EU-Funding of Education Research: Meet the responsible Scientific Officers Louisa Anastopoulou and Manuela Alfé, Brussels EERA’s big international research project “European Educational Research Quality Indicators (EERQI)” – funded in the 7th Framework Program of the European Union – has developed further and will present its interim results at the ECER 2009. The EERQI project has officially begun on April 1st, 2008 for a three year period. It is carried out by a Consortium of 19 European 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). The main aim of the project is the development of an advanced framework for the assessment of quality in educational research publications. These include journal articles, but also open access publications, online journal articles, books, and other freely available scholarly publications. Complementary to traditional measurements of scientific quality (citation analysis, journal impact factor), the EERQI-project develops a new set of indicators, including statistical methods, but also advanced methods of semantic analysis. The resulting prototype framework of quality indicators will provide the base toolset for the observation and evaluation of educational research publications. The project will also address the complex role of the diversity of scientific languages and research traditions in Europe. This toolset will be applied to at least one additional social science field to test transferability. The Round Table will be commenced by two presentations about experiences and prospects – EU-funding of Education Research: Manuela Alfé, EU, Brussels: Education Research in the 7th Framework Programme (FP 7), Socio Economic Sciences and Humanities Theme. Louisa Anastopoulou, EU, Brussels: FP 7 – The New Call 2010+ and New Funding Approaches 2011+. The EERQI-presentations will then show the development and progress which was made in the project so far, and give an overview about the next steps of development. Prof. Dr. Ingrid Gogolin, University of Hamburg, Coordinator of the EERQI-project and WERA Interim President, will inform about the scientific aims of the project. Dr. Ágnes Sandor, Xerox SAS Grenoble will supply information about the semantic analysis and parsing technology for the project. Jenny Oltersdorf and Thomas Severiens, Humboldt-University of Berlin/ Oldenburg University, Technical Coordinator and Team of EERQI, will give insight in the testing procedures.