„Sozial-, Wirtschafts- und Geisteswissenschaften“ mit deut

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Geförderte Projekte des 7. EU-Forschungsrahmenprogramms
im Thema „Sozial-, Wirtschafts- und Geisteswissenschaften“ mit
deutscher Beteiligung
Activity 1: Growth, employment and competitivenes in a knowledge society - The European case
Activity 2: Combining economic, social and environmental objectives in a European perspective
Activity 3: Major trends in society and their implications
Activity 4: Europe in the world
Activity 5: The citizen in the European Union
Activity 6: Socio-economic and scientific indicators
Activity 7: Foresight activities
Activity 8: Horizontal actions
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Nationale Kontaktstelle Sozial-, Wirtschafts- und Geisteswissenschaften
Projektträger im Deutschen Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.
Heinrich-Konen-Str. 1
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
E-Mail: [email protected]
www.nks-swg.de
Activity 1:
Growth, employment and competitivenes in a knowledge society The European case
AEgis
Advancing knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship and innovation for growth and social well-being in Europe
Kurzbeschreibung des Projektes:
The proposed research project will study the interactions between knowledge, economic
growth and social well-being in Europe. It focuses on knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship
as a necessary mechanism and an agent of change mediating between the creation of knowledge and its transformation into economic activity.
Knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship is perceived here in as a core interface between two
interdependent systems: the knowledge generation and diffusion system, on the one hand,
and the productive system, on the other. Both systems shape and are shaped by the broader
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social context - including customs, culture, and institutions - thus also pointing at the linkage
PLANET S.A.
of entrepreneurship to that context.
Research & Innovation Unit
The project has three main objectives (research thrusts). At the micro-level, it purports to study
EL - Athens
in depth the very act of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship, its defining characteristics,
Maria Legal
boundaries, scope and incentives.
http://www.planet.gr/
At the macro-level, it will study the link between knowledge entrepreneurship, economic
growth and social well-being, also extending to the socio-economic processes that help
transform the „animal spirits“ (John Maynard Keynes) into a self-reinforcing process for broader
societal prosperity.
Funding Scheme:
The way the broader socio-economic environment stokes „animal spirits“ and benefits from
Large scale project
them will be studied within the contexts of various shades of capitalism in Europe and elsewhere, expanding beyond the growth accounting and endogenous growth approaches and
Research Area:
issues to novel concepts of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship in growth and, further, into
Activity 1 - Growth, employment and
the underlying issues of social well-being such as inclusion, cohesion, equity, opportunities,
competitiveness in a knowledge society
and social care.
Finally, at the policy level, the project will take a systemic approach aiming at an organic integ- Area: Changing role of knowledge throughout
the economy
ration of diverse sets of policies that influence the creation and growth of innovative entrepreneurial ventures based on knowledge generation and diffusion.
Deutsche Partner in diesem Projekt:
Topic:
Interactions between knowledge, economic
growth and social well-being
Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, Evolutionary Economics Group, München
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Witt
http://www.mpg.de/english/portal/index.html
Duration:
36 months
Technische Universität Dortmund, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences,
Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Hirsch-Kreinsen
http://www.tu-dortmund.de/uni/Uni/index.html
Start date:
01.01.2009
Weitere Partner:
- Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, CESPRI, Milano, IT
- National Technical University of Athens, School of Chemical Engineering, Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics, Athens, EL
- Institute for Management of Innovation and Technology, Gothenburg, SE
- Lunds Universitet, CIRCLE, Lund, SE
- Universiteit Utrecht, Urban and Regional Research Centre, Utrecht, NL
- Université Louis Pasteur, Bureau d‘Economie Théorique et Appliquée, Strabourg, FR
- University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London, UK
- Unidade de Estudos sobre Complexidade e Economia, Lisboa, PT
- Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies, Aalborg, DK
- Technicsche Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, NL
- University of Sussex, Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), Brighton, UK
- Institute of Economics - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, HU
- Centre for Economic Studies, Usti nad Labem, CZ
- National Competitiveness Council, Zagreb, CR
- The Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation
Department of Economic Theory, Moscow, RU
- Zhejiang University, School of Management, Hangzhou, CN
- Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, IN
- Centre for Social and Economic Research (CASE), Warsaw, PL
EC Contribution:
3.300.000 €
Project Website:
http://www.aegis-fp7.eu/
Proposal Number:
225134
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
COCOPS
Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future
The COCOPS project (Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future) seeks to
comparatively and quantitatively assess the impact of New Public Management-style (NPM)
reforms in European countries, drawing on a team of leading European public administration
scholars. This evidence-based project focuses on the national level and the important policy
domains of health and employment services, and the utilities of water, energy and transport. It
will analyse the impact of reforms in public management and public services that address citiCoordinator:
zens‘ service needs and social cohesion in Europe. Evaluating the extent and consequences of
ERASMUS Universiteit Rotterdam
NPM‘s alleged fragmenting tendencies and the resulting need for coordination is a key part of
NL - Rotterdam
assessing these impacts. Subsequently, COCOPS will map and analyse innovative mechanisms
Steven van de Walle
in the public sector to improve coordination and its associated effects on economic competitihttp://www.eur.nl/english/
on, public sector performance, social cohesion and societal outcomes.
The research will continue to our understanding of the impact of NPM by integrating sectoral
and national analyses and to the development of future public sector reform strategies by
Funding Scheme:
drwaing lessons from past experience, exploring trends and studying emerging public sector
coordination practices. Drawing on existing large-scale datasets and innovative data collection Small or medium-scale focused research project
in ten countries, the project intends to provide a comprehensive picture of the challenges facing the European public sector of the future. The empirical investigation will result in a transResearch Area:
fer of innovative best practices across European member states and a futures study outlining
key scenarios for the public sector of the future. It will contribute to maximal policy learning
through the involvement of expert practitioner groups and other key stakeholders.
Area: Strengthening policy coherence and coordination in Europe
Topic:
The public sector of the future
Hertie School of Governance GGmbH
Berlin
Gerhard Hammerschmid
Duration:
42 months
http://www.hertie-school.org/home.php?nav_id=363
Start date:
01.01.2011
Weitere Partner:
- Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem, Budapest, HU
- Universitetet I Bergen Organisasjonsedd, Bergen, NO
- The University of Exeter, UK
- Tallinna Tehnikaulikool, Tallinn, EE
- Universidad de Cantabria, ES
- Universita Commerciale „Luigi Bocconi“, IT
- Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, FR
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE
EC Contribution:
2.700.000 €
Project Website:
http://www.eur.nl/cocops/about_cocops/
Proposal Number:
266887
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2011
COEURE
Cooperation for European Research in Economics
The European Union is the world‘s largest eomic entity, yet its ability to design and implement
effective eomic policies is not commensurate with its size. While the field of eomics has seen
an impressive growth, the eomic research remains fragmented across the Member States.
Developing an efficient research area is essential for growth and to the process of European
integration. However, a variety of informal barriers inhibit the free flow of research funding, as
a result, the efficient allocation of R&D funding. Research grants can provide a viable tool to circumvent limits to integration and to enhance the exchange of ideas. However, if not designed
correctly, research funding can also aggravate the initial problem.
This proposal outlines how the European Eomic Association will go about creating the COEURE
(COoperation for EUropean Research in Eomics) network, which will bring together key stakeholders in the European eomic research space and funders of research. COEURE will launch a
global process that will lead to the formulation of an Agenda for Research Funding for Eomics
in Europe (ARFEE). First the project involves taking stock of the current state of research in key
sub-fields in eomics to map out the research frontier and the activities of European researchers. It identifies key open research questions and suggests ways in which research on these
issues should evolve, notably to better address the policy challenges that Europe is now facing.
Sed the project assesses the extent to which mechanisms for funding eomic research in Europe have supported research at the frontier in the past, and suggests ways in which they might
evolve in the future to support it more effectively. Third the project brings together stakeholders to formulate the ARFEE to ensure that Europe has the appropriate funding mechanisms
and the coordination among them.
Coordinator:
Fondation Jean-Jacques Laffont, Toulouse
Sciences Economiques
FR
http://www.fondation-laffont.fr/en/
Funding Scheme:
Coordination (or networking) actions
Research Area:
Area: Structural changes in the European
knowledge economy and society
Topic:
Coordinating research agendas on economic
policy, prioritisation and coordination in Europe
Duration:
Technische Universität Dortmund
36 months
Start date:
01.10.2013
Weitere Partner:
EC Contribution:
- Universite Libre de Bruxelles, BE
- European Economic Association, BE
- European University Institute, IT
- Norges Handelshoyskole, NO
- Kozep-Europai Egyetem, HU
- Centre for Economic Policy Research LTD, UK
1.467.505 €
Proposal Number:
320300
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Juli 2014
COINVEST
Competitiveness, innovation and intangible investment in Europe
The project aims to understand the contributions of intangible investments to innovation, competitiveness, growth and productivity in Europe.
Such a project is vital to help EU policy formation and deepen our understanding of
some of the most crucial questions facing EU economic policy.
This is because, currently, (almost all) intangible investments are either not measured,
or treated as an intermediate input into production so they are assumed to produce
no durable assets for firms or economies. The question is does this matter? In practice,
most knowledge investments involve intangible spending. And, given that the Lisbon
agenda aims to make the EU “the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-driven
economy by 2010, we are in the difficult position of having perhaps the major EU policy aspiration backed by almost no data or measures.
This project will set out a method to addrress this problem and collect the required
data.
Given the issue’s importance, the work under the project should make an important
contribution.
Some knowledge investment is included as such in the key economic measures such as
GDP (e.g. software). However, R&D and other knowledge investment (like investment
in human capital via training, investment in reputation capital, investment in organisational capital etc) are all treated as day-to-day expenses, not investment.
Thus, under current conventions, investment and GDP in an economy whose businesses spend €1 more on almost all knowledge investment is the same as an economy
whose businesses turn up their air-conditioning.
Therefore, the project has put together a small but focused team comprising some
of Europe’s (and the world’s) leading experts on these questions, spanning business,
policy and measurement interests.
The project will collect data on a wide range of knowledge investment, at macro and
micro-levels, incorporate these into macro and micro performance measures and thus
greatly improve our understanding of knowledge-driven economies, firms and policy.
Coordinator:
Queen Mary and Westfield College
Department of Economics, London
UK
Jonathan Haskel
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk
Funding Scheme:
Collaborative project
(small and medium scale focused research project)
Research Area:
Area: Changing role of knowledge throughout the
economy
Topic:
Intangible investment and innovation in Europe
Duration:
24 months
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung Gmbh (ZEW)
Industrial Economics and International Management
Mannheim
Dr. Georg Licht
http://www.zew.de
Start date:
01.04.2008
EC Contribution:
1 .464.767 €
Weitere Partner:
Project Website:
- The Conference Board Europe, Brussels Office, Brussels, BE
- Instituto Superior Técnico, Department of Engineering and Management, Lisbon, PT
- Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, Economics Department, Stockholm, SE
- Club Economika 2000, Sofia, BG
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Groupe de Recherche en Economie et
Statistique (GRECSTA), Paris, FR
http://www.coinvest.org.uk
Proposal Number:
217512
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
CRESSI
Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation
The CRESSI project will explore the economic underpinnings of social innovation with a particular focus on how policy and practice can enhance the lives of the most marginalized and
disempowered citizens in society.
Overall, the bid will take an institutionalist view of the key issues exploring the drivers and
structures that lead to marginalization and disempowerment and then setting out how
interventions drawing on social innovation can address major economic, social and power
imbalances and inequalities.
Coordinator:
The project draws upon three interlinked strands of theory to provide an overarching conThe Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the
ceptual framework: Beckert’s social grid model; Sen’s Capabilities Approach; Mann’s analysis
University of Oxford, UK
of institutional power structures and their enactments. The main work packages will focus on:
Alex Nicholls
establishing an economic theory and context for social innovation across the EU; contextuahttp://www.ox.ac.uk/
lizing social innovation within established research and practice on technological innovation;
exploring emergent social innovation ecosystems and lifecycles; setting out effective policy
agendas and instruments for fostering social innovation; establishing best practice metrics for
capturing the impact of social innovation.
Funding Scheme:
In addition, discrete work packages will focus on the overall management of the project
Small or medium-scale focused research project
and the dissemination of its key findings and contributions. The conceptual and theoretical
elements of the project will be tested and revised with a rigorous programme of empirical data
Research Area:
collection encompassing qualitative case studies and linked quantitative analyses with a focus
on key topic areas across several member states that can inform the EU Commission debates
on building smart economies that reduce inequality and socio-economic marginalization.
Area: Changing role of knowledge throughout
the economy
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/
Topic:
Economic underpinnings of social innovations
Duration:
Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald
http://www.uni-greifswald.de/
48 months
Start date:
Weitere Partner:
01.02.2014
- Technische Universiteit Delft, NL
- Tampereen Yliopisto, FI
- Universita degli Studi di Pavia, IT
- AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, AT
- Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Kozgazdasag - Es Regionalis Tudomanyi Kutato-Kozpont, HU
EC Contribution:
2.496.281 €
Proposal Number:
613261
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: April 2014
CRE8TV.EU
Creativity for Innovation & Growth in Europe
Creativity is a fundamental transformative mechanism of the European economy. To
study this mechanism, this project brings together 11 of Europes leading innovation
research centres, and is structured around six themes: 1. Mapping and measuring the
creative-cultural industries and their impacts; 2. Understanding and modelling creativity and design; 3. Entrepreneurship and industrial dynamics in the creative-cultural
industries; 4. Digital ecosystems, user participation and the blurring of production
and consumption; 5. Intellectual property, IP rights and innovation in creative-cultural
activities, and, 6. Policy issues and recommendations. Together, and through nearly 25
person years of research, we will make substantial progress in methodologies and provide fresh and integrated approaches in the study of creativity and innovation, as well
as in the dynamics of these industries. This will result in new data sets, policy briefs and
tools, as well as academic articles and books. Above all, the project will substantially
enhance the state of knowledge and understanding of the nature and characteristics
of creativity and innovation, the cultural-creative industries, and their role in shaping
the future European economy and society. It will also provide important and reliable
evidence regarding the emergence, promotion and stimulation of creativity in relation to innovation in Europe, and how creativity-based entrepreneurship contributes to
economic growth and wellbeing.
The project will also be a highly valuable and original source of knowledge and understanding for the research, business and policymaking communities at both the EU and
national / regional levels. The project will also help build a European research community focused on creativity and innovation, and will contribute to building research
capacity by providing opportunities for early career researchers. It will also seek to
advance the role of women researchers and research managers in Europe.
Coordinator:
The University of Manchester
UK
Liz Fay
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Unveiling creativity for innovation in Europe
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Jürgen Finger
http://www.zew.de
Duration:
Technische Universität München
Katrin Hörmann
http://www.tu-muenchen.de
Start date:
36 months
01.02.2013
EC Contribution:
2.499.168 €
Weitere Partner:
- National Technical University of Athens, EL
- Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, NL
- Copenhagen Business School, DK
- Goeteborgs Universitet, SE
- Politecnico di Milano, IT
- Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem, HU
Proposal Number:
320203
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: April 2013
CUPESSE
Cultural Pathways to economic self-sufficiency and entrepreneurship: family values and youth unemployment in Europe
The multi-disciplinary CUPESSE project carries out a comparative analysis of both the demand
and supply side of youth unemployment in ten Member States of the EU and Associated Countries (i.e. Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey,
and the United Kingdom).
These ten countries represent the main empirical scope of the project, but whenever possible,
the analysis is extended to include all European countries. CUPESSE has five main objectives.
The first objective is to obtain a more refined understanding of the supply side of young adults’
Coordinator:
employment by concentrating on how the inter-generational accumulation of social capital
Universität Mannheim, DE
and cultural capital in the context of family organisation influences the economic self-sufficiJale Tosun
ency and entrepreneurship of young people in Europe.
http://www.uni-mannheim.de/1/
The second objective is to examine how supply-side factors and demand-side factors affect
the unemployment of young adults. In this context we are particularly interested in the degree
to which the attitudes and skills of young adults match with employers’ demands.
The third objective is to understand the implications of young adults’ unemployment in the
Funding Scheme:
longer term, including the effects on the unemployed individuals and on society as a whole.
Large scale integrating project
The fourth objective is to investigate the degree to which flexicurity policies, policies supporting business start-ups and self-employment, and policies promoting education and
Research Area:
training platforms are embraced by the European states and to assess their impacts on young
adults’ unemployment.
The fifth objective of the CUPESSE project is to present ideas for new policy measures and formulate strategy for overcoming youth unemployment in Europe. To attain this goal, the project Area: Changing role of knowledge throughout
the economy
brings together theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches from four academic
disciplines, namely economics, political science, psychology, and sociology.
Topic:
Overcoming Youth Unemployment in Europe
European Research and Project Office GmbH, Saarbrücken
http://www.eurice.eu/
Duration:
48 months
Weitere Partner:
- University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- Aarhus Universitet, DK
- Universidad de Granada, ES
- Universität Bern, CH
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ES
- Universita degli Studi di Catania, IT
- Universität Wien, AT
- Koc University, TR
- Vysoka Skola Ekonomicka V Praze, CZ
Start date:
01.02.2014
EC Contribution:
4.999.220 €
Proposal Number:
613257
Webseite:
http://cupesse.eu/
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: April 2014
efige
European firms in a global economy: internal policies for external competitiveness
Nations do not produce, do not trade, do not compete; it is firms that produce, trade
and compete. This simple truth makes it clear that understanding the firm-level facts
is essential to good policy making. Firm-level analysis should complement the policy
making toolbox in Europe. However, currently we do not have harmonised statistical
information on European firms. Why is harmonised statistical information important?
Because it reveals facts that are simply unobservable at the aggregate level but determine aggregate economic performance.
Coordinator:
New developments in the world economy have increased the competitive pressures
on European firms in international as well as in domestic markets. The divide between
winners and losers from globalisation does not run anymore only between sectors.
Increasingly both winners and losers can be found also within sectors. The chances of
European countries to grow, prosper and provide well being to their citizens rest on
the ability of their firms to become successful traders and producers in foreign markets within and outside the EU.
Understanding the interaction between globalisation and the European economy requires an in-depth analysis of how firms are coping with this challenging environment
and particularly how they are reorganising their international activities in the internal
market and outside Europe. This is what EFIGE partners are working on.
Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung e.V.
Tübingen
Prof. Dr. Claudia Buch
http://www.iaw.edu
BRUEGEL, Brussels
BE
Gianmarco Ottaviano
http://www.bruegel.org
Funding Scheme:
Large scale project
Research Area:
Activity 1: Growth, employment and
Topic:
Globalisation and its interactions with the
European economy
Duration:
48 months
Weitere Partner:
-
Start date:
01.09.2008
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, ES
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, UK
The Institute of Economics of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, HU
Centro Studi Luca d‘Agliano (Ld‘A), Milan, IT
UniCredit, Milan, IT
Centre d‘Etudes Prospectives et d‘Informations Internationales (CEPII), Paris, FR
EC Contribution:
3.150.000 €
Project Website:
http://www.efige.org
Proposal Number:
225551
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
FESSUD
Financialisation, economy, society and sustainable development
The research programme will integrate diverse levels, methods and disciplinary traditions with
the aim of developing a comprehensive policy agenda for changing the role of the financial
system to help achieve a future which is sustainable in environmental, social and economic
terms. The programme involves an integrated and balanced consortium involving partners
from 14 countries that has unsurpassed experience of deploying diverse perspectives both
within economics and across disciplines inclusive of economics. The programme is distinctively pluralistic, and aims to forge alliances across the social sciences, so as to understand
how finance can better serve economic, social and environmental needs. The central issues
addressed are the ways in which the growth and performance of economies in the last 30
years have been dependent on the characteristics of the processes of financialisation; how has
financialisation impacted on the achievement of specific economic, social, and environmental
objectives?; the nature of the relationship between financialisation and the sustainability of
the financial system, economic development and the environment?; the lessons to be drawn
from the crisis about the nature and impacts of financialisation?; what are the requisites of a
financial system able to support a process of sustainable development, broadly conceived?
Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht
Berlin
Eckhard Hein
http://www.hwr-berlin.de/
Weitere Partner:
- Centro de Estudos Sociais, PT
- Universita‘ degli studi di Siena, IT
- Tallinna Tehnikaulikool, EE
- Universidad del Pais Vasco Ehu UPV, ES
- School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
- Middle East Technical University, TR
- Lunds Universitet, SE
- Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, FR
- National nad Kapodistrian University of Athens, GR
- University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, ZA
- Pannon Egyetem, HU
- Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Poznani, PL
- Pour la Soldarite ASBL, BE
Coordinator:
University of Leeds
UK
Kathy Brownridge
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/
Funding Scheme:
Large-scale integrating project
Research Area:
Area: Structural changes in the European knowledge economy and society
Topic:
Changing the role of the financial system to
better serve economic, social and environmental
objectives
Duration:
48 months
Start date:
01.11.2011
EC Contribution:
7.923.728 €
Project Website:
http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/rcn/101356_
en.html
Proposal Number:
266800
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Mai 2012
FINESS
Financial systems, efficiency and stimulation of sustainable growth
FINESS develops a survey-based dataset of the borrowing behaviour of households
including socio-economic characteristics, borrowing habits, risk perception and exposure to exchange rate risk due to borrowing in foreign currency. The dataset will cover
several EU countries, with particular focus on new Member States.
The main purpose of FINESS is to get a clear understanding of the implications of
ongoing financial market integration in Europe on economic growth, employment
and competiti-veness, to identify likely future paths of the development and to draw
policy relevant conclusions.
Several main breakthroughs will be achieved throughout the project.
On the macro-economic level, the role of financial systems and their transmission
channels on growth will be explored by innovative and tailor made econometric techniques, taken dynamic interactions between financial, product and labour markets
into account.
A range of indicators to measure the degree of financial integration will be constructed, and their development in time will be addressed.
Moreover, insights into the working of financial institutions will be provided for the
micro-economic level.
The comparative approach undertaken by FINESS is especially useful to uncover catalysts and bottlenecks in the architecture of financial systems.
By investigating unique datasets, the role of the financial structure, i.e., the banking
sector, markets for private equity and venture capital, for improving efficiency and
sustainable expansion of start ups and established firms is studied.
The impacts of different degrees of financial integration on the portfolio decisions of
households are explored with simulation models.
Topics specifically related to the transition period of the new Member States as well
as the gender dimension in turning impulses from the financial system into efficiency
and growth are covered by the project.
By fulfilling its goals, FINESS will provide in-depth knowledge on the relationship between financial systems and sustainable economic growth in a changing environment.
Coordinator:
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschafsforschung,
Macro Analysis and Forecasting
Berlin
Prof. Dr. Christian Dreger
http://www.diw.de
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
The role of finance in growth, employment and
competitiveness in Europe
Duration:
24 months
Institute For Economic Research (IFO)
Department Business of Cycle Analyses and Financial Markets
München
Dr. Timo Wollmershäuser
http://www.cesifo-group.de
Start date:
15.02.2008
EC Contribution:
Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen
Department of Economics - International Finance
Tübingen
Prof. Dr. Claudia M. Buch
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de
998.170 €
Project Website:
http://www.finess-web.eu/
Proposal Number:
Weitere Partner:
- Centre d‘Etudes Prospectives et d‘Informations Internationales (CEPII), Paris, FR
- University of Cambridge, Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, UK
- Universiteit Gent, Financial Economics, Gent, BE
- European Center Kutató És Tanácsadó Kft. (ICEG), Budapest, HU
- Institute for Market Economics (IME), Sofia, BG
217266
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
FINMAP
Financial Distortions and Macroeconomic Performance: Expectations, Constraints and Interaction of Agents
The ability of financial markets to bear risk is central to economic welfare and stability. Growth
and economic wellbeing is inhibited if financial markets are unable to transfer resources efficiently from the suppliers of liquidity to entrepreneurs.
However, this proper functioning of financial markets has been distorted by levels of volatility
considerably in excess of those implied by fundamentals. Markets have undergone dramatic
crashes and they display speculative bubbles with market prices far removed from their equilibrium values.
Coordinator:
Economic research has hitherto been able to make only limited progress in resolving these
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, DE
important practical and policy relevant issues of the apparent instability in financial markets.
Thomas Lux
This proposal seeks to develop elements of a new paradigm which (i) explicitly takes into
http://www.uni-kiel.de/
account the existence of various forms of heterogeneous, boundedly rational behaviour in
financial markets as well as in goods and labour markets, (ii) investigates the potential of such
behaviour to generate bubbles, crashes and a system-wide break down of activity as collective
outcomes of individual activities, (iii) investigates the linkages and repercussions between the
Funding Scheme:
complex area of financial activity and real economic activity which could be affected by e.g.,
the cancellation of credit lines and a breakdown of expected liquidity provision, (iv) studies
how the transmission channel of monetary policy works in times of distress in the financial
Research Area:
markets (particularly the interbank market) and how it could restore the credit flow from banks
to companies operating in the real sector.
We will adopt a methodologically pluralistic approach trying to augment existing macro moArea: Strengthening policy coherence and coordels and construct new (agent-based) ones from bottom-up. The results will provide insights
dination in Europe
into the consequences of different modelling paradigms for the conduct of monetary policy,
and in particular, appropriate reactions of monetary authorities to prevalent financial distress.
Topic:
Better integrating financial markets into, policy
focussed, macro models
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung, Mannheim
http://www.zew.de/de/
Duration:
24 months
Weitere Partner:
Start date:
- Universitat Jaume I de Castellon, ES
- Universita Politecnica delle Marche, IT
- London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
- Ustav Teorie Informace a Automatizace AV CR, V.V.I, CZ
- Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, AT
01.01.2014
EC Contribution:
2.151.960€
Proposal Number:
612955
Website:
http://www.finmap-fp7.eu/
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: März 2014
goete
Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe. Access, coping and relevance of education for young people in
European knowledge societies in comparative perspective
The GOETE project will analyse the role of school in re-conceptualising education in
terms of lifelong learning by combining a life course and a governance perspective. In
European knowledge societies adequacy of education means a balance of individual,
social and economic aspects. This is operationalised by exploring how educational
institutions conceptualise and organise individual educational trajectories.
The study covers the period from transition into lower secondary education to transition into upper secondary education/vocational education and training, i.e. the age
group between 10 and 16 years. Comparative analysis will focus on the regulation of
access to education, of support measures for coping with education and of securing
the relevance of education for social integration and the labour market. In 8 EU countries the mixed-method study involves surveys with students, parents and school principals; comparison of teacher training; case studies of local school spaces; discourse
analysis; expert interviews with policy makers and stakeholders.
On a scientific level, the comparison of the regulation of educational trajectories
involves re-conceptualising the social aspects of learning and education under conditions of late modern knowledge societies. It reflects the need for formal education to
be embedded in social life worlds, enabled by social support, and complemented by
informal and non-formal learning.
On a practice and policy level, it will provide information about alternative means of
providing children and young people with access to education; of supporting them in
coping with education and ensuring the relevance of education by communication
and cooperation between school, labour market, other educational actors, students
and parents.
The communication of findings will include a dialogic model of educational policy
planning at local level, training workshops with teachers, youth workers and policy
makers, and a European policy seminar.
Coordinator:
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Dr. Andreas Walther
http://www.erziehungswissenschaft.uni-tuebingen.de
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
economy
Topic:
Education in a European knowledge society
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.01.2010
Institut für regionale Innovation und Sozialforschung (IRIS)
Tübingen
Dr. Gebhard Stein
http://www.iris-egris.de
EC Contribution:
2.700.000 €
Project Website:
Weitere Partner:
- University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education (and Centre for Social Psychology)
(UL-FDW), Ljubljana, SI
- University of Amsterdam, SCO Kohnstamm Institute of Educational Research,
Amsterdam, NL
- University of Helsinki, Department of Social Policy, Helsinki, FI
- University of Turku, Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education, Turku, FI
- Queens University of Belfast, School of Education, Belfast, UK
- University of Bristol, Graduate School of Education, Bristol, UK
- School of Higher Studies in Public Health, Rennes
(in coop. with Univ. Cergy-Pontoise), Rennes, FR
- University „Rennes 2“, Research Laboratory “Spaces and Societies”, Rennes, FR
- University of Bologna, Department of Educational Sciences (coop. with Sociology),
Bologna, IT
- University of Urbino, Department of Studies on Society, Politics and Institutions,
Urbino, IT
- Warsaw School of Economics, Institute of International Studies (coop. with Social
Economy), Warsaw, PL
http://www.goete.eu/
Proposal Number:
243868
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
GRASP
Growth and sustainability policies for Europe
Growth And Sustainability Policies for Europe (GRASP) addresses European policy
concerns associated with growth within a comprehensive yet coherent analytical
framework. This framework is built on Aghion’s version of the Schumpeterian growth
approach. It emphasizes quality-improving innovation in imperfectly competitive
markets, but suggests optimal growth policy may depend as well on levels of technological (and financial) development, and on seemingly unrelated, yet relevant policies.
The approach provides a multi-layered vision of the policy drivers of growth.
The five layers address gaps in current European research on growth: R&D (the Lisbon
focus); structural economic reform; legal, institutional and organizational reforms;
global commitments, and the fiscal policy. The first layer focuses on economic assessments of innovation (property rights and incentive issues). The structural economic
reform layer focuses on sectoral (infrastructure, education and social) and regional
policies. The third layer examines the interactions between the law, institutions, and
the drivers of innovation. Global commitment looks at trade policies and global environmental commitments. The fiscal layer focuses on government finance of any public
good component of these layers and their effectiveness in contributing to growth.
Each layer provides a multidisciplinary diagnostic of the quality of growth-related policies. Combining them allows us to construct a full “Schumpeterian growth diagnostic”
to assess the effectiveness of public policies, and the adequacy and sustainability of
growth in Europe.
The GRASP consortium brings together theorists, applied econometricians, and institutional (law, politics and economics) researchers to pursue complementary, stateof-the-art analyses. CEPR’s unrivalled expertise in organizing pan-European research
collaboration further strengthens the GRASP consortium.
Coordinator:
Centre for Economic Policy Research, London
UK
Vivian Davies
http://www.cepr.org
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Macro-economic policy its interaction and coordination with other policies
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Berlin
Prof. Dr. Christian von Hirschhausen
http://www.diw.de
Duration:
48 months
Start date:
01.11.2009
Weitere Partner:
EC Contribution:
2.358.800 €
- Université Libre de Bruxelles, European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics
and Statistics, Brussels, BE
- Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, IT
- Universitetet i Oslo, Esopcentre for Equality, Social Organization and Performance,
Oslo, NO
- Stichting Katholieke Universiteit Brabant, Universiteit van Tilburg
Center, Faculty of economics and Business Administration, Tilburg, NL
Project Website:
http://grasp.cepr.org
Proposal Number:
244725
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
iareg
Intangible assets and regional economic growth
The objective of IAREG is to analyse the role played by intangible assets (IA) in the
generation of innovation, competitiveness and consequently economic growth and
increases in productivity at regional level with a special emphasis on the geographical
space in which such processes occur. The specific objectives of the project will be:
a. to develop new indicators for improving the measuring of some of the IA that we
consider to have the most influence in the generation of economic development;
b. to analyse how IA and their interaction define the environment affecting firms’
location;
c. to measure the role of regional externalities in the generation of IA and in determining local economic performances in Europe and in the diffusion of knowledge;
d. to provide decision-makers with policy recommendations in order to support them
in the future design and implementation of regional innovation strategies.
The main result expected in the project is the guide of policy recommendations and
the dissemination of this guide among regional, national and European policy-makers.
The project will be carried out by a consortium of 11 partners from 9 European countries. To ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives, the project is structured
in 8 work packages.
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Macro Analysis and Forecasting
Berlin
Dr. Christian Dreger
http://www.diw.de/deutsch
Max Planck Institute of Economics , Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy Group
Jena
Dr. Stephan Heblich
http://www.econ.mpg.de/english/
Coordinator:
Universitat de Barcelona
Regional Quantitative Analysis Group (AQR)
Department of Economics, Statistics and Spanish
Economy, Barcelona
ES
Jordi Surinach I Caralt
http://www.pcb.ub.es/aqr/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
economy
Topic:
Intangible assets and innovation in Europe
Leibniz University of Hannover, Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography
Hannover
Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez
http://www.uni-hannover.de/en/fakultaeten/fk-wiwi/index.php
Duration:
Weitere Partner:
Start date:
- Università degli Studi di Cagliari/Cirem, North South Economic Research Centre
(Crenos), Cagliari, IT
- Centre de Recherches Economiques de l‘Université de Saint-Etienne (CREUSET),
Saint-Etienne, FR
- University of Pécs, Center for Research in Economic Policy, Faculty of Business and
Economics, Pécs, HU
- Unit for Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, Tampereen Yliopisto,
Tampere, FI
- Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Institute of Regional and Environmental Economy,
Vienna, AT
- London School of Economics, Department of Geography and Environment,
London, UK
- University of Tartu, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Tartu, EE
- Joint Institute of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research and the Polytechnic
University of Valencia, ES
30 months
01.02.2008
EC Contribution:
1.350.000 €
Project Website:
http://www.iareg.org/
Proposal Number:
216813
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
INGINEUS
Impact of networks, globalisation, and their interaction with EU strategies
INGINEUS addresses the evolution of global production networks (GPNs) into global
innovation networks (GINs), and the impact this new process of global capitalism has
on knowledge intensive activities in the EU.
Global sourcing and assembly arrangements have been around for some three decades. They were principally based on efficiency considerations. Thus, multinational
firms (MNCs) outsourced parts of production processes to manufacturers in Asia and
other low-cost locations around the globe, while retaining the most knowledge intensive assets in the home country.
This is no longer the case. MNCs increasingly scout the globe for locations where the
right mix of local competences allows them to tap into sophisticated parts of value
chains.
This is not limited to advanced economies but more and more involves firms and
regions in selected developing countries that position themselves as attractive
knowledge-intensive locations in their own right.
INGINEUS studies the determinants of this process and analyses its implications both
for the EU and its emerging partner countries in the developing world.
First, it looks at the changing strategies of MNCs and the conditions under which it
is favourable for them to offshore R&D and other knowledge-intensive parts of their
production process.
Second, it focuses on the evolving local capabilities in selected developing countries
that allow them to claim increasingly complex parts of global value chains at much
higher levels of technological sophistication than hitherto.
Third, it analyses the consequences of the formation of GINs in the global economy
and differentiates among their static and dynamic effects on growth, employment,
and competitiveness in the EU.
Finally, based on these insights, it derives policy recommendations that would allow
the EU to benefit from the positive features of this process while mitigating its adverse
consequences.
Coordinator:
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milano
IT
Alireza Naghavi
http://www.feem.it
Funding Scheme:
Collaborative project (large scale project)
Research Area:
Activity 1 :Growth, employment and
Topic:
European economy
Duration:
42 months
German Development Institute
Bonn
Dr. Andreas Stamm
http://www.die-gdi.de
Start date:
01.01.2009
EC Contribution:
2.600.000 €
Weitere Partner:
- Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional, Belo Horizonte, BR
- Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, CN
- Copenhagen Business School, Center for Business and Politics, Frederiksberg, DK
- Institute of Baltic Studies, Tartu, EE
- Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, IN
- International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, IN
- Centro Studi Luca d‘Agliano, Torino, IT
- Stiftelsen Norsk Institutt for Studier av Forskning og Utdanning Senter for Innovasjonsforskning, Oslo, NO
- Human Sciences Research Council, Education, Science and Skills Development,
Pretoria, ZA
- University of Pretoria, Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), Pretoria, ZA
- University of Lund, Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning
Economy (CIRCLE), Lund, SE
- University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
- OECD Development Centre, Paris, FR
Project Website:
http://www.ingineus.eu/
Proposal Number:
225368
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
INNODRIVE
Intangible capital and innovations: drivers of growth and location in the EU
It is widely recognised that intellectual assets are major determinants of the generation of innovation and thus in the enhancement of growth, employment and competitiveness of the EU.
The importance of R&D and innovation is also explicitly acknowledged in the “Lisbon
process”. However, our knowledge of the contribution of intangibles to economic performance is still incomplete. While firms undoubtedly are at the centre of innovation
and productivity growth, their activities are hard to analyse empirically.
Furthermore, at the macro-level the national accounts data on capital formation focus
primarily on fixed investment and have only recently attempted to measure investment in intangibles such as software, mineral exploration and artistic creations.
At the micro-level the present project will improve our insight into the contributions
of intangibles to the growth of firms by exploiting the potential of recently established
linked employer-employee datasets and implementing a performance based methodology to analyse how firms use knowledge and human capital to increase their productivity.
At the national economy level we expand the traditional growth accounting framework
by including, in capital formation, estimates of the investment in intangibles which,
hitherto, have been counted as current expenditure in the conventional national
accounts. This research will thus explore hitherto uncharted territories in EU socio-economic research.
This research project will deliver new foundations for the formulation of policies to
strengthen growth and employment in the EU by providing new “beyond-the-stateof-the-art” estimates of intangibles’ contribution to economic performance.
Coordinator:
University of Vaasa, Department of Economics,
Vaasa
FI
Hannu Piekkola
http://www.uwasa.fi/engllish
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
economy
Innovation, Manufacturing, Service
Berlin
Dr. Kurt Geppert
http://www.diw.de
Topic:
Intangible investment and innovation in Europe
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.03.2008
Weitere Partner:
EC Contribution:
- Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, BE
- Statistisk Sentralbyrå (Statistics Norway), Research Department, Oslo, NO
- National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London, UK
- Inštitut za Ekonomska Raziskovanja, Ljubljana, SI
- Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitoksen Kannatusyhdistys Ry., Labour Market and Education Research Unit, Helsinki, FI
- Economics Institute, Prague, CZ
- Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, Economics & Business
Department, Rome, IT
1.496.523 €
Project Website:
http://www.innodrive.org/
Proposal Number:
214576
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
INNOSERV
Innovative Social Services platform
Our consortium will investigate innovative approaches in three fields of social services: health,
education, and welfare. To do so, we will focus on two levels: (i) the status quo of research in
these fields and (ii) the input from practitioners who have developed innovative social services.
Special attention will be paid to the transferability of elements, the European value, effects
on gender and migration issues as well as on promoting equality and building sustainability,
future scenarios involving the quality of services in different perspectives (policy makers,
service organizations, user groups etc.) and the accessibility and affordability of services. Thus,
our proposal will combine the practical knowledge of praxis organizations with the input from
research findings in order to unclose new perspectives and future trends.
Coordinator:
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität
Heidelberg - DE
Johannes Eurich
In a rather unique way using new media and innovative technologies, we will produce dishttp://www.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/theotributive material (videos, picture samples, case study brochures) to discuss innovative case
logie/dwi/personen/index.html
studies from all over Europe with stakeholders and researchers. Our main communication tools
are based on information technologies, completed by regional workshops. The involvement of
many and various national and international stakeholders is the decisive feature of the propoFunding Scheme:
sal. We plan to use a peer recommendation approach as well as a snowball sampling method
Support actions
in order to collect and identify good practice examples of innovative services.
Research Area:
The disseminating strategy will follow a twin-track approach so that all different kind of stakeActivity 1 - Growth, employment and
holders can benefit from the process as well as from the final product of the project. The final
product will be a report indicating the key trends and key elements of innovative services in
the fields of health, education, and welfare. It can be used to identify further research agendas Area: Structural changes in the European knowledge economy and society
as well as to develop new models of social services or to implement existing innovative approaches.
Topic:
Social platform on innovative Social Services
Duration:
24 months
Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Hamburg
Prof. Andreas Langer
http://www.haw-hamburg.de/
Start date:
01.02.2012
EC Contribution:
Weitere Partner:
- Roskilde Universitet, DK
- European Association of Service Providers for persons with diabilities, AISBL, BE
- European Network on independent living, IE
- Diakonhjemmets Hogskolen, NO
- Solidar, BE
- Universite Paris, Pantheon-Sorbonne, FR
- Budapest Szakpolitikai Elemzo Intezet Korlatolt Fleleossegu Tarsasag, HU
- Istituto per la Ricerca Sociale Scarl, IT
- University of Southampton, UK
1.487.816 €
Project Website:
en.html
Proposal Number:
290542
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: April 2012
INSPIRES
Innovative Social and Employment Policies for Inclusive and Resilient Labour Markets in Europe
The INSPIRES project aims to contribute to resilient and inclusive labour markets in
Europe. It comparatively assesses the resilience and inclusiveness of labour markets in
European countries, it identifies innovative policies that have contributed to resilience
and inclusiveness and it analyses strategies of policy learning that facilitate the development and transfer of these innovations within and across European nation states.
In order to do so, it analyses in-depth the evolution of labour markets policies, employment policies and social policies. Moreover, it qualitatively and quantitatively assesses
the labour market position of vulnerable groups from 2000 onwards.
INSPIRES covers eleven countries from all European welfare traditions:
Mediterranean, Eastern-European, Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian and the continental
regimes. The consortium consists of a multidisciplinary team of leading European
scholars that focus on the labour market, employment issues and social policies. The
INSPIRES project aims to accumulate practice-oriented knowledge on the factors
that positively and negatively affect resilience and inclusiveness. It seeks to explain
differences within and between countries, and within and between the labour market
positions of different vulnerable groups on the labour market.
INSPIRES intends to isolate the impact of national policies from the structural demographic, social and economic characteristics on labour market resilience. Building
upon this analysis, it tries to identify processes of policy learning and innovation that
occur in the interactions between policy makers, politicians, non-profit organizations,
trade unions, business associations and other stakeholders at the European, national
and regional level.
The outcomes of INSPIRES contribute to facilitating policy learning and innovation
processes across territorial and sectoral boundaries and to the creation of inclusive
and resilient labour markets in European countries.
Coordinator:
ERASMUS Universiteit Rotterdam
UK
http://www.eur.nl/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Innovative policies for employment and labour
markets
Universität Duisburg-Essen
Prof. Dr. Matthias Knuth
http://www.iaq.uni-due.de/aktuell/index.php
Duration:
Weitere Partner:
Start date:
- Universitat de Valencia, ES
- Universiteit Utrecht, NL
- Universita degli Studi di Urbino, IT
- Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem, HU
- Queen Margaret University, UK
- Stockholms Universitet, SE
- Evropsko Sredisce Maribor, SI
- University of Kent, UK
- Panteion University of Social and Politicial Sciences, EL
- Fondation pour un Institut de Hautes Etudes en Administration Publique, CH
42 months
01.01.2013
EC Contribution:
2.496.062 €
Proposal Number:
320121
Webseite:
http://www.inspires-research.eu/home
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: April 2013
LLLIGHT‘IN‘EUROPE
Lifelong Learning, Innovation, Growth and Human capital Tracks in Europe
LLLightinEurope LifeLong Learning, Innovation, Growth and Human capital Tracks in Europe
Among all Europeans between 24 and 65 years old who had a tertiary educational degree in
2010, 82.8% were working. In the same age group, 68.3% who completed secondary schooling
were working. Only 46% of those who did not complete secondary schooling were working. It
is apparent that if Europe wants to be working, higher education is the necessary foundation
for being competitive in the labour market. Since this is not only true for generations of future
workers currently in school, but equally so for those who are today in their 30s, 40s and 50s,
Coordinator:
Lifelong Learning must be essential to continued employability.
Zeppelin University GmbH
The cumulative investment necessary to generate higher education degrees alone for adults
DE- Friedrichshafen
over the next two decades across Europe may be 3.5 trillion Euros or about 1.4% of European
Rheinhard Pruegl
GDP per year. Even higher investments are required in non-formal and informal Lifelong
http://www.zu.de/home_de.php?navid=0
Learning. To help guide this investment, this research project will find answers to the following
urgent questions:
1. How do successful enterprises actively employ Lifelong Learning for their competitive
Funding Scheme:
advantage?
2. Which public policy environments facilitate Lifelong Learning for such enterprises and
entrepreneurs?
Research Area:
3. How does Lifelong Learning interact with and promote innovativeness on the enterprise
level?
4. How much of which skills do European adults actually have?
5. What are the actual learning mechanisms in adult life that lead to these skills?
the economy
6. What are the causal effects of these skills on growth, competitiveness and social cohesion?
The research consortium includes nine universities and research institutes from four academic
disciplines macro-econometrics, innovation dynamics, educational systems, psychometrics
Topic:
to establish empirically proven answers. All outputs of the project (models, reports and tools)
Lifelong learning in Europe: appropriate skills for
are designed to guide, support and facilitate best practice and strategy among public policy
sustaining better jobs
officials, enterprise strategists, individual citizens and fellow scientists.
Duration:
44 months
Start date:
Dr. Samuel Greiff
01.01.2012
EC Contribution:
Ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V.
München
Prof. Ludger Woessmann
http://www.cesifo-group.de/portal/page/portal/ifoHome
2.694.856 €
Project Website:
www.lllightineurope.com
Proposal Number:
Weitere Partner:
- The University of Nottingham, UK
- Central University of Finance and Economics, CN
- Wageningen Universiteit, NL
- Ekonomicka Univerzita v Bratislave, CZ
- Innovation & Growth Academy BV, NL
290683
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: April 2012
MONFISPOL
Modelling and implementation of optimal fiscal and monetary policy algorithms in multi-country econometric models
MONFISPOL focuses on the evaluation of macroeconomic policy, specifically the analysis of optimal fiscal and monetary policy in a monetary union such as the European
one. The project will also build a comprehensive database of state-of-the-art econometric models related to policy design, so that users are equipped with a powerful
tool thanks to which they will be able to select the model whose characteristics suit
them the most. Additionally, MONFISPOL will further develop DYNARE which is a
widely used software tool providing an interface for powerful simulation and estimation of econometric models.
