The 2004 international development grant will be used in the establishment of the Istituto Europeo per lo Studio del Comportamento Umano (IESCUM, or the European Institute for the Study of Human Behavior), a non-profit organization located in Parma, Italy. The Center will be dedicated to the scientific advancement of behavior analysis, promote research, and disseminate the results of research through an e-journal. Its model is the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies. The aims of the Center are: a) promoting and supporting research in any field in which behavior analysis has demonstrated its efficacy; and b) disseminating the results of behavior analytic research (basic and applied) in different fields. The mean will be an on-line journal that publishes papers showing the most recent advances in behavior safety, organizational behavior management, special education, parenting, clinical psychology, e-learning, and so on, including theoretical and epistemological papers. The selection of papers for each topic will be made by an editor and supervised by an international advisory board. Each topic will be treated, in turn, in an issue of the digest. The first step of development of IESCUM will be in Italian and English, but contacts are in progress for Spanish and Portuguese, in light of the extraordinarily successful conference in Brazil.
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