GLOBALEURONET will address its objectives through a series of integrated scientific activities. They will take place at various locations within participating countries.

Different Organizing Teams have direct responsibility in planning and implementing research progress in each topic area covered by the Programme. An Organizing Team includes two or three leading researchers with an established expertise and record of international publications. The task of Organizing Teams is to allow researchers from both contributing and non-contributing countries (the latter only on an ad-hoc basis) working on the same research area to get integrated in order to create a critical mass at European level. Each Organizing Team is responsible for constructing a Data Set related to its research area. The Programme promotes and funds the networking of these Data Sets. The systematic involvement of young researchers in the activities promoted by Organizing Teams represents a critical objective of the Programme. Young researchers included in Organizing Teams have generally two different profiles: Junior Researchers (normally Ph.D. students working towards their doctoral dissertation) and Experienced Researchers (normally young researchers at post-doctoral level). Both enjoy preferential (though not exclusive) access to other Programme’s activities.

In order to achieve its purposes, each Organizing Team resort to different initiatives:

Methodological Workshops

These are short meetings (one-two days) in which leading researchers (i.e. the Organizing Team plus one leading researcher for each country/geographical area) focus on research planning and methodological convergence. The latter is critical for allowing data collection and processing to be functional to the analytical methodology adopted.

Research Area Seminars

These are longer meetings (two-three days) in which Organizing Teams present and discuss the provisional results of their research activities. The papers presented at the seminars are based on the data collection and processing promoted by each Organizing Team. External experts are usually invited as speakers and discussants

Visit grants

The Programme also fosters researchers’ mobility at European level through Exchange Visit Grants. Both junior and senior scholars have access to such facilities. Visits can have a duration from one week up to one month.