESR. |
5. INDICSER mid-term meeting, Valencia, April 2011
Valencia, April 2011 The INDICSER mid-term meeting was held at ADEIT, the University-Enterprise Foundation of the University of Valencia, Wednesday 6th April - Friday 8th April 2011. Representatives from all partner institutions attended, and there were lots of interesting and productive discussions about the project.
IND agenda 22Mar2011.pdf
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