The present article attempts to evaluate the implementation of a specific research project, which was funded by the European Union. The main aim, through the adoption of a phenomenological/hermeneutical perspective, is to describe the most important elements of the given project, but also to highlight the basic epistemological, theoretical, methodological and practical dimensions of social research in contemporary Greece, at the dawn of the 21st century. There is also an attempt to raise issues concerning educational and research policy-making, which could contribute to a considerable improvement in the processes of evaluation, organization and implementation of social research carried out by research teams and the dissemination of its results to the wider public.

Research; Hermeneutics; Research Team; Educational Policy