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The South and
East European Development Center
(SEED), was established in
1998 as an interdisciplinary research
and policy analysis Center at the
Department of Planning and Regional
Development (DPRD), University of
Thessaly, Greece. The Center intends
to contribute to the design, analysis
and evaluation of development policies
applied to the less advanced regions
of Europe. SEED is actively seeking to
contribute through research and policy
analysis to the solution of specific
economic, structural and spatial
development problems in the European
South and East that often escape the
attention of scientific and applied
research.
The analytical approach of SEED is
based on the understanding that
geography maters in development and as
a result, it maintains a strong
spatial dimension. The level of
analysis may include European
macro-regions, especially in the South
and East, individual countries or
regions, cities, border areas,
industrially declining or lagging
behind areas. SEED specializes in the
research fields of growth and
development, integration and
structural change, international
economic relations, European policies,
human capital and R&D policies,
demographic analysis, cross-border
cooperation, and policy evaluation.
SEED has become very active in
publishing quality research analyzing
and discssing the recent development
experience in the European South and
the East, which has often been
identified by unfavourable "initial
conditions", structural adjustments,
weaker growth performance, significant
policy failures and those paradigms of
integration and transition that have
faced great difficulties.
The Center cooperates with a large
number of Academic and Research
Institutes in the EU and especially in
Southeastern Europe, participating in
regional research and policy networks.
Cooperation takes the form of workshops,
conferences, invited lectures, short
staff visits, joint research, joint
participation in EU and national
programs, student exchange and transfer
of know-how.
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