ESCON

European Social Cognition Network

ESCON is an ESF sponsored programme which began in 2003. This program emerged from a series of conferences held between 1999 and 2002, and is the first European network of social cognition researchers.

Social Cognition is an active and vibrant research field in Europe (see European Social Cognition). Currently, fifteen European member countries are involved in the ESCON ‘à la carte’ program, enabled by the contribution of their research councils or by individual universities and organisations (see Membership).

The central objective of ESCON is to create a platform that facilitates European research collaboration in the field of social cognition and that leads to the formulation of cutting edge collaborative European research programs.

The program is designed to achieve the following two objectives. Networking the European research community to remain at the ‘cutting edge’ of social cognition by

1. facilitating the development of joint scientific projects and
2. enhancing Graduate Student training

The three key instruments to realize these objectives are

1. Transfer of Knowledge Conferences,
2. Expert Meetings
3. development of an Internet-Based Research Training Program for social cognition.

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