CEDER Study Centre of CD&V

CEDER Study Centre of CD&V
acronym	CEDER
City	Brussels
Country	Belgium
Website	http://ceder.cdenv.be/ceder
address	Wetstraat 89, 1040 Brussels
Networks	Center for European Studies (CES)
Virtual Networks A "Virtual Network" is a group of Think Tanks identified by certain semantic and normative (ideological) commonalities (e.g. climate change scepticism). Such a virtual network constitutes a research field that differs from the study of formal networks. Formal networks are real in the sense of officially acknowledged and immediately open to empirical validation. Virtual networks on the other hand display shared ideas. Social network analysis tools can be applied to find out if or to what extent virtual networks are real networks that display linkages (membership in networks, personnel, resources etc.). Unconnected think tanks in turn can be considered special cases in need of explanation independent from network structures (unless we have to assume invisible, hidden or covered ties).	Austerity politics
Last revision	6.12.2014

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Organizational Structure and Funding

Address

Wetstraat 89, 1040 Brussels

People

Executive board

People leading the Think Tank in the day to day business (CEOs, directorates etc.).

• Nick Gobbin, director

Staff

People working for the Think Tank (Fellows etc.). This includes also part-time employees.

• Maxime Penen, subject specialist: journal (editor of CDR), political dialogue, party affairs

• Emilie Noë, subject specialist: poverty, ethics

• Wim Verrelst, subject specialist: climate, energy, environment, mobility

• Erik Meganck, subject specialist:Ethics & Meaning

• An Poot, subject specialist: mobility & housing

• Helga Pletzers, subject specialist: welfare, health

• Ellen Van Grunderbeek, subject specialist: pension, social policy, families

• Ann Stalpaert, secretary

• Wim Lammens, subject specialist: local administration, justice, institutions

• Jenny Renneboog, secretary

• Steven Bulté, labour market

• Stefan Arts, subject specialist: education, migration, refugees

• Peter Gijsels, international secretary

• Niels De Kort, subject specialist: taxes

• Filip Smet, subject specialist: macroeconomics, enterprises, budget

Topics

We used the DGs of the EU to generate a basic list of topics. This list is going to be steadily extended. However we try to preserve a persistent list of topics.

Semantic Fields

What we call here a semantic field is the idea to categorize think tanks in a two level system. The first levels are so called 'Virtual Networks' and the second are the semantic fields. Accordingly every semantic field entered here has to be attached to a virtual network. If you would like to follow a special phenomenon among think tanks please contact us and we are going to add a new virtual network. Semantic fields are topics that promote a virtual network. Lets take climate change as an example: 'climate change skeptics' is the virtual network and 'adaption instead of mitigation' would be one possible semantic field.

• Limiting costs of demographic change (Austerity Politics): the growing share of the old age population enforces the limitation/reduction of pensions and the raise of the retirement age. the article was written by Caroline Deiteren (adviseur studiedienst Unizo) and Pieter Marechal (voormalig voorzitter JongCD&V)