This work will result in the addition of new numerical tools, specially designed for the
computation of optimal policy in large macro-econometric models. Such multi-country models are necessary to take into account the diversity of the countries making
now the European Union.
These new tools for the computation of optimal policy will be added to Dynare, a
public domain platform for the simulation and estimation of dynamic stochastic
general equilibrium models that is increasingly used in policy making institution and in
academic research alike.
New models are proposed to analyse the contribution of optimal policy to smooth
shocks in a union of heterogeneous countries with rigidities in labour and financial
markets. In that framework, special attention is given to the dynamics of public debt.
Systematic models comparison is made possible thanks to a database of macroeconomic models currently in use in policy making institutions around the world. New
numerical tools are added to Dynare that provide the computation of optimal policy,
either under commitment, in a timeless perspective or under discretion, for a general
class of nonlinear models.
Particular attention is given to correct linear quadratic approximation of these models. Extensions are proposed to deal with partial information.
These tools shall also permit to perform Bayesian estimation of models under the
assumption that the policies followed were optimal. Special emphasis is placed on the
definition of priors. Given the complexity of the numerical computations, we stress
speed of computation and the development of parallel algorithms. Altogether, this
project should represent a very significant step forward towards better models and
better tools for the formulation of macro-economic policies.
Coordinator:
Centre pour la Recherche Economique et ses
Applications (CEPREMAP), Dynare Team, Paris
FR
Michel Juillard
http://www.cepremap.ens.fr
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Area: Strengthening policy coherence and
coordination in Europe
Topic:
Macro-economic policy, its interaction
and coordination with other policies
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.10.2008
Center for Financial Studies at the University of Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main
Prof. Volker Wieland, PhD
http://www.ifk-cfs.de/
EC Contribution:
1 .350.000 €
Project Website:
http://www.monfispol.eu/
Weitere Partner:
- London Metropolitan University, Business School, London, UK
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto de Análisis Económico,
Madrid, ES
- Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC), European Commission –
Joint Research Centre, Euro-area Economy Modelling Centre, Ispra, IT
- University of Surrey, UK
Proposal Number:
225149
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
PICK-ME
Policy Incentives for the Creation of Knowledge: Methods and Evidence
The ongoing global economic crisis is seriously challenging advanced capitalistic economies.
In the last year the GDP has fallen at dramatic rates, creating the conditions for the upsurge
of unemployment, abova all in areas characterized by specialisation in mature industries. According to recent grwoth models and empirical evidence, innovation and knowledge creation
Coordinator:
represent the main factors able to improve the competitiveness and the long run perspectives
Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto Centro
of growth of countries. Yet, innovation and technology policies have mainly been designed
Superiore di Ricerca e Formazione Economicoby relying on a supply side perspective so as to affect the creation of knowledge by providing
Finanziaria
funds to carry out R&D activities and by enhancing education and training for researchers.
IT - Moncalieri
However, a debate has recently emerged, about the need for grafting innovation and technoElisa Clauser
logy policies in a demand-oriented framework.
http://www.carloalberto.org/
The aim of this project is to provide an original contribution to the ongoing debate, advancing
the understanding of the mechanisms through which demand-based innovation policies
may stimulate effective knowledge creation process, and eventually trigger competitiveness
Funding Scheme:
and productivity growth. To this purpose, the research activity will consist of both theoretical
models and empirical analyses, the results of which shoudl be able to inform the policy design Small or medium-scale focused research project
process. We shall distinguish between public and private demand for both final and intermediate goods and services and will analyze their effects on the generation, diffusion and exploitaResearch Area:
tion of technological knowledge by articulating the research activity on different dimensions
(regional, sectoral and institutional). The research activity will be conducted by pursuing a
great deal of multidisciplinarity and combining a number of diverse methodologies. The reArea: Changing role of knowledge throughout
sults of the analyses will in turn provide the basis upon which a taxonomy of demand-oriented
the economy
technology policies may be elaborated.
Topic:
Demand-driven research and innovation policies
for growth, welfare and wellbeing
Universität Hohenheim
Lehrstuhl für Innovationsökonomik
Stuttgart
Prof. Dr. Andreas Pyka
https://inno.uni-hohenheim.de/87504.html
Duration:
42 months
Start date:
01.01.2011
EC Contribution:
Weitere Partner:
- The Samuel Neaman Institute for advanced studies in Science and Technology of the Technion Ltd (PSC), IL
- CASE - Centrum Analiz Spoleczno - Ekonomiczynych.Fundacja Naukowa, PL
- Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, ES
- Universite de Nice, Sophia Antipolis, FR
2.370.000 €
Project Website:
https://inno.uni-hohenheim.de/87504.
html?&L=1
Proposal Number:
266959
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2011
SCIFI-GLOW
Science, innovation, firms and markets in a globalized world
In 2000, EU leaders committed to the objective of making Europe „the most dynamic
and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable
economic growth, with more and better jobs, greater social cohesion and respect for
the environment.“
They drew up the „Lisbon agenda“ to achieve this goal by 2010.
The central strategy was based on policies to encourage investment in knowledge.
Knowledge as a public good with potential spillovers is the rationale behind intellectual property protection and subsidies for investments in innovations that will potentially lead to high spillovers.
University research that creates basic knowledge is a leading example of this. But
research shows that spillovers are also generated from private firms’ R&D and that
firms can therefore benefit from the presence of more innovative and more productive firms.
But which universities and which firms are more innovative?
How does globalization influence the answer to these questions? Finally, how can
policy influence the innovation process?
This project aims at answering these questions, without forgetting their implications
in terms of income inequality and volatility, which impacts on the political sustainability of the innovation dynamics.
To do this, the first part of the project will focus more specifically on the knowledge
sector itself. This second part of the project will look at the „bigger picture“, looking
at the overall organization of firms in the global knowledge economy, as well as its
implications on markets and inequality.
The third part will contain a summary and policy recommendations: while the project
brings together researchers at the frontier of academic knowledge on these topics, its
outcomes will be highly policy-relevant.
We plan to end the project with a summary and set of policy conclusions on research
and innovation in the global knowledge economy.
Coordinator:
Centre for Economic Policy Research, London
UK
Mathias Dewatripont
http://www.cepr.org/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Area: Changing role of knowledge
throughout the economy
Topic:
Impact of internationalisation on Europe‘s
research and innovation systems
Duration:
36 months
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Department of Economics
München
Prof. Dr. Dalia Marin
http://www.vwl.uni-muenchen.de
Start date:
01.06.2008
EC Contribution:
1. 115.634 €
Weitere Partner:
- Université Libre de Bruxelles, European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics
and Statistics (ECARES), Brussels, BE
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Applied Economics,
Leuven, BE
- London School of Economics and Political Science, Centre for Economic Performance,
London, UK
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques,
Paris, FR
- Universiteit Maastricht, Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and
Technology (MERIT), Maastricht, NL
- Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Departamento Economía, Getafe, ES
- Institute of Economics of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, HU
- Fondation Jean-Jacques Laffont / Toulouse Sciences Economiques, Toulouse, FR
Project Website:
http://scifiglow.cepr.org
Proposal Number:
217436
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
SERVICEGAP
The impact of service sector innovation and internationalisation on growth and productivity
The primary objective of this research project is to produce a comprehensive study
on the impact of market services on aggregate economic growth in the EU and its
comparative performance relative to competitor regions, especially the US. The
research is divided into three areas: Productivity and its drivers in service industries;
Firm strategies in the knowledge-based economy and Internationalisation of service
markets and growth.
Coordinator:
In the first area the project will explore the impact of intangible assets such as R&D
and firm- specific training in explaining the EU’s poor performance relative to the US.
It will also examine interactions between information and communications technology and intangible investments to gauge to what extent these are complementary
strategies to enhance productivity and growth. This area will also contain a detailed
investigation of linkages between service sectors and manufacturing through trade in
intermediate inputs, and the effect of the competitive and regulatory environment of
service industries on growth in the EU.
The second area on the knowledge based economy will investigate external sources
of knowledge creation through an analysis of outsourcing of service functions in the
service and the manufacturing sectors and will provide a detailed analysis of productivity and employment effects of innovation activities in different services industries
and countries.
The third area on internationalisation of services will analyse the extent of international
trade, international investment and international outsourcing of services and investigate
their impacts on productivity, employment and growth.
The methods employed will be mostly quantitative economic analysis, supplemented by
case studies.
The results of the project will provide a significant advancement of the knowledge
base on the impact of service industry performance for strengthening productivity,
growth and employment in the EU and therefore will be a useful resource for policymakers.
The Univeristy of Birmingham
Birmingham Business School
UK
Prof. Dr. Mary O‘Mahony
http://www.business.bham.ac.uk
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
European economy
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.03.2010
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
Research Group Information and Communication Technologies
Mannheim
Dr. Irene Bertschek
http://www.zew.de/
EC Contribution:
2.399.740 €
Project Website:
Institut für Weltwirtschaft
Kiel
Prof. Dr. Holger Görg
http://www.ifw-kiel.de/
http://www.servicegap.org
Proposal Number:
244552
Weitere Partner:
- Economic and Social Research Institute, Economic Analysis, Dublin, IE
- Centrum Analiz Spoleczno-ekonomicznych – Fundacja Naukowa, Warsaw, PL
- Institut für Höhere Studien und Wissenschaftliche Forschung, Department of Economics and Finance, Vienna, AT
- Elinkeinoelaemaen Tutkimuslaitoksen Kannatusyhdistys R.Y., Helsinki, FI
- Institut za Ekonomska Raziskovanja, Ljublijana, SI
- Centre d‘Etudes Prospectives et d‘Informations Internationales, Paris, FR
- Centre d‘Information et de Recherche sur l‘Economie Mondiale, Paris, FR
- Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Industrial Economics, Innovation
and International Competition, Vienna, AT
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
SERVPPIN
The contribution of public and private services to European growth and welfare,
and the role of public-private innovation networks
Services are the dominant economic sector in modern economies and are a crucial
component of competitiveness strategy and welfare in Europe.
In the past public and private services have been studied in isolation of one another. At
best this is misleading.
At worst it produces a false understanding of the drivers, dynamics, and impact of
services.
The SERVPPIN project addresses this problem by analyzing public and private services,
and their impact on growth and welfare.
In particular, it focuses on service innovation and on public-private innovation networks because these are an important organizational mode for developing, producing, and delivering new and improved services.
They work by establishing and enhancing complementarities and synergies between
public and private organizations.
The research objectives of the project are:
a. identifying and understanding the links between public and private services and
economic growth and welfare;
b. understanding service innovation and how public-private sector interactions function, and how they can be better managed to increase performance;
c. understanding the characteristics of successful public-private service networks
which have a high impact on growth and welfare.
The achievement of these objectives will be undertaken by theoretical and empirical
research that is cross-country and cross-sector.
This will be supported by in-depth case studies covering major service types: health,
transport, and knowledge intensive services;
The expected outputs of the project are the development of new knowledge, improved scientific understanding of services, improved policy prescriptions, and the
dissemination of this new knowledge to business leaders and policy-makers. In order
to diffuse knowledge effectively, the project has set up a stakeholder International Expert Reference Group that comprises enterprises, professional associations and public
institutions. The aim is to affect policy in services, including EU policies.
Coordinator:
Universidad de Alcalá, Departemento de Economía
Aplicada ,Facultad de Económicas y Empresariales
Alcalá de Henares
ES
Luis Rubalcaba
http://www.uah.es/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
The implication of developments in the service
economy for the European economy and society
Duration:
36 months
Universität Hohenheim
Lehrstuhl für Innovationsökonomik
Prof. Dr. Andreas Pyka
http://www.inno.uni-hohenheim.de
Start date:
01.02.2008
EC Contribution:
1.480.141 €
Weitere Partner:
- Austrian Research Centers Gmbh – ARC, Division Systems Research, Dept of Technology Policy, Vienna, AT
- Roskilde University, Communication, Business and Information Technologies,
Roskilde, DK
- Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Faculty of Economics and Sociology
Villeneuve d‘Ascq, FR
- Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies (Ecis) der Technichal University Eindhoven,
NL
- Lillehammer University College, Centre for Public Policy Innovation, Lillehammer, NO
- Univerza V Ljubljani, Centre of International Relations - Faculty of Social Sciences,
Ljubljana, SI
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales - Departamento de Economía Aplicada II, Madrid, ES
- The Manchester Metropolitan University, Business School, Manchester, UK
- Kopint-Tárki Konjonktúrakutató Zrt., Economic Research Institute, Budapest, HU
- Nottingham University Business School, UK
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Department of Applied Economics II, ES
Project Website:
http://www.servppin.com/
Proposal Number:
217247
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
SIMPACT
Boosting the Impact of Social Innovation in Europe through Economic Underpinnings
SIMPACT advances understanding of social innovation’s economic dimensions, creating new
concepts, models and instruments for policy makers, innovators, investors and intermediaries. It systematically investigates how social innovations can enable the most vulnerable in
society to become economic assets, integrating critical analysis of current and previous work
with future-oriented methodologies, new actionable knowledge and continual stakeholder
participation.
SIMPACT’s multidisciplinary mixed-method approach advances knowledge and the state of
the art by (i) elaborating a theoretical model of the economic dimensions of social innovation
throughout its lifecycle; (ii) generating new empirical knowledge on the economic dimensions through rich, theoretically informed analysis of successful and less successful cases; (iii)
analysing drivers and barriers shaping the economic impact of social innovations, and levers
for their scaling and diffusion; (iv) developing indicators to measure social innovations and
tailored methods to evaluate social and economic impact; (v) enhancing modes of public
policy production, instruments and guidelines; (vi) generating foresight knowledge through
agent-based modelling and scenario building.
SIMPACT integrates theoretical, empirical and actionable knowledge to create evidence-based
approaches to business development, public policy and research. A participatory research approach actively engages policy makers, innovators, investors and intermediaries of vulnerable
groups. Action learning, indicator labs and stakeholder experiments facilitate processes of cocreation, stimulating shared learning, strengthening practitioner knowledge and enhancing
conceptualisation of the economic base. Partners‘ understanding of welfare regime diversity,
including New Member State specificities, will ensure tailored, actionable deliverables. Eight
high profile associate partners will help ensure the success of SIMPACT’s dissemination activities.
Coordinator:
Westfälische Hochschule Gelsenkirchen, Bocholt,
Recklinghausen , DE
Judith Terstriep
http://www.w-hs.de/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
the economy
Topic:
Economic underpinnings of social innovations
https://www.tu-dortmund.de/uni/Uni/index.html
Duration:
24 months
Weitere Partner:
Start date:
01.01.2014
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek-TNO, NL
- Polictecnico di Milano, IT
- Universiteit Maastricht, NL
- Vysoka Skola Ekonomie a Managementu OPS, CZ
- Centre for European Policy Studies, BE
- University of Bath, UK
- Association RMS - RBS, FR
- Euskampus Fundazioa, ES
- Nordregio, SE
EC Contribution:
2.498.951 €
Proposal Number:
613411
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: April2014
SPINTAN
Smart Public Intangibles
The SPINTAN project aims at discovering the theoretical and empirical underpins of public
intangible policies. It widens previous work carried out by Corrado, Hulten and Sichel (2005,
2009) including the public sector in their analytical framework in different complementary
directions that can be summarized in the following three objectives:
(1) to build a public intangible database for a wide set of EU countries, complemented with
some big non-EU countries;
(2) to analyze the impact of public sector intangibles on innovation, well-being and “smart”
growth (including education, R&D and innovation, and the construction of a digital society);
Coordinator:
and
INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE INVESTIGACIONES
(3) to pay special attention to the medium/long term consequences of austerity policies in
ECONOMICAS, S.A., ES
view of the expected recovery.
Mathilde Mas
In order to achieve these goals the overall strategy of the project will rely upon the following
http://www.ivie.es/en/
pillars organized around six work packages. WP 1 concentrates on the methodological discussion on the concept of intangibles in the public sector and the definition of its boundaries. WP
2 will be devoted to the construction of a database for a large set of EU countries and the US,
plus three developing countries (China, India, and possibly Brazil), complementary to the one
Funding Scheme:
already developed by the INTAN-Invest project. WP 3 will make a detailed analysis of the imSmall or medium-scale focused research project
plications for smart growth and social inclusion of three key aspects of public sector policies:
health, education and R&D with special reference to higher education institutions; WP 4 will
investigate the effect of spillovers of public sector intangibles on the business sector, within a
Research Area:
country or across countries. WP 5 will address the study of the present and future consequenActivity 1 - Growth, employment and
ces of the austerity measures taken since 2008.
And, finally, WP 6 will bring together the different pieces offering a synthesis of the main
results emphasizing the main policy implications.
the economy
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin
http://www.diw.de/
Topic:
Intangibles in the public sector - an unrecognised source for innovation, well-being and
smart growth
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung, Mannheim
http://www.zew.de/de/
Duration:
36 months
Weitere Partner:
Start date:
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK
- Kopint-Tarki Konjunturakutato Intezet ZRT, HU
- National Institute of Economic and Social Research LBG, UK
- The Conference Board Inc.; US
- FORES - Forum for Reformer Och Entreprenorskap Stiftelse, SE
- Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, IT
- Organisation for Economic co-operation and development, FR
- Luiss Libera Universita Internazionale degli Studi Socialo Guido Carli, IT
- Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche, AT
01.12.2013
EC Contribution:
2.497.762 €
Proposal Number:
612774
Website:
http://www.spintan.net/
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: April 2014
STYLE
Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe
The overriding aim of this project is to conduct a comparative EU wide analysis on youth unemployment that is sensitive to gender, ethnic and class differences and the historical legacies
of multi-level institutions shaping relevant policies.
This aim will be achieved through 10 objectives organized around 12 research, management,
dissemination and scientific coordination work packages.
There are three cross-cutting research WPs that examine
Performance, Policy Learning and its limitations and include the production of an International
Handbook on Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe;
Six substantive research WPs focus on issues of:
• Labour Market Mismatch in terms of education and skills as well as geographical mobility;
• Family and Cultural barriers to employment and,
• the opportunities and consequences of Self-Employment and Flexicurity.
The central concept informing this project is based on a policy learning approach to address
youth unemployment.
This involves an ongoing process of including a wide range of EU stakeholders to inform the
research and disseminate the results in different institutional conditions. It provides a recent
historical analysis accounting for factors prior to, and following on from, the on-going economic crisis. It informs policy makers about of what works and why.
The consortium will achieve the expected impact of
1) advancing the knowledge base of employment strategies to overcome youth unemployment, defining measures, methods and evaluations,
2) creating a critical network of stakeholder organisation.
Outputs will include:
• An International Handbook on Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe.
• Multimedia dissemination: working papers, policy briefings, newsletters, press coverage and
video podcasts.
• A comparative analyses of where and under which circumstances innovative and effective
policies for getting young people into work are evident, where these policies work and why;
• Policy recommendations, from both case studies and quantitative analysis, on the impacts of
these employment strategies;
• Timely and professional dissemination to key stakeholders facilitated by the partner EurActiv.
Coordinator:
University of Brighton, UK
Jacqueline O‘Reilly
http://www.brighton.ac.uk/
Funding Scheme:
Large scale integrating project
Research Area:
the economy
Topic:
Overcoming Youth Unemployment in Europe
Duration:
42 months
Start date:
01.03.2014
Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit, Bonn
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/index_html
EC Contribution:
4.999.056 €
Weitere Partner:
- The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford, UK
- Universität Graz, AT
- National University of Ireland, Galway, IE
- Universita degli Studi di Trento, IT
- Universita degli Studi di Torino, IT
- Universita degli Studi di Salerno, IT
- Institut pre dobre Spravovanu Spolocnost, SI
- Tarki Tarsadalomkutatasi Intezet ZRT, HU
- Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny W Krakowie, PL
- Universidad de Oviedo, ES
- Stichting Katholieke Universiteit Braband Universiteit van Tilburg, NL
- Norsk Institutt for Forskning om oppvekst, Velferd Og Aldring, NO
- Economic and Sociael Research Institute, IE
- Tartu Ulikool, EE
- Metropolitni Univerzita Praha, OPS, CZ
- Fondation Euractiv Politech, BE
- Democritus University of Thrace, EL
- Insititute for Employment Studies, UK
- Chambre de Commerce et D‘Industrie de Grenoble, FR
Proposal Number:
613256
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: März 2014
TEPSIE
The theoretical, empirical and policy foundations for building social innovation in Europe
The European Commission‘s Innovation Union strategy clearly places innovation at the centre
of the policy agenda for meeting social challenges affecting Europe and its Member States.
The field of social innovation is developing rapidly all over the world, with new institutions,
methods and activities. However, at present the ability for Europe to coordinate and galvanise
its undoubted potential across Member States is limited by the lack of the systematic and
sophisticated infrastructures of support available to other fields. These include the absence of:
Coordinator:
- reliable metrics for assessing the effectiveness and impact of innovations, and of policies and
Teknologisk Institut
programmes to promote social innovation;
DK
- effective capital market instruments and financial supports;
Jeremy Millard
- suitable regulatory and policy frameworks for ensuring scale and impact
http://www.teknologisk.dk/
- a codified and widely understood set of methods;
- networks and other vehicles to spread methods, learning and skills;
- co-ordinated leadership; and
Funding Scheme:
- enabling cultures.
This consortium of leading European research institutions and global experts in social
innovation has designed a programme of work to build the theoretical, empirical and policy
foundations for building social innovation in Europe. The objective of this research programme is to prepare the way for developing the tools, methods and policies which will be part of
the EU strategy for social innovation. Its purpose is to strengthen the foundations for other
researchers, policy-makers and practitioners so that they can analyse and plan with greater
confidence. As such the research programme will map the field, reviewing theories, models,
methods and identifying gaps in existing practices and policies, as well as pointing towards
the priorities for future strategies.
Research Area:
Topic:
New Innovation Processes including Social
Innovation
Duration:
Dr. Georg Mildenberger
Start date:
36 months
01.01.2012
EC Contribution:
Weitere Partner:
- Universidade Catolica Portugues, PT
- The Young Foundation, UK
- Wroclawskie Centrum Badan EIT + SP Z O.O, PL
- Atlantis Counsulting SA, GR
2.497.125 €
Project Website:
en.html
Proposal Number:
290771
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: April 2012
VICO
Financing entrepreneurial ventures in Europe : impact on innovation, employment growth and competitiveness
The aim of the VICO project is to assess the impact of Venture Capital and Private Equity
(VC/PE) financing on the economic performance of European innovative entrepreneurial
ventures as they are reflected by their innovation output, employment, growth, and
competitiveness, and the role VC/PE investors play in helping these firms bridge their
resource and competence gap beyond the provision of financing.
Particular attention will be devoted to the institutional variety of VC/PE investors in
Europe.
We will consider factors affecting both the demand for and the supply of VC/PE financing, at micro and macro-level. In particular, we will analyze how the effects of VC/PE
financing on the economic performance of portfolio companies are moderated by: a)
the characteristics of the investor; b) the characteristics of invested firms, and c) the
characteristics of the business and institutional environment in which firms operate.
In addition, we will examine specific open issues that play a crucial role for the development of the VC/PE sector in Europe, namely: a) the design of a mix of multi-level
policy schemes targeting seed and pre-seed capital; b) exit mechanisms for VC/PE
investors; and c) the European integration of the VC/PE sector and the internationalization of VC/PE investors.
The project will benefit from a unique combination of qualitative (survey analyses and
case studies) and quantitative empirical methodologies.
As to these latter, the project will build and use a micro and macro cross-country panel
type dataset with a rather long longitudinal dimension and wide coverage of EU countries so as to overcome some of the key weaknesses of the extant empirical literature.
Consistency between the analysis of the different aspects covered by the project will be
assured by a centralized data gathering process. In particular, the project will lead to the
creation of a unified, longitudinal, cross-country and cross-sector database on European
high-tech start-ups, both VC-backed and non-VC-backed, and on VC investors. The project will greatly benefit from its truly European dimension: the macro level analysis will
include all European countries; as to the micro level analysis, this will exhibit an unparalleled coverage of firms located in different European countries, namely Belgium, Finland,
France, Germany, Italy, Spain, The United Kingdom.
The consortium is a blend of well-known scientists from different disciplines (i.e.
finance, innovation economics, entrepreneurship, management, policy science).
Several of them have already collaborated in EU promoted research projects (such as
the VCFUN project promoted by the PRIME Network of Excellence).
Coordinator:
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris
Centre de Sociologie de l‘Innovation
Association pour la Recherche et le Développement des Méthodes et Processus Industriels, Paris
FR
Philippe Mustar
http://www.armines.net/
Funding Scheme:
Collaborative project (small and medium scale
focused research project)
Research Area:
Topic:
The role of finance in growth, employment and
competitiveness in Europe
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.04.2008
EC Contribution:
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung Gmbh (ZEW)
International Finance and Financial Management
Mannheim
Dr. Tereza Tykvova
http://www.zew.de
1 .475.357 €
Project Website:
http://www.vicoproject.org/
Weitere Partner:
- Politecnico di Milano; Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Milano, IT
- Università Carlo Cattaneo - LIUC, Faculty of Economy, Castellanza, IT
- Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitoksen Kannatusyhdistys Ry. , ETLA, Helsinki, FI
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Economia Financiera y Contabilidad III,
Madrid, ES
- University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London, UK
- Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Accounting and Finance, Gent, BE
- Universiteit Gent, Faculty Economics and Business Administration, Gent, BE
Proposal Number:
217485
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
WORKABLE
Making capabilities work
Making Capabilities Work (WorkAble) will scrutinise strategies to enhance the social
sustainability and economic competitiveness of Europe by strengthening the capabilities of young people to actively shape their personal and work lives in knowledge
societies and cope with today‘s economic, cultural, demographic and technological
challenges.
Bridging quantitative and qualitative methods, WorkAble will assess the potential of
innovative European strategies for dealing with local labour-market demands and
regional inequalities. Adopting a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, it will
systematically analyse whether and how young people are enabled to participate in
working life and society. Applying the Capabilities Approach as a common heuristic
framework, 12 partners from different disciplines (educational science, sociology,
economics, philosophy, political studies and social work) in 10 European countries will
collaborate closely in a multidimensional research process.
WorkAble will survey whether and how the match between young people‘s supply of
skills and competencies and changing labour-market needs is sustained and secured,
while simultaneously broadening their options for living in and actively shaping European knowledge societies. It will explore how educational strategies are implemented
and assess whether they enable young people to convert knowledge, skills and competencies into capabilities to function as fully participating active citizens. This calls
for a three-phase research design:
- a comparative institutional mapping and analysis of vocational and labour-market
policies in all educational regimes
- case studies to reconstruct the conceptions, aspirations and practices of local actors
implementing educational and training programmes
- quantitative secondary analyses of national and European longitudinal data revealing how effectively these strategies enhance economic performance and close
the capability gap
Coordinator:
Universität Bielefeld
Bielefeld Center for Education and Capability
Research
Prof. Dr. Hans-Uwe Otto
http://www.bca-research.net/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
the economy
Topic:
Education in a European knowledge society
Duration:
36 months
Weitere Partner:
Start date:
- Adam Mickiewicz University, Center for Public Policy Studies, Poznan, PL
- University of Warsaw, Institut of Sociology, Warsaw, PL
- University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Sociology, IT
- University of Pavia, Department of Public Economics, IT
- Centre for Research on Qualifications, Marseille/Bordeaux, FR
- Aarhus University, Department of Education, Copenhagen, DK
- Forba, Working Life Research Centre, Vienna, AT
- University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Ecole d‘etudes sociales et pedagogigues, Lausanne, CH
- Edinburgh Napier University, Employment Research Institute, UK
- Umea University, Department of Sociology, SE
- BBJ Consult AG, Brussels, BE
- University of Gothenburg, Department of Sociology, SE
02.11.2009
EC Contribution:
2.260.000 €
Project Website:
http://www.workable-eu.org/
Proposal Number:
244909
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
WWWFOREUROPE
Welfare, Wealth and Work for Europe
The objective of this 4-year project is to provide the analytical basis for a socio-ecological
transition in Europe: the change to a new growth path with smart, sustainable and inclusive
growth as is envisaged in the EU 2020 strategy. In order to support the transition, we analyse
the need, the feasibility and best practice for change, specifying the institutional changes
needed at all policy levels to implement these options. The old and new challenges Europe is
facing define the starting point: globalisation, new technologies and postindustrialisation, demographic change and ecology in the context of welfare systems that have come under stress
due to high public deficits. The vision is that Europe will become a role model for a „high road
growth path“ which actively incorporates social and ecological goals, employment, gender
and cultural aspects in an ambitious, forward looking way while continuing to be competitive
in a globalised world.
To achieve these objectives, the consortium will carry out and synthesise robust research in
research areas covering the challenges to the welfare system, the biophysical dimension of
socio-economic development, the identification of drivers towards socio-ecological transition, the role of governance and institutions on the European as well as the regional level. The
consortium will benefit from ongoing dialogue with international experts in the form of expert
panels and sounding boards, taking into account their views on the direction and feasibility for
this new growth path.
The project will be carried out by a consortium of 33 partners from universities and research
institutes with international and interdisciplinary expertise. It represents 12 member states.
High level Scientific and Policy Boards will monitor the analysis and the policy conclusions to
guarantee the impact and dissemination of the results.
- Ecologic Institut Gemeinnützige GmbH, Anneke von Raggamby, http://ecologic.eu/
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Prof. Alexander Nutzenadel, http://www.hu-berlin.de/
-Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Christiane Krieger-Boden, http://www.ifw-kiel.de/
-Gesellschaft für Finanz- und Regionalanalysen, Prof. Gerhard Untied
http://www.gefra-muenster.de/index.php
-Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Prof. Alexander Ebner,
http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/
-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH; Dr. Georg Licht, http://www.zew.de/
-Local Environmental Intiatives (Freiburg), Stefan Kuhn, http://www.iclei-europe.org/
-Fachhochschule Jena, Prof. Thomas Sauer, http://www.fh-jena.de
Coordinator:
Oesterreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
AT- Friedrichshafen
Karl Aiginger
http://www.wifo.at/wwa/jsp/index.jsp
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Europe moving towards a new path of economic
growth and social development
Duration:
Start date:
Weitere Partner:
- Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, ES
- Ekonomicky Ustav Slovenskej Akademie, SI
- Universiteit Hasselt, BE
- Budapest Szakpolitikai Elemzo Intezet Korlatolt Felelossegu Tarsasag, HU
- Coventry University, UK
- University of Surrey, UK
- Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, HU
- Österreichisches Institut für Raumplanung, AT
- Universita Politecnica delle Marche, IT
- The University of Birmingham, UK
- Universität Klagenfurt, AT
- Mendelova Univerzita V Brne, CZ
- Katholoeke Universiteit Leuven, BE
- Universite de Nice - Sophia Antipolis, FR
- Ivory Tower Aktiebolag, SE
- Libera Universita di Bolzano, IT
- Pannon Egyetem, HU
- Policy Network and Communication LTD, UK
- RATIO, SE
- University of Dundee, UK
- Ekonomicka Univerzita V Bratislave, SI
EC Contribution:
7.999.858 €
Project Website:
en.html
Proposal Number:
290647
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: April 2012
Activity 2:
Combining economic, social and environmental objectives
in a European perspective
CAP-IRE
Assessing the multiple impacts of the Common Agricultural Policies (CAP) on rural economies
European rural areas are undergoing major changes, including the impacts of migration,
changes in settlement patterns, demographic ageing, changes in the nature of ruralurban interactions, a decreasing role of agriculture in terms of income and employment,
and changes in governance systems.
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the main expenditure chapter of the EU and is
directly affecting the economy of rural areas. Assessing the impact of the CAP will help in
re-addressing the CAP in the wider framework of EU policy objectives.
The objective of the project CAP-IRE is to develop concepts and tools to support future
CAP design, based on an improved understanding of long term socio-economic mechanisms of change in rural areas.
The focus will be farm households as the reference agents in the connection between
policy and socio-economic change, as well as between agriculture and other sectors of
the economy.
Concepts and tools will be developed, shaped by state of art literature and a wide empirical testing. Coverage includes case study regions in 9 countries of the EU.
Account of the wider non-EU and non-rural scenarios will be taken. The first step of the
project will be to devise concepts and tools able to fill the gaps in present knowledge on
development in rural areas. In the second step, these concepts and tools will be applied
in an empirical analysis of mechanisms of change in selected case study areas. In a third
step, tools will be used to assess the impact of CAP in the selected areas.
Expected results concern:
- an improved conceptual view of CAP relationships in the context of changing rural
areas and a framework to assess reciprocal impacts between CAP and other drivers of
change in a long term perspective;
- models and tools to assess changes in rural areas, with particular attention to the connection between CAP and other drivers;
- an assessment of present dynamics of change, including impacts of CAP in the selected
case study areas.
Coordinator:
Universitá di Bologna
Dipartimento di Economia e Ingegneria Agrarie
IT
Davide VIAGGI
http://www.unibo.it/
Funding Scheme:
(Small- and medium scale focused research project)
Research Area:
Activity 2 - Path towards sustainable development
Area: Regional, territorial and social cohesion
Topic:
The impact of Common Agricultural Policies (CAP)
reforms on Europe‘s rural economies
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.01.2008
Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
Institute of Socio-Economics
Müncheberg
Rosemarie Siebert
http://www.zalf.de/home_zalf/gb_index.html
EC Contribution:
1.499.720
Project Website:
http://www.cap-ire.eu/default.aspx
Weitere Partner:
- Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), European Commission - Joint
Research Center, Sevilla, ES
- Wageningen Universiteit, Dept of Social Sciences, Agricultural Economics and Rural, NL
- Landbouw-Economisch Instituut (LEI), Department of Public Issues, Den Haag, NL
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Agricultural Economics. EL
- Szkola Glowna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego, Department of Farm Management,
Warsaw, PL
- The University Court of the University of Aberdeen, Business School, Aberdeen, UK
- Universidad de Cordoba, Departament of Agricultural Economics - Agricultural Engineering School, Cordoba, ES
- Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural Development, Sofia, BG
- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Economics and Sociology Unit of
Rennes, FR
Proposal Number:
216672
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
CHANCE2SUSTAIN
City growth and the sustainability challenge: Comparing fast growing cities in growing economies
In this programme we want to examine how governments and citizens in cities with
differing patterns of urban economic growth make use of participatory(or integrated) spatial knowledge management to direct urban governance towards more
sustainable development (SD). Participatory spatial knowledge management is the
main concept we use to study this issue, as it reflects a strategic resource, which all
stakeholders can contribute to urban governance processes towards SD. It includes
both expert knowledge and several forms of non-expert knowledge, such as knowledge from (working) experience (tacit), embedded sectoral knowledge, and social (or
community-based) knowledge at the neighborhood and city-wide level.
Participatory processes of urban planning and management are strategic in eliciting
these forms of spatially disaggregated (of specific) knowledge, which are usually not
acknowledged in top-down, expert-driven models of urban governance and planning.
Utilizing participatory spatial knowledge can make urban governance and planning
more effective and gain wider acceptance, by incorporating both expert and local
community knowledge. Although participatory spatial knowledge management is increasingly used in urban planning processes, its success depends on external political
and economic conditions.
A legal framework providing for fiscal decentralization and funding, for instance, is
a strategic support. The influence of various external conditions has not yet been
analyzed much locally, and certainly not comparatively across different socio-political
contexts, although it is a strategic question, given the inherent trade-offs and potential political conflicts in combining environmental, social and economic goals (within
SD). Therefore, our programme focuses on nine cities with contrasting economic and
political conditions, with the main scientific objective of developing a model on participatory spatial knowledge management to direct urban governance to SD.
Coordinator:
European Association of Development research
and training Institutes - EADI
Bonn
Can Akdeniz
http://www.eadi.org
Funding Scheme:
Collaborative project for specific cooperation
actions dedicated to international cooperation
partner countries (SICA)
Research Area:
Activity 2: Path towards sustainable development
Area: Socio-economic development trajectories
Topic:
Cities and sustainable development
Duration:
Weitere Partner:
48 months
- Governance for Inclusive Development (GID) at the Amsterdam Institute for Social
Science Research (AISSR-UvA), Amsterdam, NL
- French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), FR
- School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), IN
- Cities for Life Forum (FORO), PE
- Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP), BR
- Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR), NO
- University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), ZA
Start date:
01.04. 2010
EC Contribution:
2.600.000 €
Project Website:
http://www.chance2sustain.eu/
Proposal Number:
244828
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
CITISPYCE
Combating inequalities through innovative social practices of, and for, young people in cities across Europe
This project builds on research that shows the disproportionate impact of the economic
crisis on young people across Europe, including excessively high rates of youth unemployment and threats to the social provision enjoyed by previous generations. This is
compounded by the ‚coming of age‘ of the descendants of recent migrant communities who now form significant proportions of the young population in major European cities.
They are Europeans in language, social habit and cultural repertoire, yet continue to face
longstanding barriers as a result of membership of communities already marginalised
from mainstream labour markets and wider civic life.
The project brings together stakeholders from civil society experienced in practical
policy-making and implementation with well-established academic researchers to:
i) Map the changing demographic landscape of inequalities as seen in major cities in
the EU today and the specific challenges facing young people disadvantaged by ethnic
origin, cultural background, neighbourhood, family and educational and economic
situation;
ii) Review approaches of different levels of government to engaging with disadvantaged
youth and addressing inequality concerning young people, including state approaches
and 3rd sector actions for promoting economic activity and entry into the labour market
and ensuring effective distribution of services and community-led initiatives to enhance
economic chances and participation in civic life;
iii) Uncover innovative strategies for navigating, surviving and overcoming inequalities
that have emerged, and are emerging, among young people (16-24) in deprived parts of
large cities through ethnographical research with young people themselves;
iv) Examine the extent to which these strategies might be regarded as socially innovative, explore through a series of pilot projects how such strategies might be transferable
across Europe and use the findings for reshaping policies at EU, national and local levels.
Coordinator:
Aston University
UK
Jill Robinson
http://www.aston.ac.uk
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Challenge: Social innovation against inequalities
Duration:
24 months
Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Simon Güntner
http://www.haw-hamburg.de/
Start date:
01.01.2013
Weitere Partner:
EC Contribution:
2.496.684 €
- Universitat de Barcelona, ES
- Masarykova Univerzita, CZ
- Malmo Stad, SE
- International Center for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations, BG
- Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny W Krakowie, PL
- Birmingham City Council, UK
- Universita Ca‘Foscari Venezia, IT
- Kentro Merimnas Oikogeneias Kai Paidiou, EL
- Malmoe University, SW
- Urzad Miasta Krakowa, PL
- Stichting+Confindence, NL
Proposal Number:
320359
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2013
CONSENSUS
Confronting social and environmental sustainability with economic pressure:
balancing trade-offs by policy dismantling or expansion?
CONSENSUS aims to improve our understanding of trade-offs and synergies between
economic, environmental and social aspects of sustainable development.
In so doing, the project applies a selective focus in order to shed light on several issues
that are of particular relevance in this respect – both in practical and analytical terms.
First, the project places particular emphasis on a systematic analysis of the interlinkage between different levels of economic pressure and social and environmental
policy.
Second, in line with the political emphasis on better regulation and deregulation,
the project applies a highly innovative perspective on policy change and sustainable
development, taking into consideration making new legislation whereby there is an
absolute necessity.
Third, this interlinkage between economic pressure on the one side, and environmental and social sustainability on the other, is analyzed on the basis of a systematic
comparison across 25 OECD countries over a period of thirty years (1975-2005).
Fourth, this focus offers the opportunity for a comparison of regulatory adjustments
across different policy areas.
The focus on two „crucial“ policy fields – social and environmental policy – allows us
to study whether regulatory responses to economic pressures differ between these
areas.
Fifth, with regard to environmental and social policy, we focus on those subfields that
have been identified as priority areas of sustainable development.
The project proceeds in the following steps. In the first step, the theoretical framework will be further elaborated. In the second step, a quantitative analysis of the major
driving forces of policy dismantling (deregulation) will be carried out.
For this purpose, cross-national data on social and environmental policy dismantling
(deregulation) for the period from 1975 to 2005 will be collected. In the third part of
the study, theoretically interesting cases will be selected and subject to an in-depth
qualitative analysis.
The final part refers to the publication of the research report and the dissemination of
the results.
Coordinator:
University of Konstanz
Politics and Management
Konstanz
Prof. Dr. Christoph Knill
http://www.uni-konstanz.de/FuF/Verwiss/knill/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
The extent to which trade-offs or synergies exist
between the different aspects of sustainable
development
Duration:
36 months
Freie Universität Berlin
Dpt of Political and Social Sciences, Environmental Policy Research Centre
Berlin
Dr. Helge Jörgens
http://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/polwiss/
Start date:
01.03.2008
EC Contribution:
1.483.560 €
Weitere Partner:
Project Website:
- University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences, Norwich, UK
- Aarhus Universitet, Department of Political Science, Aarhus, DK
- Institut Barcelona d‘Estudis Internacionals, Barcelona, ES
- European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, San
Domenico di Fiesole, IT
http://www.fp7-consensus.eu/
Proposal Number:
217239
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
COPE
Combating Poverty in Europe: Re-organising Active Inclusion through Participatory and Integrated Modes of Multilevel Governance
To combat poverty, European strategies propose implementing active inclusion policies.
However, these policies face serious conceptual questions and governance challenges.
Practical implementation is problematic in that social exclusion is a multidimensional
problem that goes far beyond financial poverty, necessitating the participatory co-production of individual opportunities.
In addition, the complex social needs of the most excluded groups require the integration of different policy fields and the involvement of beneficiaries, civil society and
public agencies in the co-production of welfare. This project focuses on the political and
organisational challenges of this complex governance model which has evolved from
European, national and local policies.
Investigating the co-production of active inclusion in a multilevel, multidimensional and
multi-stakeholder perspective addresses key questions: How can the combat against
poverty be organised in practice? How do European, national and local institutions shape
the co-production of active inclusion? How do beneficiaries participate in these policies
and how does this shape their life courses? Project COPE integrates multiple disciplines
and experienced social policy researchers.
A common theoretical and methodological approach guides the research in each work
package.
First, we will contextualise poverty as a multidimensional challenge.
Secondly, COPE will study how minimum income schemes for three different groups
(lone mothers, long-term unemployed, working poor) are organised in five EU countries
(Italy, Germany, Poland, Sweden and the UK) and how they cope with multilevel and
multi-stakeholder modes of co-producing active inclusion policies. As these countries
cover different welfare regimes, the results will have direct EU-wide relevance.
To conclude, we will analyse the impact of these approaches on the individually perceived situation of the poor and the life courses of the most vulnerable social groups.
Coordinator:
Carl von Ossietzky Universität
Oldenburg
DE
Martin Heidenreich
http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/home/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Area: Socio-economic developement trajectories
Topic:
Combating poverty in Europe: a key question of
human dignity and social cohesion
Duration:
36 months
Weitere Partner:
Start date:
- Norsk Institutt for Forskning om Oppvekst, Velferg og Aldring, NO
- Universita degli Studi di Milano, IT
- The University of Edinburgh, UK
- Uniwersytet Warszawski, PL
01.02.2012
EC Contribution:
1.993.865 €
Project Website:
http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/rcn/102182_en.html
Proposal Number:
290488
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: April 2012
DERREG
Developing Europe‘s rural regions in the era of globalization
Globalization is one of the key challenges facing rural regions in Europe, bringing
significant social, economic, cultural and political changes. Current studies on the
impact of globalization on rural regions tend to focus on specific sectors or processes
or localities. The absence of an overarching integrative analysis has resulted in the
inability of regional development strategies to cope with these challenges.
The objective of the DERREG project is to produce an interpretative model that will
enable regional development actors to better anticipate and respond to the key challenges for disadvantaged regions arising from globalization. In doing so, it will expand
scientific knowledge and understandings, inform policy development, and identify
examples of best practice.
The project is innovative in adopting an integrative approach that synthesises
research across four key themes and ten case study regions in different types of rural
regions to produce an overarching analysis of the impact of globalization on rural
Europe.
The research will involve both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis. It will develop new methods in areas such as business network analysis.
A further innovation is the linking of the scientific analysis with practical application
through the development of an interpretative model.
The consortium comprises 9 partners with expertise in rural and regional research. The
consortium has been assembled to provide an appropriate combination of expertise
in the areas examined in the project, including rural businesses, migration, sustainable
development, capacity-building and gender.
The proposed research will enable policy-makers and other stakeholders involved in
regional development to better anticipate and respond to the challenges of globalization. It will support initiatives to increase the capacity of rural businesses to engage
with new opportunities and to enhance social cohesion.
Coordinator:
Aberystwyth University
Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences,
Aberystwyth, UK
Prof. Dr. Mike Woods
http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/iges/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Regional development challenges in an
evolving international context
Duration:
Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde
Abteilung „Regionale Geographie Europas“
Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Joachim Burdack
http://www.ifl-leipzig.de
36 months
Start date:
01.01.2009
Universität des Saarlandes
Fachrichtung Geographie,
AG Europäische Regionalstudien
Prof. Dr. Birte Nienaber
http://www.ers.uni-saarland.de
EC Contribution:
1 .499.000 €
Project Website:
http://www.derreg.eu
Proposal Number:
Weitere Partner:
- Institute NeVork, Ljubljana, SI
- Mendel University, Institute of Applied and Landscape Ecology, Brno, CZ
- Nordregio, Nordic Centre for Spatial Development, Stockholm, SE
- National University of Ireland Galway, Department of Geography, Galway, IE
- University Ljubljana, Department of Geography , Ljubljana, SI
- Wageningen University, Department of Social Sciences, Rural Sociology Group,
Wageningen, NL
225204
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
DIVERCITIES
Governing Urban Diversity: Creating Social Cohesion, Social Mobility and Economic Performance in Today‘s Hyper-diversified Cities
The central hypothesis of this project is that socio-economic, socio-demographic,
ethnic and cultural diversity can positively affect social cohesion, economic performance and social mobility of individuals and groups. A better social cohesion,
higher economic performance and increased chances for social mobility will make
European cities more liveable and more competitive.
