Abstract:

The EC-funded So.Re.Com. Joint Innovative Doctoral Program (http://www.europhd.net/sorecom-joint-idp) selected within the 7th FP-2013 People-ITN-IDP call and carried out between 2014-2017 was built on the sound experience of the European/International Joint PhD in Social Representations and Communication, a pioneer case of the integration of the triple “i” (international, interdisciplinary, intersectoral) awarding a recognized joint degree since 1996 (http://www.europhd.eu).

The scientific goal of the unified research program articulated into 13 research lines was of the to take stock of the scientific field developed in more than 50 years by conducting an empirical meta-theoretical analysis of the literature on Social Representations, mapping the development of different paradigms, the related research methods, the thematic areas and their impact on the various applied fields within the multi-generational community of scientists and across different geo-cultural contexts.

This comprehensive research framework was built on an on-going multi-year project launched and led since 1994 by the director of the European/International Joint PhD in Social Representations and Communication who has designed specific web-tools for the purpose of conducting an empirical meta-theoretical analysis of the literature on Social Representations.
Therefore it was supported by mediated access to the digital resources implemented on the website: full bibliographic repository, meta-theoretical analysis repository, specialised SoReCom “A.S. de Rosa” @-Library and search engine connected with all the above mentioned repertoires, including a very rich documentation built up over two decades with an enormous effort of work team coordination and assessment and further developed through the research training of 13 early-stage-researchers.

The insertion of all the meta-theoretical analyses in the specialised SoReCom “A.S. de Rosa” @-Library will make available to the scientific community the worldwide most comprehensive digital library specialised in the Social Representations and Communication literature, currently including 11.341 bibliographic items and big data and meta-data as solid background knowledge for further researches.

The high societal impact of the knowledge developed by the researchers working in Social Representations and Communication in many cross-thematic areas of supra-disciplinary interest (environment, health, education, science and technology, communication, politics, economics, etc.) is another added value of the knowledge produced thanks to this ambitious SoReCom Joint-IDP program.

Keywords:

Innovative Joint Doctoral Program, European/International Joint PhD in Social Representations and Communication, SoReCom “A.S. de Rosa” @-Library.