In October 2007 the Institute for Applied Argumentation Research, IFAAR, was officially included on the list of service providers of the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), Seville → Call for expression of interest AMI J00/01/06, Publication at the Official Journal 2006/S 105-111827.

The IFAAR has been accepted on the list for the following fields of research:

2.1 – Foresight on information society technologies and key applications in Europe;

2.2 – Information and communication technologies – prospective on R&D. cyber security and identity;

6 – Support to research policy (including human resources and universities): analysis and prospective;

7 – Economics of technical change;

9 – Cost-benefit analysis;

10 – Social dimension of sustainable development, including structural unemployment

The list will be valid until 22/05/2009