In this period of long-term economic downturn (or sometimes even crisis) and increaCoordinator:
sing competition from countries elsewhere in the world (e.g. China, India),
Universiteit Utrecht
it is important to find out how and under which circumstances European‘s urban
NL
diversity can be turned into social and economic advantages. Many current urban poliRonald van Kempen
cies lack a positive view on urban diversity, because they generally focus on the
http://www.uu.nl/
negative aspects of diversity, such as intolerance, racism, discrimination and insecurity.
New policies, instruments and governance arrangements are needed, and sometimes
they already exist. We have to find out how they have become successful and how
Funding Scheme:
they can be implemented elsewhere. When we acknowledge the hyper-diversity of
our urban societies, we also have to acknowledge that these societies cannot flourish
from standard or general approaches aiming at, for example, economic growth or
better housing or more liveable neighbourhoods.
Research Area:
Increasingly, more diverse, more tailored arrangements are needed, arrangements
that have an eye for hyper-diverse cities and communities. As a result of the project,
new and innovative policy instruments and governance arrangements will be suggested that (a) recognise urban diversity as a positive aspect; (b) increase interaction
Topic:
and communication between the diversity of groups in urban society; and (c) increase
Challenge:
Governance
of cohesion and diversity in
participation to satisfy the needs of the communities. The project thus aims at finding
urban contexts
out how urban diversity influences three core issues: social cohesion, economic performance and social mobility and how governance arrangements help to strengthen
this.
Duration:
48 months
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH - UFZ
Annegret Haase
http://www.ufz.de/
Start date:
01.03.2013
Weitere Partner:
- Universiteit Antwerpen, BE
- Aalborg Universitet, DK
- Szededi Tudomanyegyetem, HU
- University College London, UK
- Universite Paris XII Val de Marne, FR
- Ethniko Kentro Koinonikon Erevnon, EL
- Synergo Mobilitat-Politik-Raum-GmbH, CH
- Universita degli Studi di Urbino Carlo BO, IT
- Instytut Geografii I Przestrennego Zagospodarowania im Stanislawa Leszczyckiego
Polskiej Akademii Nauk, PL
- Tartu Ulikool, EE
EC Contribution:
6.498.828 €
Proposal Number:
319970
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: April 2013
EFESEIIS
Enabling the flourishing and evolution of social entrepreneurship for innovative and inclusive societies
The project has four main objectives: To provide advices to stakeholders on how to foster
Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation; to draft an Evolutionary Theory of Social
Entrepreneurship to explain the different evolutionary paths of Social Entrepreneurship
in Europe and how Social Entrepreneurship and institutions co-evolved during time; to
identify the features of an enabling eco-system for Social Entrepreneurship; to identify
the New Generation of Social Entrepreneurs, its features, needs and constraints as well as
their contribution to Social Innovation.
In pursuing these four main objectives other objectives will be reached: increasing the
understating of their functioning of Social Enterprises, increase the visibility of the local,
domestic and international role of Social Entrepreneurship, understand which are the
main problems in accessing resources for Social Entrepreneurs, understand the degree
of inappropriateness of the legal environments in relation with the daily operation of the
Social Enterprise...
Coordinator:
PIN SOC.CONS. A R.L. - SERVIZI DIDATTICI E SCIENTIFICI PER L UNIVERSITA DI FIRENZE, IT
Enrico Testi
http://www.poloprato.unifi.it/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster
http://www.uni-muenster.de/de/
Weitere Partner:
- Syddansk Universitet, DK
- Fondacija Za Razvoj Ekonomske Nauke, SR
- The Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
- Nxitja e Biznesit Social Sha, AL
- The University of Northampton, UK
- Uniwerstet Warszawaski, PL
- HUB GmbH, AT
- Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoek, NL
Topic:
Social entrepreneurship for innovative and
inclusive societies
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.12.2013
EC Contribution:
2.470.700 €
Proposal Number:
613179
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: April 2014
EU-INNOVATE
Sustainable Lifestyles 2.0: End User Integration, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Typically, end users or “consumers” are perceived as adopters of sustainable products and
services, developed by companies. Thus, a lot of attention is paid to the (non-) diffusion
of sustainable products and services. From this perspective end users are seen as – more
or less – passive recipients of sustainable products and services.
We propose to investigate the active roles of end users in shaping sustainable lifestyles
and the transition to a green economy in Europe. More specifically, we suggest exploring,
explaining and enhancing the role of end users in (co-) innovating novel sustainable
products, services, and systems (“Sustainable Lifestyles 2.0”). Generally, there are two
options: First, end users are integrated in the process of sustainability innovations driven
by companies (“user integration”). Second, end users innovative for themselves, and
eventually form enterprises to capture value from their sustainability innovations (“user
innovation and entrepreneurship”). We argue that end user integration, innovation and
entrepreneurship offer great potentials for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth in
the upcoming years, which is largely untapped and unexplored. While acknowledging
the value of company-driven sustainability innovations, we want to investigate pathways
towards a sustainable society, which is more user-centred and user-driven.
We aim to gain a better and broadened understanding of the active roles of end users in
sustainability innovation processes with a special emphasis on the four domains food,
living, mobility, and energy. These domains are responsible for the highest life cycle
environmental impacts related to the final consumption, and – put together – shape
sustainable lifestyles in Europe.
Coordinator:
Technische Universität München
Frank Belz
http://www.tu-muenchen.de/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Obstacles and prospects for sustainable lifestyles and
green economy in Europe
Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
http://www.ku-eichstaett.de/
Duration:
36 months
Weitere Partner:
- Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, NL
- Universiteit van Amsterdam, NL
- Universidad de Navarra, ES
- Cranfield University, UK
- Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, IT
- The Forum for the Future LBG, UK
- Aalto-Korreakoulusaatio, FI
- Akdamie Leona Kozminskiego, PL
- EABIS - The Academy of Business in Society, BE
Start date:
01.01.2014
EC Contribution:
4.770.306 €
Project Website:
http://euinnovate.com/en/ourprojects
Proposal Number:
613194
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: April 2014
FLOWS
Impact of local welfare systems on female labour force participation and social cohesion
The aim of this project is to analyse how local welfare provision affects the labour market
participation of women, and how female employment in turn affects the life-course (of
women and men), structures of inequality, social cohesion and hence the sustainability
of the European social model. Two types of welfare provision have been singled out to
be of major importance for female employment: care (both for children and elderly care)
and human capital investments (vocational training and life-long learning). The coverage
and quality of services, the welfare mix (public, private and in between), partnerships,
and governance structures most favourable for the employment of women and social
cohesion will be identified based on a comparison of eleven cities in eleven European
countries. The project will analyse the political autonomy of local political actors vis-a-vis
national and EU policy making, including culture as an important explanatory variable.
Culture is included in two dimensions: First, women‘s disposition to participate on the
labour market is seen as culturally embedded, while cultural ideals and values play an
important role in how policies are perceived and rendered practically useful by women
(thus definitions of ‚the good mother‘ vary socially and geographically, whereby some
mothers, for instance, would prefer not to use day-care facilities but instead take care
of their children themselves). Second, local cultural values and belief systems condition
creativity among political actors and stakeholders, and thus impact on local policies,
which may divert from national or international intentions.
The project will thus provide a basis for understanding how culture may constrain the
transferability of best practices from one country/locality to another.
Coordinator:
Aalborg Universitet
DK - Aalborg
Per H. Jensen
http://www.en.aau.dk/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Local welfare systems favouring social cohesion
Duration:
Universität Hamburg
Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
Institut für Soziologie
Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Birgit Pfau-Effinger
http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/institute/institut-fuer-soziologie/startseite/
40 months
Start date:
01.01.2011
EC Contribution:
Weitere Partner:
2.700.000
- Dansk Rode Kors (Danish Red Cross), DK
- Maison des Sciences de l‘homme Ange-Guepin, FR
- Tartu Ulikool, EE
- Jyvaskylan Yliopisto, FI
- University of Leeds, UK
- The Provost Fellows & Scholars of the college of the holy and undivided trinity of Queen
Elizabeth near Dublin, IE
Project Website:
http://www.flows-eu.eu/
Proposal Number:
266806
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2011
FOODSECURE
Exploring the future of global food and nutrition security
One of the biggest challenges facing global society today is the widespread and growing
presence of hunger and food insecurity. Given that the lead time for some social and
technological solutions is long, a long-term framework on global food and nutrition security (FNS) is required. FoodSecure aims at improving the resilience of the food system,
by providing a means to mitigate risks and uncertainties in the world food system caused
by economic and climatic shocks while providing for sustainable economic growth. The
project provides an analytical toolbox to experiment, analyse, and coordinate the effects
of short and medium term policies, thereby allowing for the execution of consistent,
coherent, long-term strategies with desirable consequences.
The FoodSecure collaboration responds to the challenge of food shortages and volatility
by providing stakeholders, in the EU and beyond, with the capacity to assess and address
the short term and long term challenges of food and nutrition security both effectively
and sustainably. The project draws on an expert, multi-disciplinary, science team to
provide a complete set of knowledge to inform and guide decision makers and other
stakeholders in formulating strategies to alleviate food shortages.
The food system is analysed in relationship to the ecosystem, energy, and financial
markets, all of which are potential sources of shocks that can disrupt the food system. In
addition, it is examined in light of fundamental societal trends and changing attitudes
towards food consumption and production. The project emphasises the diversity of
challenges of FNS in countries and regions. The project delivers new empirical evidence
on the drivers of global FNS, and classifies regions and livelihood systems in typologies.
A harmonised data system and modelling toolbox are developed for forecasts (on short
term) and forward looking (towards 2050) on future hunger. A support for effective and
sustainable actions will include the identification of the critical pathways for technological and institutional change and for EU policies in the areas of development aid, climate
change, trade, common agricultural policy and renewable energy, including sustainability criteria.
Coordinator:
Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoekit
Wageningen
NL
Thom Achterbosch
http://www.lei.wur.nl/UK/about/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Economic, social and political conditions for
satisfying the world food needs
Duration:
60 months
Start date:
01.03.2012
Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität
Bonn
Joachim von Braun
http://www3.uni-bonn.de/
EC Contribution:
7.998.000 €
Weitere Partner:
- International Food Policy Research Institute, US
- Universita degli Studi Roma Tre, IT
- Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of
Science, CN
- Ethiopian Economics Association, ET
- Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria, BR
- Institute of Agricultural Economics, RO
- JRC -Joint Research Centre - European Commission, BE
- Internationales Institut für angewandte Systemanalyse, AT
- Centre de Cooperation International en Recherche Agronomique pour le developpement, FR
- Fondation pour l‘etude des relations internationales et du developpement, CH
- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, FR
- Slovenka Polnohospodarska Universita V Nitre, SK
- Prospex BVBA, BE
- Fondation Institut de Recherche pour le developpement durable et les relations international, FR
- Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Milieu, NL
Project Website:
Proposal Number:
290693
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: April 2012
FRIDA
Fostering regional innovation and development through anchors and networks
The FRIDA project aims to improve regional policy making within the EU, by advancing
state of the art understanding of the importance of anchor firms to regional development and cohesion. Anchor firms are known to be increasingly important to regional
development as highly entrepreneurial, multi-national firms restructure and relocate
in response to the pressures of globalisation.
However, there is currently a substantial gap in our understanding of the reasons for
their qualitatively different impacts on different regions, how and why they assist the
development of networks and capabilities in regions, and what local policies make
particular regions attractive, and influence anchor firms to contribute towards more
cohesion and even development. By addressing these questions, the FRIDA project
aims to both improve understanding and contribute towards the effectiveness of
policy making.
The outputs of the project are designed to directly help regional policy-making to
better anticipate and respond to economic restructuring by helping create regional
governance systems that ensure less developed regions level-up to the most developed regions, rather than more developed regions levelling-down in response to the
increasing freedom of movement of capital, production and knowledge.
In doing so, the project aims to improve development throughout Europe in a way
that is more sustainable, even and socially cohesive.
To do this, the FRIDA project will integrate analysis across a range of analytical levels
and across advantaged and disadvantaged areas within and between regions. The
methodology is innovative in that it moves from a ‘bottom-up’ micro-analysis of economic action and strategies at the enterprise level to sectoral, regional, national and
European levels to explore the role of anchors and networks in driving competitiveness and growth at the firm, regional and cross regional levels.
The project brings together a range of diverse international experts, with well established track records in their fields, to engage in inter-dependent, inter-disciplinary,
policy-focused research.
Coordinator:
Università di Bologna
Department of Management, Bologna
IT
Gianni Lorenzoni
http://www.unibo.it/Portale.default.html
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Regional development challenges in an evolving
international context
Duration:
24 months
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Department of International Management
Kaiserslautern
Andreas Al-Laham
http://www.uni-kl.de
Start date:
01.01.2009
EC Contribution:
1.275.000 €
Weitere Partner:
- Université Pierre Mendes, Grenoble, FR
- The Karol Adamiecki University of Economics, Faculty of Management, Chair of Business Management, Katowice, PL
- University of Sussex, Department of Science and Technology Policy Research,
Brighton, UK
- University of Catania, Dipartimento Impresa Culture e Società, Catania, IT
- National Technical University of Ukraine „Kyiv Polytechnic Institute“, Department of
Industrial Marketing, Kyiv, UA
Project Website:
http://www.fridaproject.eu/
Proposal Number:
225546
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
GILDED
Governance, infrastructure, lifestyle dynamics and energy demand: european post-carbon communities
GILDED will conduct a survey covering 500 households in Czech Republic, Germany,
Hungary, The Netherlands and UK to examine various lifestyle types related to energy
demand in urban and rural case-study areas. The results will allow to study the extent
to which individual, social and contextual factors interact in influencing energy
demand.
In Europe, about 35% of all primary energy use and 40% of all greenhouse gas emissions come from private households. While technological innovation can make
low-carbon energy sources economically and environmentally viable, their impact
in reducing carbon-intensive energy use will depend critically on broad public and
political commitment to such a reduction.
GILDED will target socio-economic, cultural and political influences on individual and
household energy consumption through five regional case studies. Each case study
focuses on a medium-sized city along with nearby rural areas. Investigating individuals’ lifestyle choices and their understanding of energy issues will provide insights into
patterns of energy-related behaviours characterising emergent lifestyle types, and
the particular drivers impacting on consumption decisions.
The social, cultural and political contexts in which these behaviours are embedded
will be addressed through analysis of the structural factors and actors (from local to EU
level), including governance networks, physical environments, and materialized and
institutionalized transport and provisioning networks.
This combined ‘top down’ and ‘bottom-up’ perspective on household consumption
will be utilised to inform the analysis of an energy-reduction initiative or experiment in
each case study region, in which stakeholder advisory groups guide the selection of an
intervention of particular local relevance.
Principles derived from the lifestyle, structural and initiative studies will be utilised to
structure agent-based models of policy implementation and change response. Resultant policy recommendations will describe the necessary changes at systemic level that
need to be initiated in order to develop an environmentally-friendly European model of
energy policies that respond to the expectations and needs of European cities and rural
communities.
Coordinator:
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute
Integrated Land Use Systems, Aberdeen
UK
Nick Gotts
http://www.macaulay.ac.uk
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Activity 2: Paths towards sustainable development
Topic:
Socio-economic factors and actors that shape the
„post-carbon society“
Duration:
42 months
Start date:
Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung
Transdisciplinary Methods and Concepts
Potsdam
Dr. Fritz Reusswig
http://www.pik-potsdam.de
01.12.2008
EC Contribution:
1.430.434 €
Project Website:
Weitere Partner:
- Institute for Political Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, EU Integration and
globalization, Budapest, HU
- Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, Experimental
and Work Psychology, Groningen, NL
- Institute of Systems Biology and Ecology, Department of Socio-ecology, Ceske Budejovice, CZ
http://www.gildedeu.org/en
Proposal Number:
225383
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
GLAMURS
Green Lifestyles, Alternative Models and Upscaling Regional Sustainability
The overall aim of GLAMURS (Green Lifestyles, Alternative Models and Upscaling
Regional Sustainability) is to develop a theoretically-based and empirically-grounded
understanding of the main obstacles and prospects for transitions to sustainable lifestyles and a green economy in Europe, as well as of the most effective means to support
and speed them up. The call states explicitly that for transitions to be possible there is
a need to address the demand side, reevaluate growth models and find appropriate
ways to produce lifestyle changes and economic paradigm shifts. The result will be the
development, testing and assessing of several integrated pathways for transitions to a
low-carbon Europe.
GLAMURS will develop theory, models and evidence on obstacles and prospects for the
transformation to green economies and lifestyles in Europe. It will do this through multiscale, multi-region integrated research involving psychologists, economists and policy
experts studying individual and societal levels, combined with environmental impact
modeling of the effects of scenarios and policy interventions on lifestyle and economic
transitions. The research will engage policymakers and stakeholders at the European and
regional scales, studying citizens‘ everyday lives in the present, and emerging initiatives:
‚early adopters‘ of more sustainable lifestyle practices and behaviours. It will provide
recommendations on the best governance designs and policy mixes for achieving a
sufficiently-fast paced transition in Europe in line with the objectives established in the
Europe 2020 strategy and the Resource Efficiency Flagship Initiative.
It will also evaluate the context the project creates to understand how citizens, researchers, stakeholder organizations and policymakers come to know what it is they need to
do to bring about individually, socially, environmentally and economically sustainable
living, disseminating our work through diverse media
Coordinator:
Universidade da Coruna, ES
Ricardo Garcia Mira
http://www.udc.es/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Obstacles and prospects for sustainable lifestyles and
green economy in Europe
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
http://www.ovgu.de/
01.01.2014
EC Contribution:
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ
http://www.ufz.de/
4.995.836 €
Project Website:
Weitere Partner:
http://www.glamurs.eu/
- Universitatea de Vest Din Timisoara, RO
- Universita degli Studi Roma Tre, IT
- The James Hutton Institute, UK
- Stichting Katholieke Universiteit Brabant, Universiteit van Tilburg, NL
- Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet NTNU, NO
- SERI - Nachhaltigkeitsforschung und -Kommunikations GMBH, AT
Proposal Number:
613420
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: April 2014
GLOBAL-IQ
Impacts Quantification of Global Changes
World societies experience today large transformation processes both in the social,
economic and environmental dimensions. These transformations are usually described
under the heading of global change, to emphasize the increasing interactions between
them.
The objective of the proposal is three-fold: (1) to provide significant advances in the
estimation of socio-economic impacts of global challenges at Global, European and
regional scale; (2) to identify optimal adaptation strategies; (3) to evaluate total costs and
the optimal mix of adaptation and mitigation against global changes. Work Package (WP)
1 will examine the sources, interactions and characteristics of global changes, including
the emergence of fast-growing economies, environmental degradation, competition on
the use of exhaustible resources, international competitiveness issues.
A primary objective of the proposal is to estimate socio-economic impacts arising from
global changes by using economic models.
The consortium is endowed with a large set of state-of-the-art, internationally renowned,
modelling tools. Models will be further expanded and enriched in WP 3. Key areas of
research will be: agriculture, forestry, land use, energy, EU competitiveness, labour, international trade. The socio-economic impact of these challenges on key sectors/areas will
be examined with the enhanced set of models in WP 4 and WP 5. While in WP 4 impacts
of global challenges will be studied assuming limited adaptive capacity, in WP 5 optimal
adaptation strategies will be examined. WP 5 will also inform on total costs of global
challenges and on the optimal mix of mitigation and adaptation.
In WP 2 will develop empirical and theoretical insights on key issues which will have a
value per se and will also be used to enhance models in WP 3. WP 6 will complement the
analysis of WP 4 and WP 5 developing theoretical innovations concerning discounting,
risk and ambiguity and by testing them numerically with models.
Coordinator:
Fondation Jean-Jaques Laffont,
Toulouse Sciences Economiques
FR - Toulouse
Jean-Pierre Amigues
http://www.fondation-laffont.fr/en/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Analysis of the impacts of global changes
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.08.2011
Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung
Potsdam
http://www.pik-potsdam.de/
EC Contribution:
2.700.000
Weitere Partner:
- Fondation pour l‘etude des relations internationales et du developpement, CH
- Centre for Economic Policy Research Ltd.,UK
- Wiener Institut für internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche, AT
- Istituto die Studi per l‘integrazione dei Sistemi (ISIS), IT
- Univerzita Karlova V Praze, CZ
- Internationales Institut für angewandte Systemanalyse, AT
- Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, IT
- Göteborgs Universiteit, SE
Proposal Number:
266992
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2011
GLOBAL VALUE
Assessing the Impacts of Multinational Corporations on GLOBAL Development and VALUE Creation
The GLOBAL VALUE project develops an innovative framework for assessing impacts of
Multinational Corporations (MNCs) on issues related to the Millennium Declaration, sustainable development, human rights, transparency, and anti-corruption. To ensure utility,
we will monitor the policy debate on global and sustainable development and deliver a
regularly updated a catalogue of goals and indicators. We will shed light on institutional
arrangements; analyse systems of governance for responsible business practices; explore
responsible competitiveness; assess the complementarity of public and private sector
activities; and derive recommendations for decision makers in business, policy and NGOs.
Coordinator:
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, AT
Enrico Testi
http://www.wu.ac.at/
For addressing MNCs, the project will deliver a modular, user-friendly and customizable toolkit, including a web-based assessment platform, an indicator set, a user guide,
and training materials. It will take into account the most relevant pathways of impact
(through business operations, community investments, regional, supply chain and
product related impacts) and link up with powerful management approaches (such as
supply chain management, life cycle assessment and base of the pyramid innovation).
The toolkit will be tested in close collaboration with leading MNCs: BATA (garment,
Bangladesh), OLAM (food, Tanzania) and NOKIA (ICT, India). Research organizations and
CSOs from these countries are members of the consortium and ensure the involvement
of stakeholders and local actors. The three cases will be implemented one after another
to continuously improve the assessment toolkit.
The project is carried out by leading researcher from Europe and ICPC countries and
involves UNDP on the basis of a subcontract. Special emphasis is put on researching
capacity building in and networking with ICPC countries and CSOs. By establishing an
„expert crowd“ we will take business, society, and policy perspectives into account - more
than 100 experts already committed their availability.
Funding Scheme:
Small/medium-scale focused research project for
specific cooperation actions dedicated to international cooperation partner countries(SICA)
Research Area:
Topic:
The role of multinational companies in addressing
global development challenges
Duration:
36 months
OEKO-INSTITUT e.V. - Institut für angewandte Ökologie
http://www.oeko.de/
Start date:
01.01.2014
Universität des Saarlandes
http://www.uni-saarland.de/
EC Contribution:
Weitere Partner:
2.499.781 €
- The University of Nottingham, UK
- Sustainalytics BV, NL
- BRac Society, BGD
- Aalto-Korkeakoulusaatio, FI
- Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, Österreichische Vereinigung zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, AT
- Tata Institute of Social Sciences, IN
- Sokoine University of Agriculture, TZA
Proposal Number:
613295
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: April 2014
GRINCOH
Growth-Innovation-Competitiveness: Fostering Cohesion in Central and Eastern Europe
GRINCOH addresses two issues affecting Central and Eastern European economies: the
disjuncture between fast productivity growth and poor performance in developing
innovative capacities for longer-term sustainable growth; and the pronounced economic,
social and environmental territorial disparities resulting from accelerated growth. The
project objectives are to:
(a) Establish development scenarios for CEECs up to 2020 under different assumptions of
political frameworks, institutional conditions and development strategies;
(b) Identify the implications for sustainable growth based on innovation and the
development of technological capabilities and greater economic, social and territorial
cohesion;
(c) Advise on future policy options, especially for EU Cohesion policy.
Carried out by 12 highly qualified European research institutes, the envisaged research
explores whether and how CEE development strategies can shift towards an innovationdriven process of development, vital for sustainable growth (and cohesion) in the current
global and European context. The project will cover in depth the international context,
innovation and entrepreneurship, skills and labour market inclusion, social policy tasks,
territorial cohesion, institutional changes, and the shape of a consistent cohesion policy
framework at regional, national and EU levels. The project will also use a comprehensive
macro-regional model (MASST) to develop scenarios up to the year 2020.
Coordinator:
Uniwersytet Warszawski
Warsaw
PL
Grzegorz Gorzelak
http://www.uw.edu.pl/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Addressing cohesion challenges in Central and
Eastern Europe
Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle e.V.
Iciar Dominguez Lacasa
http://www.iwh-halle.de/
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.03.2012
Weitere Partner:
- Institute of Baltic Studies, EE
- University of Strathclyde, UK
- Itä-Suomen Yliopisto Suomi, FI
- Wiener Institut für internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche, AT
- Academia de Studii Economice din Bucuresti, RO
- Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Kozgazdasag - ES regionalis Tudomanyi Kutatokozpont,
HU
- Institut za Ekonomska Raziskovanja, SI
- Pecsi Tudomany Egyetem, University of Pecs, HU
- University College London, UK
EC Contribution:
2.697.875 €
Project Website:
Proposal Number:
290657
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: April 2012
GUSTO
Meeting the challenges of economic uncertainty and sustainability through employment, industrial relations, social
and environmental policies in European countries
Coping with economic uncertainty while seeking security is a central dilemma of public policy in a globalising economy. A complex set of deals and conflicts are involved in
the process of distributing the gains and the burdens of that uncertainty, and various
forms of employment contracts and labour and social policies express their outcome.
This project is concerned with the study of that process and its implications for societal models.
In the course of conflict a number of different institutions engage in new practices;
and there is a new diversity of employment forms and tenures. Social policy becomes
increasingly integrated with employment and industrial relations practices, while
both the sustainability of the institutions themselves and their impact on the natural
environment require consideration. Challenges are also presented by the different
forms of governance at work in the various policy fields.
The crisis of the Keynesian model was often seen as a crisis for associational governance (or neo-corporatism), and an advance for reliance on market governance
(usually assisted by strong elements of government intervention). Since then, policymaking by individual large corporations often seems to be replacing associational
governance as well as government policy-making in fields of employment categories
and rights, pay determination, and the determination of pensions. However, the
public goods issues raised by uncertainty and environmental damage bring again into
question the adequacy of governance by the market and individual firms.
The team should expect to find radical changes in the societal models that they have
become accustomed to using in the analysis of social policy. There is a search for new
modes of governance, or new combinations of old ones.
FB Bildungswissenschaften
Essen
Prof. Dr. Ute Klammer
http://www.uni-due.de
Coordinator:
University of Warwick
Warwick Business School, Coventry
UK
Colin Crouch
http://www.wbs.ac.uk
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Analysing, Comparing and evaluating the various
societal models in a
medium-to-long-term perspective
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
Weitere Partner:
- Stichting Universiteit van Tilburg, Department of Sociology, Tilburg, NL
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d‘estudis Sociológicos sobre la vida Quotidiana i el Treball, Cerdanyola del Valles, ES
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre d‘Economie de la Sorbonne,
Paris, FR
- Közép-európai Egyetem, Department of Political Science, Budapest, HU
- Aalborg University, Department for Economics, Politics and Public Administration,
Aalborg, DK
- Masarykova Univerzita, Brno, CZ
- Universiteit van Amsterdam, Hugo Sinzheimer Instituut, Amsterdam, NL
- University of Teramo, Department of Sciences of Communication, Teramo, IT
- London School of Economics and Political Science, European Institute, London, UK
- Institut Syndical Européen pour la Recherche, la Formation, la Santé et la Sécurité
Research Department, Brussels, BE
- McGill University, Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning
Department of Sociology, Montreal, CA
01.03.2009
EC Contribution:
1.496.830 €
Project Website:
http://www.gusto-project.eu
Proposal Number:
225301
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
ICATSEM
Institutional changes and trajectories of socio-economic development models
The aim of the project is to analyse, within a comparative institutionalist analytical framework, the trajectories of socio-economic development models. Comparative analyses of
forms of capitalism have underlined the diversity in institutional configurations. Within
the EU, it is assumed that four types of socio-economic models exist: market-oriented,
continental, Nordic, and Southern, with the position of transitional CEEC under discussion.
The project will reconstitute the historical trajectories of these socio-economic models,
in order to understand how their institutional configuration mediates the synergies and
trade-offs between the economic, social and environmental dimensions of development.
By focusing on complementarities and conflicts as well as changes in socio-political
compromises, by contesting the hypothesis of convergence towards a specific European
model and by analysing the impacts of globalisation and structural reforms, the possible
future for these models will be discussed. The project will combine three approaches
Firstly, a quantitative analysis of the trajectories of socio-economic models. Using longterm data bases for industrialized countries, statistical and econometrical analyses will
allow for a quantitative historical analysis of trajectories for the period 1975-2005.
The analysis will be completed with analysis of CEEC and emerging countries for the
period 1990-2010. Secondly, a comparative analysis of socio-political dynamics and institutional changes. Twelve European and four non-European countries will be examined in
order to identify, from an historical perspective, the evolution of socio-political compromises and their influence on the dynamics of institutional changes. Thirdly, sectoral
analyses of institutional configurations and industrial dynamics, which will combine
statistical and socio-political approaches in order to analyse the long term dynamics of
four industries within different socio-economic models.
Coordinator:
Universite Montesquieu Bordeaux IV
FR
Christelle Bellenger
http://www.u-bordeaux4.fr/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Analysing, comparing and evaluating the various societal models in a medium to long term perspective
Duration:
36 months
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
Claudia Buchmann
http://www.wzb.eu/de
Start date:
01.01.2009
Bianca Lorenzen
http://www.fu-berlin.de/
EC Contribution:
1.188.000 €
Project Website:
Weitere Partner:
http://icatsem.u-bordeaux4.fr/
- Centre pour la recherche economique et ses applications, FR
- KOZEP-Europai Egytem, HU
- King‘s College London, UK
- University of Limerick, IE
- Universita degli Studi di Padova, IT
Proposal Number:
225349
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2011
IMPACT
Impact measurement and performance analysis of CSR
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) assumes greater practical significance and political
relevance in the EU. A central concern is the extent to which CSR delivers benefits for
economies, societies and the environment, providing a business contribution to the
EU’s policies for growth, competitiveness, better jobs (Lisbon Strategy) and sustainable
development (Gothenburg strategy). By contrast there is little empirical evidence on the
impacts of CSR practices on company performance and the wider economy, or the social
and environmental fabric of Europe, its nations and regions. There are no widely applied
tools and methods that provide valid and representative assessments of the impacts of
CSR.
The IMPACT project addresses these gaps in knowledge. The project uses a common
conceptual framework to develop and apply tools that enable assessment and comparison of CSR impacts – at micro (company), meso (sectoral and regional) and macro levels
(nations states and EU). Indicators will be developed to assess the contribution of CSR
impacts on EU policy objectives, for growth, competitiveness (including innovation),
quality of jobs and environmental sustainability. A large-scale inter- and transdisciplinary
empirical investigation will be carried out using four complementary methods: econometric analysis, company case studies, an analysis of different company and industrial
networks and a Delphi study. All studies focus on five sectors important across the EU-27.
The results will be synthesised and triangulated with each other.
A foresight study will estimate ex ante future impacts of CSR. Recommendations will be
addressed to policy-makers, especially those dealing with the CSR and the Lisbon and
Gothenburg Strategies, also business leaders, CSR practitioners, civil society and the
research and education community. Outputs include a handbook on CSR impact assessment tools, a comprehensive description of European CSR impacts to date and policy
recommendations.
Coordinator:
Öko-Institut E.V. – Institut für angewandte Ökologie
Environmental Law & Governance Division
Freiburg
DE
Regine Barth
http://www.oeko.de/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Activity 2 - Combining economic, social and environmental objectives in a European perspective
Topic:
Development and applications of tools for the as-
sessment of policies and socio-economic forecasting
Duration:
Institut für Sozial-ökologische Forschung
Everyday Ecology, Energy, Consumption
Frankfurt am Main
Irmgard Schultz
http://isoe.de/
36 months
Start date:
01.03.2010
Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management
Mannheim
Klaus Rennings
http://www.zew.de
EC Contribution:
2.699.581 €
Project Website:
http://www.ntm-impact.eu/
Weitere Partner:
- European Academy of Business in Society, Brussels, BE
- Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, DK
- Foundation CentERdata, Tilbourg, NL
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Faculty of Economy, Leuven, BE
- CEU Business School Foundation, Center for Business and Society, Budapest, HU
- Helsinki School of Economics, Department of Marketing and Management, Helsinki, FI
- University of Nottingham, UK
- Universidad de Navarra, Center for Business in Society, Pamplona, ES
- Institut Européen d‘Administration des Affaires, Insead Social Innovation Center, Fontainebleau, FR
- Akademia Leona Kozminskiego, Business Ethics Center, Warsaw, PL
- MIP – Consorzio per l‘Innovazione nella Gestione delle Imprese e della Pubblica Amministrazione, Milano, IT
- Stichting Katholieke Universiteit Brabant – Universiteit van Tilburg, NL
- Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Research Institute for Managing Sustainability, Vienna, AT
Proposal Number:
244618
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
LOCALISE
Local Worlds of Social Cohesion. The Local Dimension of Integrated Social and Employment Policies
Radical changes in the local governance of social cohesion in many Member States of the
European Union are the focus of LOCALISEs research on the organisational challenges
of an integrated social and employment policy. The multiple needs of the most vulnerable groups in society require the integration of formerly separate policy fields. This
creates positive dynamics for reducing social inequalities, fostering social cohesion and
enhancing labour market participation the crucial objectives of the new EU2020 strategy.
Local activation policies are framed by Member States policies and patterns of regional
inequality. But the shift of competences to the local level, the involvement of new actors
and a closer collaboration of different agencies create new demands in interorganisational coordination. How do different institutional contexts influence local worlds of social
cohesion? How do local actors deal with the conflicts and dilemmas caused by integrated
social cohesion policies? What impact do these policies have on social inequality and the
conception of social citizenship?
LOCALISE addresses these questions by integrating multiple disciplines, and partners
experienced in European and Social Policy research. A common theoretical and methodological approach guides the research in each work package. LOCALISE will create a
critical mass of research in three key areas: we first analyse how European programmes,
national governance patterns and the regional socio-economic context affect the local
governance of social cohesion. Secondly, LOCALISE studies how 18 local entities in six
European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden and United Kingdom) cope
with the challenges of an integrated social cohesion policy. Finally, we analyse the impact
of these policies on social inequalities, citizenship and the most vulnerable social groups.
Coordinator:
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
DE - Oldenburg
Martin Heidenreich
http://www.cetro.uni-oldenburg.de/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Duration:
36 months
Weitere Partner:
Start date:
01.07.2011
- Institut d‘Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux, FR
- Edinburgh Napier University, UK
EC Contribution:
1.420.000
Project Website:
http://www.localise-research.eu/
Proposal Number:
266768
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2011
MILESECURE-2050
Multidimensional Impact of the Low-carbon European Strategy on Energy Security, and Socio-Economic Dimension up to 2050 perspective
The main objective of the project is to explore, identify, analyze and evaluate multidimensional impact of European low-carbon strategy on energy security and socioeconomic dimension up to 2050 perspective. Energy transition towards a low carbon
economy and society have to be considered as a process by nature that it is not only the
mere result of intentional actions but the product of the interaction of multiple intended
and unintended elements, partly attributable to operational level, but, in part, directly
attributable to the cognitive and pre-cognitive levels (representations, stereotypes,
emotions, etc.), i.e. a societal process. Energy transition materially affects the lives of all
individuals, since we all need to keep warm, all use electrical appliances, travel, produce
waste or live in a house.
Moreover, energy transition concerns individuals at several levels simultaneously: as
bearers of specific lifestyles; as users of public services (such as energy); as consumers of
goods and products; in public life, as citizens concerned with collective energy choices;
even in the workplace, as employers, retailers or large-scale energy consumers. Finally,
energy transition affects the entire spectrum of organizations in an area, since all consume energy, produce waste or have mobility needs. This means that anyone who promotes initiatives to accelerate energy transition must, if they want to avoid failure, be ready
to deal with a considerable number of factors, whether obstacles or enablers, covering almost the entire range of human experience, from political practices to the most intimate
aspects of the lives of families and individuals.
Coordinator:
Politecnico di Torino
IT
Patrizia Lombardi
http://www.polito.it/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Ecologic Institut gGmbH
Max Gruenig
http://www.ecologic.eu/
Topic:
European energy security, including its economic
dimension
Duration:
24 months
Weitere Partner:
Start date:
- Instytut Energetyki, PL
- Societe de Mathematiques Appliquees et de Sciences Humaines, FR
- JRC - Joint Research Centre, European Commission, BE
- Badania Systemowe Energsys SPZOO, PL
- Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg, AT
- The University of Salford, UK
- Agenzia Nazionale per le nuove Technologie, L‘energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile, IT
- Laboratorio di Scienze della Cittadinanza -LSC, IT
01.01.2013
EC Contribution:
2.447.719 €
Proposal Number:
320169
Webseite
http://www.milesecure2050.eu
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2013
NEUJOBS
Employment 2025: How will multiple transitions affect the European labour market
The objective of NEUJOBS is to imagine future, or rather various possible futures, under
the conditions of the socio-ecological transition (and incorporating other key influences), map the implications for employment overall, but also in key sectors and relevant
groups and integrate all of this together under a single intellectual framework. It will do
so by combining EU-wide studies based on existing datasets with small-N comparative
research dealing with one or more countries. Furthermore, the output will be a mix of
quantitative and qualitative analysis, foresight activities and policy analysis.
The proposal is organised in 23 work-packages that will run over a period of 48 months.
The Consortium is composed by a team of 29 partners chosen among top research
centres in Europe.
Coordinator:
Centre for European Policy Studies
BE - Brussels
Miroslav Beblavy
http://www.ceps.eu
Funding Scheme:
Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH
Bonn
Hilmar Schneider
http://www.iza.org/de/webcontent/index_html
(Large scale integrating project)
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V.
Berlin
Research Area:
http://www.diw.de
Weitere Partner:
- Institut Syndical Europeen, BE
- Seureco Societe Europeenne d‘Economie sarl, FR
- Institut pre dobre spravovanu spolocnost, SK
- Fundacja Naukowa Instytut Badan Strukturalnch, PL
- Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, NL
- Institut für die Wissenschaft vom Menschen, AT
- Europrism Research Centre (Cyprus) Limited, CY
- Ekonomicky Ustav Slovenskej Akademi Vied, SK
- Transport & Mobility Leuven NV, BE
- Universiteit Leiden, NL
- Observatoire Social Europeen ASBL, BE
- Institut für Höhere Studien und wissenschaftliche Forschung, AT
- The Conference Board Inc, US
- Case - Centrum Analiz Spoleczno - Enkonomicznych-Fundacja Naukowa, PL
- Economic and Social Research Institute, IE
- Luiss Libera Universita Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, IT
- Universität Klagenfurt, AT
- Vereiniging voor Christelijk Hoger Onderwijs Wetenschappelijk Oderzoek en Patientenzorg, NL
- Kozep - Europai Egyetem, HU
- University of the West of Scotland, UK
Topic:
Creating and adapting jobs in Europe in the context
of a socio-ecological transition
Duration:
48 months
Start date:
01.02.2011
EC Contribution:
7.900.000
Project Website:
http://www.neujobs.eu
Proposal Number:
266833
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2011
PACT
Pathways for carbon transitions
The PACT project develops two energy-related modelling tools: the back-casting
approach (VLEEM for the very long term) and the world energy model POLES for 2050.
In addition PACT will conduct a survey in high schools to compare and evaluate the
human capital and social capital in relation to changes in post-carbon society (mentalities, values, representations). An on-line DEPLHI will describe plausible urban land use
and transport schemes which could prevail by 2050.
Most „business-as-usual scenarios“ built up till now have shown that hydrocarbon
resources scarcity and the growing release of greenhouse gases will bring the world
far away from sustainability over the next decades. Then, deep changes in behaviours
away from ´Business as usual´ are unavoidable long before the turn of the century in a
move towards a post-carbon society.
Urbanisation and mobility are probably the domains where these changes might be
the most important and they will be necessarily driven and limited by socio-economic
and cultural forces that will dominate the century. They will induce further deep
changes in behaviours of consumers and producers and are likely to deeply impact the
use and production of bulk materials, large energy consumers and greenhouse gas
emitters.
To address these challenges, key milestones were defined by the EU: a 20% reduction
(minimum) of CO2 emissions by 2020 (compared to 1990) in Europe; and a reduction of
the greenhouse emissions by 2050 and after, so as to limit the increase of the temperature due to climatic change within 2°C.
In this framework, the PACT project objective is to provide strategic decision-support
information to decision-makers to achieve these milestones. It will focus on 3 themes:
a. what shape the energy demand, and how this should evolve towards post-carbon
concept, from the infrastructures viewpoint, in relation to urbanisation and land-use
schemes, and that of the lifestyles and behaviours, in relation to the available technologies;
b. The question of urbanisation and land-use from the renewable energy perspective,
including that of the systems;
c. The role of social forces, actors, stakeholders in the transition process.
PACT will address these issues in two phases: first, by developing the necessary analytical and conceptual framework, second in attempting to quantify scenarios of postcarbon societies at EU and world level by 2050 and beyond, using enhanced versions
of the VLEEM and POLES models.
Coordinator:
ENERDATA, Gières
FR
Bertrand Chateau
http://www.enerdata.net
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Socio-economic factors and actors that shape the
„post-carbon society“
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.10.2008
EC Contribution:
- Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung, Fraunhofer ISI
München
Dr. Wolfgang Schade
http://www.isi.fraunhofer.de
- Max-Planck Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften, Institut für Plasmaphysik
München
Dr. Thomas Hamacher
http://www.ipp.mpg.de
Weitere Partner:
- Arcelor Mittal Maizières Research, Sustainability Department, Maizières les Metz, FR
- Istituto di Studi per l‘Integrazione dei Sistemi, Rome, IT
- Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble, FR
- Laboratorio di Scienze della Cittadinanza, Rome, IT
- Metallurgical Research Institute, Process Metallurgy Department, Lulea, SE
- Università degli Studi di Padova, Dipartimento di Sociologia, Padova, IT
- Turku School of Economics, Finland Futures Research Centre, Turku, FI
- Energy Agency of Vysocina, Vysocina, CZ
- Corvinus University - Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research, Budapest, HU
1.375.000 €
Project Website:
http://www.pact-carbon-transition.org
Proposal Number:
225503
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
RUFUS
Rural future networks
RUFUS creates a database in order to build a typology of rural regions in Europe. The
typology is based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative indicators and its
aim is to characterise rural areas in terms of their potential for additional or alternative
functionalities to adjust in different ways to structural and policy change. The focus is
on ‚potentials‘ for alternative landscape functionalities.
As the objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) shift from an agriculturalcentred approach to wider rural development, the idea of multifunctionality of rural
areas comes into play.
This in turn brings the CAP into closer association with a wide range of sectoral policy
regimes: regional policy, spatial planning, environmental management; social, energy
policy, and others. Sectoral regimes interact in complex ways, and with a determining
effect on the sustainable development of rural areas.
RUFUS will provide policy-makers and stakeholders with better theoretical and practical understandings of how CAP measures interact with other forms of public intervention in rural development; and how policy regimes can be combined to ensure more
sustainable development.
RUFUS will investigate how rural development policy can be targeted at the specific
endogenous potential of rural regions to encourage multiple functionality which goes
beyond physical landscape potentials to include social and economic activities and
opportunities.
An interdisciplinary methodology will build into the analysis a qualitative analysis of
the social dimension and endogenous potentials, alongside economic and ecological
variables.
RUFUS will establish a transdisciplinary conceptual framework on policy integration
and rural multifunctionality. It will create a rural typology incorporating social aspects
and endogenous potentials. Scenarios of rural futures - the trajectory of policy interaction processes - will be generated. These quantitative findings will be „tested“ against
the reality of stakeholder experiences of regional development dynamics through
case studies using visualisation techniques.
The relevance of the findings for other regions will be examined with the help of an
expert panel. Special emphasis is given to combining findings with other research,
setting them in the context of political goals and policy problems, and transposing
them into practical and meaningful recommendations for action.
Coordinator:
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
Institute of Environmental Planning
Hannover
Christina von Haaren
http://www.umwelt.uni-hannover.de
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
The impact of Common Agricultural Policies (CAP)
reforms on Europe‘s rural economies
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.02.2008
EC Contribution:
Sprintconsult Wissenschaftliche Politikberatung
Münster
Sebastian Elbe
http://www.sprintconsult.com
1 .399 .331 €
Project Website:
http://www.rufus-eu.de
Proposal Number:
217381
Weitere Partner:
- Technische Universiteit Delft, Faculty of Architecture, Delft, NL
- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Station Sad, Mirecourt, FR
- University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences, Norwich, UK
- Lunds Universitet, Centre for Sustainability Studies, Lund, SE
- Wageningen Universiteit, Environmental Sciences, Wageningen, NL
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
SEFORIS
Social Enterprise as force for more inclusive and innovative societies
The “seforïs” research project seeks to understand the potential of social enterprise in
the EU and beyond to improve social inclusiveness of society through greater stakeholder engagement, promotion of civic capitalism and changes to social service provision
through
a) investigation of key processes within social enterprises for delivering inclusion and
innovation, including organisation and governance, financing, innovation and behavioural change and
b) investigation of formal and informal institutional context, including political, cultural and economic environments and institutions directly and indirectly support social
enterprises.
