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Initiatives on well-being

Stiglitz report
Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress

OECD
Better Life Initiative: Measuring Well-being and Progress
OECD ‘How’s life ?’

Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD initiatives
Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Working Group on Statistics on Sustainable Development

Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Task Force on Measuring Sustainable Development
(TFSD)

United Nations
Sustainable development goals

 

European Commission and Eurostat initiatives on measuring well-being:

Measuring progress, true wealth, and the well-being of nations

Commission Communication 433/2009 on “GDP and beyond. Measuring progress in a changing world”


Europe 2020 strategy

SIGMA: the Bulletin of European Statistics: Issue 02/2010: GDP and Beyond – Focus on measuring economic development and well-being

Sustainable development in the European Union 2009 – Monitoring report of the EU sustainable development strategy


ESS Measuring Progress, Well-being and Sustainable Development

European Commission staff working document
Progress on ‘GDP and beyond’ actions

Results on official European statistics on GDP and beyond
Eurostat webpages on GDP and beyond

Eurostat Leaflet

 

CAPS projects

DecarboNet – Raising collective awareness about environmental challenges

CAP4ACCESS
– Collectively removing barriers to inclusion


CATALYST
– Experimenting new collective forms of creativity and collaboration


Wikirate
– Enabling citizens to rate companies on corporate social responsibility


D-CENT
– New tools for direct democracy, participation, new economic models

CHEST
– Seed funding for digital social innovation based on the network effect


Ia4Si
– Impact assessment of collective awareness platforms


CAPS2020
– Increasing awareness of the potential of the network effect (concertation for Caps)


SciCafe 2.0
– Promoting new collaboration models

 

FP7 projects on well-being:

e-FRAME

Brainpool

Netgreen

CAPS
Collective

Impact4You IA4SI
Impact4You