Upon instigation of the European Educational Research Association (EERA) and its members, the University of Hamburg under supervision of Professor Ingrid Gogolin has submitted a project entitled European Educational Research Quality Indicators (EERQI) in the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union. EERQI has been funded as a small collaborative project with 1.494.564 Euro and has officially begun on April 1st 2008 for a three year period. The Project is carried out by a Consortium of 19 Institutions, including two international and two national learned societies in educational research, as well as departments of education at European universities, computer and documentation centers, and publishers of educational research (see www.eerqi.eu). EERQI will build an advanced framework for relevance assessment of research documents in educational research based on texts in open access and non-open access repositories, as well as in online journal articles, books, and other freely available scholarly publications. Educational research has been chosen as an example of socially- and politically-embedded research fields within the humanities and social sciences. Complementary to traditional measurements of scientific quality (citation analysis, journal impact factor), new methods and indicators of quality assessment will be tested (usage assessments, versions available, other statistical methods, as well as by means of advanced, semantics-based detection of concepts, linking, correlations, and referral contexts). The resulting prototype framework of quality indicators and methods will provide the base toolset for a European information service for the observation and evaluation of educational research publications. This toolset will be applied to at least one additional social science field to test transferability. The project will also address the complex role of the diversity of scientific languages and research traditions in Europe. Prof. Dr. Ingrid Gogolin, University of Hamburg, EERA-president, will inform about the scientific aims of the project. Prof. Dr. Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Technical Coordinator of EERQI, will give insight in the testing procedures. Dr. Ágnes Sandor, Xerox SAS Grenoble (not yet confirmed), will supply information about the semantic/linguistic analysis and parsing technology for the project.