The methodology will be to start from policy and social enterprise practitioner issues to
develop a theoretical framework for inclusion and innovation processes in context, followed by novel experimentation with social enterprises and in depth case study analysis to
expand and enrich. Longitudinal survey data will be used to test and validate conclusions. Representative policy makers and social enterprises will be engaged throughout the
process to ensure relevancy and transmission of results and findings.
Coordinator:
Katholieke Universitet Leuven, BE
Petra Andries
http://www.kuleuven.be/kuleuven/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Hertie School of Governance
http://www.hertie-school.org/
Topic:
Social entrepreneurship for innovative and
inclusive societies
Weitere Partner:
Duration:
- Universidade de Aveiro, PT
- VZW Innovation & Action Lab, BE
- Aston University, UK
- Shanghai NPI Social Innovation Development Center non Profit Organization, CN
- Neest Europe nonprofit Korlatolt Felelossegu Tarsasag, HU
- Non-Commercial Foundation of Economic Development and Social Stability Co-Operation_Economic and Financial Research and Development Center, RU
- Stiftelsen Ostekonomiska Institutet, SE
- I-Propeller NV, BE
- The Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs LBG, UK
40 months
Start date:
01.01.2014
EC Contribution:
2.483.908 €
Proposal Number:
613500
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: April 2014
SOCIETY
Social Innovation - Empowering the Young for the Common Good
Social InnovationEmpowering the Young (SocIEtY) for the Common Good will both
focus on and integrate disadvantaged young people into the research process to
improve their quality of life and to foster social innovation. Therefore SocIEtY will extend the given informational basis for designing and implementing policies to reduce
inequalities by giving voice and opportunities for developing aspirations to young
people facing multifaceted inequalities while living in deprived city districts.
Coordinator:
The approach is to bring to the fore young persons concerns and voices about their
self-perception and social participation in society. To accomplish these ambitious reDE
search tasks, the research strategy will benefit from the complementarities between
Hans-Uwe Otto
qualitative and quantitative methodologies, reflected in the close interconnections
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/
between the Work Packages (WPs).
SocIEtY will refine a coherent theoretical and methodological framework for the whole project on the basis of the Capability Approach. As a second step a documentary
analysis and interviews with relevant political stakeholders and a longitudinal analysis
Funding Scheme:
of EU-SILC data will be carried out.
Additionally, national and regional data for each partner country (WP3) for evaluating
existing policies towards inequalities will be analysed. 11 analyses of social support networks (WP4) will be carried out, scrutinizing the strategies and policies of local actors
in deprived city districts of each partner country.
Research Area:
Finally, SocIEtY will develop an innovative participative research methodology (WP5)
bringing different stakeholders and different narratives together. An aim of this
empirical instrument is to enable deliberative processes in which every participant has
equal opportunity to voice their concerns and aspirations with regard to the common
Topic:
good. Traditional empirical research is combined with a participation methodology,
Social innovation against inequalities
broadening the informational basis for social innovation in public policies.
Duration:
36 months
BBJ CONSULT AG
Regine Schröer
http://bbjhome.bbj.info/de/
Start date:
01.02.2013
Weitere Partner:
EC Contribution:
- Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt, AT
- Universiteit Gent, BE
- Universität Linz, AT
- Haute Ecole Specialisee de Suisse Occidentale, CH
- Universita degli Studi di Pavia, IT
- Edinburgh Napier University, UK
- Centre D‘Etudes et de recherches sur les qualifications, FR
- Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, ES
- Universitatea din Bucuresti, RO
2.496.528 €
Proposal Number:
320136
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: April 2013
SPREAD
Social Platform identifying Research and Policy needs for Sustainable Lifestyles
The concept of sustainable lifestyles refers to patterns of behaviour shaped by personal
and social interactions and conditioned by environmental and socio-economic contexts
that aim at improving well-being and health of present and future generations. Sustainable lifestyles embrace economic, social, technical, cultural, legal and environmental
aspects at individual, local, national, EU and international levels. Sustainable lifestyles
are then related to social innovation, given the crucial importance of bottom up inputs
and creativity to change behaviours. Sustainable lifestyles are a relatively new idea in the
sustainable consumption and production domain and comprehensive research agenda
and policy strategy for promoting it is missing in the EU.
The SPREAD project aims to fill this gap by consolidating existing body of knowledge
from research projects and experiences of stakeholder networks, comprising researchers,
health and education experts, industry, services and civil society representatives. It aims
to create scenarios of sustainable lifestyles in 2050 through a social platform, focusing on
sustainable living, moving, consuming and healthy life and by setting up a peoples forum
and an online platform in order to host an ongoing dialogue open to public. By using
the back-casting approach a roadmap with a timeline on how to achieve sustainable
lifestyles will be developed.
To support European policy makers in their work on sustainable lifestyles the project will
develop a research agenda for the future.
Coordinator:
Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production gGmbH
DE - Wuppertal
Cheryl Hicks
http://www.scp-centre.org/
Funding Scheme:
Support Action
Research Area:
Topic:
Weitere Partner:
Social Platform on Sustainable Lifestyles
Duration:
- EUROHEALTHNET ASBL, BE
- ASHOKA France Association, FR
- DEMOS Ry, FI
- Associacio Ecoinstitut d‘Ecologia Aplicada, ES
- Northern Alliance for Sustainability IVZW, BE
- Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe - Rec, HU
- Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland, NL
24 months
Start date:
01.01.2011
EC Contribution:
1.420.000
Project Website:
http://www.sustainable-lifestyles.eu/home.html
Proposal Number:
263962
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2011
SUSTAINCITY
Micro-simulation for the prospective of sustainable cities in Europe
Increasing concerns about sustainable development and the growth of urban areas
have brought forth in recent years a renewed enthusiasm and need for the use of
quantitative models in the field of transportation and spatial planning. This project
proposes to improve urban simulation models and their interaction with transport
models. Unified operational models that favour a microscopic approach, such as
UrbanSim and ILUTE (Integrated Land Use, Transportation, and Environment Modelling System) have recently gained a lot of interest both in the land use and transport
communities. Nevertheless, in their current forms these models still require further
development to support a comprehensive analysis of the main environmental and
socio-economic questions of the sustainability of urban growth and the relevant
public policies.
The goal of this project is to address the modelling and computational issues of integrating modern mobility simulations with the latest micro-simulation land use models.
The project intends to advance the state-of-the-art in the field of the micro-simulation
of prospective integrated models of Land-Use and Transport (LUTI). On the modelling
side, the main challenges are to integrate a demographic evolution module, to add
an environmental module, to improve the overall consistency and, last but not least,
to deal with the multi-scale aspects of the problem: several time horizons and spatial
resolutions are involved.
Technische Universtät Berlin
Institut für Land- und Seeverkehr (ILS)
Verkehrssystemplanung und Verkehrstelematik
Berlin
Prof. Dr. Kai Nagel
http://www.vsp.tu-berlin.de/
Coordinator:
Eidgenôssische Technische Hochschule Zürich
CH
Kay Axhausen
http://www.lvt.ethz.ch/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Activity 2: Combining economic, social and
environmental objectives in a European
perspective
Topic:
Analysing, comparing and evaluating the various
societal models in a
medium-to-long-term perspective
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
Weitere Partner:
01.01.2010
- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, FR
- Institut National d‘Etudes Démographiques, Statistical Method Department, Paris, FR
- Université Catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics,
Louvain-la-Neuve, BE
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Research & Development, Leuven, BE
- STRATEC, Brussels, BE
- National Technical University of Athens, Research Office, Athens, GR
- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Transport and Mobility Laboratory,
Lausanne, CH
- Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, IT
- Université de Cergy-Pontoise, FR
- University of California Berkeley, Sponsored Projects Office, Berkeley, USA
EC Contribution:
2.695.652 €
Project Website:
http://www.sustaincity.org
Proposal Number:
244557
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
WILCO
Welfare Innovations at the Local level in favour of cohesion
The effort to strengthen social cohesion and lower social inequalities is among Europe‘s
main policy challenges. It means that local welfare systems are at the forefront of the
struggle to address this challenge ‚ and they are far from winning. While the statistics
show some positive signs, the overall picture still shows sharp and sometimes rising
inequalities, a loss of social cohesion and failing policies of integration. But, contrary
to what is sometimes thought, a lack of bottom-up innovation is not the issue in itself.
European cities are teeming with new ideas, initiated by citizens, professionals and
policymakers. The problem is, rather, that innovations taking place in the city are not
effectively disseminated because they are not sufficiently understood. Many innovations
are not picked up, because their relevance is not recognised or they fail after they have
been introduced, because they were not suitable to the different conditions in another
city in another country.
In this project, we will look into this missing link between innovations at the local level
and their successful transfer and implementation to other settings. We will examine
innovation in cities, not as a disconnected phenomenon, but as an element in a tradition
of welfare that is part of particular socio-economic models and the result of specific
national and local cultures. By contextualising innovations in local welfare, will be more
effective in understanding how they could work in other cities, for the benefit of other
citizens. In short, the aim of the project is to examine, through cross-national comparative research, how local welfare systems affect social inequalities and how they favour
social cohesion and sustainability. The results will be used, through strong interaction
with stakeholders and urban policy recommendations, to link immediately to the needs
of practitioners.
Coordinator:
Radboud University
NL - Nijmegen
Taco Brandsen
http://www.ru.nl/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Duration:
36 months
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Department of Political Science
Münster
Prof. Dr. Annette Zimmer
http://www.uni-muenster.de/IfPol/index.shtml
Start date:
01.12.2010
EC Contribution:
European Research Services GmbH
Münster
Oliver Panzer
http://campus.uni-muenster.de/ausschreibungen.html
3.060.000
Project Website:
http://www.wilcoproject.eu/
Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen
Professur für Vergleichende Gesundheits- und Sozialpolitik
Prof. Dr. Adalbert Evers
http://wi.uni-giessen.de/wps/fb09/home/evers/
Proposal Number:
266929
Weitere Partner:
- Pravni Fakultet Sveu Ili‘ta U Zagreb, HR
- Ersta Skondal Hogskola AB, SE
- Universitat de Barcelona, ES
- Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern
Europe, SI
- Emes European Research Network ASBL, BE
- Universite de Geneve, CH
- Centre de Recherche et d‘Information sur la democratie et l‘autonomie, FR
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2011
WIOD
World input-output database: construction and applications
WIOD constructs a database of Input-Output tables covering the largest part of the
world GDP that are linked to bilateral trade data within a ten years time series.
How has the increase in Chinese exports of textile products affected the employment
of low skilled workers in German retail trade ? What would be the effects of a change
in the European Union’s agricultural policy on global CO2 emissions?
Economic and environmental policies are designed at a detailed level of industries
and products, while production is characterized by an interdependent structure. Due
to globalization, these interdependencies cross borders and the inclusion of trade is
more than ever essential. Analyzing policy issues therefore requires an all encompassing database. Its construction is at the heart of this project and the following three
aspects are crucial:
a. input-output (IO) tables provide a description of the interdependent production
structure. Taking the reach of internationalization into full consideration requires a
worldwide set of national IO tables (covering at least 80% of world GDP) that are fully
linked through bilateral trade data;
b. taking the dynamics of internationalization into account requires a time series
(1995-2006) of such linked IO tables, in current and constant international prices;
c. taking the effects of internationalization into consideration requires that other relevant information is appended. These so-called satellite accounts include labor data for
different skill types, investment flows, and environmental and resources data.
The first part of the project constructs such a unique database. The second part of the
project applies the database to analyse the international interaction of socio-economic and environmental objectives from a policy perspective. These are applications
that use the database by directly employing IO and econometric techniques, and
applications that use large scale models that employ the database.
The project builds on several previous, EU-sponsored projects and is carried out by
Europe’s leading experts in IO theory, data construction, interindustry models, and
policy applications.
Coordinator:
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
NL
Erik Dietzenbacher
http://www.rug.nl/corporate/index
Funding Scheme:
(large scale integrating project)
Research Area:
Activity 2 : Path towards sustainable development
Topic:
Development and applications of tools for the assessment of policies and socio-economic forecasting
Duration:
- Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung Gmbh (ZEW), Mannheim
Dr. Andreas Löschel
http://www.zew.de/
36 months
Start date:
- Hochschule Konstanz für Technik, Wirtschaft und Gestaltung, Konstanz
Prof. Dr. Joerg Beutel
http://www.htwg-konstanz.de
01.05.2009
EC Contribution:
3.995.444 €
Weitere Partner:
Project Website:
http://www.wiod.org/
- École Central Paris, CHÂTENAY-MALABRY , FR
- Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), Sevilla, ES
- Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), Zografou, GR
- Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB), NL
- The Conference Board Europe, Brüssel, BE
- University of Groningen, Groningen, NL
- Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (WIIW), Wien, AT
- Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO), Wien, AT
Proposal Number:
225281
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
WSF
Welfare State Futures
Welfare states are at a critical turning point. The development of welfare systems was one
of the defining characteristics of the 20th century, especially in Europe. However, in times
of change, it is important to re-think ‘the welfare state’ with a programme of innovative
research designed to ask, and answer, fundamental questions about the design, delivery
and experience of welfare in the 21st century. It is for this reason that the NORFACE
network is launching an international research programme on the topic of Welfare State
Futures. This highly topical theme offers an approach from a variety of perspectives and
disciplines, enables and encourages multi-disciplinarity and offers a fruitful topic for a
European approach, with interesting opportunities for comparison.
Since 2004 the NORFACE Network has proved itself as a successful coordinated common action of – currently - sixteen national research funding agencies. NORFACE (New
Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Cooperation in Europe) has offered unique
opportunities for participating funding agencies by developing common research funding instruments, thus creating opportunities for facilitating and building new networks
of research collaboration. Major achievements up until now have been three transnational initiatives: three rounds of the NORFACE Seminar Series in 2005, 2006 and 2007,
the pilot research programme “Re-emergence of Religion as a Social Force in Europe?” (€
M 5,4) in 2006 and the transnational research programme “Migration in Europe - Social,
Economic, Cultural and policy Dynamics” (€ M 23 and M € 6 ERA-Net Plus contribution) in
2008. In 2010, the NORFACE Network committed itself to launching a new innovate joint
research programme on Welfare State Futures. In the planning of this new programme,
NORFACE builds on the valuable experience gained in developing and running these
previous Calls.
Coordinator:
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk
Onderzoek
NL
http://www.nwo.nl/
Funding Scheme:
ERA-Net Plus
Research Area:
Topic:
The Future of the Welfare State
Duration:
60 months
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
http://www.dfg.de/
Start date:
01.01.2014
Weitere Partner:
EC Contribution:
- The Icelandic Centre for Research, IS
- Sihtasuts Eesti Teadusagentuur, EE
- Economic and Social Research Council, UK
- Suomen Akatemia, FI
- Fundacao para a ciencia e a technologia, PT
- Vetenskapsradet - Swedish Research Council, SE
- Norges Forskningsrad, NO
- Javna Agencija Za Raziskovalno Dejavnost Republike Slovenije, SI
- Styrelsen for Forskning Og Innovation, DK
- An Tudaras um ARD - Oideachas Higher Education Authority, IE
- Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, AT
- Narodowe Centrum Nauki, PL
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche, FR
6.000.000 €
Project Website:
http://www.norface.net/76
Proposal Number:
618106
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Juli 2014
Activity 3:
Major trends in society and their implications
ASPA
Activating senior potential in ageing Europe
ASPA develops a survey-based dataset on the attitudes of employers towards older
workers, including human resources policies in relation to older employees, as well
as on the influence of public policies in this area. Around 6.500 organisations will be
questioned in United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Poland (1000 organisations in each), as well as Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands (500 organisations
each).
The dejuvenation and ageing of Europe‘s population puts society for some major
challenges.
The development towards a knowledge-based society requires continued investment
in new knowledge and skills.
Given the ageing of the population and low fertility rates it also requires high(er)
participation rates of females and people over fifty.
So far, employers’ and governments’ policies have focused on human capital investments for the younger age categories and have stimulated older workers to retire at
a relatively early age, instead of investing in sustainable workers throughout the life
course.
This proposal aims for an ambitious, exhaustive examination of the forces and mechanisms behind employers’ and governments’ behaviour and the resulting societal
arrangements.
To that aim it will use large scale surveys for the analyses of employers’ behaviour and
desk research and interviews to map government behaviour.
Statistical and focus group analyses will be used to get insight in the participation and
activity rates of people between 50 to 70.
Next, the project tries to identify good practices at the company level and at the level
of (national or local) government policies that contribute to continuous investment
in knowledge and skills throughout the life course, resulting in high activity rates for
people between 50 and 70.
Coordinator:
Tjalling C. Koopmans Institute, Utrecht
NL
Joop Schippers
http://www.uu.nl/NL/Pages/default.aspx
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Activity 3: Major trends in society and their
implications
Area: Demographic changes
Topic:
The impact of demographic changes in Europe
Duration:
36 months
Universität Vechta
Research Centre for Ageing and Society
Vechta
Prof. Dr. Frerich Frerichs
http://www.uni-vechta.de/gerontologie
Start date:
01.02.2008
EC Contribution:
1.489.803 €
Weitere Partner:
- Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Hague, NL
- University of Warwick, Warwick Institute for Employment Research, Coventry, UK
- Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre d’Etude des Mouvements
Sociaux (CEMS), Paris, FR
- Växjö University, School of Management and Economics, Centre for Labour Market
Policy Research (CAFO), Växjö, SE
- Aalborg University, Economy, Politics and Public Administration, Aalborg, DK
- Istituto Nazionale Ricovero e Cura Anziani, Department of Gerontological Research,
Ancona, IT
- Jagiellonian University, Institute of Sociology, Cracow, PL
Project Website:
http://www.aspa-eu.com
Proposal Number:
216289
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
ACCEPT PLURALISM
Tolerance, diversity and social cohesion. Responding to the challenges of the 21st century in Europe
In recent times, Europe has experienced increasing tensions between national majorities and ethnic or religious minorities, more particularly with marginalised Muslim
communities. In some countries challenges relate more to immigrant groups while
in other countries they refer to native minority claims. It is in this geopolitical context
that the TAPIS project responds to Topic 3.3.1 and notably in the quest for investigating
whether European societies have become more or less tolerant and in the necessity to
clarify:
a. how is tolerance defined conceptually;
b. how it is codified in norms, institutional arrangements, public policies but also social
practices;
c. how tolerance can be measured and how the degree of tolerance of a society across
time or of several countries at the same time can be compared (whose tolerance, who
is tolerated, and what if degrees of tolerance vary with reference to different minority
groups).
The project starts from a distinction between thin/liberal tolerance (not interfering
with practices or forms of life of a person even if one disapproves of them) and thick/
egalitarian tolerance referring to institutional arrangements and public policies that
fight negative stereotyping, promote positive inclusive identities and re-organise the
public space in ways that accommodate diversity. It reviews critically past empirical
research and the scholarly theoretical literature on the topic. It conducts original
empirical research on key events of national and European relevance that thematise
different understandings and practices of tolerance. Bringing together empirical and
theoretical findings, TAPIS generates a set of Tolerance Indicators. These indicators
will inform the evaluation and development of public policies in this area. The project
includes direct communication and feedback mechanisms with civil society, political
and media actors for the dissemination and exploitation of its findings.
Coordinator:
European University Institute,
San Domenico di Fiesole
IT
Anna Triandafyllidou
http://www.eui.eu
Funding Scheme:
(Small and medium scale focused research project)
Research Area:
implications
Area: Cultural interactions in an international
perspective
Topic:
Cultural interactions and multiculturalism in European societies
Stiftung Europäische Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
Prof. Dr. Werner Schiffauer
http://www.euv-frankfurt-o.de
Duration:
40 months
Start date:
Weitere Partner:
- University of Bristol, UK
- Università degli Studi di Milano, IT
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, ES
- International Center for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations, Sofia, BG
- Istanbul Bilgi Universitesi, Istanbul, TR
- Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris, FR
- Lund University, SE
- National University of Ireland, University College Dublin, IE
- Uniwersytet Im. Adama Mickiewicza W Poznaniu, Poznan, PL
- Romanian Academic Society, Bucharest, RO
- Churches‘ Commission for Migrants in Europe, Brussels, BE
- Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies, Nycosia, CY
- Banlieues d‘Europe, Lyon, FR
01.03.2010
EC Contribution:
2.601.430 €
Project Website:
http://www.accept-pluralism.eu
Proposal Number:
243837
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
ALICE RAP
Addictions and lifestyles in contemporary Europe reframing addictions project
ALICE RAP is a Europe wide project of 43 partner research institutions involving
107 researchers from 25 European countries providing 1000 months of a plurality of scientific endeavour to analyse the place and challenges of addictions and
lifestyles to the cohesion, organization and functioning of contemporary European
society. Through integrated multidisciplinary research, a wide range of factors will
be studied through a foresight approach to inform a redesign of effective addictions governance. Ownership will be described by an historical study of addiction
through the ages, an analysis of public and private stakeholder views, and through
image analyses, of professional and citizenship views. A study of how addictions
are classified and defined will be followed by estimates of their health, social and
economic impact. Determinants of addiction will be investigated through a coordinated and cohesive social, economic and biological analysis of initiation, transition
into problem use and transition into and out of dependence. The business of addiction will be analyzed through studies of revenues, profits and participants in legal
and illegal trade, the impact of suppliers on addictive substance use and behaviours, and analyses of webs of influence on policy responses. Addictions governance
will be studied by describing the views and forces that determine the ways societies
steer themselves and by stock taking of present governance practices to old and
emerging addictions. Youth as customers will be analyzed through considering the
impacts of new technologies on promoting and mitigating use, by studying the
interrelations of culture and biology, and by determining features that promote
resilience and nudge young people to reduce problematic use. The programme
itself will be professionally managed from a partnership perspective to promote a
coordinated and integrated approach to the high volume of research and its policy
implications.
Coordinator:
Fondatio Privada Clinic per a la Recerca Biomedica
Barcelona
ES
Antoni Gual
http://web.fundacioclinic.org/Home/tabid/499/language/ca-ES/Default.aspx
Funding Scheme:
(Large Scale Integrating Project)
Research Area:
implications
Area: Societal trends and lifestyles
Topic:
Addictions and lifestyles in contemporary European
societies
Duration:
IFT Institut für Therapieforschungen GmbH
München
http://www.ift.de/index.php?id=80&L=0
60 months
Start date:
GEFAS - Gesellschaft für Angewandte Sozialforschung
Gütersloh
http://www.ge-f-a-s.de
01.04.2011
EC Contribution:
ZEUS GmbH, Zentrum für angewandte Psychologie, Umwelt- und Sozialforschung
Hagen
http;//www.zeusgmbh.de
Technische Universität Dresden
Dresden
http://tu-dresden.de/
7.980.000
Project Website:
https://sites.google.com/site/alicerapproject/home
Proposal Number:
266813
Weitere Partner:
- Institut Za Raziskave in Razvoj Utrip Zavod, SI
- IVO Stichting Instituut voor Onderzoek naar Leefwijzen & Verslaving, NL
- Rand Europe Cambridge LTD., UK
- BMJ Publishing Group Limited, UK
- Sucht Info Schweiz, CH
- Instituto da Droga e da Toxocopendcia, PT
- Eclectica Sas di Beccaria Franca, Ermacora Antonella E C, IT
- Department de Salut - Generalitat de Catalunya, ES
- Fundacion Esade, ES
- Helsingin Yliopisto, FI
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2011
- Universitetet I Stavanger, NO
- Stichting Trimbos - Instituut, Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction, NL
- Instytut Psychiatrii I Neurologii, PL
- Stichting Alcoholpreventie, NL
- Europäisches Zentrum für Wohlfahrtspolitik und Sozialforschung, AT
- Panstwowa Agencja Rozwiazywania Problemow Alkoholowych, PL
- Institut Catala de la Salut, ES
- Middlesex University Higher Education Corporation, UK
- Terveyden Ja Hyvinvoinnin Laitos, FI
- University of Strathclyde, UK
- Liverpool John Moores University, UK
- Universita degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro, IT
- Universitet I Bergen, NO
- Universitet I Oslo, NO
- University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, IT
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK
- The University of Sheffield, UK
- The University of Stirling, UK
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
CARE
Curriculum Quality Analysis and Impact Review of European ECEC
In line with the EU strategies for 2020 and the need for a systemic and integrated
approach to Early Childhood education and Care (ECEC), the project identifies eight key
issues and questions for which effective policy measures and instruments should be
developed.
They concern assessing the impact of ECEC, optimizing quality and curricula for ECEC to
increase effectiveness, raising the professional competencies of staff, monitoring and assuring quality of ECEC, increasing the inclusiveness of ECEC, in particular for socioeconomically disadvantaged children, funding of ECEC, and the need for innovative European
indicators of children’s wellbeing.
The project will address these issues in an integrative way by combining state-of-the-art
knowledge of factors determining personal, social and economic benefits of ECEC with
knowledge of the mechanisms determining access to and use of ECEC. In developing a
European knowledge base for ECEC, we will add to the existing knowledge in two ways.
First, we will include recent and ongoing ECEC research from several European countries.
Second, we will include the perspectives of important stakeholders and integrate cultural
beliefs and values. The central aim is to develop an evidence-based and culture-sensitive
framework of
(a) Developmental goals, quality assessment, curriculum approaches and policy measures for improving the quality and effectiveness of ECEC; and
(b) Effective strategies of organizing, funding and governing ECEC that increase the
impact of ECEC.
Our interdisciplinary research team will construct this framework, based on the competencies and skills that young children need to develop in current societies, identify the
conditions that have to be fulfilled to promote child development and wellbeing, and
identify strategies and policy measures that support access to high quality provisions,
and likely to receive broad support of stakeholders, thereby enhancing the impact of
ECEC.
Coordinator:
Paul Leseman
NL
http://www.uu.nl/Nl/Pages/default.aspx
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
implications
Topic:
Early childhood education and care: promoting
quality for individual, social and economic benefits
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.01.2014
Weitere Partner:
EC Contribution:
- Universitá degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, IT
- Jyvaskylan Yliopisto, FI
- Hellenic Open University, GR
- Instituto Universitario de Lisboa, PT
- Hogskolen I Vestfold, NO
2.498.607 €
Project Website:
http://ecec-care.org/
Proposal Number:
613318
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Juli 2014
CONSENT
Consumer sentiment regarding privacy on user generated content services in the digital economy
One of the key changes in societal trends and lifestyles witnessed over the past few
years has been the move on-line of many consumers and the way they have become
increasingly sophisticated in their media consumption habits. Have these recent
changes to consumer and commercial practices developed in such a way that consumers are (in)voluntarily signing away their fundamental right to privacy? This project
(CONSENT) seeks to examine how consumer behaviour, and commercial practices
are changing the role of consent in the processing of personal data. While consumer
consent is a fundamental value on which the European market economy is based, the
way consumer consent is obtained is questionable in popular user-generative/usergenerated (UGC) online services (including sites like MySpace, YouTube and Facebook), whose commercial success depends to a large extent on the disclosure by their
users of substantial amounts of personal data. There is an urgent need to study and
analyse the changes in consumption behaviour and consumer culture arising from the
emergence of UGC online services and how contractual, commercial and technical
practices and other factors affect consumer choice and attitudes toward personal
privacy in the digital economy.
CONSENT’s multidisciplinary team intends to carry out a status quo analysis of
commercial practices, legal position and consumer attitudes, identifying criteria for
fairness and best practices, and then create a toolkit for policy-makers and corporate
counsel which will enable them to address problem identified in the analysis.
CONSENT will advance the knowledge base that underpins the formulation and
implementation of policies and corporate procedures in the area of privacy and consumer protection with a view to informing policy-making in the European Union and to
contribute to the development of European research communities in these areas.
Coordinator:
University of Central Lancashire, Preston
UK
Joseph Cannataci
http://www.ucian.ac.uk/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
implications
Topic:
Youth and social exclusion
Duration:
- Westfäliche Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Dr. Katharina Steinberg
http://www.uni-muenster.de
36 months
Start date:
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Stiftung Öffentlichen Rechts
Prof. Dr. Kurt von Figura
http://www.uni-goettingen.de
01.05.2010
EC Contribution:
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Forgo
http://www.uni-hannover.de
2.673.828 €
Project Website:
Weitere Partner:
- Universita ta Malta, Msida, MT
- Copenhagen Business School, Frederolsberg, DK
- Universitatea Babes Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, RO
- Asociatia Pentru Tehnologie si Internet, Bucarest, RO
- Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL
- Masarykova Univerzita, Brno Stred, CZ
- Queen‘s University Belfast, UK
- Uniwersity of Wroclaw, PL
- Universidad de Leon, ES
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, IT
- Laboratorio di Scienze della Cittadinanza , Rome, IT
- Université Paris-Sud XI, Orsay, FR
- Univerzita Komenskeho V Bratislave, SK
- Law and Internet Foundation, Sofia, BG
Proposal Number:
244643
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
DEMHOW
Demographic change and housing wealth
DEMHOW will investigate links between demographic change and housing wealth.
Whereas those who rent their homes may have no housing wealth at all, for many
older Europeans - perhaps 75% of the total - housing is their single largest item of
wealth. But, increasing numbers do not have children to whom their wealth might be
bequeathed.
The potential of housing assets is that they offer:
a. older households a way of increasing their consumption;
b. governments a way to respond to the pension crisis;
c. and financial institutions a way to increase business.
DEMHOW will investigate the ways in which, across Member States, ageing populations and housing wealth are linked, how housing wealth has been used in the past and
how attitudes to its use in old age are changing.
In addition, it will investigate advantages and disadvantages of developments in policy
iand in financial markets that may encourage its use as a form of pension, and assess the
characteristics of housing assets as a form of pension.
Methods included a analysis of secondary statistical data, interviews with homeowners
in eight participating countries and a description of country specific policies toward
homeownership and housing wealth.
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Geographisches Institut
Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht und Tim Geilenkeuser
http://www.geographie.hu-berlin.de/
Coordinator:
The University of Birmingham
IASS, School of Social Sciences, Birmingham
UK
John Doling
http://www.iass.bham.ac.uk
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
implications
Topic:
Duration:
Weitere Partner:
33 months
- Hogeschool Gent, Research Group Spatial Planning, Dept. of Applied Sciences for
Engineers, Gent, BE
- University of Southern Denmark, Department of Business and Economics, Odense, DK
- University of Turku, Department of Sociology, Turku, FI
- Association Nationale pour l‘Information sur le Logement (ANIL), Paris, FR
- Metropolitan Research Institute , Budapest, HU
- Delft University of Technology, Otb Research Institute, Delft, NL
- Centro de Estudos para a Intervenção Social (CECIS), Lisbon, PT
- Univerza V Ljubljani, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana, SI
- University of York, Centre for Housing Policy, York, UK
- Age -The European Older People‘s Platform, Age Secretariat, Bruxelles, BE
Start date:
01.03.2008
EC Contribution:
1.262.193 €
Project Website:
http://www.demhow.bham.ac.uk/
Proposal Number:
216865
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
DISCIT
Making Persons with Disabilities Full Citizens - New Knowledge for an Inclusive and Sustainable European Social Model
DISCIT aims to produce new knowledge enabling Member States, affiliated European
countries and the European Union to achieve full and effective participation of persons
with disabilities in society and the economy. In investigating the social and political
conditions for making such participation a reality, the project adopts a multifaceted
understanding of Active Citizenship. Adopting a multilevel and institutional perspective,
DISCIT examines how different types of policies (social benefits, social services and social
regulation instruments) can be mutually supportive in enhancing Active Citizenship for
persons with disabilities. Using the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as a framework of reference, DISCIT identifies more effective ways to remove
and prevent physical, attitudinal, social and organisational barriers to Active Citizenship
and participation on an equal basis with others, in a context of rapid social and economic
change and evolving conceptions of disability across European societies. DISCIT synthesises policy lessons from a strategic sample of European states: Liberal (Ireland, United
Kingdom), Conservative (Germany, Italy), Social Democratic (Norway, Sweden) and PostCommunist (Czech Republic, Serbia) regimes. DISCIT involves consortium members from
all these countries in addition to Switzerland and Belgium.
DISCITs results provide new insight into how the European Union can support Member
States and affiliated European countries in working towards the realization of the rights
of persons with disabilities as expressed in the Fundamental Rights under the EC Treaty
and the CRPD. By clarifying the possibilities for a strengthened synergy between policies
at diverse levels of governance, DISCIT contributes to knowledge for realizing the ambitions of the EU Disability Strategy 2010-2020 and the Europe 2020 Strategy for Smart,
Sustainable and Inclusive Growth. DISCIT has a duration of 36 months; is coordinated by
Norwegian Social Research (NOVA); the consortium members are universities, research
institutes and two civil society organisations (EDF and MDRI-S). The consortium is
supported by a Scientific Advisory Committee with distinguished members mainly from
countries not covered by the consortium members, a European Stakeholder Committee
and eight National Stakeholder Committees.
Coordinator:
Norsk Institutt For Forskning om Oppvekst, Velferd
og Aldring, NO
Bjørn Hvinden
http://www.nova.no/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
implications
Topic:
Understanding disabilities in evolving societies
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
Universität zu Köln
Prof. Dr. Anne Waldschmidt
http://idis.uni-koeln.de/forschung/projekte/discit/
01.02.2013
EC Contribution:
2.463.304 €
Weitere Partner:
- Uppsala Universitet, SE
- University of York, UK
- National University of Ireland, Galway, IE
- PIN SOC.CONS A R.L. - Servizi didattici e scientifici per l Universita di Firenze, IT
- Schweizer Paraplegiker-Forschung AG, CH
- Inicijativa Za Prava Osoba SA Mentalnim Invaliditetom MDRI - SI
- European Disability Forum, BE
Project Website:
http://www.discit.eu
Proposal Number:
320079
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2013
EDUMIGROM
Ethnic differences in education and diverging prospects for urban youth in an enlarged Europe
EDUMIGROM investigates educational policies and their role in protecting
minority ethnic youth against marginalisation and social exclusion. The research project studies how ethnic differences in education contribute to the diverging prospects
for minority ethnic youth and their peers in urban settings.
Through a comparative endeavour involving nine countries from among old and new
Member States of the European Union, EDUMIGROM will explore how far existing
educational policies, practices and experiences in markedly different welfare regimes
protect minority ethnic youth against marginalisation and eventual social exclusion.
Despite great variations in economic development and welfare arrangements, recent
developments seem to lead to similar consequences for certain groups of secondgeneration immigrants in the western half of the continent and Roma in Central and
Eastern Europe.
Formally citizens with full rights in the respective states, people affiliated with these
groups tend to experience new and intensive forms of involuntary separation, social
exclusion, and second-class citizenship.
The project will critically examine the role of education in these processes of „minoritisation“. In ethnically diverse urban communities, schools often become targets for
locally organised political struggles shaped by a broader political and civic culture of
ethnic mobilisation.
EDUMIGROM will investigate how schools operate in their roles of socialisation and
knowledge distribution, and how they influence young people’s identity formation.
The project will also explore how schools contribute to reducing, maintaining, or deepening inequalities in young people’s access to the labour market, further education
and training, and also to different domains of social, cultural, and political participation.
The results of macro-level investigations, a comparative survey and multi-faceted field
research in local settings will provide rich datasets for intra- and cross-country comparisons and evidence-based policy-making.
Coordinator:
Central European University, Center for Policy
Studies, Budapest
HU
Violetta Zentai
http://cps.ceu.hu/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Activity 3 - Major trends in society and their
implications
Topic:
Duration:
36 months
Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF)
Frankfurt am Main
Dr. Sabine Mannitz
http://www.hsfk.de/index.php?&L=0
Start date:
01.03.2008
EC Contribution:
1.291.892 €
Weitere Partner:
- Masarykova Univerzita Brno, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology,
Brno, CZ
- Kobenhavns Universitet , Department of Media, Cognition and Communication,
Copenhagen, DK
- Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Laboratory for the Analysis of Social Problems
and Collective Action (LAPSAC), Bordeaux, FR
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Sociology, Budapest, HU
- Universitatea Babes-Bolyai, Centre for Gender Studies, Cluj-Napoca, RO
- Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute for Sociology, Bratislava, SK
- Stockholms Universitet, Department of Sociology, Stockholm, SE
- University of Leeds, School of Sociology and Social Policy, Leeds, UK
Project Website:
http://www.eudumigrom.eu
Proposal Number:
217384
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
EURA-NET
Transnational Migration in Transition: Transformative Characteristics of Temporary Mobility of People
The phenomena surrounding temporary transnational mobility of people are giving rise
to an increasing political and academic debate throughout the world. T
his multidisciplinary EURA-NET project produces scientifically sound and innovative
framings for investigating transformative characteristics and development impacts of
temporary transnational migration and mobility in highly industrialised societies, transformation countries (emerging economies, transition countries, e.g.) and developing
countries.
Theoretical and empirical studies will be accomplished to attain an understanding of the
transformative characteristics of temporary and circular migration, e.g. the mobility of
seasonal workers, students, tourists and corporate workers in China, Finland, Germany,
Hungary, India, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Thailand, Turkey and Ukraine, as well
as in wider international and regional contexts. Research data will be gathered through
interviews with individual migrants (and non-migrants) and national and international
policy-makers.
The findings in the European-Asian context will provide insights to be applied to other
world regions. The final aim is to promote migration governance in a development
perspective at all levels, from national to international. An associated set of questions
concerns what challenges temporary transnational mobility poses to policy-making on
European, national, international and global scales. By uncovering how politics structure
people’s border-crossing movements in migrant-sending, migrant-receiving and transit
countries and by shedding light on the international practices and lived experiences of
individual migrants, the project will help European policy-makers to address challenges arising in the increasingly interconnected and demographically mobile world. The
research outcomes will be communicated in the forms of policy briefs and scientific and
policy reports to multi-level interest groups in European governance.
Coordinator:
Tampereen Yliopisto
FI
http://www.uta.fi/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
implications
Topic:
Addressing European governance of temporary
migration and mobility to Europe
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.02.2014
EC Contribution:
2.497.496 €
Weitere Partner:
- Beijing Normal University, CN
- Mahidol University, TH
- Ethnology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, UA
- Scalabrini Migration Center INC., PH
- Centre for Development Studies Society, IN
- Kopint-Tarki Konjunkturakutato Intezet ZRT, HU
- University of Macedonia, GR
Project Website:
http://www.uta.fi/edu/en/research/projects/euranet/index.html
Proposal Number:
612921
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Juli 2014
EURISLAM
Finding a place for Islam in Europe: cultural interactions between Muslim immigrants and receiving societies
The central research question of this project is: how have different traditions of national identity, citizenship, and church-state relations affected European immigration
countries’ incorporation of Islam, and what are the consequences of these approaches
for patterns of cultural distance and interaction between Muslim immigrants and their
descendants, and the receiving society? We answer this question by focusing on three
specific research questions:
a. what are the differences between European immigration countries in how they deal
with cultural and religious differences of immigrant groups in general, and of Muslims
in particular? This question has two aspects. First, the more formal aspect of legislation and jurisprudence, which we will address by way of gathering a systematic set of
cross-national indicators using secondary sources. Secondly, cultural relations are also
affected importantly by how conceptions of national identity, citizenship, churchstate relations, and the position of Islam in relation to these, are framed and contested
in the public sphere;
b. to what extent do we find differences across immigration countries in cultural
distance and patterns of interaction between various Muslim immigrant groups and
the receiving society population? On the one hand, we will focus here on attitudes,
norms, and values. On the other hand, we will look at cultural and religious resources
and practices;
c. to what extent can cross-national differences in cultural distance and patterns of interethnic and interreligious interaction be explained by the different approaches that
immigration countries have followed towards the management of cultural difference
in general, and Islam in particular?
Our research therefore focuses on the six numerically most important destination countries of Muslims during the period until 1980: France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the
Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland. We will include the following four groups from
distinct cultural and geographic regions of origin: Turks, Moroccans, Pakistani, and former
Yugoslav Muslims.
Coordinator:
University of Amsterdam - IMES, Amsterdam
NL
Jean Tillie
http://www.imes.uva.nl
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
implications
perspective
Topic:
Cultural interactions and multiculturalism in
European societies
Duration:
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
Department Migration, Integration, Transnationalization
Berlin
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
http://www.wzb.eu/zkd/mit.htm
36 months
Start date:
01.03.2009
EC Contribution:
Weitere Partner:
1.448.283 €
- Université de Genève, Laboratoire de Recherches Sociales et Politiques Appliquées
Genève, CH
- University of Bristol, Ethnicity and Citizenship Centre, Bristol, UK
- Université Libre de Bruxelles, GERME – Institut de Sociologie, Bruxelles, BE
- Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, CEVIPOF – Centre de Recherches Politiques de Sciences Po, Paris, FR
Project Website:
http://www.eurislam.eu/
Proposal Number:
217028
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
FAMILIESANDSOCIETIES
Changing families and sustainable societies: Policy contexts and diversity over the life course and across generations
The main objectives of this project are to investigate the diversity of family forms,
relationships, and life courses in Europe; to assess the compatibility of existing policies
with these changes; and to contribute to evidence-based policy-making. The project will
extend our knowledge on how policies promote well-being, inclusion and sustainable
societal development among families. Our approach relies on three key premises. First,
family life courses are becoming more diverse and complex. Second, individual lives are
interdependent, linked within and across generations. Third, social contexts and policies
shape individual and family life courses. Building upon these premises we a) explore the
growing complexity of family configurations and transitions, b) examine their implications for men, women and children with respect to inequalities in life chances, intergenerational relations and care arrangements, c) investigate how policies address family
diversity, d) develop short- and longer-term projections, and e) identify future policy
needs. Transversal dimensions that are integrated into the project are gender, culture,
socioeconomic resources and life stages.
Our approach is multidisciplinary combining a wide range of expertise in social sciences,
law and the humanities represented in the consortium of 25 research partners from 15
European countries, old and new member states, and three transnational civil society
actors. We will conduct comparative analyses applying advanced quantitative methods
to high quality register and survey data, and qualitative studies. The project will also
develop a database of the legal content of family forms available in European countries,
suitable for comparative analyses. Together with various stakeholders, government agencies, national and local policy-makers, non-governmental organizations and additional
members of the scientific community across Europe, we will identify and disseminate
innovation and best policy practices.
Coordinator:
Stockholms Universitet
Livia Sz. Olah
http://www.su.se/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
implications
Topic:
Challenge: Families in transitions
Duration:
Max Planck Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
Prof. Dr. James Vaupel
http://www.mpg.de/
48 months
Start date:
Deutsches Jugendinstitut e.V.
Dr. Valerie Heintz-Martin
http://www.dji.de/cgi-bin/projekte/output.php?projekt=479
01.02.2013
EC Contribution:
Weitere Partner:
- Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, ES
- Universidad Nacional de Education a Distancia, ES
- Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, NL
- Universita degli Studi di Padova, IT
- Universitatea Babes Bolyai, RO
- Coordinadora Europea de Familias Numerosas, ES
- Tallinn University, EE
- Age Platform Europe AISBL, BE
- Universite de Lausanne, CH
- Vaestiliitto Ry, FI
- Szokola Glowna Handlowa W Warszawie, PL
- Federacion Internatcional para la Orientacion Familiar (FIOF) Asiciacion, ES
- The University of Liverpool, UK
- Institut National D‘Etudes Demographiques, FR
- Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Tarsadalomtudomanyi Kutatokozpont, HU
- Collegio Carlo Alberto - Centro di Ricerca e Alta Formazione, IT
- Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, AT
6.495.142 €
Project Website:
http://www.familiesandsocieties.eu/
Proposal Number:
320116
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2013
FAMILYPLATFORM
Social platform on research for families and family policies
FAMILYPLATFORM is a project funded by the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme for a duration of 18 months (October 2009 – March 2011), working to increase
the wellbeing of families across Europe.
The work of FAMILYPLATFORM encompasses four key activities („work packages“):
- Major Trends: Charts the contemporary field of family research in the EU, assessing
existing research and knowledge.
- Critical Review: Critically reviews existing research identified in activity 1, highlighting current gaps in research and elaborating key policy questions for policy makers.
- Future of Families: Examines future scenarios using the Foresight Approach, building
an understanding of future societal challenges.
- Research Agenda: Brings together results, ultimately suggesting key areas of research for the European Social Science and Humanities Research Agenda 2012-2013.
Coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Uwe Uhlendorff
http://www.tu-dortmund.de
Funding Scheme:
Although work begins on the first activity first, and ends with the fourth, many of the
activities take place concurrently. Two further work packages dealing with coordination, finances, and dissemination, are the responsibility of Technical University
Dortmund and COFACE.
Universität Bamberg
Staatsinstitut für Familienforschung
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Blossfeld
http://www.ifb-bamberg.de
Coordination and support action
(supporting action)
Research Area:
implications
Area: Social platform on research for families and
family policies
Topic:
Social platform on research for families and
family policies
Duration:
Weitere Partner:
18 months
- University of Jyväskylä, Family Research Centre, FI
- University of Vienna, Austrian Institute for Family Studies, AT
- Hungarian Central Statistical Office, Demographic Research Institute, HU
- University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences, PT
- University of Milan-Bicocca, Department of Sociology and Social Research, IT
- Tallinn University, Institute of International and Social Studies, EE
- London School of Economics, Department of Media and Communications, UK
- Confederation of Family Organisations in the European Union, Brussels, BE
- Forum delle Associazioni Familiari, IT
- Mouvement Mondial des Mères - Europe, Brussels, BE
Start date:
01.10.2009
EC Contribution:
1.456.099
Project Website:
http://www.familyplatform.eu/
Proposal Number:
243864
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
FIDUCIA
New European Crimes and Trust-based Policy
The FIDUCIA project will shed light on a number of distinctively „new European criminal
acts that have emerged in the last decade as a consequence of technological developments and the increased mobility of populations across Europe. The objective of the
project is to develop policy responses to new forms of deviant behaviours that are also
highly relevant to responding to conventional forms of criminality. The FIDUCIA concept
stems from the idea that public trust (in latin, „fiducia“) in justice is critically important
for social regulation, in that it leads to public acceptance of the legitimacy of institutions of justice and thus compliance with the law. The project will investigate whether a
change of direction in criminal policy from deterrence strategies and penal populism to
procedural justice and trust-based policy is desirable, and in what terms. While traditional
research is primarily concerned on why people break the law, the focus in FIDUCIA is on
why people obey to the law.
The FIDUCIA consortium will conduct four case studies of new forms of criminality that
reflect in various ways the development of supra-national structures and processes
across Europe. The four crime categories are:
a) Trafficking of human beings;
b) Trafficking of goods;
c) The criminalisation of migration and ethnic minorities;
d) Cyber-crimes.
In addition, FIDUCIA will examine questions of criminalisation; assess the importance
of public trust in justice and beliefs about the legitimacy of their own criminal justice
system; and explore whether trust-based regulation makes sense at a supra-national
level. The findings will inform an innovative model of trust-based policy with a raft of
far-reaching recommendations for politicians and law-makers in Member States and the
institutions of the European Union.
Coordinator:
University degli Studi di Parma
IT
Stefano Maffei
http://www.unipr.it/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
implications
Topic:
Criminal behaviour and policy responses in the
European Union
Duration:
Max Planck Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht
Freiburg i.Br.
Dr. Rita Haverkamp
http://www.mpicc.de/ww/de/prs/aktuelles.cfm
Start date:
36 months
01.02.2012
EC Contribution:
Weitere Partner:
- Universidad de Salamanca, ES
- European Public Law Organization, GR
- The European Institute for crime prevention and control, affiliated with the United
Nations, FI
- Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Politikai Tudomanyok Intezete, HU
- Birkbeck College - University of London, UK
- Ankara Strateji Enstitusu Dernegi, TR
- Center for the Study of Democracy, BG
- Teises Institutas, LT
2.699.880 €
Project Website:
Proposal Number:
290563
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 -1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: April 2012
ITSSOIN
Social Innovation and Civic Engagement
Research has made seminal contributions to describing the size and scope of the Third
Sector, including volunteering as an essential component. However, most of the research
has focused on economic benefits (revenues, employment etc.). We highly value these
efforts, but posit that the core contribution and main impact of the sector on socio-economic development lies in the creation of social innovation.
Our claim is that the Third Sector is better equipped to foster social innovation than the
market or the public sector. We will build a set of testable hypotheses that relate to its key
characteristics, e.g.: (1) strong value sets; (2) persistent multi-stakeholder constellations;
(3) the mobilisation of multiple resources.
Against the update of structural data, we aim at testing these hypotheses on the qualitative impacts of the Third Sector in terms of capital building (e. g., social networks, cultural
values or political participation) and their direct link to social innovation. We set out to
investigate organizations with a special emphasis on volunteering at the micro level,
which serves as a bond from and into society. The analysis will include a screening of
framework policy conditions and discourses (citizens/media) on the roles and functions
of the sector. This strategy will be executed in case studies against major social innovation trends of the last years.
The fields we aim to study across 9 countries are: (1) arts & culture; (2) social services &
health; (3) environmental sustainability & consumer protection in finance; (4) work integration & community development; all of which are of vital importance face to current
societal challenges.
By doing so we will not only redefine perspectives on the sector to stress its main impact
as driver of social innovation, but also relate to recent EU research (SELUSI, TEPSIE, INNOSERV, WILCO or CINEFOGO) to lift the investigation of social innovation to systemic level
highlighting comprehensive innovation ecosystems.
Coordinator:
DE
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
implications
Topic:
The impact of the third sector on socio-economic
development in Europe
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.03.2014
Weitere Partner:
EC Contribution:
- Stichting VU-VUMC, NL
- Stiftelsen Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), Institute for Research, SE
- Universidade da Coruna, ES
- Association Groupe Essec, FR
- Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Wlzijn en Sport, NL
2.496.037 €
Proposal Number:
613177
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Juli 2014
LEPAS
Long-run economic perspectives of an ageing society
This project integrates into modern dynamic macro-economics a biologically founded
process of individual ageing, i.e. ageing understood as the gradual deterioration of
the functioning of body and mind. It investigates theoretically and quantitatively how
ageing affects the health and productivity of older people. Using models of endogenous economic growth, the project assesses how the feedback effects of ageing on
investment and education affect long-run economic growth, competitiveness, and
welfare of the EU Member States. With multi-country models it is analysed how ageing
influences human capital formation and migration flows in Europe. Using models of
optimal retirement decisions it is investigated how ageing impacts on the contribution and employability of older workers and how this feeds back to issues of intergenerational solidarity. With models of endogenous R&D the project explores how ageing
interacts with technological progress and assesses how ageing will affect the EU‘s
capacity to innovate and to develop. Moreover, it is investigated how ageing interacts
with health demand and supply and how this feeds back to the macro-economy. The
project also gives insights into whether the EU‘s market economies and public sectors
provide too much or too little health care.
The project emphasises that in order to fully understand the effect of ageing on the
economy, it is necessary to develop an economic theory of ageing that takes into
account the endogenous evolution of human frailty and disability, because only if
we understand both the biological and economic forces behind the changes in the
functional status of human beings during their lives will we be able to analyse the
economic determinants of successful aging. Thus, the project integrates a conception
of human senescence into macro-economics that is founded in the life sciences. The
expected milestone is a new theoretical framework based on economic and biological
foundations in which it is possible to analyze the endogenous evolution of morbidity
along the life cycle, and its impact on education, savings, health demand, productivity, and growth.
Coordinator:
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
Economics Department
Hannover
Prof. Dr. Holger Strulik
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
implications
Topic:
Important aspects of the financial crisis can be addressed within the LEPAS project. In
particular the long-run consequences of the current events can be ideally discussed
within dynamic models (of the life cycle or dynastic type) developed under LEPAS.
Since these models will be of the dynamic general equilibrium type they take into
account important dynamic feedback mechanisms, which are less frequently emphasized in the current public debate. It is expected that the models developed will give
reason to expect a less grim future outlook for the long run than currently predicted
by some economists and journalists for the short run. This is so because a dynamic
general equilibrium framework reveals the opportunities created by a major negative
shock of (financial) wealth.
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.04.2009
EC Contribution:
974.601 €
Project Website:
Weitere Partner:
http://www.lepas-fp7.de
- University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics, Copenhagen, DK
- Universidad de Alicante, Dpto. Funademntos del Analisis Economico, Alicante, ES
- Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna Institute of Demography, Vienna,
AT
Proposal Number:
217275
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
LIPSE
Learning from Innovation in Public Sector Environements
The LIPSE project (Learning from Innovation in Public Sector Environments) identifies
drivers and barriers to successful social innovation in the public sector. Through studying
social innovation and co-creation practices and processes in 11 European countries and
7 policy sectors, LIPSE will create and disseminate essential knowledge about public innovation. The LIPSE consortium consists of leading institutions in 11 European countries.
Seven empirical cross-national work packages will collect new insights on five building
blocks of social innovation in the public sector: 1. Innovation environments 2. Innovation
inputs 3. Innovation tools and processes 4. Innovation outcomes, diffusion and upscaling
5. Feedback loops in innovative systems The project will firstly map institutional environments to study the role of social capital, innovation champions and leadership, using
survey research and social network analysis. The project will then look at citizens inputs
into public innovation processes through participation, complaints and co-creation. This
will be achieved by a) analysing secondary administrative datasets from ombudsmen
and national audit offices b) case studies in social and welfare services and urban and
rural regeneration and c) large scale survey research. It will then examine the use of risk
management in innovation processes.
A work package on innovation diffusion and adoption will assess what factors contribute
to the successful upscaling of ICT-driven social innovations, with a focus on teleworking (as a new way of working) and e-procurement. Finally, the project will develop a
comprehensive set of public sector social innovation indicators and explore future trends
in social innovation through scenario-mapping with academic and practitioner experts.
The dissemination of knowledge will be widespread, using websites, articles, books, road
shows and conferences across Europe
Coordinator:
Erasmus Universitet Rotterdam, NL
Patrick Heeres
http://www.eur.nl/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
implications
Topic:
Social innovation in the public sector
Duration:
Hertie School of Governance gGmbH
Prof. Dr. Kai Wegrich und Prof. Dr. Gerhard Hammerschmid
42 months
Start date:
Weitere Partner:
01.02.2013
- Fundacion Esade, ES
- National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, RO
- Ecole Nationale D‘Administration, FR
- Stichting Katholieke Universiteit, NL
- Univerzita Mateja Bela V Banskej Bystrici, SL
- Tallinna Tehnikaulikool, EE
EC Contribution:
2.474.535 €
Project Website:
http://www.lipse.org/home
Proposal Number:
320090
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2013
MEDIA & CITIZENSHIP
Media and citizenship: transnational television cultures reshaping political identity in the European Union
Media & Citizenship studies the ways transnational media, in particular Arabic language television, reshape the political landscapes of citizenship (Area 8.5.1) in the European Union. It provides the first European wide empirical research on the use of Arabic
language television and its effect on integration in multicultural societies (Area 8.3.1).
After collecting ratings data across 7 EU nations, focus group studies explore how
Arabic speakers themselves construct citizenship in the light of their media use, and
their adopted national cultures.
Models of democratic participation continue to be based on the nation state, while
political debate is no longer contained within its boundaries.
Concerns around extreme expressions of Islamic fundamentalism on one hand, and
the advance of moral panics around a threatening religious difference on the other,
have brought Muslim communities into the core of political and media debates about
citizenship in Europe.
Those communities now have access to a shared „public sphere“, the space of Arabic
language television.
The project will gather quantitative and qualitative comparative empirical data on
the use of Arabic language television in Europe, in order to deliver well founded policy
advice on issues relating to the media and its regulation.
The project works with Arabic speakers on their understandings of citizenship, derived
from the media on the one hand and imposed by citizenship testing regimes on the
other, in order to involve the community to influence policy at the national and European level.
The project will be disseminated to the community through public meetings with
stakeholders and a documentary.
Coordinator:
Universiteit Utrecht,
Faculty of Humanities
NL
Christina Slade
http://www.uu.nl
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
implications
perspective
Institute for World Society Studies, Faculty of Sociology
Bielefeld
Prof. Dr. Ingrid Volkmer
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de
Topic:
European societies
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
Weitere Partner:
01.04.2008
- University of Leeds, Institute of Communications Studies, Leeds, UK
- Örebro University, Department of Humanities, Örebro, SE
- Université de Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris-3, Communication, Information, Medias,
Paris, FR
EC Contribution:
1. 240.225 €
Project Website:
http://www.media-citizenship.eu
Proposal Number:
217480
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
MULTILINKS
How demographic changes shape intergenerational solidarity, well-being, and social integration: a multilinks framework
The objective of the Multilinks project, carried out by a consortium of eight partners,
is to investigate how changing social contexts, from macro-societal to micro-interpersonal, affect social integration, well-being and intergenerational solidarity across
different European nations. Debates on ageing societies predominantly focus on the
circumstances of the old.
The MULTILINKS approach builds from three key premises. First, ageing affects all age
groups: the young, the middle-aged, and the old. Second, there are critical interdependencies between family generations and between men and women. Third, we
must recognize and distinguish analytical levels: the individual, dyad (parent-child,
partners), family, region, historical generation, and country.
Building from these premises, the research group examines:
a. multiple linkages in families (e.g. transfers up and down family lineages, interdependencies between older and younger family members);
b. multiple linkages across time (measures at different points in time, at different
points in the individual and family life course);
c. multiple linkages between, on the one hand, national and regional contexts (e.g.
policy regimes, economic circumstances, normative climate, religiosity), and, on the
other hand, individual behaviour, well-being and values.
The micro data basis for these analyses is primarily constituted by the Gender and
Generation Surveys (GGS), a system of nationally comparative surveys, which aims at
improving the knowledge base for policy-making in UNECE countries. Currently data
are available from twelve countries. This source is integrated with other comparative
and national surveys documenting intergenerational relationships.
In order to reconstruct the policy context, MULTILINKS has developed a dataset containing information for all EU countries on legal norms and policies (income transfers,
social care services, schooling costs and hours) related to downward and upward
intergenerational family obligations, at two points in time: at the time of the launch
of the first GGS wave, around 2003, and at the end of 2009. In addition to providing
contextual policy information, the aim is to develop indicators for understanding how
different countries define intergenerational family obligations and the respective
responsibilities of families and the state towards the well being and life chances of the
very young and the frail old.
Coordinator:
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic
Instituut (NIDI), The Hague
NL
Pearl Dykstra
http://www.nidi.knaw.nl/en/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
implications
Topic:
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.03.2008
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung Ggmbh - Social Science Research
Center Berlin
Research Professorship: Demographic Development, Social Change, and Social
Capital
Prof. Dr. Chiara Saraceno
http://www.wzb.eu/
EC Contribution:
1.499.694 €
Project Website:
http://www.multilinks-project.eu
Proposal Number:
Weitere Partner:
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Faculty of Economic, Political and Social Sciences
Vakgroep SOCO, Interface Demography, Brussels, BE
- Universiteit Antwerpen, Department of Sociology, Antwerpen, BE
- Norwegian Social Research, Oslo, NO
- Utrecht University, Social Science Faculty, Utrecht, NL
- Estonian Interuniversity Population Research Centre, Tallinn, EE
- Universitá Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Carlo F. Dondena „Centre for Research on
Social Dynamics“, Milano, IT
217523
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
MOPACT
Mobilising the potentail of active ageing in Europe
The starting point for MOPACT is the ambitious goals set by Horizon 2020 and the European Innovation Partnership Pilot Project on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIPAHA). Our
response is ambitious too: we aim to provide the research and practical evidence upon
which Europe can make longevity an asset for social and economic development.
MOPACT will create a high quality, multi-disciplinary critical mass of leading researchers and, in the closest possible partnership with stakeholders and through a carefully
planned iterative process, build a compendium of essential state-of-the-art and foresight
intelligence upon which to develop the policy, practice, service and product developments and innovations required to meet the goals of Horizon 2020 and, in particular, the
EIPAHA. Active and healthy ageing is the primary focus of MOPACT and it will build on
the momentum created by EY2012.
Coordinator:
The University of Sheffield
UK
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/
Funding Scheme:
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/
Westfälische Hochschule Gelsenkirchen, Bocholt, Recklinghausen
http://www.w-hs.de/
Technische Universität Braunschweig
https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/
Research Area:
implications
Topic:
Making longevity an asset for economic
and social development
Duration:
Forschungsgesellschaft für Gerontologie
http://www.ffg.tu-dortmund.de/cms/de/Startseite/
48 months
Start date:
01.03.2013
Weitere Partner:
- Universitetet I Oslo, NO
- Universität Innsbruck, AT
- Universita degli Studi di Salerno, IT
- Cranfield University, UK
- Instituttul National de Cercetare Stiintifica in Domeniul Muncii Si Protectiei Sociale, RO
- CASE - Centrum Analiz Spoleczno - Ekonomicznych - Fundacja Naukowa, PL
- Ministerie van Ecnomische Zaken, NL
- Age Platform Europe AISBL, BE
- Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, IT
- National Institute of Economic and Social Research LBG, UK
- Kopint-Tarki Konjunkturakutao Intezet ZRT, HU
- Stichting Katholieke Universiteit Brabant, Universiteit van Tilburg, NL
- Europäisches Zentrum für Wohlfahrspolitik und Sozialforschung, AT
- Instituto de Ciencias Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, PT
- Elinkeinoelaemaen Tutkmuslaitoksen Kannatusyhdisty R.Y. , FI
- Collegio Carlo Alberto - Centro di Ricerca e alta Formazione, IT
- Istituto Nazionale di Riposo e Cura per Anziani Inrca, IT
- Stichting VU-VUMC, NL
- Sihtasutus Poliitaikauuringute Keskus Praxis, EE
EC Contribution:
5.906.757 €
Project Website:
http://mopact.group.shef.ac.uk/
Proposal Number:
320333
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Juli 2014
NORFACE+
NORFACE transnational programme on migration in Europe
During recent years persistent rates of international migration have generated a very
high level social, economic and policy concern in Europe. Migration has become a multifaceted phenomenon, transcending traditional explanations. There is much still to be
understood about the causes, actualities and effects of these movements of people.
The NORFACE transnational programme on „Migration in Europe: social, economic,
culture and policy dynamics“ has been developed to explain the new challenges Europe
faces with migration. It will contribute strongly to our theoretical understanding and
knowledge and raise the level of comparative, multi-disciplinary and multi-level research
on migration in Europe. The research will provide results with valuable knowledge to be
used by policy-makers at national, European and international level.
Coordinator:
Academy of Finland
Helsinki
FI
Satu Huuha-Cissokho
http://www.aka.fi/en-gb/A/
The implementation of the NORFACE research programme will contribute to the building
of the European Research Area by strengthening European capacity for multilateral and
transnational research. It will also provide an example of significant sharing of research
funding between national research agencies in Europe. It will demonstrate that a major
transnational programme can be created using a real „common pot“ funding. The scientific cooordinator, Programme Director, ensures that the individual projects work together
so that all the Programme‘s resources address the challenge of migration.
The Programme intends to give new visibility to European research, and connect to
researchers and policy-makers both within and outside Europe. The Programme should
stimulate the building of new international connections and networks, and provide new
opportunities for the fruitful exchange of knowledge.
In order to make major advances in our theoretical understanding and knowledge by
bringing together a significant corpus of high quality international teams, the programme has a budget of the order of €300 million to meet its ambitious objectives.
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
implications
Topic:
Duration:
60 Monate
Start date:
01.02.2009
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Bonn
Eckhard Kämper
http://www.dfg.de
EC Contribution:
5.989.100 €
Project Website:
Weitere Partner:
- Economic and Social Research Council, Swindon, UK
- Austrian Science Fund, Vienna, AT
- Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, Danish Social Science Research
Council, Copenhagen, DK
- Foundation for Science and Technology, Lisbon, PT
- Estonian Science Foundation, Tallinn, EE
- Icelandic Centre for Research, Reykjavik, IS
- Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Dublin, IE
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, Den Haag, NL
- Research Council of Norway, Oslo, NO
- Slovenian Research Agency, Ljubljana, SI
- Swedish Research Council, Scientific Council for Humanities and Social Sciences, Stockholm, SE
http://www.norface.org
Proposal Number:
235548
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
RELIGARE
Religious diversity and secular models in Europe – Innovative approaches to law and policy
RELIGARE starts from the presumption of the universality of the concept of equality
and how it is being challenged by the increasing diversity of religious beliefs and other
convictions that are transforming the intellectual, cultural and religious landscape of
Europe. The purpose of RELIGARE is to identify – on a solidly argued and documented
basis – the norms, precedents (based on case-law), and policies that can guarantee
sustainable social cohesion in a democratic structure. And in so doing, we seek to
discover the frameworks that are best able to underpin Europe’s aim to remain a zone
of social peace, founded on (new) diversity, while remaining respectful of the rule of
law and social justice for all.
RELIGARE aims to:
- examine normative frameworks in the field of religion and secularism with a view to
making policy recommendations;
- develop new insights from the fieldwork carried out in the different countries;
- provide a platform for academics and policy- makers at EU and national levels to
debate the results of the RELIGARE research;
- enhance interdisciplinary cooperation in the area of religious pluralism in Europe.
Coordinator:
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
BE
Marie-Claire Foblets
www.uclouvain.be/en-chaire-droit-religions.html
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Lehrstuhl für Bürgerliches Recht, Internationales Privatrecht und Rechtsvergleichung
Prof. Dr. Mathias Rohe
http://www.zr2.jura.uni-erlangen.org
http://www.ezire.uni-erlangen.de
implications
perspective
Topic:
Religion and secularism across Europe
Duration:
Weitere Partner:
36 months
- University of Copenhagen, DK
- Università degli Studi di Milano, IT
- Queen Mary University of London, UK
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, FR
- Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, BE
- International Center for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations, Sofia, BG
- Middle East Technical University, Ankara, TR
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ES
- Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, BE
Start date:
01.02.2010
EC Contribution:
2.699.943 €
Project Website:
http://www.religareproject.eu/
Proposal Number:
244635
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
REMC
Religious education in a multicultural society: school and home in comparative context
This study explores the transmission of religious beliefs and values through the education system and the family across different EU country contexts.
Firstly, it examines the importance of religious denomination in school choice.
Secondly, it explores how religious beliefs and values are transmitted in the course of
primary education across different countries.
The study will use both primary research and secondary analysis of existing data sources. The study will use existing cross-national data to assess the treatment of majority
and minority religious groups along with those with secular beliefs across different
European contexts. This will identify different models of how religious belief is treated
in diverse educational systems.
Located within this broad overview, primary research will be carried out in primary
schools in Belgium (Flanders), Germany, Ireland, Malta, and Scotland, countries with
very different religious compositions and educational systems.
This research will involve case-studies of schools selected to capture diversity in school
policy and practice.
Within these schools, interviews will be carried out with school principals, teachers,
members of the board of management, parents and students themselves to provide a
holistic picture of the interaction between home and school in shaping the transmission of religious belief.
The results of the study will be disseminated widely through seminars and publications
as well as a public website.
This innovative project will contribute to the conceptualisation of religious socialisation within multicultural settings and to policy development in the educational
arena by highlighting the role of religion in school choice as well as potential tensions
between home and school regarding religious formation and practice.
Coordinator:
Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin
IE
Emer Smyth
http://www.esri.ie
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
implications
perspective
Topic:
European societies
Duration:
24 months
Universität Dortmund
Fakultät Humanwissenschaften und Theologie
Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Hubertus Roebben
http://www.uni-dortmund.de
Start date:
01.01.2008
EC Contribution:
833.628 €
Weitere Partner:
- The Univeristy of Edinburgh, Moray House School of Education, Edinburgh, UK
- University College Dublin, Equality Studies Centre - UCD School of Social Justice,
Dublin, IE
- European University Institute, Social and Political Sciences,
San Domenico di Fiesole, IT
- Hoger Instituut voor de Arbeid (KUL), Education and Long Life Learning, Leuven, BE
- The University of Malta, Education Studies, Faculty of Education, Msida, MT
Project Website:
http://www.esri.ie/research/research_areas/education/
Remc
Proposal Number:
217028
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
REPRO
Reproductive decision-making in a macro-micro perspective
The Human Fertility Database (HFD) aims to fill the gaps in fertility data availability
and comparability, providing detailed period and cohort fertility data for developed
countries. It will contain data on birth counts, female populations, fertility rates,
parity-specific birth probabilities, and various aggregated fertility indicators. The
REPRO project mainly contributed to the initialisation of the work on the HFD and to
checking, testing, and documenting the data for Austria, the Czech Republic, and, in
part, also for Slovakia.
The main objective of the REPRO project is to upgrade the existing knowledge and
to generate new scientific and policy-oriented knowledge on the factors that drive
changes in the birth rates and influence the reproductive decision-making of contemporary Europeans.
REPRO incorporates analyses in macro, micro, and macro-micro perspectives.
At the macro-level, we describe recent fertility trends observed across Europe and
examine their association with selected macro-level social, economic and institutional
indicators. At the micro-level we use the social-psychological theory of planned behaviour to analyse the process of reproductive decision-making.
The theory will be developed to fit specific demographic research on fertility intentions of individuals as well as of couples. We also use panel data to obtain insights into
the realisation or non-realisation of fertility intentions.
To this end, we make use of economic, sociological, and cultural theoretical approaches whose application has proved useful. The analyses at the micro-level are furthered by inferences based on available qualitative surveys. The macro-micro approach
integrates the findings reached at the macro and at the micro-level using comparable
data sets on fertility intentions and behaviours available in most European countries
and multi-level statistical techniques.
This integrated approach sheds light on the impact and interrelatedness of diverse
factors such as work patterns and employment, family formation, housing, gender
roles and factors related to ideational change, cultural specifics and institutional
settings. Finally, the integrated method of research generates knowledge that can be
streamed into relevant policy construction and implementation.
A synthesis of all findings will be performed to serve as a sound basis for drawing valuable policy implications.
Coordinator:
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Vienna Institute of Demography
AT - Vienna
Dimiter Philipov
http://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Activity 3: Major trends in society and their implications
Topic:
Determinants of birth rates across the European
Union
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.02.2008
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Independent Research Group Culture of Reproduction
Rostock
Prof. Dr. Laura Bernardi
http://www.mpidr.de
EC Contribution:
1.295.152 €
Project Website:
http://www.repro-project.org
Weitere Partner:
- Institut National d‘Etudes Démographiques (INED), Paris, FR
- Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Hague, NL
- Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Carlo F. Dondena Centre for Research on
Social Dynamics, Milano, IT
- Demographic Research Institute, Budapest, HU
- Statistics Norway, Division for Social and Demographic Research, Oslo, NO
- Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Coordination Research Council for Social Development and Social Eurointegration, Sofia, BG
- United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Population Activities Unit,
Geneva, CH
- University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research, Colchester, UK
Proposal Number:
217173
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
RESPECT
Towards a „topography“ of tolerance and equal respect. A comparative study of policies for the distribution of public
spaces in culturally diverse societies
Tolerance is the inspiring ideal of many social policies in contemporary democracies.
Appeals to tolerance have animated especially the political debates on policies for
the accommodation of minorities? Among such requests, those for the allocation of
public spaces have recently acquired pride of place in the political agendas of many
European and extra-European countries.
What spatial policies may best realize the commitment to tolerance? What conception of tolerance may be invoked to limit the risks of marginalization and segregation of
minorities in urban areas?
To answer these questions, we shall test the hypothesis that grounding tolerance
on equal respect for persons may contribute to the development of spatial policies
capable of resolving the tensions between tolerance and social cohesion in culturally
diverse societies. In particular, the project pursues four objectives:
- to develop a conceptual taxonomy to clarify the relations between tolerance, respect and spatial issues;
- to study the ways in which appeals to tolerance have informed the development of
spatial policies;
- to investigate the influence of cultural diversities on the interpretations of tolerance
in different national contexts;
- to extrapolate from the above studies an overall view of the connections between
tolerance and equal respect.
Coordinator:
Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia
IT
Emanuela Maria Ceva
http://www.iusspavia.it
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Maria Paola Ferretti
http://www.tu-darmstadt.de
implications
perspective
Topic:
Tolerance and cultural diversity
Duration:
Weitere Partner:
24 months
- Zapadoceska Univerzita V Plzni, Pilsen, CZ
- Université de Rennes I, FR
- Peking University, Beijing, CN
- University of Wales Newport, UK
- Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro, Vercelli, IT
- Ural State University, Ekaterinenburg, RU
- Cyprus Center for European and International Affairs, Nycosia, CY
- Univerza V Ljubljani, SI
- Kozep-Europai Egyetem, Budapest, HU
- European Humanities University, Vilnius, LT
- Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, IL
Start date:
01.01.2010
EC Contribution:
1.141.533 €
Project Website:
http://www.respect.iusspavia.it
Proposal Number:
244549
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
SI-DRIVE
Social Innovation: Driving Force of Social Change
SI-DRIVE extends knowledge about social innovation (SI) in three major directions:
- Integrating theories and research methodologies to advance understanding of SI leading to a comprehensive new paradigm of innovation.
- Undertaking European and global mapping of SI, thereby addressing different social,
economic, cultural, historical and religious contexts in eight major world regions.
- Ensuring relevance for policy makers and practitioners through in-depth analyses and
case studies in seven policy fields, with cross European and world region comparisons,
foresight and policy round tables.
SI-DRIVE involves 15 partners from 12 EU Member States and 10 from other parts of
the world. The approach adopted carefully interlinks the research process to both the
complexity of the topic and the project workflow. First, cyclical iteration between theory
development, methodological improvements, and policy recommendations.
Second, two mapping exercises at European and global level. Initial mapping will capture
basic information about 1000+ actual successful and failed social innovations from a
wide variety of sources worldwide, leading to a typology of SI (testing the SI perspectives
proposed by the BEPA report) and using this to examine the global SI distribution. Subsequent mapping will use the typology to focus on well documented SI, leading to the
selection of 10 cases each for in-depth analysis in the seven SI-DRIVE Policy Fields.
Third, these case studies will be further analysed, used in stakeholder dialogues in 7
policy field platforms and in analysis of cross-cutting dimensions (e.g. gender, diversity,
ICT), carefully taking into account cross-sector relevance (private, public, civil sectors),
and future impact.
The outcomes of SI-DRIVE will address all objectives required by the Call, cover a broad
range of research dimensions, impacting particularly in terms of changing society and
empowerment, and contributing to the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy.
Coordinator:
Jürgen Howaldt
DE
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
implications
Topic:
Social Innovation – empowering people, changing
societies?
Duration:
Westfälische Hochschule Gelsenkirchen, Bocholt, Recklinghausen
http://www.w-hs.de/
36 months
Start date:
Weitere Partner:
- Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek - TNO, NL
- Zentrum für soziale Innovation, AT
- University of Cape Town, ZA
- Brunel University, UK
- Heliopolis University Association, EG
- Foreningen IKED, SE
- Universite du Quebec a Montreal UQAM, CA
- Federation Europeenne d‘associations nationales travaillant avec les Sans-Abri AIBL, BE
- Istanbul Teknik Universitesi, TR
- Institute of Socio-Economic Development of Territories of Russian Academy of Sciences,
RU
- Kazimiero Simonaviciaus Universitetas UAB, LT
- Universidad de la Iglesia de Deusto, ES
- United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, CL
- Lama Development and Cooperation Agency Societa Cooperativa, IT
- Agencia Nacional para la Superacion de la Pobreza Extrema, CO
- Tata Institute of Social Sciences, IN
- Zhejiang University, CN
- Applied Research and Communications Fund, BG
- Australian Centre for Innovationen and International Competitiveness Limited, AU
- Laboratorij Za Drustvene Inovacije Udruge, HR
- The Young Foundation, UK
- Universitate Danubius Organizatie non Profit, RO
01.01.2014
EC Contribution:
4.872.649 €
Project Website:
http://www.si-drive.eu/
Proposal Number:
612870
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Juli 2014
THIRD SECTOR IMPACT
The Contribution of the Third Sector to Europe‘s Socio-economic Development
The main objective of the proposed research project is to create knowledge that will
further advance the contributions that the third sector and volunteering can make to the
socio-economic development of Europe. These unique ‘renewable resources’ for social
and economic problem-solving and civic engagement in Europe are needed more than
ever at this time of social and economic distress and enormous pressures on governmental budgets—not as an alternative to government but as a full-fledged partner in
the effort to promote European progress. To take full advantage of this resource we need
a clearer understanding of the third sector’s scope and scale, its existing and potential
impacts, and the barriers to its full contributions to the continent’s common welfare.
Building on our previous work, this project seeks to:
1) Clarify the concept of the third sector in its European manifestations;
2) Identify the major contours of the sector so defined—its size, structure, composition,
sources of support, and recent trends;
3) Identify the impacts of this sector, its contributions to European economic development, innovation, citizen well-being, civic engagement, and human development, and to
create capabilities to measure these contributions into the future;
4) Identify barriers both internal to organizations and external to them and suggest ways
these barriers might be overcome; and
5) Forge a partnership between the research community and European Third Sector
practitioners so that the understanding of the Third Sector generated by this work
remains grounded in reality and enjoy sufficient support among key stakeholders to
ensure respectful attention from policy makers and sector leaders long after the project
is completed.
By drawing on the combined strengths of the academic community, government, and
the third sector itself. As such, the proposal provides a solid embodiment of the FP7 theme of “science in society,” of generating knowledge to advance the quality of life.
Coordinator:
Institute for Social Research
NO
http://www.socialresearch.no/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
implications
Topic:
The impact of the third sector on socio-economic
development in Europe
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
http://www.uni-muenster.de/de/
01.01.2014
EC Contribution:
Weitere Partner:
2.498.962 €
- Fonovic Ksenija, IT
- Pravni Fakultet Sveucilista U Zagrebu, HR
- Emes European Research Network ASBL, BE
- Universitat de Valencia, ES
- Renzo Razzano, IT
- Uniwersytet Warszwaski, PL
- Centre Natioanl de la Recherche Scientifique, FR
- The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, IT
Proposal Number:
613034
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Juli 2014
TOLERACE
The semantics of tolerance and (anti-)racism in Europe: institutions and civil society on a comparative perspective
Our working hypothesis is that public policies in Europe do not adequately take
into account racism, resulting in precarious anti-racist measures and thus failing to
question current approaches to integration and to challenge discriminatory social
structures. We anticipate that this is related to the increasing relevance of the idea of
tolerance in public political cultures and the prevalence of dominant conceptions of
racism operated by public bodies and local mediation agents.
The TOLERACE project aims to achieve a contextualised comparative analysis of local/
regional cases identifying racist structures and practices and to address the role of European framing of policies and organisations. On the one hand, the focus on semantics
will allow to explore the extent to which the idea of (in)tolerance in European public
political cultures is related to (anti-)racism. On the other, the focus on local mediation agents will allow to understand the re-definition of (anti-)racism within a set of
complex ways of belonging and of governing difference, and thus related to multiple
forms of discrimination (such as religious and linguistic).
The project seeks to elaborate proposals regarding anti-racism policies within a
multiple discrimination approach, jointly with public bodies and civil society representatives.
Coordinator:
Centro de Estudos Sociais, Coimbra
PT
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
http://www.ces.uc.pt/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Stiftung Europa Universität Viadrina
Vergleichende Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Frankfurt (Oder)
Dr. Frank Peter
http://www.euv-frankfurt-o.de
implications
perspective
Topic:
Tolerance and cultural diversity
Duration:
24 months
Weitere Partner:
Start date:
- Danish National Centre for Social Research, Copenhagen, DK
- Universidad del País Vasco, Leioa/Bizkaia, ES
- Universidad de Sevilla, ES
- University of Leeds, UK
01.03.2010
EC Contribution:
1.813.735 €
Project Website:
http://www.ces.uc.pt/projectos/tolerace/pages/intro.
php
Proposal Number:
244633
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
TRANS-NET
Transnationalisation, migration and transformation: multi-level analysis of migrant transnationalism
TRANS-NET will investigate the varied orientations that people affected by transnational
migration have towards the countries of emigration and immigration, and the diverse
types of ties that they maintain between the two countries as well as other connected
spaces.
The research aims to understand the transformations that result from transnational
migration, both in the countries of emigration and immigration: in the political, economic, socio-cultural and educational sphere. The project consists of a conceptual part,
contributing to theoretical debates of transnational developments and transformations
of institutions, and an empirical part, which explores the extent of transnational practices
among persons of one important migrant group between two countries. In the empirical
part, the perspectives of migrants, their children and also their family members who
remained in the sending countries will be explored. Here, we aim to understand the
networks of friends, family, colleagues and acquaintances which assist people to migrate
and settle, and how these networks influence their conduct of life. Moreover, the wider
historical factors specific to each country which affect people’s experiences will be taken
into account.
The research will be conducted in eight countries: Estonia, Finland, France, Germany,
India (in the state of Punjab), Morocco, Turkey and the United Kingdom. The following
transnational spaces will be taken as the main units to analyze the border-crossing
relationships: Estonia/Finland, India/U.K., Morocco/France, and Turkey/Germany. Among
the selected migrant groups, we will carry out a series of interviews (100 in each country)
with diverse types of people who are affected by migration, including labour migrants,
highly skilled migrants, family migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, students, the
children of migrants (so-called second generation) as well as the family members who
remained in the sending countries. The interviews for this project will be carried out
during 2009-2010.
Coordinator:
University of Tampere -Tampereen Yliopisto
Department of Education, Tampere
FI
Pirkko Pitkanen
http://www.uta.fi/english/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
implications
Topic:
Migration
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
Bielefeld University, Department of Sociology
Bielefeld
Prof. Dr. Thomas Faist
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/soz/
01.03.2008
EC Contribution:
1.499.920 €
Weitere Partner:
- Tallinn University , Faculty of Social Sciences, Tallinn, EE
- University of Paris 8, Département Euro-Méditerranée, Saint-Denis, FR
- Centre for Development Studies, Research Unit on International Migration, Trivandum, Kerala, IN
- University Moulay Ismail, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Meknès, MA
- Koç University, Migration Research Program, MIREKOC, Sariyer - Istanbul, TR
- University of Sussex, School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, Falmer, Brighton
UK
Project Website:
http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kasvlait/projektit/transnet/
Proposal Number:
217226
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
WALQING
Work and life quality in new and growing jobs
In order to explore the linkages between „new jobs“, conditions of work and employment in these jobs and more or less favourable outcomes for employees’ quality of
work and life, WALQING combines data analysis on the chief European data sources,
in-depth comparative investigation of stakeholder policies, organisational arrangements and strategies, and the perspectives and agency of individuals in ‘new jobs’.
WALQING involves interest organisations and other stakeholders from an early point in
time by focusing on existing policies and arenas and gaps in these policies and taking
an action-research perspective. Its aims are:
- to identify expanding economic activities in Europe with problematic configurations
in terms of low wages, precarious employment and lack of social integration;
- to investigate existing social partner and other stakeholder policies seeking to improve conditions in these industries and involve stakeholders in the assessment of both
problematic and favourable practices;
- to analyse possible relations between various ways of organising new types of work in
terms of contractual arrangements, working hours, etc., and the impact on the quality
of work and life, as well as the conditions of configurations that are favourable and
sustainable on both the organisational and the individual level;
- to bring together institutionalist, organisational and action-research perspectives
in order to transfer examples of good practice beyond their national context and to
explore the limitations of such transfers;
- from these analyses, to identify gaps in stakeholder, national and European policy
that may contribute to locking organisations and individuals in patterns of low-wage
and poor job quality and investigate the possibilities to transfer examples of organisational strategies that support higher-quality paths.
Coordinator:
Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle, Vienna
AT
Ursula Holtgrewe
http://www.forba.at
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
implications
Topic:
Quality of jobs and impact on life and economy
Duration:
Institut Arbeit und Qualifikation
Essen
Dr. Claudia Weinkopf
http://www.iaq.uni-due.de
36 months
Start date:
01.12.2009
EC Contribution:
Weitere Partner:
- Institute of Sociology – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, BG
- National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Copenhagen, DK
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Political Science, Centre for European
Employment Studies , Budapest, HU
- Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto, Centro Superiore di Ricerca e Formazione
Economico-Finanziaria, Moncalieri, IT
- Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, LT
- Stiftelsen Sintef, Trondheim, NO
- Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Valles, ES
- University of Sheffield, UK
2.699.546 €
Project Website:
http://www.walqing.eu
Proposal Number:
244597
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
YOUNEX
Youth, unemployment, and exclusion in Europe: a multidimensional approach to understanding the conditions
and prospects for social and political integration of young unemployed
YOUNEX generates new data on the personal life of unemployed young people, their
perception of their situation, their life projects, their identity development, the intensity and quality of their social relations, their political participation, and their attitudes
toward the political institutions and the society at large. It allows for comparative
analyses across social groups and across countries.
This research aims to advance knowledge on the causes, processes, and perspectives
for change related to the social and political exclusion of unemployed youth.
The main objectives of YOUNEX are to:
a. generate a new body of data on young unemployed (in particular, young long-term
unemployed), but also precarious youth;
b. advance theory and extend knowledge on the social and political exclusion of
young unemployed;
c. provide practical insights into the potential paths for the social and political integration of young unemployed.
The overall design of the research has three main components:
d. a multidimensional theoretical framework that combines macro-level, meso-level,
and micro-level explanatory factors while taking into account various dimensions of
exclusion (social and political exclusion, individual well-being);
e. a cross-national comparative design that includes European countries with different
institutional approaches to unemployment (France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden,
and Switzerland);
f. an integrated methodological approach based on multiple sources and methods
(analysis of state and EU policies and practices towards unemployment, a survey of
organizations active in the field, a survey of young long-term unemployed and precarious youth, in-depth interviews with young long-term unemployed, and focus groups
with stakeholders).
Three important features of the proposed research underscore its innovative impact:
its comparative approach allowing for bench-marking and best-practice analysis; its
multidimensional approach allowing to consider the mediating impact of (European,
national, or local) public policy on the way people cope with their situation of unemployed; its interactive research process spurring policy-learning by bringing together
different expertise and knowledge, and allowing at the same time for the transfer of
scientific findings into policy recommendations.
Coordinator:
Université de Genève
Laboratoire de Recherches Sociales et Politiques
Appliquées (RESOP), Genève
CH
Marco Giugni
http://www.younex.unige.ch
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
implications
Topic:
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.05.2008
EC Contribution:
University of Siegen
Dept. of Sociology - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Siegen
Prof. Dr. Christian Lahusen
http://www.uni-siegen.de
1.460.560 €
Project Website:
http://www.younex.unige.ch
Proposal Number:
Weitere Partner:
- Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Istituto di Pubblica Amministrazione e Sanità
(IPAS), Milano, IT
- Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, CEVIPOF, Paris, FR
- Karlstad University, Department of Working Life Science, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Communication and IT, Karlstad, SE
- Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne, Center for Scientific Research, Warsaw, PL
216122
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
Activity 4:
Europe in the world
ATLANTIC FUTURE
Towards an Atlantic area? Mapping trends, perspectives and interregional dynamics between Europe, Africa and the Americas
Mesmerized by the contrast between spectacular growth in Asia and the Pacific Rim and
the Wests hard times, many observers have overlooked a major reconfiguration of the Atlantic space. The North America Europe link continues to be the strongest and largest of
the relationships between any two continents. But their decline in relative terms is slowly
being matched by the rise of Africa, Latin America and a newly energised Arab region, all
of which are increasing their interregional links and gaining weight in global affairs. Both
positive factors, such as the opportunities for better management of shared resources,
and negative ones, like the illegal flow of narcotics that harms the whole region, emerge
as potential drivers for cooperation, competition or conflict.
Coordinator:
The main objective of this project is to analyse fundamental trends in the Atlantic basin
and to show how changing economic, energy, security, human, institutional and environmental links are transforming the wider Atlantic space. Research will map the interconnections between those issue areas across the Atlantic. It will also track the transformation of region to region relationships between Africa, the Americas and Europe from a
variety of perspectives from all the Atlantic regions and powers.
The project will include a prospective exercise where future scenarios for the Atlantic
space will be outlined, in order to identify the opportunities for, and obstacles to, stronger cooperation both on issues limited to the Atlantic and on global challenges. The partners also aim to reach policy relevant conclusions for the EUs Atlantic agenda, including
a review of the EUs interregional links with the other three littoral continents, its strategic
partnerships with the USA, Mexico, Brazil and South Africa and a holistic approach to the
whole area all of them crucial aspects of the role that the EU can play in todays changing
world.
Centre for international Information and Documentation , Barcelona
ES
Francisco Andres Perez
http://www.cidob.org/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Activity 4: Europe and the world
Area: Conflicts, peace and human rights
Topic:
Towards an Atlantic Area?
Duration:
ECOLOGIC – Institut für Internationale und Europäische Umweltpolitik
Berlin
R. Andreas Kraemer
http://ecologic.eu/
24 months
Start date:
01.01.2013
Weitere Partner:
- Istituto Affari Internatzionali, IT
- Aberystwyth University, UK
- University of Pretoria, ZA
- Fundacion para les Relaciones internacionales el dialogo exterior fride, ES
- The Transatlantic Foundation, BE
- HEM, MA
- Johns Hopkins University, US
- Centro de investigacion y docencia economicas AC, MX
- Instituto Portugues de Relacoes Internacionais-Universidade Nova de Lisboa Associacao, PT
- Fundcao Getulio Vargas, BZ
EC Contribution:
2.495.276 €
Project Website:
http://www.atlanticfuture.eu/
Proposal Number:
320091
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2013
CASCADE
Exploring the Security-Democracy Nexus in the Caucasus
Kurzbeschreibung des Projekts:
CASCADE will:
- Scrutinise Caucasian states and societies for the root causes of conflict and insecurity,
conduct synergetic research on democracy and security in the Caucasus and investigate
their interaction;
- Analyse the links between the region and its wider neighbourhood;
- Provide forward-looking analysis on regional security and democratisation processes;
- Develop a set of proposals on how the EU could enhance its role in the region.
The project will de-compartmentalise research on the Caucasus by exploring linkages
between societal challenges, political developments and conflicts and investigating the
interactions between the North and South Caucasus, as well as between the Caucasus
and its wider neighbourhood. On the basis of a strong comparative and interdisciplinary
approach, we will seek to provide a more accurate understanding of how democracy
and security are perceived, understood, experienced and exploited as political and social
resources by Caucasus actors and other actors involved in the region.
Cooperation between researchers with backgrounds in different humanities will uncover
the various facets of the relationship between democracy and security. Drawing upon
extensive fieldwork in the North and South Caucasus, including in the conflict areas and
de facto States, CASCADE will generate a wealth of empirical data as well as new and
important insights into security and democracy in the Caucasus. The project’s outcomes
will also be largely policy-driven and CASCADE’s impact will be considerable in terms
of shaping EU policy toward the Caucasus. The project will act as a knowledge hub to
spur debate and bring together academic and policy communities from Europe and the
Caucasus.
Coordinator:
Fondation Maison des Sciences de l‘homme
FR
http://www.fmsh.fr/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Area: Interactions and interdependences
between world regions and their
implications
Topic:
Security and democracy in the neighbourhood: the
case of the Caucasus
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
http://www.uni-jena.de/
Duration:
36 months
Weitere Partner:
Start date:
- Internatioonal Center for Human Development Public Organization, AM
- Fundacion para las relaciones internationales y el dialogo exterior fride, ES
- Georgian Foundation for Strategiv and internationalen Studies - GFSIS, GE
- Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geography, RU
- Stiftelsen Stockholms Internationella Fredsforskningsinstitut, SE
- Milli Beynelxalq Arasdirmalar Merkezi Association, AZ
01.02.2014
EC Contribution:
2.488.450 €
Project Website:
http://www.fmsh.fr/en/c/4263
Proposal Number:
613354
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Juli 2014
CHINESEVIEWSOFEU
Disaggregating Chinese perceptions of the EU and the implications for the EU‘s China policy
In 2007, China overtook Germany as the world’s largest exporter.
Its trade surplus with the EU is rising at $20 million an hour.
China makes up one-third of the annual increase in world oil demand, and emits the
most greenhouse gases.
Engaging a rapidly rising China is a great challenge for the EU.
To do this more effectively, the EU needs a comprehensive understanding of China,
especially of how the EU and its China initiatives and strategies are perceived in China
itself.
Through surveys, interviews, and focus groups, this study looks into how the EU is
perceived by the Chinese general public, government officials, intellectuals, business
and civil society.
It will produce a comprehensive picture of how Chinese people see the EU: how China
views its opportunities and challenges in dealing with the EU, how different government agencies view the EU, how government views differ from those of business and
civil society, and how opinion in Beijing differs from that in the provinces.
The recommendations from this study will lead to much more effective policies for
the EU to deal with China, helping to reduce market restrictions, resolve the conflict
over China’s exchange rate policy, lift barriers to EU investment in China, increase EU
„green technology“ exports, etc.
A mere 5% increase in EU exports to China will make a difference of €3.2 billion per year
to the EU economy.
Our policy recommendations will facilitate greater cooperation on issues such as the
Iran nuclear crisis, significantly improving the EU’s security.
Our findings will contribute to a better projection of the EU’s image, enhancing the
EU’s “soft power” in China.
The project brings together a uniquely strong team from the University of
Nottingham’s China Policy Institute, Leiden University, Jacobs University Bremen and
Chatham House, as well as two strong Chinese partners.
New knowledge from this research will help advance a number of social sciences
disciplines.
Coordinator:
University of Nottingham, China Policy Institute,
Nottingham
UK
Zhengxu Wang
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cpi/index.aspx
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Area: Europe‘s changing role in the world
Topic:
Europe seen from outside
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.02.2009
Jacobs University
Professor of Political Science
Bremen
Prof. Dr. Christian Welzel
http://www.jacobs-university.de
EC Contribution:
1.430.800 €
Project Website:
Weitere Partner:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cpi/research/fundedprojects/chinese-eu/consortium.aspx
Proposal Number:
- Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, CN
- Renmin University of China, Beijing, CN
- Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, UK
225661
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
CLICO
Climate change, hydro-conflicts and human security
Media headlines are dominated by the prospect of regional water wars. Clearly, climate
change poses several threats to human security; in particular, hydro-climatic hazards
such as droughts and floods have a considerable capacity to exacerbate social tensions,
intra- and inter-state conflict. Still, cooperation often trumps conflict. There are surprisingly few peer-reviewed studies rigorously addressing links between climate change,
hydrological systems, conflict and security.
CLICO aims to fill this gap in knowledge over the social dimensions of climate change,
by looking whether hydro-climatic hazards intensify social tensions and conflicts in
the Mediterranean, Middle East and Sahel, or if they provide a catalyst for cooperation
and peace. It examines why some countries and communities are more vulnerable to
droughts, floods and related conflict, and what types of policies and institutions are
necessary to ensure adaptation, security and peace in the face of global and regional
hydro-climatic change.
The project mobilizes 13 research teams from Europe, North Africa, Sahel and the Middle
East and will bring together for the first time some of the world’s leading researchers in
water resource, vulnerability, and peace and security studies. Ten cases of hydro-conflicts
are studied ranging from Niger, Sudan, the Jordan and Nile basins to Cyprus, Italy and the
Sinai desert. A large dataset – the first of its kind – of hydro-conflicts in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Sahel is regressed against climatic, hydrological and socio-economic
variables. Policies and institutions at the national, international and transboundary levels
are investigated and their ability to face climate change and ensure human security is
assessed.
Coordinator:
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
ES
Giorgos Kallis
http://www.uab.es/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Project results will be synthesised in a report that aims to identify potential security
hotspots in the region and provide fresh policy ideas for promoting peace and security
under changing hydro-climatic conditions.
Conflicts and peace
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.01.2010
ECOLOGIC – Institut für Internationale und Europäische Umweltpolitik
Berlin
Eleftheria Kampa
http://ecologic.eu/
EC Contribution:
2.991.356 €
United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security
Bonn
Fabrice Gilles Renaud
http://www.ehs.unu.edu/
Project Website:
http://www.clico.org
Proposal Number:
244443
Weitere Partner:
- University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
- Institutt for Fredsforskning Stifte, Olso, NO
- Suze Canal University, Ismalia, EG
- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, CH
- Cyprus Research and Educational Foundation, Nicosia, CY
- University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
- Palestinian Hydrology Group for Water and Environmental Resources Development,
Ramallah, PS
- Centro de Investigacion Ecologtica y Applicaciones Forestales Consorcio, Bellaterra, ES
- Israeli-Palestinian Science Organization, Brussels, BE
- Addis Ababa University, ET
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
CORE
The role of Governance in the Resolution of Socioeconomic and Political Conflict in India and Europe
In the post-Cold War world is witnessing the emergence of new forms of intra-state
conflicts accompanied by a weakening of the nation-state‘s traditional means of dealing
with these. There is a visible need for substantial revision in conventional approaches
and strategies aimed at transforming such conflicts. Conflict resolution agendas have in
the last two decades for the most part been shaped by the political objective of bringing
political and economic liberalization in the name of promoting of human rights, rule of
law and democracy. However, these strategies often fail to take into consideration the
complex social and cultural contexts of the local level. There is a gap in knowledge about
the impact that governance agendas have on local conflict dynamics, especially in the
cases where identity mobilisation is a prominent factor in the conflict.
This project will analyse the premises and operation of governance initiatives in conflict
transformation processes through a combination of fieldwork, qualitative analysis and
theory development. It will carry out case studies encompassing recent governance
practices in Bihar, Bosnia, Cyprus, Georgia, North East India and Kashmir. The project will
be conducted in collaboration between Indian and European research teams. The project
will review and critique current approaches to conflict resolution in an attempt to revise
and improve both the theoretical and operational sides of conflict resolution and peace
building. It will facilitate a reciprocal learning process between appropriate parties of the
European Union and Indian actors and policy makers in order to enhance the perspectives and methods of both.
The project will result in a variety of outputs, including a report series addressed to both
EU and Indian policy makers, a variety of local level consultations, two large international
conferences, a series of scholarly articles and working papers for the research community, and a scholarly book. A high-profile web forum will be developed to enhance communication between researchers, policy makers, practitioners and the wider public.
Coordinator:
Institutt for Fredsforskning Stiftelse
NO
J. Peter Burgess
http://www.prio.no/
Funding Scheme:
(small and medium scale focused research project for
specific cooperation actions dedicated to international cooperation partner countris (SICA)
Research Area:
Topic:
Cultures of governance and conflict resolution in
Europe and India
Duration:
Berghof Stiftung für Konfliktforschung GmbH
Berlin
Prof. Dr. Hans J. Gießmann
http://www.berghof-conflictresearch.org/
Start date:
36 months
01.01.2011
EC Contribution:
Weitere Partner:
2.370.000 €
- Society for Participatory Research in Asia, IN
- University of Delhi, IN
- Jawaharal Nehru University, IN
- Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, IN
- Istituto Affari Internazionali, IT
- Banaras Hindu University, IN
- The University Court of the University of St. Andrews, UK
Project Website:
http://www.projectcore.eu/
Proposal Number:
266931
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2011
DIASPEACE
Diasporas for peace: Patterns, trends and potential of long-distance diaspora involvement in
conflict settings Case studies from the Horn of Africa
DIASPEACE seeks to generate policy-relevant, evidence-based knowledge on how
diasporas (exiled populations from conflict regions) play into the dynamics of conflict
and peace in their countries of origin.
The project has an empirical focus on diaspora networks operating in Europe which
extend their transnational activities to the Horn of Africa. This is a region where decades of violent conflict have resulted in state collapse and the dispersal of more than
two million people.
The project will conduct field research in seven European countries and in Somalia,
Ethiopia and Eritrea.
In a globalised world diasporas have become new forces shaping the interactions between countries, regions and continents. On one hand, they are seen to fuel conflict by
transferring remittances and logistic support to the warring parties, and to exacerbate tensions through radical mobilisation along ethnic and religious lines. On the
other hand, diaspora groups are playing an increasingly prominent role in peace and
reconciliation processes.
There is a need for a balanced empirical account of the nature, motivations and impact of transnational diaspora activities in conflict settings.
DIASPEACE aims to:
a. devise and test methodologies of multi-sited comparative research and to develop
the conceptual framework for researching migrant political transnationalism in a
conflict context;
b. facilitate interaction between diaspora and other stakeholders in Europe and in the
Horn of Africa;
c. provide policy input on how to better involve diaspora in conflict resolution and
peace-building interventions, and how to improve coherence between security, development and immigration policies.
The consortium involves six partners from Europe and two from the Horn of Africa,
bringing together cross-disciplinary expertise from the fields of conflict analysis,
migration studies and anthropology among others. The project is coordinated by the
University of Jyväskylä in Finland.
Coordinator:
Jyväskylän Yliopisto (University of Jyväskylä)
Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy
Jyväskylä
FI
Liisa Laakso
https://www.jyu.fi
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Conflicts and peace
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
Internationales Konversionszentrum Bonn - Bonn International Center for Conversion
BICC Research GmbH
Bonn
Dr. Volker Franke
http://www.bicc.de
01.03.2008
EC Contribution:
1.488.861 €
Project Website:
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften E.V.
Max-Planck-Institut für Ethnologische Forschung
Halle/Saale
Prof. Dr. Günther Schlee
http://www.eth.mpg.de
Weitere Partner:
http://www.diaspeace.org
Proposal Number:
217335
- Institutt for Fredsforskning, Ethics, Norms & Identities Programme, Oslo, NO
- African Diaspora Policy Centre, Research Platform, Amsterdam, NL
- Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale, Migration Studies, Rome, IT
- Forum for Social Studies, Addis Ababa, ET
- Academy for Peace and Development, Democratisation Entry Point, Hargeisa, SO
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
EUBORDERSCAPES
Bordering, Political Landscapes and Social Arenas: Potentials and Challenges of Evolving Border Concepts in a post-Cold War World
In order to gauge its significance, conceptual change in the study of borders must be
seen in relation to fundamental social, economic and geopolitical transformations that
have taken place in the past decades. In addition, major paradigmatic shifts in scientific
debate, and in the social sciences in particular, must also be considered. Recognising the
close interrelationships between social change and paradigm shifts, the EUBORDERSCAPES project will analyse the evolving concept of borders in terms of a mutually linked
emergence of post-national, post-colonial, post-modernist and post-Communist strands
of inquiry. State borders are the frame of reference, rather than ethnographic/anthropological boundaries.
However, this approach emphasises the social significance and subjectivities of state
borders while critically interrogating objective categories of state territoriality and international relations. The research proposed here will, furthermore, not only be focused at
the more general, at times highly abstract, level of conceptual change. This approach will
also allow us to compare and contrast how different and often contested conceptualisations of state borders (in terms of their political, social, cultural and symbolic significance)
resonate in concrete contexts at the level of everyday life.
Coordinator:
ITÄ-SUOMEN Yliopisto
FI
James Scott
http://www.uef.fi/fi/uef/home
Funding Scheme:
Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung
Hans-Joachim Bürkner
http://www.irs-net.de/
Research Area:
Topic:
Titel des Topics
The evolving concept of borders
Weitere Partner:
- University of East London, UK
- Helsingin Yliopisto, Suomi, FI
- Autonomnaya Nekommercheskaya Organizaciya Centr Nezavisimiih Sociologicheskih
Issledonvanii, RU
- Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Kozgazdasag - Es Regionalis Tudomanyi Kutatokozpont,
HU
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, IL
- Umea Universitet, SE
- V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, UA
- Universita´degli Studi di Bergamo, IT
- Universitetet I Tromsoe, NO
- CEPS Centre d Etudes de populations de pauvrete et de politiques socio-economiques,
LU
- Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geography, RU
- Uniwersytet Gdanski, PL
- The Queen‘s University of Belfast, UK
- Centre for Advanced Study Sofia, BG
- Centre National de la recherche Scientifique, FR
Duration:
48 months
Start date:
01.06.2012
EC Contribution:
6.982.429 €
Project Website:
http://www.euborderscapes.eu/
Proposal Number:
290775
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2013
HI-POD
Historical patterns of development and underdevelopment: origins and persistence of the great divergence
Understanding the „great“ and „little“ divergences between Northwest Europe and
the rest of Europe, and between Europe and the rest of the world, implies considerable challenges, both in terms of quantification and analysis.
In terms of quantification, the major European challenges are to be found in the
pre-1800 period, although much work remains to be done in quantifying post-1800
performance elsewhere.
This proposed research project fits very tightly with the objectives of this call. We will
be explicitly exploring the “relations between world regions and the factors shaping
different development paths in a historical perspective” (Area 8.4.1).
We will be explicitly focussing on the experiences of Asia, Africa and Latin America, and
will be drawing not only upon European-based scholars but on a Latin American partner to this end (Activity 8.4). In terms of the specific topic addressed, “SSH-2007-4.1.2”,
the proposal focuses explicitly on the way in which “development processes have and
are being affected by relations between world regions and countries”, and on the links
between uneven development and such relationships.
The project will indeed look at whether and how uneven development is linked to
such relations, both past and present; at “the extent to which historical relationships
such as colonial and post-colonial relations affect today’s development paths”; at “the
role of urbanisation”; and at “gender and development relations”, to which we will be
devoting an entire work package.
Coordinator:
Centre for Economic Policy Research
International Macro-economics, London
UK
Stephen N. Broadberry
http://www.cepr.org
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Tübingen
Prof. Dr. Joerg Baten
http://www.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de/cms/lehrsuhl-homepages/wirtschaftsgeschichte.html
Area: Interactions and interdependences between
world regions and their implications
Topic:
Development paths in an historical and comparative perspective and their impact on Europe
Duration:
48 months
Weitere Partner:
Start date:
- University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
- Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
- Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Getafe, ES
- The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elisabeth near Dublin, IE
- Universidad de la Republica, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Programa de Historia
Economica y Social, Motevideo, UY
01.11.2008
EC Contribution:
1.343.507 €
Project Website:
http://www.cepr.org/research/HIPOD.html
Proposal Number:
225342
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
IDEAS
Integrating and developing European Asian studies
Many EU and non-EU governments have concluded that the Humanities and Social
Sciences could and should make a greater contribution to public policy making. For
instance, the Pentagon has recently admitted that top US decision-makers were not
sufficiently informed about the cultural background of Iraq when they planned the
2003 US-led invasion. Cultural perspective is essential in foreign policy-making, in
particular in Asia, where EU decision-makers have acknowledged the enormous need
for Area Studies cultural and social science tools to facilitate greater understanding
and better geopolitical analysis.
The IDEAS project intends to address this need by coordinating a network of 44
research institutions specialized in Asian Area Studies with a view to creating a
user-oriented research knowledge base. Particular attention ispaid to the sharing of
infrastructure (most notably 22 field research centers located in 15 Asia countries),
knowledge resources (libraries and catalogues), and exchanging scholars. The main
goal in coordinating this institutional network is to ensure a greater connection
between the spheres of academic research and the needs of policy-makers. Therefore,
the first project‘s deliverable is to define priorities for Asian ²²Area Studies research in
the next decade.
The shortlist of priorities pending approval by the IDEAS scientific committee currently includes: Islam in Asia, the level of autonomy granted to minorities (in particular
secessionist tensions in South India), migration (notably internal migration, which is
of particular concern in China), the reconstruction and re-interpretation of history to
justify present policies (i.e. the concept of “Harmonious society” in China), and how
the history of the 19th century relates to modern Asia.
Coordinator:
Ecole Française d‘Extrême-Orient, Paris
FR
Franciscus Verellen
http://www.efeo.fr/index_1.shmtl
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Development paths in an historical and comparative perspective and their impact on Europe
Duration:
Hamburg University
Asien-Afrika-Institut
Prof. Dr. Michael Friedrich
http://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/
Start date:
30 months
01.01.2010
EC Contribution:
1.207.556 €
Weitere Partner:
Project Website:
- University of Turku, FI
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, HU
- British Academy for the Promotion of Historical Philosophical and Philological Studies, London, UK
- Istituto Italiano per l‘Africa è l‘Oriente, Rome, IT
- Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Le Chesnay, FR
www.ideasconsortium.eu
Proposal Number:
243910
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
INFOCON
Involving transnational communities - Civil society forum on conflicts
INFOCON is the unique result of extensive consultations and discussions between
members of civil society and leading scholars in various disciplines.
These consultations have been synthesised into the objectives of the proposed project. The overall objective of the project is to create a better understanding of how
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) representing Transnational Communities (TCs) can
help in preventing and resolving conflicts in Europe and the world.
Under this overall objective INFOCON strives to attain the following specific objectives:
a. provide recommendations and strategic tools for CSOs based on the project’s
results in order to increase the efficiency and involvement of CSOs in the elaboration
of policies related to transnational communities and conflicts;
b. verify past research on TCs and their role in conflicts with the benefit of CSOs’ experience and their involvement in the research process. It also addresses the current gap
between civil society knowledge and academic expertise;
c. advance the scientific knowledge on the dynamics and current potential role of
CSOs in different conflicts by elaborating new and innovative comparisons of TCs across Europe (four cities: Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels and London) and the world (three
regions of origin: Turkey, Kosovo and Great Lakes);
d. provide conflict-sensitive policy recommendations in order to enhance current conflict policy and to use the leverage and opportunities that transnational community
CSOs offer in the field of conflict and peace;
e. significantly contribute to public debate on the role of TCs in conflicts and conflict
policies by large scale dissemination activities aimed at fostering global communication and connectivity.
Coordinator:
Internationalist Foundation, Den Haag
NL
Stephan Kampelmann
www.internationalistreview.com
Funding Scheme:
Research for the benefit of specific groups
Research Area:
Topic:
Conflicts and peace
- Navend - Zentrum für Kurdische Studien e.V. , Bonn
http://www.navend.de/
Duration:
24 months
- Stiftung Zentrum für Türkeistudien, Institut an der Universität Essen
PD Dr. Dirk Halm
http://www.zft-online.de/
Start date:
01.04.2008
- Akagera-Rhein e.V., Nürnberg
Jean-Paul Rwasamanzi
http://akagera-rhein.de/index.html
EC Contribution:
998.102 €
- Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden, Universität Essen Duisburg, Duisburg
Dr. Jochen Hippler
http://inef.uni-due.de/cms/
Project Website:
http://www.infocon-project.org/
Proposal Number:
Weitere Partner:
- Minority Rights Group International, London, UK
- Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants, Brussels, BE
- VZW SOS Rwanda-Burundi asbl, Buzet, BE
- Centre de Politique Comparée, Département des Sciences Politiques et Sociales,
Louvain-la-Neuve, BE
- Centre d‘Etudes de l‘Ethnicité et des Migrations, Liège, BE
- Centre of International Development Issues Nijmegen, Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen, Nijmegen, NL
- Conflict Analysis Research Centre, University of Kent, Dept of Politics and International Relations, Canterbury, UK
- Université Laval, Institut Québécois des Hautes Études Internationales, Québec, CA
, Institut d‘Etudes Politiques de Lille, Lille, FR
- Stichting Mondiale Samenleving, Utrecht, NL
210615
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
INFOCORE
(In)forming conflict prevention, response and resolution: the role of media in violent conflict
INFOCORE focuses on the conditions that bring about different media roles in the
cycle of conflict and peace building. It generates knowledge on (1) the social processes
underlying the production of conflict news, and (2) the inherent dynamics of conflict
news contents, (3) in a systematically comparative fashion. Based on this perspective, we
identify the conditions under which media play specific constructive or destructive roles
in preventing, managing, and resolving violent conflict, and building sustainable peace.
The project will provide detailed knowledge on the process of conflict news production.
Specifically, INFOCORE focuses on interactions between (1) professional journalists (in various media), (2) political actors (including public authorities, military), (3) experts/NGOs
(in intelligence, peacekeeping, conflict prevention/resolution, and media assistance), and
(4) lay publics (individuals and groups, including economic actors). INFOCORE analyzes
these actors’ different roles (as sources/advocates, mediators, and users/audiences) in the
production of (1) professional news media, (2) social media, (3) and semi-public intelligence/expert analysis.
To assess the roles of media for shaping lay publics’ and political actors’ conflict perceptions and responses to ongoing conflicts, we analyze the dynamics of conflict news
content over time. We identify recurrent patterns of information diffusion and the
polarization/consolidation of specific frames and determine the main contextual factors
that influence the roles media play in conflict and peace building. Specifically, we assess
the roles of individual agendas and resources, professional norms, media organizations
and systems, political systems, and characteristics of the conflict situation. INFOCORE
implements a gender-sensitive perspective throughout the project, contributing to the
EC’s efforts to enable and strengthen the participation of women in peace and security
matters.
Coordinator:
DE
http://www.uni-muenchen.de/index.html
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Media in conflicts and peace building
Weitere Partner:
Duration:
36 months
- Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, ES
- Universite Libre de Bruxelles, BE
- Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, IL
- Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, GR
- Global Governance Institute ASBL, BE
- Visoka Skola za Novinarstvo I za Odnosi so Javnosta privatine Ustanova, FYROM
Start date:
01.01.2014
EC Contribution:
2.499.491 €
Project Website:
http://www.infocore.eu/
Proposal Number:
613308
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Juli 2014
ISSICEU
Intra-and Inter-Societal Sources of Instability in the Caucasus and EU Opportunities to Respond
ISSICEU analyses sources of stability and instability in the Caucasus regarding political
regimes, civic participation, economic interdependencies and neighbourhood influences.
We evaluate the implications for military, political, economic and societal security.
We deliver three relevant products for EU policy formulation: We analyse and map
emerging conflicts of local, regional and international dimensions and highlight crucial
actors and mechanisms. We elaborate on scenarios concerning potential future security
developments. We give concise policy recommendations on opportunities for the EU
to influence conflict solution and long-term stability in the Caucasus societies and the
whole region.
Coordinator:
ISSICEU disseminates the findings as follows: policy briefs; expert workshops in relevant
EU agencies and for stakeholders in EU countries and the Caucasus; a scenario-workshop
at the final stage.
Universität St. Gallen
CH
Dirk Lehmkuhl
http://www.unisg.ch/
ISSICEU explores intra-societal frictions and their regional impact in the political regimes
focussing mainly on dynamics of communal governance; the interplay of religious and
state actors and practices of civic participation. We analyse inter-societal sources of (in)
stability regarding economic dependencies; political and societal relations between the
Caucasus and neighbourhood states.
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
ISSICEU makes comparative analyses across sub-regions and studies aspects of intersocietal relations. We consider the historical and contemporary ties among the societies.
We study the Caucasus in its diversity and cohesiveness. Cases are Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Georgia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria,
Karachay-Cherkessia and Chechnya. In the neighbourhood we focus on Turkey and Iran.
ISSICEU takes theory-informed, interdisciplinary and strongly inductive approaches, able
to adequately identify phenomena as they manifest themselves in the region and to give
innovative policy recommendations.
Security and democracy in the neighbourhood: the
case of the Caucasus
Topic:
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin
http://www.swp-berlin.org/
01.01.2014
EC Contribution:
1.573.957 €
Weitere Partner:
- Unviersite de Fribourg, CH
- Khazar University, AZ
- Turkiye Ekonomi Politikalari Arastirma Vakfi, TR
- Geowel Research, GE
- Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after KH M Berbekov, RU
- State Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education, Russian State University
for the Humanities, RU
Project Website:
http://www.issiceu.eu/
Proposal Number:
613004
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Juli 2014
MECODEM
Media, Conflict and Democratisation
The project ‘Media, Conflict and Democratisation’ investigates the role of traditional
media and ICTs in conflicts that accompany and follow transitions to democracy. Our
research focuses on three major arenas of contentious politics in emerging democracies:
constitutional conflicts, accountability conflicts and election conflicts.
We argue that the media cannot be sufficiently understood in isolation, but have to be
seen as part of an arena of public contestation that is occupied by multiple actors, each
of which thriving to dominate the interpretations and outcomes of ongoing conflicts.
Thus, the project aims to investigate
• The way in which traditional media in emerging democracies portray conflicts and whether media coverage contributes to the polarisation or moderation of divisions
• The diffusion of conflict messages through new ICTs;
• The role perceptions, ethics and working practices of journalists in conflict situations;
• The communication behaviour of conflict parties – governments, political leaders, civil
society groups – during conflicts and how communications heightens or ameliorates
tensions
The empirical research will be carried out in four emerging democracies: Serbia, Egypt,
Kenya and South Africa. These countries were chosen because their political development is of great significance for the respective geographical region in which they are
located. All four countries have experienced severe democratisation conflicts, but represent distinct contexts that help to understand how cultural, political and social factors
shape the role of the media in democratisation conflicts.
The project will closely work together with relevant stakeholders to develop recommendations for communication interventions that help to prevent conflicts and provide
strategies for effective conflict management and conflict resolution. In particular, we will
provide knowledge and skills as to how ICT tools can be used for effective communication management during conflicts...
Coordinator:
University of Leeds
UK
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Media in conflicts and peace building
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.02.2014
http://www.uni-hamburg.de/
EC Contribution:
2.178.708 €
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/
Project Website:
http://www.mecodem.eu
Weitere Partner:
Proposal Number:
- Rhodes University, ZA
- Univerzitet U Beogradu, Fakultet Politickih Nauka, RS
- The American University in Cairo, EG
613370
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Juli 2014
MERCURY
Multilateralism and the EU in the contemporary global order
This project seeks to understand the EU’s contribution to effective multilateralism. We
consider evolving and conflicting (culturally-defined) meanings of multilateralism; its
uncertain future on a global scale; the EU system of external relations in the light of
the Reform Treaty and its implications for the Union‘s ability to shape multilateralism;
and whether and how multilateralism is compatible with the EU’s shift towards interregionalism and strategic partnerships.
Arguably, the EU has done more than most of its partners to acknowledge new global
challenges and rising demand for multilateralism. Its own positions frequently become focal points for international negotiations on conflict resolution.
Nevertheless, essential questions remain unanswered about the viability of a European „way“ of multilateralism. Can multilateralism be defined in a way that transcends
divisions within as well as beyond Europe, between states, nations and cultures,
strong and weak, rich and poor?
Is there a concept of multilateralism that overcomes theoretical schisms? Is it possible
for the EU or its Member States (or anyone else) to define and pursue a selfless, benign,
credible doctrine of multilateralism, as opposed to one that serves its own interests?
The problem of matching supply to demand for effective multilateralism will be the
leitmotif for MERCURY, a research programme that will elaborate and clarify forms of
multilateralism, develop specific theses about the EU’s contribution to multilateralism, and test them in line with best scientific practice.
Its remit extends to the interactions of the EU and its Member States with regions outside Europe, strategic partners, and global organisations. It is interdisciplinary,
drawing on expertise in law, politics, economics, and international relations. It advances a clear intellectual agenda – to explore, explain, and evaluate different conceptions of multilateralism – while aiming to achieve practical policy relevance.
Coordinator:
The University of Edinburgh, Politics Dept.
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Edinburgh
UK
Mark Aspinwall
http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Activity 4 : Europe and the world
Area: Europe‘s changing role in the world
Topic:
Multilateralism and the new external relations
of the European Union
Duration:
Universität zu Köln
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wessels
http://www.wessels.uni-koeln.de
36 months
Start date:
01.02.2009
EC Contribution:
1.500.000 €
Project Website:
http://www.mercury-fp7.net/
Weitere Partner:
- Charles University, Prague, CZ
- Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome, IT
- University of Pretoria, Pretoria, ZA
- Fudan University, Shanghai, CN
- Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Solna, SE
- The University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Proposal Number:
225267
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
MULTIPART
Multi-stakeholder partnerships in post-conflict reconstruction: the role of the European Union
By consolidating and advancing the knowledge on factors that facilitate peace and
foster human security, this project meets the goals of the 7th Framework Programme,
area 8.4.2 „conflicts, peace, and human rights“. Namely, it investigates whether, how,
and under what conditions multi-stakeholder partnerships can positively impact on
human security and thus, facilitate non-violence and long-term peace, and provide a
productive framework for relations between local actors and external actors, including third party mediators and international organisations.
The project moves from the recognition that there is a widespread agreement among
both academics and policy-makers on the need to adopt more comprehensive,
integrative, and participatory approaches in post-conflict interventions. Within this
broader framework, multi-stakeholder partnerships are then emerging as one of the
preferred tools geared towards enhancing participation, legitimacy and effectiveness
of post-conflict interventions.
However, there is a clear lack of systematic analysis of the multi-stakeholder partnerships and of evaluation of their concrete impact on effectiveness and sustainability of
post-conflict reconstruction initiatives.
The project will base its empirical investigation on three core case studies of core
political interest to the EU today: Kosovo, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),
and Afghanistan. By employing a participatory methodology, the project will ensure
the highest degree of on-going feedback between its researchers and different local
and international actors operating in these settings and will explore opportunities to
directly impact on partnerships that are evolving in these societies.
By translating its findings into policy recommendations, the project will contribute
to enhancing the role of Europe in conflict prevention and resolution as well as in
fostering the rule of law.
Coordinator:
Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e
di Perfezionamento Sant‘Anna
Classe di Scienze Sociali, Pisa
IT
Andreas De Guttry
http://www.ssup.it
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Activity 4 - Europe and the world
Topic:
Conflicts and peace
University of Hamburg
Institute for Peace Resarch and Security Policy
IFSH, Hamburg
Michael Brzoska
http://www.ifsh.de/
Duration:
28 months
Start date:
01.04.2008
EC Contribution:
Weitere Partner:
- Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, ERI, Paris, FR
- University of Bradford , CICS, Bradford, UK
- Universiteit van Amsterdam, Department Political Science
Amsterdam Centre for Conflict Studies, Amsterdam, NL
- London School of Economics and Political Science, Government/Destin, London, UK
- Europäisches Trainings- und Forschungszentrum für Menschenrechte und Demokratie, Graz, AT
- Univerza V Ljubljani , Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana, SI
- Egmont - Institut Royal des Relations Internationales, Central Africa Programme,
Brussels, BE
- International Security Information Service (ISIS) Europe, Brussels, BE
- Institute for Security and International Studies, Sofia, BG
- Università degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Studi sullo Stato
Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Florence, IT
1 .186.273 €
Project Website:
http://www.multi-part.eu/
Proposal Number:
217564
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
NOPOOR
Enhancing Knowledge for Renewed Policies against Poverty
NOPOOR aims to build new knowledge on the nature and extent of poverty in developing countries to provide policymakers with a broader understanding of poverty. We
believe that poverty cannot be tackled without a comprehensive approach. We know
that poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon, but NOPOOR will explore new and
uncharted dimensions. It is not just a picture of poverty, but also an understanding of
poverty entry and exit processes that is needed for achieving MDGs and for making more
effective the policies. Nineteen experienced partners are involved in the project, which
includes ten teams from developing and emerging countries in three regions (Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia). These countries have implemented different poverty reduction policies, and this will form the basis for the comparative and case studies
approach taken. The project will identify key mechanisms that explain the persistence
and exacerbation of poverty, which have been altered by the insertion of developing
countries into the globalization process, including trade, aid, FDI and migration, and by
the growing interdependence of economies. Causes may differ between countries.
This calls for policies and actions to be tailored to each poor countrys characteristics, including their access to resources, political regime, quality of institutions and governance.
These points are developed by various approaches, including political economics, and
different methods: surveys, econometric studies and case studies. NOPOOR will put significant resources into generating new knowledge from original surveys, database work
and qualitative work. It will also look forward to future scenarios. Conclusions will be
oriented to policy recommendations. Beyond this contribution to scientific knowledge,
NOPOOR will pursue an active policy of dissemination and capacity building, including
training of young Southern researchers and the implementation of a permanent network
with National Institutes of Statistics (NIS).
The project is policy-oriented. NOPOOR will accompany the EU‘s agenda for its policy
against poverty by consultations, guidance notes, and policy briefs on issues relating to
the program. The review of MDG will constitute an important point of focus in the future
years.
Coordinator:
Institut de Recherche pour le developpement
FR
Xavier Oudin
http://www.ird.fr/
Funding Scheme:
Large-scale integrating project for specific cooperation actions dedicated to international cooperation
partner countries(SICA)
Research Area:
Area: Interactions and interdependencies between
Topic:
Tackling poverty in a development context
Duration:
60 months
Kiel
Rainer Thiele
http://www.ifw-kiel.de/
Start date:
01.04.2012
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Hamburg
Gero Erdmann
Jann Lay
http://www.giga-hamburg.de/
Weitere Partner:
- Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, MX
- OIKODROM - Forum Nachhaltige Stadt, Verein für neue Städtebaukultur, AT
- Consortium pour la recherche economique et social, SN
- Centre for development economics society, IN
- Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, ES
- Vien Khoa Hoc Xa Hoi Vietnam, VN
- Universidad de Chile, CL
- Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paiy de Namur, BE
- Grupo de Analisis para Desarollo Asociacion, PE
- Centre d‘etudes de populations de pauvrete et de politiques socio-economique, LU
- University of Cape Town, ZA
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique, FR
- The Ghana Center for Democratic Development LBG, GH
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BR
- University of Antananarivo, MG
EC Contribution:
8.00.000 €
Project Website:
Proposal Number:
290752
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Mai 2012
POLINARES
Policy for natural resources
POLINARES concentrates on the global challenges faced with respect to access to
oil, gas and mineral resources over the next 20 years and proposes solutions for the
various policy actors, including the EU. Combined theoretical and empirical analyses
will use expertise from a wide range of disciplines including political science, economics, geology, engineering, technology, law and security studies. The initial aim will
be to understand the causes of past and current conflict and tension relating to access
to these resources and identify emergent sources of future conflict and tension. New
frameworks for analysis will be developed using historical experience and political and
economic theories. Future availability and demands for energy and other selected
minerals will be assessed to provide the basis for evaluation of potential future sources
of tension and conflict. Technical and economic data for critical resources will be
analysed for key factors determining recent and future supply and demand, and to
develop scenarios for the future. Current and recent practices and strategies of key
actors will be examined to understand, refine and calibrate theoretical models developed. Building on scenarios developed to identify and assess the major future risks
for tension and conflict, POLINARES will integrate assessments of future supply and
demand with the understanding of the behaviour of actors and their interactions and
interdependencies.
Later, the project is devoted to identifying future policy approaches. POLINARES will
establish a new set of criteria for evaluating past, current and future policy approaches, and will develop new understanding from how experience in other natural
resource sectors of different approaches have been and can be used. A novel set of
policy approaches and will be established aimed at mitigating anticipated tensions
and conflicts, and will identify clearly the roles which the EU can play in promoting
such policy approaches and options.
Coordinator:
University of Dundee
UK
Philip Andrews-Speed
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Europe‘s role in global economic governance
Duration:
Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe
Hannover
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Cramer
http://www.bgr.bund.de/
36 months
Start date:
01.01.2010
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung
Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung (ISI)
Karlsruhe
Dr.-Ing. Luis Tercero
http://www.isi.fraunhofer.de/
EC Contribution:
2.678.646 €
Project Website:
http://www.polinares.eu
Proposal Number:
Weitere Partner:
- Stichting Fonds Instituut Glingendael, Clingendael International Energy Programme,
Gravenhage, NL
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, FR
- ENERDATA SA, Grenoble, FR
- Raw Materials Group, Solna, SE
- University of Westminster, London, UK
- Fonazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milano, IT
- Gulf Research Center Foundation, Genève, CH
- Den Haag Centrum voor Strategische Studies, Gravenhage, NL
- Osrodek Studiow Wschodnich im. Marka Karpia, Warsaw, PL
244516
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
PRIV-WAR
Regulating privatisation of “war”: the role of the EU in assuring the compliance with international humanitarian law and human rights
The goal of the research project is to assess the impact of the extensive use of private
military and security companies in situations of armed conflict and to discuss the regulatory framework at national, European and international levels, to assure compliance
with international humanitarian law and human rights.
Though this is not a new phenomenon, the fear motivating commentators and activists was that private companies operate in a legal vacuum.
Although there is growing consensus now in the literature that the situation actually
resembles more a complex patchwork of norms, the key question still remains whether and how these existing norms can be effectively applied and whether they need
to be supplemented with new norms.
Specific objectives are:
a. to promote a better understanding of the phenomenon of the privatisation of war;
b. to clarify the legal status of PMCs/PSCs (private military companes/private security
companies) employees under international humanitarian law;
c. to foster knowledge on the impact of private military activities on the enjoyment of
human rights;
d. to analyse international responsibility and accountability of the corporations;
e. to examine the existing regulation at national and EU levels;
f. to explore the ways the EU could regulate PMCs/PSCs.
The current proposal seeks to highlight the crucial role of the EU in three respects,
which to date have not received much attention in the literature.
First, the proposal will seek to offer insights into how the EU can and should develop a
unified position on the international regulation of PMCs/PSCs. Second, the work to be
undertaken will assess the need for and potential of harmonization of the EU Member
States’ domestic approaches towards PMCs/PSCs.
Lastly, the present proposal will offer advice to policy-makers on the development of a
regulation scheme at the supranational level.
To date, the existing literature on such schemes has largely neglected the role of the
EU could and should play in this regard.
Coordinator:
European University Institute
Department of Law, Florence
IT
Francesco Francioni
http://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsandCentres/Law/
index.aspx
Funding Scheme:
Collaborative project (small and medium scale
focused research project)
Research Area:
Activity 4 - Europe and the world
Topic:
Articulation of the rule of law and protection of
human rights at national, European and
international level
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.01.2008
Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen
Faculty of Law
Giessen
Prof. Dr. Thilo Marauhn
http://www.recht.uni-giessen.de/wps/fb01/home
EC Contribution:
1 .138.682 €
Project Website:
Weitere Partner:
http://priv-war.eu
- Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, Department of Law,
Rome, IT
- The University of Sheffield, Department of Law, Sheffield, UK
- Riga Graduate School of Law, Department of International Public Law, Riga, LV
- Utrecht Universiteit, Department of Public Law - ISEP, Utrecht, NL
- Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris II, Centre Thucydide, Paris, FR
Proposal Number:
217405
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
SAHWA
Empowering the young generation: towards a new social contract in South and East Mediterranean countries
Young people in the South and East Mediterranean area are enduring a multiple
transitions. In addition to the political and socioeconomic transformations, there is the
transition to adulthood from the famous tripartite division of the life cycle in preparation
for professional life, working life and retirement.
Other experiences of socio-economic transformation, as in East Europe, may give us
learnt lessons to manage economic, political and social change. Today, there are no longer substantial differences separating the young people of west and east. Nevertheless,
there are important differences in economic resources, education and social between
two shores of the Mediterranean. In addition, the SEM young Europeans differ in cultural
values and practices different from their counterparts in the north.
Still, some processes linked to economic globalization and the precarious living conditions, labor and difficulties in individual empowerment, among others, suggest the
emergence of a youth crime and its consolidation as a category of scientific analysis.
This argument lets you put so research that supports integrating the European experiences in youth employment, political participation and gender equality, the youth situation
in the context of transition and European double in similar scenarios on the south bank.
To articulate such research dimensions the project will articulate the concept of triple
transition, taking into account political transitions, socio-economic transitions, and “invisible” transition such as cultural trends and emotions related to youth and the insecurity
about the future (“resident generation”)...
Coordinator:
Centre for internationel information and
documentation in Barcelona
ES
http://www.cidob.org/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Area: Interactions and interdependences
between world regions and their
implications
Universität Bremen
http://www.uni-bremen.de/
Weitere Partner:
Topic:
Facing transition in the South and East
Mediterranean area: empowering the young
generation
- Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, IT
- Finnish Youth Research Society, FI
- The University of Liverpool, UK
- Centre de Recherche en Economie Appliquee pour le Developpement, DZ
- Lebanese American University non profit Corporation, US
- Fundacion Educacion para el Empleo, ES
- Universidad de Lleida, ES
- University of Plovdiv, BG
- HEM, MA
- Anima Investment Network, FR
- Centre Femme Arabe Formation Recherche Association, TN
- The American University in Cairo, EG
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.01.2014
EC Contribution:
2.498.526 €
Project Website:
http://www.sahwa.eu
Proposal Number:
613174
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Juli 2014
SEATIDE
Integration in Southeast Asia: Trajectories of Inclusion, Dynamics of Exclusion
The project SEATIDE brings together Southeast Asian (SEA) and European researchers
with two objectives: research and network development. Research. Using locally focused
field study methodologies, our experience of research on integration frameworks in Southeast Asia shows that historical and contemporary integrative processes include some
groups and exclude others. Exclusion of communities presents risks to human development and security, even of framework disintegration. This understanding directs our
research question: in processes of integration, who is excluded? We address it in thematic
work packages with relevant qualitative/quantitative case studies guided by a common
analytical framework focused on four key issues: diversity, prosperity, knowledge and
security. Attention to SEAs sub-regions and globalisation/transnational issues defines our
approach. Structuring the European Research Area (ERA).
On the basis of existing structures the unique EFEO network of 10 field centres in SEA,
plus ECAF, EUROSEAS, ASEF we work for the development of effective, integrated networks of EU-SEA research, embracing Western European and ASEAN-founder countries
alongside Eastern/Southern Europe and post-communist SEA nations. Broad dissemination of results is essential to the projects success, through conferences, publications, press
coverage and policy briefs. Our recent and innovative research serves to improve the
dialogue initiated in the EFEOs FP7 project IDEAS between social scientists and policymakers.
Coordinator:
Ecole Francaise D‘Extreme-Orient
FR
Franciscus Verellen
http://www.efeo.fr
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Volker Grabowsky
http://www.uni-hamburg.de/
Topic:
National and regional integration in South East Asia
Duration:
Weitere Partner:
36 months
- Universita‘ degli studi di Milano-Bicocca, IT
- Chiang Mai University, TH
- Universiti Sains Malaysia, MY
- Gadjah Mada University, ID
- College of St. Mary Magdalene in the University of Cambridge Royal Charter, UK
- Vien Khoa Hoc Xa Hoi Vietnam, VN
Start date:
01.12.2012
EC Contribution:
2.415.071 €
Project Website:
http://www.seatide.eu/
Proposal Number:
320221
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2013
T-AP
Trans-Atlantic Platform for the Social Sciences and Humanities
Major research funders in Europe and the Americas have decided to join forces to build
a Trans-Atlantic Platform (TA-P) in order to create and establish effective and structured multi-lateral engagement between research funding agencies in Europe and the
Americas. This Trans-Atlantic-Platform is a global first, representing a collaborative effort
of key Humanities and Social Science funders on a scale not previously entertained. This
Platform will break down the barriers to further co-operation between funders and also
lead to heightening understanding of the contribution of Social Sciences and Humanities
disciplines in a global context. As a first major step, the proposal includes key partners
from Europe, Canada, Mexico and Brazil. Efforts will be made to engage additional partners from Europe and particularly the Americas.
The Platform will support agencies in stepping up international collaboration: though
sharing best practices, networking and closer coordination of existing activities and the
establishment of new relationships to facilitate multidisciplinary networking across the
Social Sciences and Humanities in their widest remit both with respect to research and
geographical areas. A comparative analysis of the partners involved in the Platform and a
mapping of existing research networks will be issued to identify barriers and challenges
to transnational collaboration and to formulate successful mechanisms to work together
efficiently beyond the bilateral approach. In order to become more than a ‘network
of networks’ and to bring genuine added value the Platform will be focusing on key
topics. As an initial focus, the Platform has agreed upon a plan to pilot new principles of
transnational collaboration through concrete joint programming focusing on the theme
of Digital Scholarship. A shortlist of other ‘thematic’ areas will be scoped in more detail
and will serve as recommendations for topics and issues within Horizon 2020 or national
funding strategies.
Coordinator:
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk
Onderzoek
NL
Renee van Kessel
http://www.nwo.nl/
Funding Scheme:
Support actions
Research Area:
Area: Europe’s changing role in the world
Topic:
Transatlantic Social Sciences and Humanities
Platform
Deutsche Partner:
Duration:
36 months
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Köln
http://www.dlr.de
Start date:
01.10.2013
Weitere Partner:
- Conseil International Provisoire des Sciences Sociales Association, FR
- Economic and Social Research Council, UK
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, CA
- Suomen Akatemia, FI
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia, MX
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, PT
- The Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK
- Agence National de la Recherche, FR
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo, BR
EC Contribution:
1.495.409 €
Project Website:
http://www.transatlanticplatform.com/voorpagina
Proposal Number:
613167
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Juli 2014
TRANSWORLD
Redefining the transatlantic relationship and its role in shaping global governance
In an era of global flux, emerging powers and growing interconnectedness, transatlantic
relations appear to have lost their bearings. As the international system fragments into
different constellations of state and non-state powers across different policy domains,
the US and the EU can no longer claim exclusive leadership in global governance. Not
only the ability, but also the willingness of the US and the EU to exercise leadership
together can no longer be taken for granted. Political, economic, and social elites on
both shores of the Atlantic express different views on whether the US and the EU should
be bound together, freelance, or seek alternative partnerships in a confusing multipolar world. Traditional paradigms to understand the transatlantic relationship are thus
wanting. A new approach is needed to pinpoint the direction transatlantic relations are
taking.
TRANSWORLD provides such an approach. By combining an inter-disciplinary analysis of
transatlantic relations, including desk research, in-depth interviews, an elite survey and a
sophisticated Delphi exercise to elaborate solid policy proposals, TRANSWORLD would: a)
ascertain, differentiating among four policy domains (economic, security, environment,
and human rights/democracy), whether transatlantic relations are drifting apart, adapting along an ad hoc cooperation-based pattern, or evolving into a different but resilient
special partnership; b) assess the role of a re-defined transatlantic relationship in the global governance architecture; c) provide tested policy recommendations on how the US
and the EU could best cooperate to enhance the viability, effectiveness, and accountability of governance structures. In so doing, TRANSWORLD, which features a thirteen-partner
transatlantic consortium of attested academic, policy, dissemination and management
excellence, would contribute to an inter-disciplinary transatlantic research area, with inbuilt connections to policy-making.
Coordinator:
Istituto Affari internazionali, Rome
IT
Dr. Riccardo Alcaro
http://www.iai.it
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Area: Europe´s changing role in the world
Topic:
Transatlantic relations in the context of global
governance architecture and relationships
with other powers
Duration:
Universität Mannheim
Susann-Annette Storm
http://www.uni-mannheim.de
42 months
Start date:
Peggy Martin
http://www.fu-berlin.de
01.03.2012
EC Contribution:
2.500.120 €
Weitere Partner:
- The Royal Institute of international Affairs, London, UK
- The European Omnibus Survey SCRL, Brussels, BE
- European University Institute, Florence, IT
- Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Prague, CZ
- American University, Washington, US
- The German Marshall Fund of the United States –
a memorial to the Marshall Plan, Washington, US
- Universita´ degli studi di Siena, Siena, IT
- The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Sabanci University, Istanbul, TR
- Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politique, Paris, FR
Project Website:
http://www. http://www.iai.it/content.
asp?langid=2&contentid=434
Proposal Number:
290454
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Mai 2012
Activity 5:
The citizen in the European Union
ALACS
Promotion of Participation and Citizenship in Europe through the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centres (ALACs)
of Transparency International (ALACS)
The ALAC-project will generate better scientific knowledge and a best practice -model
of civil society activities in the anti-corruption coalition. With the focus on the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centres (ALACs) of Transparency International, the leading CSO
against corruption, the research project aims at:
- enhancing civil society participation
- raising anti-corruption effectiveness
- developing the advocacy for legal change at the national and EU level.
Based on the insight that citizens participation and the values of integrity, accountability and transparency are crucial components of fighting corruption the project is
designed to promote the ALACs both as a management tool of a bottom-up anti-corruption work and citizens participation mechanism.
The goal of developing an advanced ALAC-methodology as a new model for co-operation between citizens, CSOs and researchers is to meet the challenge of devising
policies that raise the level of citizens participation and empowerment. Combining
action-research and practical implementation the project itself designed as a process
of organizational learning will have direct impact on the work of Transparency International and its partner organizations in Europe and all over the world.
Furthermore the empirical grounded theory of the practice of the anti-corruption coalition in different EU- and EU-affiliated countries, intended by the project, will establish
an innovative paradigm for scientific research as well as for the design of all kinds of
civil society actors and non-governmental organizations.
Coordinator:
Universität Konstanz
Forschungsgruppe Wissenssoziologie
Prof. Dr. Dirk Tänzler
http://www.uni-konstanz.de/fg-wiss/
Funding Scheme:
Research for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)
Research Area:
Area: Diversities and commonalities in Europe
Topic:
Democratic ‚ownership‘ and participation
Duration:
- Transparency International e.V.
Berlin
http://www.transparency.de
36 months
Start date:
01.10.2009
- Universität Duisburg-Essen
KWI - Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut
Essen
http://www.kwi-nrw.de/home/index.html
EC Contribution:
Weitere Partner:
Project Website:
- Transparency Suomi Ry, FI
- Transparency International, Ceskarepublika Ops, CZ
- Transparency - Azerbaijan Anti-Corruption Public Association, AZ
- Transparency International Lietuvosskyrius, LT
- Asocoatia Romana Pentru Transparenta, RO
- The University of Warkwick, UK
- Transparency International Ltd., IE
- Transparency International Magyarorszag Alapitvany, HU
- Borba Protiv Korupcije Bosnia I Hercegovina
999.804 €
Proposal Number:
225374
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
ANTICORRP
Anticorruption Policies Revisited. Global Trends and European Responses to the Challenge of Corruption
The central objective of ANTICORRP is to investigate and explain the factors that promote
or hinder the development of effective anticorruption policies and impartial government
institutions. ANTICORRP directly addresses the objective in the Work Program by examining what the causes of corruption are, how corruption can be conceptualized, measured
and analysed, what the impact of corruption on societies is and how policy responses
can be tailored as to deal effectively with this phenomenon. The starting point for this
project is the following: The knowledge about the very negative impact that corruption
has on a great number of factors that are important for human well-being (economic
prosperity, population health, life satisfaction, gender equality, social trust, political legitimacy, etc.) is now well established. At the same time, knowledge about how corruption
can be successfully fought by political means is much less developed.
While this project concentrates on corruption in Europe, ANTICORRP also has a global
scope. The project will identify general global trends concerning corruption and select
over-performing and under-performing countries in terms of their progress towards less
corrupt governance regimes and conduct more detailed qualitative analyses of these
cases. The project includes participants from anthropology, criminology, economics, gender studies, history, legal studies, political science, public policy and administration and
sociology at twenty-one units in sixteen European countries. Research will be conduced
using a various set of methods including historical case-studies, large-scale surveys and
ethnographical approaches. The project will strive to ensure that the research findings
are spread to policy makers and the general public by using high profile multimedia and
data visualisation tools as well as research-to-policy workshops at different levels and for
different target audiences.
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
(Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien)
Christine Hinterreiter-Bunzel
http://www.giga-hamburg.de/
Coordinator:
Goeteborgs Universitet
Goeteborg
SE
Dr. Martin Hedesström
http://www.gu.se
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Area: Participation and citizenship in Europe
Topic:
Corruption and resistance to corruption in the
private and public sphere
Duration:
60 months
Transparency International e. V.
Robin Hodess
http://www.transparency.org
Start date:
01.03.2012
Hertie School of Governance gGmbH
Dagmar Hoffmann
EC Contribution:
Weitere Partner:
Project Website:
- Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem, Budapest, HU
- Societatea academica din Romania, Bucharest, RO
- The Gallup Organisation Europe, Brussels, BE
- Elliniko Idryma Evropaikis Kai Exoterikis Politikis
(Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign policy), Athens, GR
- Center for the Study of Democracy, Sofia, BG
- Universita degli studi di Bergamo, Bergamo, IT
- Sabiedriskas Politikas Centrs Providus, Riga, LV
- Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
- University College London, London, UK
- Skola Komunikacie A Medii N.O., Bratislava, SK
- Universita degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, IT
- University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
- Basel Institute of Governance, Basel, CH
- Partnership for Social Development, Zagreb, HR
- European University Institute, Florence, IT
- Hacettepe Universitesi, Ankara, TR
7.999.182 €
Proposal Number:
290529
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Mai 2012
ATHEME
Advancing the European Multilingual Experience
The project Advancing The European Multilingual Experience (AThEME) takes an integrated approach towards the study of multilingualism in Europe by incorporating and combining linguistic, cognitive and sociological perspectives; by studying multilingualism
in Europe at three different levels of societal magnitude, viz. the individual multilingual
citizen, the multilingual group, and the multilingual society; by using a palate of research
methodologies, ranging from fieldwork methods to various experimental techniques and
advanced EEG/ERP technologies.
This integrated approach towards the study of multilingualism is grounded in the idea
that multilingualism in Europe has many facets. AThEME will cover the different forms
of multilingualism in Europe by developing new lines of inquiry on regional/minority
languages, heritage languages, languages spoken by bi-/multi-lingual speakers with
communicative disorders, and languages spoken by bi-/multi-linguals at different stages
of development and life. These lines of inquiry will provide (partial) answers to fundamental questions, including: What does it mean to be bilingual? How and why do people
succeed or fail in learning another language? How can we help speakers maintain their
regional/heritage language and reach proficient multilingualism? What are the reciprocal
effects of multilingualism and cognition? Are there cognitive benefits of multilingualism
for senior citizens? How does multilingualism „interact with“ communicative disorders?
Which societal factors have a major impact on successful maintenance of regional/heritage languages?
Answers to these questions provided within the context of AThEME will provide a firm
basis for assessing existing public policies and practices within major areas such as
education and health and contribute to evidence-based policy-making. AThEME aims to
raise societal awareness of multilingualism through building on the successful model of
academic public engagement provided by the program Bilingualism Matters.
Coordinator:
Universiteit Leiden
NL
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
The multilingual challenge for the European citizen
Duration:
53 months
Start date:
Universität Konstanz
http://www.uni-konstanz.de/
01.03.2014
EC Contribution:
4.999.990 €
Weitere Partner:
- Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, UK
- The University of Reading, UK
- BCBL Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language, ES
- Univerza v Novi Gorici, SI
- Universita degli Studi di Verona, IT
- Universite de Nantes, FR
- Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen - KNAW, NL
- Universita degli Studi die Trento, IT
- Universidad del Pais Vasco EHU UPV, ES
- University of Rijeka - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, HR
- De Taalstudio BV, NL
- Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), FR
Project Website:
https://vre.leidenuniv.nl/vre/atheme/public/default.
aspx
Proposal Number:
613465
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Juli 2014
BEUCITIZEN
All Rights Reserved? Barriers towards EUropean CITIZENship
The European Court of Justice expects European citizenship to become the fundamental
status of nationals of the Member States. It lies at the heart of the European integration process. The treaties, legislation, and case law have given Europeans an increasing
number of rights. Yet the European Commission complains that these remain underused.
Therefore, it has included in FP7 a call for a large-scale IP, identifying and analysing barriers to exercising such European citizenship rights.
Utrecht University is initiating a response to this call. In its project proposal it identifies
research questions and several categories of potential hindrances as answers to some of
them: contradictions between different rights, multilevel rights, and differences in priorities Member States accord these rights; differences in political, administrative, and legal
institutions; financial restraints; lack of sufficient solidarity; administrative and bureaucratic hurdles; language problems; and other practical barriers to claiming and exercising
rights - and related duties. Furthermore we distinguish citizenship rights by the types of
rights - economic, social, political, and civil - and by the ascribed characteristics of the
subjects of these rights: male and female, young and old, native and immigrant.
We believe multidisciplinarity will help in identifying and analysing barriers to the exercise of European citizenship. We can learn from other times and places; therefore we add
a historical and comparative dimension to the analysis. And we aim to combine insights
from the historical, legal, and social sciences. Overall we want to investigate the options
for a multi-layered citizenship true to the EU‘s motto ‚In Varietate Concordia‘.
The research questions and theoretically identified barriers will be investigated in 12
different work packages, each containing specific research objectives, tasks, roles of the
participants, and deliverables.
Coordinator:
NL
http://www.uu.nl/Nl/Pages/default.aspx
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Area: Participation and citizenship in
Europe
Topic:
Exercising EU citizenship: removing barriers
Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
http://www.boeckler.de/index.htm
Duration:
48 months
Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/
Start date:
01.05.2013
Universität Siegen
http://www.uni-siegen.de/start/
EC Contribution:
6.490.312 €
Weitere Partner:
- Aalborg Universitet, DK
- Universität Zürich, CH
- Universita degli Studi di Trento, IT
- Bogazici Universitesi, TR
- Universite Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, FR
- Institut Barcelona D Estudis Internacionals, Fundacio Privada, ES
- University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin, IE
- Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, PL
- Goeteborgs Universitet, SE
- Sveuciliste u Zagrebu, HR
- Kobenhavns Universitet, DK
- Tartu Ulikool, EE
- Democritus University of Thrace, GR
- KOZEP-EUROPAI EGYETEM, HU
Project Website:
http://beucitizen.eu/
Proposal Number:
320294
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Juli 2014
CRIC
Identity and conflict. Cultural heritage and the reconstruction of identities after conflict
This proposal aims to investigate the ways the destruction and subsequent selective
reconstruction of the cultural heritage impact identity formation.
Recent conflicts in Europe, as well as abroad, have brought the deliberate destruction
of the heritage of others, as a means of inflicting pain, to the foreground. With this has
come the realisation that the processes involved and thus the long-term consequences are poorly understood. Heritage reconstruction is not merely a matter of design
and resources - at stake is the revisioning and reconstruction of people‘s identities!
Through five regional case studies, this project seeks to illuminate both the empirical
and theoretical relationship between cultural heritage, conflict , and identity.
In particular, it will examine how destruction as well as reconstruction affect notions
of belonging and identies at different scales ranging from the individual to the pannational.
The five regional studies will ensure historical depth, variation, and different trajectories, while the shared methodologies and axes of investigation will ensure comparative measures are reached.
The regional work packages will use case studies to collect data and conduct analysis
that collectively will aim to answer:
a. what conditions and ideologies inspire the destruction of cultural heritage and
what is selected for destruction?
b. what are the consequences at local, national and regional levels of such destruction
and the subsequent reconstruction of parts of people‘s heritage?
The project will vastly enhance insights into the crucial relationship between heritage
and identity, and on this basis it will provide much needed knowledge of use to policymakers.
Technische Universität Dresden
Institut für Soziologie, Lehrstuhl für Soziologische Theorie, Theoriegeschichte und
Kultursoziologie
Dresden
Prof. Dr. Karl-Siegbert Rehberg
http://tu-dresden.de
Coordinator:
University of Cambridge
Dept. of Archaeology, Cambridge
UK
Marie Louise Stig Sorensen
http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/
Funding Scheme:
Collaborative Project
Research Area:
Activity 5 - The citizen in the European Union
Topic:
Histories and indentities - Articulating national and
European identities
Duration:
48 months
Start date:
01.02.2008
EC Contribution:
Weitere Partner:
- The Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU), Oslo, NO
- The University of Surrey , School of Human Sciences, Dept of Psychology,
Guildford, UK
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Department of Anthropology,
Madrid, ES
- Asociación de Investigación por la Paz Gernika Gogoratuz, Gernika, ES
- Université Paris Sorbonne - Paris IV, UFR de Géographie et Aménagement - Institut de
Géographie, Paris, FR
- International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) - Cyprus Centre, Nicosia, CY
- Umeå University, Department of Political Science, Umea, SE
1 .176.855 €
Project Website:
http://www.cric.arch.cam.ac.uk/index.php
Proposal Number:
217411
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
DEMANDAT
Addressing demand in anti-trafficking efforts and policies
The project investigates the notion of ‘demand’ for trafficking in human beings (THB)
from a range of scientific perspectives and develops an integrated framework that comprehensively addresses and relates demand with alternative framings where appropriate.
The findings provide empirical evidence to concrete policy questions on the EU agenda
and lay-out the full range of promising policy options. The project consortium engages in
continuous, intensive communication efforts with the objective of ensuring a good takeup of research results by policy-makers, other stakeholders and the wider society.
Work will proceed in three phases:
• Phase 1 involves a comprehensive analysis of theoretical and empirical literature as well
as an overview over debates with regard to trafficking for different purposes (commercial
sex, labour exploitation, child begging, forced marriages, organ removal and criminal
activities), and a mapping of demand related policy measures in different countries. On
this basis, a joint conceptual approach will be developed.
• Phase 2 involves five in-depth empirical case studies. Three of them address specific
fields with systematic differences with regard to the type of demand linked to trafficking:
Domestic work, prostitution and imported goods which are provided through global
supply chains. Two case studies investigate specifically relevant policy approaches (law
enforcement and raising awareness through campaigns).
• Phase 3 integrates insights from both phases into a coherent framework and intensifies
dissemination which is informed by continuous, systematic stakeholder communication
throughout the project.
Coordinator:
International Centre for Migration Policy
Development
AT
http://www.icmpd.org/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Addressing demand in anti-trafficking efforts
and policies
Universität Bremen
Duration:
42 months
Weitere Partner:
Start date:
01.01.2014
- The International la Strada Association, NL
- Centre pour le controle democratique des forces armees Geneve Fondation, CH
- La Strada Ceska Republika OPS, CZ
- University of Durham, UK
EC Contribution:
2.498.553 €
Project Website:
http://research.icmpd.org/2491.html
Proposal Number:
612869
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Juli 2014
ELDIA
European language diversity for all
The European linguistic landscape is experiencing a profound transformation. Innovations and changes in language policies, education, migration patterns etc. challenge
and change the roles and functions of languages within and between states, ethnic
groups and nations.
ELDIA (European Language Diversity for All) is an interdisciplinary research project
for reconceptualizing, promoting and re-evaluating individual and societal multilingualism. Experts on applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, law, social studies and
statistics, drawn from eight universities in six European countries, work together to
contribute to a better understanding of how local, “national” and “international”
(vehicular) languages interact in contemporary Europe. The empirical research will
be conducted with a selected sample of multilingual communities, which is to cover
practically the whole spectrum of different political and socioeconomic circumstances of linguistic minorities in Europe (smaller and more numerous, autochthonous
or migrant communities, vigorous and endangered, highly or weakly standardized
languages etc.). All these minority languages belong to the Finno-Ugric language
family which is seriously underrepresented in internationally accessible sociolinguistic
literature. The results of the research project, however, will be generalizable: they will
contribute to the study of multilingualism and the development of language policies
in other multilingual contexts as well, in and outside Europe.
Coordinator:
Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz
Prof. Dr. Anneli Sarhimaa
http://www.sneb.uni-mainz.de
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Weitere Partner:
- The Aland Islands Peace Institute, FI
- University of Maribor, SI
- University of Oulun, FI
- Stockholms Universitet , SE
- Tartu Ülikool, EE
- Helsingin Yliopisto, FI
Topic:
Vehicular languages in Europe in an era of globalisation: history, policy, practice
Duration:
42 months
Start date:
01.03.2010
EC Contribution:
2.700.000 €
Project Website:
http://www.eldia-project.org/
Proposal Number:
244335
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
ENRI-EAST
Interplay of European, national and regional identities: nations between states along the new Eastern borders of the European Union
The research project is aimed at an in-depth understanding of the ways in which modern European identities and regional cultures are formed and inter-communicated in
the Eastern part of the European continent.
ENRI-East is an inter-disciplinary effort, including sociology, political science, history
and ethnography. Its methodological thrust is empirical and comparative, building on
new survey data which are collected in the framework of the project.
Furthermore, the project pursues the objective to verify and advance the existing theoretical and methodological knowledge base on ethnic studies as well as on studies of
identities and nationalism.
In order to adequately determine the main factors in the identity formation process,
ethnic groups, which are part of larger titular nations and are divided by the new European Union frontier toward the New Independent States, are studied.
Four cross-cutting research themes structure the project: i.e. „interplay of identities
and cultures“, „nations between states“, „self-organisation and representation of
ethnic minorities along the East European borderland“, „historical paths, collective
memories, present status and expected dynamics of split nations in Eastern Europe“.
In its empirical part, the project builds on detailed qualitative and quantitative surveys
of a sample of 12 ethnic minorities in Eastern Europe focusing on issues of identities
and values.
Four regional workshops are organised and a final conference will conclude the
project.
Coordinator:
Institute for Advanced Studies
Center for Strategic Development, Vienna
AT
Alexander Chvorostov
http://www.ihs.ac.at/vienna/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Osteuropa Institut Regensburg
Arbeitsgruppe Migration and Integration
Regensburg
Dr. Barbara Dietz
Topic:
Histories and indentities - Articulating national
and European identities
Duration:
http://www.osteuropa-institut.de/
36 months
Start date:
Weitere Partner:
01.04.2008
- Tárki Institute, Budapest, HU
- University of Aberdeen, School of Social Science, Aberdeen, UK
- Institute for Social Research, Vilnius, LT
- Moscow State Lomonosov University, Center for Sociological Studies, Moscow, RU
- Belarussian State University, Center for Sociological and Political Research, Minsk, BY
- East-Ukrainian Foundation for Social Research, Kharkiv, UA
- University of St. Cyril and Methodius, Centre for European and Regional Youth Studies, Trnava, SK
- Oxford XXI, Innovative Research, Aylesburg, UK
- Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Faculty of Political Science, Lublin, PL
EC Contribution:
1.500.000 €
Project Website:
http://www.enri-east.net/en/
Proposal Number:
217227
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
EUCROSS
The Europeanisation of Everyday Life: Cross-Border Practices and Transnational Identities among EU and Third-Country Citizens
The EUCROSS project examines the relationship between the manifold activities of EU
residents (nationals, mobile EU citizens, and third-country nationals) across the borders
of nation states and their collective identities. Specifically, the project will:
1) map out individual
2) assess the impact of these practices on collective identifications (also controlling for
the inverse causal process).
Which cross-border practices are more likely to foster some form of identification with
the EU To disentangle empirically the factors and mechanisms that link together the
cross-border practices facilitated by European integration, globalisation and/or other
dimensions of collective identity, we adopt a two-stage, mixed quantitative/qualitative
approach. In the first stage, we will carry out a quantitative survey among nationals,
intra-EU movers (Romanian citizens) and third-country nationals (Turkish citizens) who
reside in six European countries (Denmark, Germany, Italy, Romania, Spain and the United Kingdom).
In the second stage, we will interrogate, via in-depth interviews, the meaning given by
individuals to cross-border practices, their collective identifications, and the role that the
European Union, globalisation, and the nation play in these personal narratives, among a
select typology of respondents to the quantitative survey.
GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
Mannheim
Prof. Dr. Michael Braun
http://www.gesis.org/
Coordinator:
Universita degli Studi Gabriele D‘Annunzio Di ChietiPescara
IT
Ettore Recchi
http://www.unifi.it/mdswitch.html
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
European Identities: Inner and outer perceptions of
Europe and the EU
Duration:
36 months
Weitere Partner:
Start date:
- Institut Barcelona D Estudis Internacionals, Fundacio Privada, ES
- Aarhus Unversitet, DK
- University of York, UK
01.04.2011
EC Contribution:
1 .740.000 €
Proposal Number:
266767
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2011
EUROIDENTITIES
The evolution of European identity: Using biographical methods to study the development of European identity
The development of a sense of positive identification with the ‚European project‘ by
ordinary citizens is crucial for the long-term success of the European Union.
The current state-of-the-art in research into European identity has been driven almost
exclusively by a ‚top down‘ elitist perspective that focuses upon the development of
an identification with ‚Europe‘ through centrally-driven policies.
The Euroidentities project will use advanced methods of qualitative biographical
interviewing and analysis to gain insights into the evolution and meanings of a European identity or identities from the ‚bottom up‘ perspective of the individual.
This will include investigating the factors that promote or retard a positive identification with ‚Europe‘ and the Community.
The project‘s research strategy will be to target five special ‚sensitized groups‘ -- aggregates whose life experience will have caused them to confront questions of their
own identity within Europe.
The five groups broadly conceived are: ‚transnational workers‘ at all levels from menial
economic migrants to ‚high end‘ technological workers; mature adults who experienced cross-border educational exchange schemes earlier in their lives; farmers
wo are subject to Europe-wide markets and systems of regulation; ‚cultural contact‘
workers; participants in civil society organisations.
The seven partner teams in Euroidenties include large and small nations who are in
both orignal and accession states located both in the peripheries and the core of
Europe. Euroidentities will employ a focused dissemination strategy that will include
from the outset interaction with policy-makers and others in public arenas at national
and European levels.
Coordinator:
Queens University Belfast, School of Sociology,
Social Policy and Social Work, Belfast
UK
Robert Lee Miller
http://www.qub.ac.uk
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Otto-Von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg
Institute of Sociololgy - ISOZ, Magdeburg
Prof. Dr. Fritz Schütze
http://www.isoz.ovgu.de
Topic:
Histories and indentities - Articulating national
and European identities
Duration:
36 months
Weitere Partner:
Start date:
01.03.2008
- Uniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz), Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Economy
and Sociology, Lodz, PL
- University of Wales Bangor, School of Social Sciences, Bangor, UK
- Tallinn University of Technology (TUT), School of Economics and Business Administration, Tallinn, EE
- Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Department „Sociology of
Work and Social Policy Jeleva, Rumiana“ Sofia, BG
- Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Sociologia, Naples, IT
EC Contribution:
1.422.081 €
Project Website:
http://www.euroidentities.org
Proposal Number:
213998
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
EUROPOLIS
EuroPolis: a deliberative policy-making project
EuroPolis explores the forms of democratic deficit that directly affecting EU citizens.
We test the hypothesis that citizen involvement in inclusive, informed, and thoughtful
deliberation about the EU increases access to politically relevant information, citizens‘
political engagement in EU public affairs, perceptions of the legitimacy of EU institutions, a sense of belonging to the EU, and voter turnout in EU parliamentary elections.
We draw our hypothesis from the theory of deliberative democracy that suggests that
democratic legitimacy rests on open deliberation, and prescribes that citizens should
become involved in politics.
EuroPolis intends to assess the political outcomes of deliberative democratic practices by experimenting what would happen if EU citizens became substantially more
informed about EU institutional arrangements, decision-making processes, and policy
issues, as well as more aware of the policy preferences of other EU citizens.
Would this make them evaluate EU policy alternatives differently from the way they
would with limited information? Would their policy preferences change? Would their
electoral choices be more aligned with their policy preferences and be more or less
likely to vote in second-order elections?
Would their electoral choices change? And if EU citizens had equal opportunity to
engage in a thoughtful dialogue with citizens of other EU nationalities to discuss what
they expect from their Union, would they identify the interests and problems they
share with other EU citizens? Would they develop stronger bonds with fellow EU citizens and feel part of the Union they formally belong to? Would there be an increase in
civic engagement?
EuroPolis will seek to answer these questions through a carefully designed experiment
that will assess how political and social attitudes toward EU issues change as a result
of exposure to politically relevant information, and what difference this makes for
political participation and voter turnout.
Coordinator:
Università degli studi di Siena
Centro di Ricerca sul Cambiamento Politico
Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Giuridiche, Politiche e Sociali, Siena
IT
Pierangelo Isernia
http://www.gips.unisi.it/circap/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Duration:
Universität Mannheim, MZES
Mannheim
PD Dr. Hermann Schmitt
http://www.uni-mannheim.de
24 months
Start date:
01.09.2008
EC Contribution:
Weitere Partner:
- University of Essex, Colchester, UK
- Universitetet I Oslo, Oslo, NO
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, ES
- European Policy Centre, Brussels, BE
- Avventura Urbana Srl, Torino, IT
- European Omnibus Survey Scrl, Brussels, BE
- Median Research Centre, Bucarest, RO
- Notre Europe, Paris, FR
1.389.174 €
Project Website:
http://www.europolis-project.eu/
Proposal Number:
225314
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
FREE
Football Research in an Enlarged Europe: Identity dynamics, perception patterns and cultural change
in Europes most prominent form of popular culture.
The FREE project aims at understanding the impact of the most popular and most widely
shared of all expressions of popular culture - football - on identity dynamics in an enlarged Europe.
In a truly interdisciplinary perspective FREE seeks to explore an apparently non-political,
but fully existing sub-cultural European public space of communication: the European
football scene in the largest sense.
FREE will bring together different approaches to this European public space:
a) it will study how collective memories of popular culture have emerged during the
history of European football, what trace they have left in mutual perception patterns across the continent and to what extent cultural commonality may grow out of historically
grown diversity in the field of everyday culture;
b) it will carry out multi-dimensional empirical research work that is innovative both in
design and scope, in order to produce new insight into the complex identity dynamics
resulting from processes of Europeanisation of football and strongly increased mobility
over the last two decades;
c) it will attempt to shed light on the issues raised by the growing feminisation of the
game such as gender construction and attitudes toward traditional patterns of identification;
d) it will provide an in-depth analysis of changing perceptions of European approaches
to football governance as a legitimacy-enhancing project and produce strategic recommendations for policy-makers and other stakeholders in this field.
Through an ambitious dissemination strategy the FREE project aims at increasing awareness among citizens, stakeholders and policy-makers about the issue of cultural diversity
and commonality in the field of popular culture and its often underestimated impact on
the political, economic and social dimensions of the European integration process.
Coordinator:
Ecole Superieure de Sciences Commerciales
d´Angers Association
Angers
FR
Prof. Dr. Albrecht Sonntag
http://www.gu.se
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
The Anthropology of European Integration
Duration:
Universität Stuttgart
Wolfram Pyta
36 months
Start date:
01.04.2012
Weitere Partner:
EC Contribution:
- Uniwersytet Im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Poznan, PL
- Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, ES
- Kobenhavns Universitet, Copenhagen, DK
- Middle East Technical University, Ankara, TR
- Université de Franche-Comte, Besancon, FR
- Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
- Universität Wien, Vienna, AT
2.433.357 €
Project Website:
http://www.essca.fr
Proposal Number:
290805
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Mai 2012
GENDERACE
The use of racial anti-discrimination laws: gender and citizenship in a multicultural context
The aim of the research is to evaluate the effectiveness of racial discrimination laws
from the point of view of the target group and in a gender perspective.
The main hypothesis is that differences can exist between the uses made of the law by
men and women. This is because they develop different representations of the legal
system and experience different forms of discrimination.
The second hypothesis is that intersectional experience of discrimination based on
race and gender is not recognized and treated properly in legal and institutional
frameworks built around single types of discrimination because discriminations are
seen as one-dimensional and as affecting all people - men and women - in the same
way.
The evaluation will be carried out through a study of case law and filed complaints,
around 200 semi-directive qualitative interviews of foreign nationals and members
of ethnic minorities and 70 interviews of stakeholders and social partners, including
lawyers dealing with complaints.
The goal of the project is to improve our undertanding of the phenomenon of double
discrimination (race and gender) and to develop practical tools to allow administrations, NGOs and specialised bodies to better assess the effectiveness of policies and
practices in the field of antidiscrimination when faced with cases of double discrimination.
Coordinator:
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Institute of Sociology, Brussels
BE
Isabelle Carles
http://www.ulb.ac.be
Funding Scheme:
Technische Universität Berlin, Center for Technology and Science
Berlin
Dr. Hans-Luidger Dienel
http://www.ztg.tu-berlin.de
Research Area:
Topic:
Reassessing citizenship within the European Union
Weitere Partner:
Duration:
30 months
- Universitat de Barcelona, Department of Social Anthropology, Barcelona, ES
- Middlesex University Higher Education Corporation, Social Policy Research Centre,
London, UK
- Kalmar University, Institution for Human Sciences, Kalmar, SE
- International Centre for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations (IMIR), Sofia, BG
Start date:
01.02.2008
EC Contribution:
952.900 €
Project Website:
http://genderace.ulb.ac.be
Proposal Number:
217237
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
IME
Identities and modernities in Europe: European and national identity construction programmes, politics, culture, history and religion
IME investigates European identities.
European identities in this project refer to a wide range of definitions of ‚us, the
Europeans‘ constructed and acted upon by various actors in and around the current
European Union (EU), in particular in nine cases: Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece, Hungary, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
The project addresses three major issues regarding European identities: what they
are, in what ways they have been formed, what trajectories they may take from now
on.
IME first investigates the diversity of European identities as it is manifested in the nine
cases.
It then examines the various ways in which these diverse self-definitions have been
formulated and maintained in different societal, cultural and systemic settings.
It aims to identify commonalities, differences and dynamics between the diverse
identificational references to European in the nine cases. On the basis of this it seeks
to outline an analysis of the trajectories of European identities in times of ongoing
processes of European integration.
The project therefore has the following objectives:
a. to map the diversity of European identities across the cases studied in relation to
four factors: type of state, type of religion, the strength of civil society and geo-historical and geo-political background;
b. to analyse in each case how identification processes that have evolved within the
specific historical, political and social context refer to Europe and which other, especially national identities are relevant at this;
c. to investigate the role of the EU integration processes in modifying the contemporary identities, especially with regard to national and religio-ethnic identities;
d. to examine the extent to which religio-ethnic minorities influence identity construction programmes of the majority, and their respective articulations of and references to European identities;
e. to seek commonalities in European identities across the cases by way of systematic
comparisons;
f. to test the validity of theory of multiple modernities as a sound basis for projecting
the trajectory of the future of European identities.
Coordinator:
Kingston University, Faculty of Arts and Social
Sciences - Research Centre, Kingston Upon Thames
UK
Atsuko Ichijo
http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/faculty/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
History and Identities - Articulating National and
European Identities
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.05. 2009
EC Contribution:
Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen
University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr
Prof. Dr. Armando Salvatore
Dr. des. Thea D. Boldt
1.447.773 €
Project Website:
http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/european/ime/
Proposal Number:
http://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/en/home/project-47.html
215949
Weitere Partner:
- Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Athens, EL
- Helsingin yliopisto, Helsinki, FI
- The Institute for Ethnic and National Minority Studies at the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences, Budapest, HU
- International Centre for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations, Sofia, BG
- Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, TK
- University of Zagreb, Zagreb, HR
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
IRISS
Increasing Resilience in Surveillance Societies
IRISS (Increasing Resilience in Surveillance Societies) will investigate societal effects
of different surveillance practices from a multi-disciplinary social science and legal
perspective. It will focus on the effects that surveillance practices introduced to combat
crime and terrorism can have on citizens in open and democratic societies. It will review
surveillance systems used in fighting crime and terrorism and will examine the driving
forces that have led to the spread of these practices. It will review current research on
public attitudes towards surveillance, the impact of surveillance on civil liberties and
citizens‘ trust in political institutions.
In a set of case studies, the impact of surveillance on the everyday lives of citizens will
be analysed in detail. These studies will focus on the relations between citizens and the
state, between citizens and private sector institutions and between citizens. Based on
the findings from these case studies, a series of comparative empirical social experiments
will be conducted to test different attitudes towards surveillance in different democratic
contexts.
These experiments will investigate citizens‘ attitudes towards surveillance and the extent
to which democratic rights can be exercised under existing regimes of surveillance and
how these rights can be strengthened. The empirical research will inform an analysis
designed to explore options for increasing social, economic and institutional resilience.
IRISS will produce a better understanding of how surveillance affects different types of
societies and how different groups react to surveillance. It will produce a comprehensive
account of resilience options, focussing on strengthening democratic processes and
public discourse about appropriate reactions towards threats against open democratic
societies. The consortium will involve stakeholders in expert workshops, an international
advisory board and other means.
Coordinator:
Verein für Rechts- und Kriminalsoziologie
Wien, AT
Dr. Reinhard Kreissl
http://www.irks.at
Funding Scheme:
(small and medium scale focused project)
Research Area:
Topic:
Surveillance and the challenges for democracy
and an open society
Duration:
36 months
Chenbo Guo
http://www.uni-hamburg.de
Start date:
01.02.2012
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.
Maximilian Steiert
http://www.fraunhofer.de/
EC Contribution:
2.596.770 €
Universität der Bundeswehr München
Wolfgang Bonss
http://www. unibw.de
Project Website:
http://www.irks.at/forsch_frame.html
Weitere Partner:
- Univerzita Komenskeho v Bratislave, Bratislava, SK
- Fundacio per la Universitat oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, ES
- Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, IT
- University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
- Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, AT
- The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, BE
- Eotvos Karoly Kozpolitikai Nonprofit Kozhasznu Korlatolt Felelossegu Tarsasag
Budapest, HU
- The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
- Trilateral Research & Consulting LLP, London, UK
- The University of Stirling, Stirling, UK
- Institutt for Fredsforskning Stiftelse, Oslo, NO
Proposal Number:
290492
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Mai 2012
LIVEWHAT
Living with Hard Times: How European Citizens Deal with Economic Crises and Their Social and Political Consequences
The proposed research deals with citizens’ reactions to economic crises and their social
and political consequences. It examines in particular the ways in which European citizens
have reacted to the crisis that, at different degree of intensity in different countries, struck
Europe since 2008, but also how they deal with economic crises and their consequences
more generally. We examine both individual and collective responses by citizens, both
the “private” and the “public” dimensions of such responses, and both political and nonpolitical responses. In addition, while the focus of the research is on citizens’ responses,
we also examine policy responses so as to have a baseline for assessing citizens’ reactions
to crises.
The project has three main objectives: (1) to provide systematic evidence of the ways in
which European citizens react to economic crises and their social and political consequences, both individually and collectively; (2) to advance knowledge on the connections between individual factors, contextual factors, and the ways in which European
citizens react to economic crises and their social and political consequences; and (3)
to suggest a number of good practices as to how to deal with economic crises, both at
the social and political level, through which their negative consequences on European
citizens can be avoided or limited.
The project’s objectives are addressed by means of six main types of data and methods:
(1) the creation of a cross-national comparative dataset on economic, social, and political
indicators; (2) an analysis of policy responses to crises; (3) an analysis of collective responses to crises in the public domain; (4) an analysis of individual responses to crises by
private citizens; (5) experiments designed to assess causal effects of different dimensions
of crises on citizens’ attitudes and behaviours; and (6) an analysis of alternative forms of
resilience in times of crisis.
Coordinator:
Universite de Geneve
CH
http://www.unige.ch/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Citizens‘ resilience in times of crisis
Duration:
Universität Siegen
http://www.uni-siegen.de/start/
36 months
Start date:
01.12.2013
Weitere Partner:
EC Contribution:
- Uppsale Universitet, SE
- The University of Sheffield, UK
- University of Crete, GR
2.499.366 €
Project Website:
http://www.livewhat.unige.ch/
Proposal Number:
613237
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Juli 2014
MAXCAP
Maximizing the integration capacity of the European Union: Lessons and prospects for enlargement and beyond
The big bang enlargement of the European Union (EU) has nurtured vivid debates
among both academics and practitioners about the consequences of an ever larger Union for the EUs integration capacity. The research project MAXCAP will start with a critical
analysis of the effects of the 2004- 2007 enlargement on stability, democracy and prosperity of candidate countries, on the one hand, and the EUs institutions, on the other. We
will then investigate how the EU can maximize its integration capacity for current and
future enlargements. Adopting an inter-disciplinary and mixed methods approach that
combines desk research, in-depth interviews and Q-methodology, MAXCAP will:
a) Eexplain the effects of the EUs integration modes and strategies on democracy and
socio-economic development in the new members, candidates and neighbourhood
countries;
b) Inquire into the relationship between the widening and deepening of the EU by establishing conditions for effective decision-making and implementation in an enlarged EU;
c) Identify the social limits to the EUs integration capacity related to citizens perceptions
of the last and future enlargements;
d) Study the EUs current and past negotiation strategies in the context of enlargement
and investigate to what extent they need to be adjusted to changing conditions in the
EU and the candidate countries
e) Examine how the EU employs different modes of integrating countries with highly diverse economic powers, democratic qualities of governance, and institutional capacities;
f ) Assess whether alternative models, such as the European Neighbourhood Policy, can
be successful in bringing countries closer to the EU.
MAXCAP which features a nine-partner consortium of academic, policy, dissemination
and management excellence will create new and strengthen existing links within and
between the academic and the policy world on matters relating to the current and future
enlargement of the EU.
Coordinator:
DE
Tanja A. Börzel
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
European Identities: Inner and outer perceptions of
Europe and the EU
Duration:
36 months
Weitere Partner:
Start date:
01.04.2013
- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, CH
- Sabanci University, TR
- Balkan Civil Society Development Network Foundation, MK
- Kozep - Europai Egyetem, HU
- Sofiiski Universitet Sveti Kliment Ohridski, BG
EC Contribution:
2.407.522 €
Website:
http://www.maxcap-project.eu/
Proposal Number:
320115
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2013
MEDIAACT
Media Accountability and Transparency in Europe
MEDIAACT is a comparative European research project on media accountability systems
in EU member states as indicators for media pluralism in Europe.
The project will analyze the development and impact of established media accountability systems (i.e. press councils, ethics codes) as well as new media accountability
systems emerging in the Internet (i.e. media criticism in blogs).
The main goals of this research project are to investigate the quantity and quality of
media accountability systems as prerequisites for pluralistic debates about media
independence in times of growing media concentration, to compare the impact of
established and innovative media accountability systems online on different media
systems and journalism cultures in Europe and beyond, to develop policy recommendation for EU media lawmakers, as well as incentives for media professionals and
media users alike to actively engage in media accountability systems.
The project will be a joint interdisciplinary effort of a team of 12 partners form Eastern
and Western Europe as well as one partner from the Arab World (members of the European-Mediterranean partnership), using a multi-method approach (survey, desk studies
and expert interviews) for the analysis. Since the project aims at analyzing the potential
of media accountability systems for media accountability and transparency, it will carry
the acronym MediaAcT.
Coordinator:
Erich-Brost Institut für Journalismus in Europa
Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Susanne Fengler
http://www.brost.org/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Weitere Partner:
- Universita della Svizzera Italiana, CH
- Universite Paris II, Pantheon Assas, FR
- Medienhaus Wien Forschung und Weiterbildung GmbH, AT
- Tampereen Yliopisto, FI
- The Mediawise Trust, UK
- Institut d‘etudes politiques de Toulouse, FR
- Stichting Fontys, NL
- Uniwersytet Wroclawski, PL
- Tartu Ulikool, EE
- Universita degli Studi di Milano, IT
- University of West of England, UK
Topic:
Independent media and democracy in Europe
Duration:
42 months
Start date:
01.02. 2010
EC Contribution:
1.470.000 €
Project Website:
http://www.mediaact.eu/
Proposal Number:
244147
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
MEDIADEM
European media policies: valuing and reclaiming free and independent media in contemporary democratic systems
Free and independent media are vital for the workings of democratic systems. Media
structures which are free of interference from government, business or other social
groups, and in which access of diverse views and opinions is effectively guaranteed,
support democratic debate and sustain citizens active involvement in political and
civic life. Given the strong interconnection between politics, business and the media,
the creation and safeguarding of an environment supportive of media freedom and
independence remain everywhere in Europe a continuous and open-ended process.
In view of the important role the media play in providing information about the economy and political affairs, political and economic actors, but also socio-cultural elites
regularly seek to exert an influence on domestic media policy-making.
MEDIADEM seeks to understand and explain the factors that promote (or conversely
hinder) the development of policies for free and independent media. The project
will combine a country-based study in Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey and the UK with
a comparative analysis across media sectors and types of media services, and will
investigate the complex array of policy approaches and regulatory and self-regulatory
practices established to safeguard media freedom and independence. In order to
verify whether regulatory measures actually advance a more democratic political
order through the diversification of media outlets, sources and content, the project
will place them in their proper socio-political, economic and cultural context, and will
examine how state and non-state perceptions about the role the media should play in
contemporary society influence the implementation of the norms enacted. External
pressures stemming from the action of regional organisations, such as the Council of
Europe and the EU, will also be investigated in detail.
The central assumption of MEDIADEM is that economic, socio-political and cultural
domestic peculiarities greatly affect how legal norms are interpreted and implemented, how they are perceived and received, and whether they are truly respected. Simultaneously, given the substantial changes brought by new technologies regarding
the way citizens obtain information, the project will examine the opportunities and
challenges posed by new media services for media freedom and independence.
Coordinator:
Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign
Policy, Athens
EL
Evangelia Psychogiopoulou
http://www.ellamep.gr/
Funding Scheme:
(Small- and medium scale focused research
project)
Research Area:
Topic:
Duration:
Fakultät für Rechtswissenschaft
Prof. Dr. Christoph Gusy
Start date:
36 months
01.04.2010
EC Contribution:
Hertie School of Governance
Berlin
Prof. Dr. Alina Nungin-Pippidi
2.658.462 €
Project Website:
http://www.mediadem.ellamep.gr
Weitere Partner:
- University of Edinburgh, UK
- Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Ciudad Real, ES
- Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, BG
- School of Communication and Media, Bratislava, SK
- Tartu Ulikool, EE
- Turkish Economic and Social Research Foundation, Istanbul, TR
- University of Jyväskylä, FI
- Instytut za Medunarodne Odnose, Zagreb, CR
- Université Libre de Bruxelles, Institut d‘Etudes Européennes et Centre Perelman de
Philosophie du Droit, Brussels, BE
- European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, IT
Proposal Number:
244365
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
MIG@NET
Transnational digital networks, migration and gender
The project will explore two interrelated socio-cultural dynamics that impact the
future of European integration and have a profound effect on the development of
a common European culture by challenging established ethnic, class, linguistic and
gendered divisions.
These are:
- the rise in migrant mobility and the establishment of transnational migrant networks
that enable the construction and negotiation of new forms of hybrid identity and a
sense of multiple belonging based on the experiences of cultural diversity and intercultural communication;
- the spread of transnational digital networks that transcend state boundaries and
exclusive national identities and give users the potential to participate directly in
processes of cultural production, exchange and consumption particularly through the
use of new media technologies.
More specifically the project will address the question of participation of migrant
individuals and groups in transnational digital networks by employing innovative
methodologies combining online and offline research. Emphasis will be placed on
the ability of migrants to access and produce diverse digital spaces and use them to
promote their own needs and demands, but also on the possibilities for the promotion
of intercultural dialogue and cooperation that open through the development of new
interactive media. Gender will be mainstreamed and treated as an integral aspect
of the research design and analysis throughout the project. In particular, the project
will explore the ways in which changing gender power relations shape identities and
performativities in transnational digital and migrant networks. In order to disseminate
information and put the research findings into practice, the project will develop a
transnational migrant digital platform and an interactive digital game.
Coordinator:
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
Athens
EL
Maria Stratigaki
http://www.genderpanteion.gr
Funding Scheme:
(Small- and medium scale research project)
Research Area:
Topic:
Culture in the creation of a European
space of communication
Duration:
University of Hamburg
Institut für Soziologie
Prof. Dr. Marianne Pieper
http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de
36 months
Start date:
01.03.2010
EC Contribution:
Weitere Partner:
1.397.240 €
- Symfiliosi, Nicosia, CY
- Fondation Maison des Sciences de l‘Homme, Paris, FR
- Università di Bologna, IT
- Mirovni Institut, Ljubljana, SI
- University of Hull, UK
Project Website:
http://www.mignetproject.eu
Proposal Number:
244744
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
MIME
Mobility and Inclusion in Multilangual Europe
Using an innovative interdisciplinary approach, MIME will generate an organised body of
policy-relevant propositions addressing the full range of questions raised in the call. Our
aim is to identify the language policies and strategies that best combine “mobility” and
“inclusion”.
MIME emphasises complementarity between disciplines, and brings together researchers
from sociolinguistics, political science, sociology, history, geography, economics, education, translation studies, psychology, and law, who all have longstanding experience in
the application of their discipline to language issues. The diverse concepts and methods
are combined in an analytical framework designed to ensure their practice-oriented
integration. MIME identifies, assesses and recommends measures for the management
of trade-offs between the potentially conflicting goals of mobility and inclusion in a
multilingual Europe. Rather than taking existing trade-offs as a given, we think that they
can be modified, both in symbolic and in material/financial terms, and we argue that
this objective can best be achieved through carefully designed public policies and the
intelligent use of dynamics in civil society.
Several partners have been involved in successful FP6 research, and key advances achieved there will guide the MIME project: languages are viewed as fluid realities in a context
of high mobility of people, goods, services, and knowledge, influencing the way in which
skills and identities are used and constantly re-shaped. The project integrates these
micro-level insights into a macro-level approach to multilingual Europe.
MIME results will be made widely available through a creative approach to dissemination, including training modules and the MIME Stakeholder Forum, allowing for sustained
dialogue between academics, professional associations and local/regional authorities.
The project culminates in a consensus conference where recommendations based on the
project findings are adopted.
Coordinator:
Universite de Geneve
CH
http://www.unige.ch/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
The multilingual challenge for the European citizen
Duration:
53 months
Universität Augsburg
http://www.uni-augsburg.de/
Start date:
Universität Leipzig
http://www.zv.uni-leipzig.de/
01.03.2014
EC Contribution:
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
http://www.hu-berlin.de/
4.999.998 €
Weitere Partner:
- Sciprom SARl, CH
- Latvijas Universitate, LT
- Univerza v Ljubljani, SI
- Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, IT
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE
- Uppsala Universitet, SE
- Universitat Rovira I Virgili, ES
- Universite de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, FR
- University of Limerick, IE
- Sveuciliste Josipa Jurja Strossmayera U Osijeku Filozofski Fakultet, HR
- Fondation Observatoire de la Finance, CH
- Universitatea din Oradea, RO
- Universidade do Algarve, PT
Project Website:
http://www.mime-project.org/
Proposal Number:
613344
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Juli 2014
MYPLACE
Memory, Youth, Political Legacy and Civic Engagement
MYPLACE explores how young people‘s social participation is shaped by the shadows
(past, present and future) of totalitarianism and populism in Europe.
Conceptually, it goes beyond the comparison of discrete national political cultures
or reified classifications of political heritage (postcommunist/liberal democratic); it is
premised rather on the pan-European nature of a range of radical and populist political
and philosophical traditions and the cyclical rather than novel nature of the popularity
they currently enjoy. Empirically, MYPLACE employs a combination of survey, interview
and ethnographic research instruments to provide new, pan-European data that not only
measure levels of participation but capture the meanings young people attach to it.
Analytically, through its specific focus on youth and the historical and cultural contextualization of young peoples social participation, MYPLACE replaces the routine, and often
abstract, iteration of the reasons for young people‘s disengagement from politics with
an empirically rich mapping of young people‘s understandings of the civic and political
space that they inhabit. In policy terms, MYPLACE identifies the obstacles to, and facilitators of, young peoples reclamation of the European political arena as a place for them.
Coordinator:
The University of Wawick
UK
Peter Hedges
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/
Funding Scheme:
(Large Scale integrating project)
Universität Bremen
Institut Arbeit und Wirtschaft
Dr. Jochen Tholen
Institut für Soziologie, Arbeits-, Industrie- und Wirtschaftssoziologie
Prof. Dr. Klaus Dörre
http://www.soziologie.uni-jena.de/LS_Doerre.html
Research Area:
Topic:
Democracy and the shadows of totalitarianism and
populism: the European case
Duration:
Weitere Partner:
48 months
- Unverzita SV Cyrila A Metoda V Trnave, SI
- Institut Drustvenih Znanosti Ivo Pilar, HR
- State Institution of Ulyanovsk State University Research and Development Centre
„Region“, RU
- Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, GR
- Eurasia Partnership Foundation, GE
- Centro de Investigacao e Estudos de Sociologia Crl., PT
- Daugavpils Universitate, LT
- Itä-Suomen Yliopisto, FI
- Debreceni Egyetem, HU
- The Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Start date:
01.06.2011
EC Contribution:
7 .990.000 €
Website:
http://www.fp7-myplace.eu/
Proposal Number:
266931
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2011
PIDOP
Processes influencing democratic ownership and participation
The collaborative project PIDOP examines the processes which influence democratic ownership and participation in eight European states. It draws on the disciplines of Politics,
Sociology, Social Policy, Psychology and Education to examine macro-level contextual
factors (including historical, political, electoral, economic and policy factors), proximal social factors (including familial, educational and media factors) and psychological factors
(including motivational, cognitive, attitudinal and identity factors) which facilitate and/or
inhibit civic and political engagement and participation.
PIDOP has five over-arching aims:
to audit existing theory and research on civic and political engagement and participation
in the disciplines of Politics, Sociology, Social Policy, Psychology and Education;
to audit and analyse existing policy on civic and political engagement and participation
within Europe;
to identify empirically the factors and processes which are responsible for civic and political engagement and participation within Europe, particularly amongst women, young
people, minorities and migrants;
to develop a multi-level theoretical understanding of the processes responsible for civic
and political engagement and participation, with a particular emphasis on the social
and psychological processes which mediate the effects of macro-level, demographic and
social factors on citizen behaviour;
to formulate, based on the findings of the project, new evidence-based policy and practice recommendations for key stakeholders at regional, national and European levels, and
to disseminate these implications to these stakeholders.
Coordinator:
University of Surrey
Guilford
UK
Martyn Barrett
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Activity 5 : The citizen in the European Union
Topic:
Peter Noack
http://www.uni-jena.de/
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.05.2009
Weitere Partner:
EC Contribution:
- Université de Liège, BE
- Masarykova univerzita, Brno Stred, CZ
- Università di Bologna, IT
- Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Psicologie e de Ciencas da Educaçao, Porto, PT
- Orebro University, SE
- University of Ankara, TR
- Queen‘s University, Belfast, UK
1.499.839 €
Project Website:
http://www.fahs.surrey.ac.uk/pidop/
Proposal Number:
225282
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
RESCUE
Patterns of Resilience during Socioeconomic Crises among Households in Europe
Since 2008, Europe has been shaken by an ongoing crisis. If relevant parts of populations
are exposed to socioeconomic risks, it is a distinctive characteristic of European political
ethics that they must not be left alone, but should be subject to support and solidarity
by budget support policy, economic development policies and social policy at different
levels.
But, in analogy with medical and psychological findings, some parts of the vulnerable
population, although experiencing the same living conditions as others, are developing
resilience, which in our context means that they perform social, economic and cultural
practices and habits which protect them from suffer and harm and support sustainable
patterns of coping and adaption. This resilience to socioeconomic crises at household
levels is the focus of the proposed project. It can consist of identity patterns, knowledge,
family or community relations, cultural and social as well as economic practices, be they
formal or informal.
Welfare states, labour markets and economic policies at both macro or meso level form
the context or ‘environment’ of those resilience patterns. For reasons of coping with the
crisis without leaving the common ground of the implicit European social model (or the
unwritten confession to the welfare state) under extremely bad monetary conditions in
many countries, and for reasons of maintaining quality of life and improving social policy,
it is a highly interesting perspective to learn from emergent processes of resilience development and their preconditions. Thus, the main questions are directed at understanding
patterns and dimensions of resilience at micro-/household level in different types of European member and neighbour states accounting for regional varieties, relevant internal
and external conditions and resources as well as influences on these patterns by social,
economic or labour market policy as well as legal regulations.
Coordinator:
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB)
der Bundesagentur für Arbeit
DE
http://www.iab.de/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Area: Participation and citizenship in
Europe
Topic:
Citizens‘ resilience in times of crisis
Duration:
36 months
Weitere Partner:
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ES
- The University of Hertfordshire Higher Education Corporation, UK
- Lapin Yliopisto, FI
- National University of Ireland Maynooth, IE
- Uniwersytet Slaski, PL
Start date:
01.03.2014
EC Contribution:
2.430.727 €
Proposal Number:
613245
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Juli 2014
RICHES
Renewal, Innovation and Change: Heritage and European Society
For many in 21st century Europe, Cultural Heritage (CH) is more about what it is than who
we are: though enormously rich, this treasure is often locked away, or crumbling, or in
a foreign language, or about a past which to many people - young, old, newcomers to
Europe and settled inhabitants - seems of little relevance. But this is changing. As digital
technologies permeate all of society, compelling us to rethink how we do everything,
we ask questions: how can CH institutions renew and remake themselves? How should
an increasingly diverse society use our CH? How may the move from analogue to digital
represent a shift from traditional hierarchies of CH to more fluid, decentred practices?
How, then, can the EU citizen, alone or as part of a community, play a vital co-creative
role? What are the limitations of new technologies in representing and promoting CH?
How can CH become closer to its audiences of innovators, skilled makers, curators, artists,
economic actors? How can CH be a force in the new EU economy?
RICHES will research answers to these questions by drawing together 10 partners from 6
EU countries and Turkey, experts from cultural institutions, public and national administrations, SMEs, the humanities and social sciences. Its interdisciplinary team will research
the context of change in which European CH is transmitted, its implications for future CH
practices, and the frameworks - cultural, legal, financial, educational, technical - to be put
in place for the benefit of all audiences and communities in the digital age.
RICHES will employ traditional and innovative research methods and tools; case studies will focus on copyright/IPR, the commoditisation of CH, performance-based CH;
evidence-based reports, recommendations and guidelines will be produced for use by
policy-makers, national agencies and CH practitioners. A rich dissemination programme
including two major international conferences will ensure that the project has maximum
outreach and impact
Coordinator:
Coventry University
UK
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Transmitting and benefiting from cultural heritage
in Europe
Duration:
42 months
Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz
http://www.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de/
Start date:
Hansestadt Rostock
http://www.rostock.de/index.php?id=1
01.12.2013
EC Contribution:
2.432.356 €
Weitere Partner:
Project Website:
- Fundacio Privada 12CAT, Internet I Innovacio Digital a Catalunya, ES
- Promoter SRL, IT
- Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Kültür Ve Turizm Bakanligi, TR
- Stichting Rijkmuseum voor Volkenkunden, NL
- The University of Exeter, UK
- Stichting Waag Society, NL
http://www.riches-project.eu/
Proposal Number:
612789
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Juli 2014
SPHERE
Space, place and the historical and contemporary articulations of regional, national and European identities
through work and community in areas undergoing economic restructuring and regeneration
SPHERE explores themes of identity and belonging: how do such alignments and affiliations survive (or not) the socio-economic changes that accompany restructuring and
the broader political and demographic remodelling of Europe‘s cultural landscapes?
Its multidisciplinary analysis will deepen insight into the ways life experiences are
interwoven with a range of cultural practices to construct new identities; it will also
address the sources and implementation of regeneration policies for notions of community.
SPHERE starts from six distinctive regional identities historically rooted in specific
occupational contexts around strong communities in Europe‘s largest economies:
France, Germany, Poland, Spain, UK and Turkey. All have undergone profound socioeconomic transformations with associated challenges to cultural identities and
practices.
The project focuses on changes to historic regional and cultural identities where regional regeneration projects have attempted to introduce new industries or services or
jobs and to create new cultural and economic landscapes.
To assess the impact of Europe on the complex evolutions of community, regional
and national identities, some of the regions chosen accessed or use EU regeneration
funding, while others relied largely either on regional or national state subsidies or on
market processes.
This research will trace the transition from older to newer industries and put a strong
focus on the impact this has had on cultural identities linked to work, class and gender,
as well as the effects of EU or other regeneration processes on understandings of place
and on people‘s sense of belonging.
It will probe the conditions under which new occupational, community, national and/
or European identities emerge.
By drawing on both the humanities and social science, it goes further and asks questions about the complex interconnections of history, place, culture and identity within
households, the community and its collective organisations.
Coordinator:
Middle East Technical University, Centre for Public
Policy and Urban Research, Ankara
TR
Tarik Sengul
http://www.metu.edu.tr/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Histories and indentities Articulating national and European identities
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.04.2008
EC Contribution:
889.239 €
Project Website:
http://www.sphereeurope.eu/
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung
der Bundesagentur für Arbeit Nürnberg
Dr. Markus Promberger
Dr. Lars Meier
http://www.iab.de/de/forschung/bereiche/sphere_projektbeschreibung.aspx
Weitere Partner:
Proposal Number:
215985
- London Metropolitan University, Working Lives Research Institute, London, UK
- Uniwersytet Slaski, Contemporary Culture Research Unit, Institute of Sociology,
Faculty of Social Science, Katowice, PL
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Department of Social Psychology, Fac. Cc.
Políticas y Sociología, Madrid, ES
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
TENLAW
Tenancy Law and Housing Policy in Multi-level Europe
Private tenancy law is existentially affecting the daily lives of European citizens, as about
one third of them depend on rental housing. That notwithstanding, it constitutes a nearly
blank space in comparative and European law. This is due to its national character, its political nature and its embeddedness in widely diverging national housing policies, which
ultimately reflect different welfare state models.
At the same time, however, different parts of EU law and policy do affect tenancy law
significantly, albeit indirectly. Thus, EU social policy against poverty and social exclusion
extends to selected issues of housing policy. EU non-discrimination rules extend to the
provision of housing, and several consumer law directives apply to tenancy contracts,
too.
Moreover, if the Common Frame of Reference were one day to develop into an optional
instrument, tenancy law issues now regulated by national general contract law might
be covered as well - though without any legislator having co-ordinated the ensuing
juxtaposition of European contract law and national tenancy regulation. Against this
background, this project sets out to provide the first large-scale comparative and European law survey of tenancy law.
In a first step, it analyses national tenancy laws and their embeddedness in, and effects
on, national housing policies and markets. In a second step, the effect of EU legislation on
national housing policy in general and national tenancy law in particular will be analysed
in a comparative perspective. In a third step, a proposal for a better co-ordinating role of
the EU in tenancy law and housing policy, in particular through an OMC process developing common principles of good tenancy regulation, will be designed. This research
matches well several priorities of the Stockholm programme given tenancy laws intimate
relation to social human rights and a system of law and justice working for the benefit of
European citizens, in particular vulnerable groups.
Coordinator:
Universität Bremen
Zentrum für Europäische Rechtspolitik
Christoph Schmid
http://www.zerp.eu/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Rule of Law and Justice in a Multilevel Governance
System
Duration:
42 months
Weitere Partner:
Start date:
- Mednarodna Fakulteta za Druzbene in Poslivne Studije Zavod, SI
- Uniwersytet Slaski, PL
- Universita di Pisa, IT
- Metropolitan Research Insitute Ltd. , HU
- Tartu Ulikooleesti, FI
- Universitat Rovira I Virgil, ES
01.04.2012
EC Contribution:
2.692.526 €
Project Website:
http://www.tenlaw.uni-bremen.de/
Proposal Number:
290694
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Mai 2012
Activity 6:
Socio-economic and scientific indicators
AMELI
Advanced methodology for European Laeken indicators
AMELI aims at improving the methodology for indicators of social cohesion. It provides
a benchmarking system that is both effective and workable and which allows to measure political impact.
The goal to turn the EU into the most competitive and dynamic economy by 2010
demands a full benchmarking system to monitor policy performance and their impact
on progress.
For this reason, the European Commission has engaged in selecting, collecting and
analysing a set of indicators that are published each year.
The Stockholm European Council has further emphasised the need for effective, timely and reliable statistics and indicators.
A main challenge is to develop indicators for the main characteristics and key drivers.
An utmost important and challenging area to be measured is social cohesion.
Based on a clear definition of social cohesion, a universally-accepted high-quality and
robust statistics to adequately measure social cohesion is required.
Further, tools for measuring temporal developments and regional breakdowns to subpopulations of relevance will be of great importance.
In order to measure social cohesion with Laeken indicators adequately while regarding national characteristics and practical peculiarities from the newly created EUSILC, an improved methodology will be elaborated within AMELI.
This will ensure that future political decision in the area of quality of life can be based
on more adequate and high-quality data and a proper understanding of the Laeken
indicators by the users.
The study will include research on data quality including its measurement, treatment
of outliers and non-response, small area estimation and the measurement of development over time.
A large simulation study based on EU-SILC data will allow a simultaneous elaboration
of the methodology focusing on practical issues aiming at support for policy.
Due to the fact that the Laeken indicators are based on a highly sophisticated methodology, the project‘s outcome may also serve as a methodological complement for other
7th Research Framework Programme projects in the area of indicators.
Coordinator:
University of Trier
Economic and Social Statistics Department
Trier
Prof. Dr. Ralf Muennich
http://www.uni-trier.de/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Area: Developing better indicators for policy
Topic:
Improved ways of measuring both the potential for
and impact of policies
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.04.2008
Statistisches Bundesamt
Institute for Research and Development
Wiesbaden
Dr. Oliver Bode
http://www.destatis.de
EC Contribution:
Weitere Partner:
http://www.ameli.net/
- University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, CH
- Swiss Federal Statistical Office SFSO Switzerland, CH
- Statistics Austria StatAus, AT
- Statistics Finland, FI
- University of Helsinki, FI
- Vienna University of Technology, AT
- Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Sl
- Statistics Estonia, EE
1.088.968 €
Project Website:
Proposal Number:
217322
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
BLUE-ETS
BLUE-enterprise and trade statistics
BLUE-ETS is a project on official business statistics and, specifically, on one of EU NSIs
key challenges; that is, providing high quality and robust statistical information, for
better policy and socio-economic research, and to support the renewed Lisbon Strategy, while:
- reducing the response burden;
- simplifying and setting priorities;
- cutting costs on enterprises, that stem from red-tape, over-regulation and duplications;
- modernizing and re-engineering the methods for the production of statistics;
- making data collection less burdensome and providing more information.
Along with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, BLUE-ETS key aim is to
support and contribute to the success of the EU Commission Communications MEETS
Decision including Better Regulation for Growth and Jobs in the European Union;
Action Programme for Reducing Administrative Burdens in the European Union; and
the Reduction of the response burden, simplification and priority setting in the field of
Community statistics. Accordingly, BLUE-ETS is expected to contribute to the success
of the EU MEETS Decision. Accordingly, the project is tailored on MEETS objectives,
especially to “better and more-cost-effective statistics”, by:
- distilling and spreading “EU-wide” frontier knowledge, stemming from different EU
NSIs’ lessons from experience, on how to address common issues, which would allow
to share problems, which are akin and involve applying knowledge in both collecting,
producing and making available business statistics to governments and the public at
large;
- learning from each other as to how “chart best” a common strategy and a road to
cost-effectively and successfully address the MEETS challenges, without repeating
mistakes;
- converging towards a coherent, common or compatible, cost-effective and efficient
“EU state of the art” or “best practice” in Business Statistics.
Coordinator:
Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, Rome
IT
Paolo Roberti
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Area: Provision of underlying official statistics
Topic:
Specific statistical issues
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
Universität Trier
Prof. Dr. Ralf Muennich
http://www.uni-trier.de/
01.04.2010
EC Contribution:
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit
Stefan Bender
Nürnberg
http://www.iab.de
2.660.250 €
Project Website:
http://www.blue-ets.eu
Weitere Partner:
- Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, Den Haag, NL
- Statistisk Sentralbyraa – Statistics Norway, Oslo, NO
- Università di Bologna - Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna, IT
- Infostat – Institut Informatiky a Statistiky, Bratislava, SK
- University of Ljubljana, SI
- Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, IT
- Università degli Studi di Bergamo, IT
- Statistiska Centralbyran, Stockholm, SE
- Statisticni Urad Republike Slovenije, Ljubljana, SI
Proposal Number:
244767
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
EERQI
European educational research quality indicators
EERQI will build an advanced framework for relevance assessment of research documents in educational research based on formal mechanisms including citation analysis and linking, semantically-based full text analysis and co-occurrence of information
items in open access and non-open access repositories, as well as in online journal
articles, books, and other freely available scholarly publications.
Educational research is chosen as an example of socially- and politically-embedded
research fields within the humanities and social sciences. 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. The toolset can be applied to other social sciences and humanities fields.
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 linking, correlations and referral contexts).
The project will also address the complex role of the diversity of scientific languages in
Europe. Different mother tongues are a barrier to the international flow of communication while also being fundamental to expressing complex scientific ideas which are often
embedded in a certain cultural background.
Thus the project will also address the challenge of effectively dealing with multilingualism and specific „cultural heritage“ of research traditions in the European countries.
EERQI results will also raise visibility and competitiveness of European researchers and
contribute to new policy bases for funding, hiring, and evaluation decisions in European academic and research institutions.
Coordinator:
European Educational Research Association
Institute for International Educational Comparison,
Hamburg
Ingrid Gogolin
http://epb.uni-hamburg.de
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Area: Use of indicators and related approaches for
the evaluation of research policies
- Universität Hamburg, Regionales Rechenzentrum (RRZ), Hamburg
Stefan Gradmann
http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de
Topic:
Ex post and ex ante impact and analysis of research
policies and programmes
- Institute for Science Networking Oldenburg GmbH, Oldenburg
Eberhard R. Hilf
http://www.isn-oldenburg.de
Duration:
- Leibniz University of Hannover, Regional Computing Centre for Lower Saxony,
Hannover
Wolfgang Sander-Beuermann
Start date:
36 months
01.04.2008
EC Contribution:
1 .494.654 €
- Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung, Informationszentrum
Bildung, Frankfur am Main
Alexander Botte
http://www.dipf.de/de/bildungsforschung
Project Website:
http://www.eerqi.eu
- Vs Verlag - GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden
Reinald Klockenbusch
http://www.vs-verlag.de
Proposal Number:
217549
Weitere Partner:
- British Educational Research Association (BERA), Macclesfield, UK
- Xerox SAS, Xerox Research Centre Europe, La Plaine Saint-Denis, FR
- Eindhoven School of Education, Eindhoven, NL
- Stichting Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, NL
- Taylor & Francis Ltd, Journals Department, Abingdon, UK
- Symposium Journals, Oxford, UK
- Umeå University, Faculty of Teacher Education, Umea, SE
- University of Maastricht, European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Maastricht, NL
- Institut de Recherche et de Documentation Pédagogique (IRDP), Neuchâtel, CH
- Lunds Universitet, Lund University Libraries, Lund, SE
- Blackwell Publishing , Ssh Journals, Oxford, UK
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
e-FRAME
European Framework for Measuring Progress
Within the framework of the Work Programme 2011 on Socio-economic Science and
Humanities e-Frame project builds on the latest political directions of the European Commission, in particular the priorities identified in the Europe 2020 strategy. The project will
focus on the following general objectives: stocktaking of available results and of ongoing
research activities on progress measurement; foster a European debate over the issue;
define guidelines for the use of existing indicators; propose a coherent way of delivering
information include advanced ICT tools; identify new research topics for future investigation; harmonize NSIs initiatives in progress measurement area. e-Frame will thus ensure
a coordination of Beyond GDP activities putting at the centre of the action the national
statisticians so to lead to improved official statistics as suggested by the call. All coordination activities will be supported by a stocktaking of past, recent and ongoing research
with special attention to FP and ESSnet projects. The final target of activities will be the
European dimension looking at the use of indicators within EU policies and in particular at the Europe 2020 strategy. Guidelines and recommendations will be proposed for
future activities within the European Research Area and the European Statistical System.
The numerous tasks of the project will lead to identify and develop relevant indicators to
be used for the measurement of progress. Guidelines for their use by different stakeholders and future research needs will be disseminated through numerous channels, and in
particular through the publication of a handbook on the use of progress indicators. The
19 partners-consortium is formed by major European National Statistical Institutes and,
together with universities, research centres and civil society, will see the participation of
the International Organization OECD.
Coordinator:
Istituto Nazionale di Statistica
Rome, IT
Dr. Donatella Fazio
Funding Scheme:
Coordination (or networking) actions
Research Area:
Topic:
Beyond GDP – Measuring economic performance
and societal progress
Duration:
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH
Jürgen Finger
http://www.zew.de/
30 months
Start date:
Universität Trier
Helmut Baatz
http://www.uni-trier.de
01.01.2012
EC Contribution:
GESIS - Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
Susanne Boetsch
http://www.gesis.org
1.495.065 €
Project Website:
Weitere Partner:
- Universitá politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, IT
- UK Office for National Statistics, Newport, UK
- Fondazione eni Enrico Mattei, Milano, IT
- Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, NL
- Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, Den Haag, NL
- The Young Foundation, London, UK
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris, FR
- Fondation nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris, FR
- Universitá di Pisa, Pisa, IT
- Romanian Academy National Institute for Economic Research, Bucharest, RO
- The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
- Universiteit Maastricht, Maastricht, NL
- Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques, Paris, FR
- New Economics Foundation, London, UK
- Universitá degli Studi di Siena, Siena, IT
Proposal Number:
290520
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 -1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Mai 2012
INDICSER
Indicators for evaluating international performance in service sectors
The objective of the INDICSER project is to develop indicators which provide information
on the performance of service sectors in the EU. At the heart of the project are concerns
that such indicators should be valid in terms of concepts, measurement methods and
feasibility but should also have value in terms of their usefulness for policy. Therefore the
approach adopted is to include both an EU-wide application of existing concepts and
develop and experiment with new concepts. This will be carried out within an overall
coherent structural framework designed to address the key issues of productivity and
value for money.
The indicators are divided into two broad areas:
- market services, whose performance are crucial for raising growth in the EU relative to
its competitors;
- and non-market services, mostly government run, where it is important that tax-payers
can assess how far public spending is effective, as well as their contribution to the economy.
For market services the project will construct indicators that describe trends in growth
and productivity in service sectors and indicators that are useful in analysing determinants of growth, such as innovation, ICT, intangible capital, competitive environment
and foreign presence. In view of the global financial crisis, financial services will be
covered in greater detail with new output measures developed and applied to a large set
of EU countries. For non-market services much of the analysis will focus on indicators for
health and education where significant new research is required on both the conceptual
framework and practical implementation. Finally the project will also develop experimental indicators which might be useful in the future, covering insurance, collective
services, distributive trades and research sector output.
The result will be a comprehensive summary on indicators that might be measured, the
feasibility of estimation given current data constraints and recommendations that will
inform the using communities.
Coordinator:
University of Birmingham
UK
Mary O‘Mahony
http://www.business.bham.ac.uk/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Improved ways of measuring both the potential
for and impact of policies
Duration:
36 months
Mannheim
Dr. Marianne Saam
http://www.zew.de/de
Start date:
01.01.2010
EC Contribution:
2.349.725 €
Berlin
Prof. Dr. Martin Gornig
http://www.diw.de/
Project Website:
http://indicser.com/
Proposal Number:
Weitere Partner:
- Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Economicas, Valencia, ES
- Kopint-Tarki Konjunkturakutato Intezet ZRT, Budapest, HU
244709
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
INNO S&T
Innovative S&T indicators combining patent data and surveys: empirical models and policy analyses
This project aims to develop and collect novel science and technology indicators
covering Europe, Japan and the United States.
These indicators will be used in empirical models that can contribute to improve European, national and regional policies on the following four topics:
a. economic use of patents, i.e. unused patents and strategic patents, licensing, entrepreneurship;
b. science-industry linkages and innovation performance;
c. gender, education and mobility of inventors,
d. economic value of patents.
The project will carry out the following four sets of activities aimed at the creation of
new indicators.
First, we will carry out a new survey data collection, PatVal-EU II, which will build on
the previous PatVal-EU I survey of inventors. The new survey will interview inventors of
about 30,000 EPO patents in 20 European countries and will ask questions about the
inventors, the invention process, the motivations to patent, the use and the value of
the patent and the links between science and patented inventions.
Second, we will carry out two complementary survey data collections in US and Japan,
PatVal-US and PatVal-JP, by using the questionnaire developed for European inventors.
Third, the project will develop indicators for industry-science links based on patent
citations to science for all OECD countries, over time, across industries, by firms and by
firms to universities and public research institutions. These indicators will be validated
through the results of the PatVal-EU II survey.
Fourth, we will build complementary indicators at the level of patents (citations,
oppositions, etc.), inventors, companies, regions, sectors, that will be integrated with
the survey data.
The resulting integrated datasets will be used in empirical models and policy assessments on the four topics of this project. In particular, the project will develop
adequate empirical methods that take simultaneously into account a variety of factors
affecting the impact of policies.
Coordinator:
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, IEGI
Milano
IT
Alfonso Gambardella
http://www.unibocconi.eu
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Improved ways of measuring both the potential for
and impact of policies
Duration:
36 months
Institute for Innovation Research, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship
(Inno-Tec)
München
Prof. Dr. Dietmar Harhoff
http://www.inno-tec.bwl.uni-muenchen.de
Start date:
01.04.2008
EC Contribution:
1.391.000 €
Project Website:
Weitere Partner:
http://www.innost.unibocconi.it
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy and
Innovation (MSI), Leuven, BE
- Universidad de Navarra, Iese Business School (IESE)
Department General Management, Barcelona, ES
Proposal Number:
217299
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
MAPCOMPETE
Mapping European Competitiveness
Mapping European Competitiveness (MAPCOMPETE) is a FP7 proposal by six European
research centres to provide an assessment of data opportunities and requirements for
the analysis of comparative competitiveness in European countries. Partners of the
project are Brussels based think tank Bruegel, Budapest based research centre CERS-HAS
(coordinator), Milan research centre LdA, Paris School of Economics and Sciences-Po in
Paris, and Tubingen research institute IAW. Associate partners are the OECD, the ECB and
several central banks in Europe. Competitiveness is at the heart of policy making at the
Union level and specifically within the Eurogroup. Definition of new country-level competitiveness indicators is an essential task.
The aim of this project is to provide a thorough assessment of data opportunities and
requirements for the analysis of comparative competitiveness in European countries.
Work will examine how to interconnect different approaches to research and policy
making in this field at the macro, sectoral and micro-level and consequently map data
availability and needs. It will come up with proposals for enhancing standards and consistency of data, with the aim of improving future comparative work on competitiveness.
It will analyse data requirement and suggest collection methods for selected topics such
global value chains, trade and performance as well as pricing and quality. Researchers
in the team are and have been working on the analytics of how to combine macro and
micro approaches on the study of competitiveness. Taking stock from these two sets of
activities, researchers will be in the ideal position for mapping data opportunities and
requirements in this field. The team includes some of the most prominent researchers in
the field, who have also been involved with leading roles in carrying out the first European survey on the international activities of firms (www.EFIGE.org).
The Centre for Economic and Regional Studies of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (CERS-HAS)
HU
László Halpern
http://econ.core.hu/english/
Mapping data opportunities for economic and social
research and policy
Coordinator:
Funding Scheme:
Support actions
Research Area:
Topic:
Institut für angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung e.V.
Prof. Dr. Claudia Buch
http://www.iaw.edu/
Duration:
Weitere Partner:
Start date:
36 months
01.02.2013
- Ecole D‘Economie de Paris, FR
- Centro Studi Luca D‘Agliano, IT
- Bruegel AISBL, BE
EC Contribution:
1.275 .717 €
Project Website:
http://mapcompete.eu/
Proposal Number:
320197
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2013
MYWEB
Measuring Youth Well-Being
MYWeB takes a balanced approach to assessing the feasibility of a European Longitudinal Study for Children and Young People (ELSCYP) through prioritising both scientific
and policy imperatives. Striking the appropriate balance between science and policy is
guaranteed through the use of an evaluation/appraisal methodology which ensures that
the outcomes will be methodologically robust, technically feasible and will represent
value for money.
A full scale pilot study in six countries means original empirical data on field experiences
will provide direct evidence of the feasibility of an ELSCYP. Engagement with a wide
range of stakeholders including policy-makers at a European, Member State and regional
level ensures that the project outcomes take into account the broadest range of policy
makers. Questions about the “value added” that a longitudinal survey can offer over a
cross-sectional survey will, therefore, be fully informed by policy agendas. Children and
Young People are integrated into the project plan to contribute to the operationalisation
of notions of well-being as well as in understanding the best modes of conducting an
ELSCYP.
The MYWeB consortium contains researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds
and provides expertise in the areas of children and young people’s well-being, childhood
care; education; the environment in which a child grows up, childhood/youth work and
leisure and participation. In addition, all teams are experienced in undertaking questionnaire survey research. Each Delivery Partner and Collaborator in the consortium is part
of the FP7 funded MYPLACE project and have direct experience of working with one
another on a large and complex project and the requirements to deliver to contract. The
consortium contains a team with international repute in the methodology of longitudinal surveys ensuring that the project outcomes are informed by cutting edge scientists
working in this field of methodology.
Coordinator:
The Manchester Metropolitan University
UK
http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/
Funding Scheme:
Support action
Research Area:
Area: Provision of underlying official statistics
Topic:
Towards a European longitudinal childhood and
youth survey
Duration:
24 months
Universität Bremen
Start date:
03.03.2014
EC Contribution:
Weitere Partner:
1.493.481 €
- Debreceni Egyetem, HU
- The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge, UK
- University of Essex, UK
- Daugavpils Universitate, LT
- Univerzita Sv Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave, SK
- Institut Drustvenih Znanosti Ivo Pilar, HR
- CRRC Georgia non-entrepreneural, GE
Project Website:
http://fp7-myweb.eu/
Proposal Number:
613368
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 -1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Juli 2014
Activity 7:
Foresight activities
IKNOW
Interconnecting knowledge for the early identification of issues, events and developments (e.g. wild cards and associated
weak signals) shaping and shaking the future of science, technology and innovation in the European Research Area
In recent years, foresight has emerged as a key instrument for the development and
implementation of research and innovation policies with long-term perspectives.
Much futures work and foresight exercises are little more than extrapolations. Some
activities show an interesting mix of approaches combining three types of elements:
prospective studies of long-term opportunities and alternatives, participatory networking, and policy orientation.
However, far too little attention has been paid to the identification and analysis of wild
cards and weak signals (WI-WE).
But two things are widely agreed upon in discussions of high-impact but low-probability events. First, it is vital to examine such events.
Some of them are almost bound to happen, even if we cannot say what these are.
Many organisational crises relate to failure to spot surprising developments sufficiently far in advance.
The weak signals that might warn of an impending wild card have been ignored.
Second, our methods for identifying and detecting WI-WE are woefully underdeveloped.
The reason that most futurists use examples of wild cards to wake up their audiences,
but do not then follow through on this, is that there is relatively little that is formalised
and reproducible in WI-WE analysis.
The proposed study will provide answers to these questions, by mounting a sustained
and multi-method effort to explore approaches to conceptualisation of WI-WE that
can inform practice; establish tools for WI-WE analysis; and to additionally validate
these in a specific application areas.
The application area in question is the European Research Area (ERA).
Wild cards and weak signals relevant to the future of the ERA will be the substantive
focus of the study: so we will talk about conceptual and methodological contributions
on the one hand, and on the other, we will talk about substantive results.
The study will generate, systematise, and make available policy-relevant WI-WE bearing heavily on the ERA.
Coordinator:
The University of Manchester, Prest/Institute of
Innovation Research, Manchester
UK
Rafael Popper
http://www.mbs.ac.uk/research/innovation
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Area: Blue sky research on emerging issues
affecting European S&T
Topic:
Blue sky research on emerging issues
Duration:
30 months
Z Punkt The Foresight Company
Essen
Cornelia Daheim
http://www.z-punkt.de
Start date:
01.11.2008
EC Contribution:
839.861 €
Weitere Partner:
Project Website:
- Turku School of Economics, Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC), Turku, FI
- Rtc North Ltd, Sunderland, UK
- Technology Centre of the Academy of Sciences CR, Prague, CZ
- Interdisciplinary Centre for Technology Analysis and Forecasting, Tel Aviv, IL
- Mediatuotanto Mindcom Oy, Kupio, FI
- Cyber Fox, S.R.O., Prague, CZ
http://wiwe.iknowfutures.eu
Proposal Number:
225695
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
INFU
Innovation futures in Europe: a foresight exercise on emerging patterns of innovation.
Visions, scenarios and implications for policy and practice
The INFU foresight project will develop plausible and relevant long-term scenarios of
future innovation landscapes in order to orient long-term strategy building for policy
and other innovation actors.
The scenarios will outline how future actors may collaborate in new configurations
and with new approaches to transform knowledge into products and services within
different socio-economic frameworks.
To generate this anticipatory intelligence INFU is implementing a progressive explorative dialogue with key stakeholders and experts using advanced creativity methods to
foster thinking beyond established pathways and up-to-date prospective methods to
structure the debate and ensure rigour of analysis.
Particular emphasis is placed on optimising the knowledge flow through tailored and
vivid formatting of outcomes for audiences in and outside the project.
The INFU futures dialogue departs from an identification of emerging signals of
change in current innovation patterns and progresses with increasing integration of
diverse perspectives and knowledge sources towards consolidated innovation futures
scripts.
These bottom-up visions are then confronted with different possible socio-economic
framework conditions and global megatrends to finally synthesise consistent scenarios that are integrating micro, meso and macro elements of possible innovation futures
with particular emphasis on the changes in nature and content of research.
The explorative analysis will be complemented with value-related debate on the
desirability of different innovation futures based on an assessment of the scenario
implications for key societal challenges such as sustainability.
Options for policy strategies to prepare for the identified changes in innovation patterns are derived together with key policy actors.
The INFU consortium comprises strong complementary competencies in foresight,
strategic support to policy and industry and academic innovation research.
Coordinator:
Austrian Research Center Gmbh - Arc
Systems Research, Vienna
AT
Karl Heinz Leitner
http://www.innovation-futures.org
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Blue sky research on emerging issues affecting
European S&T
Duration:
32 months
- Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V., München
Elna Schirrmeister
Start date:
01.06.2009
- Z Punkt The Foresight Company, Essen
http://www.z-punkt.de/
EC Contribution:
484.056 €
Project Website:
Weitere Partner:
http://www.innovation-futures.org
- Strategic Design Scenarios, Brussels, BE
Proposal Number:
225229
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
MEDPRO
Prospective analysis for the Mediterranean region
The MEDPRO project undertakes a deep foresight analysis of the development issues
in eleven countries in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean participating in the Barcelona process and in the Union for the Mediterranean. The project undertakes an analysis
of the current state and prospective development in main areas of socio-economic
development:
geopolitics and governance;
demography, ageing, migration, health and gender issues;
sustainable development, management of resources, adaptation to global warming;
energy and climate change mitigation;
economic development, trade and investment; financial services and capital markets and
human capital, education and development of skills.
MEDPRO will then bring the partial foresight analyses in these areas into a broader
framework of quantitative general equilibrium modelling, and be completed with qualitative scenarios for regional and broader integration within the region and with the EU
and policy conclusions for the EU approach. Given the broad scope of the research to be
undertaken, the consortium has been composed with the aim of ensuring three equally
important qualities: scientific excellence, multidisciplinary structure and deep insight
into Mediterranean affairs. The coordinating institute is therefore collaborating closely
with three other institutes with deep insight in Mediterranean affairs and European
Neighbourhood Policy.
Whereas the main objective is to provide targeted scientific support to the future development of the relations between the EU and the Mediterranean region, the impact of
this project is underpinned by an exceptional effort of dissemination in both the EU and
the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries.
Coordinator:
Centre for European Policy Studies
Brussels
BE
Rym Ayadi
http://www.ceps.eu/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Area: Wide socio-economic foresight on key
challenges
Topic:
Foresight on the long-term challenges for the
Mediterranean area
Duration:
36 months
Mannheim
Bettina von Hagens
http://www.zew.de
Start date:
01.03.2010
EC Contribution:
Weitere Partner:
- Istituto di Studi per l‘Integrazione dei Sistemi, Rome, IT
- Forum Euroméditerranéen d‘Instituts de Sciences Economiques, Marseille, FR
- Center for Social and Economic Research, Warsaw, PL
- Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Athens, EL
- Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wettenschappen, Amsterdam, NL
- Cyprus Center for European and International Affairs, Nicosia, CY
- Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES
- Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milano, IT
- Faculdade de Economia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PT
- Centro Internazionale di Alti Studi Agronomici Mediterranei, Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo di Bari, Valenzano, IT
- Institut Marocain des Relations Internationales, Casablanca, MA
- Center for economic and financial research and studies, Giza, EG
- Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute, Ramallah, PA
- Instituto Europeo del Mediterraneo Consorcio, Barcelona, ES
- Institut Tunisien de la Compétitivité et des Etudes Quantitatives, Tunis, TN
2.647.330 €
Project Website:
http://www.medpro-foresight.eu
Proposal Number:
244578
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
PASHMINA
Paradigm shifts modelling and innovative approaches
PASHMINA aims to better address global changes in a long term time perspective
(2030–2050), making a first development of tools – new generations of models and
indicators – with enhanced capabilities to take into account the interaction between
the economy and the environment, paradigm shifts in the energy-transport-environment nexus and the land-use and territorial functions. The objectives of PASHMINA will
include:
-production of exploratory scenarios (qualitative storylines) of future global change
options up to 2030 and 2050, complemented by a quantitative analysis of key development indicators (GDP, well being, etc.) undertaken by means of global long term
meta-models;
-analysis of the consequences of the paradigm shifts in the energy-transport-environment nexus related to the urban functions such as housing, mobility and recreation;
analysis of the possible paradigm shifts in the land use and territorial functions related
to agriculture, forestry and more in general ecosystem services: e.g. biofuels, biodiversity, ecosystems metabolism;
-first development a new generation of global indicators and models, starting from
already existing sustainability accounting and general equilibrium modelling frameworks and adapting these to make them (more) sensitive to paradigm shifts in the
long-term perspective;
-pilot assessment of possible adaptation and mitigation strategies to tackle with different paradigm shifts, evaluating their trade-offs;
-to produce a comparative evaluation of the advancements in modelling tools
achieved by PASHMINA, and to disseminate those in the scientific and stakeholders
communities by means of innovative dissemination tools (virtual library, wiki-web
tools, webGIS application) and other dissemination activities.
Kiel
Prof. Dr. Gernot Klepper
http://www.ifw-kiel.de
Coordinator:
Istituto di Studi per l‘Integrazione dei Sistemi,
Rome
IT
Andrea Ricci
http://www.isis-it.com
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Activity 2: Combining economic, social and environmental objectives in a European perspective
Topic:
Analysing, comparing and evaluating the various
societal models in a medium-to-long-term
perspective
Duration:
36 months
Weitere Partner:
Start date:
01.11.2009
- Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Vienna, AT
- Univerzita Karlova V Praze, Charles University Environment Center, Prague, CZ
- Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas , Secretaría General
Adjunta de Actuación Económica, Madrid, ES
- ENERDATA SA, Grenoble, FR
- Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Sustainable Development Programme, Milano, IT
- Internationales Institut für Angewandte Systemanalyse, Office of Sponsored Research, Laxenburg, AT
- MCRIT, Barcelona, ES
- Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et de Sciences Humaines, Paris, FR
EC Contribution:
2.607.193 €
Project Website:
http://www.pashmina-project.eu
Proposal Number:
244766
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
POCACITO
POst-CArbon CIties of TOmorrow – foresight for sustainable pathways towards liveable,
affordable and prospering cities in a world context
The project POst-CArbon CIties of TOmorrow – foresight for sustainable pathways towards liveable, affordable and prospering cities in a world context (POCACITO) will develop an evidence-based 2050 roadmap for EU post-carbon cities. POCACITO facilitates the
transition of EU cities to a forecasted sustainable or “post-carbon” economic model. The
project focuses on towns, cities, megacities, metropolitan areas and urban clusters larger
than 1 million people as well as small and medium-sized cities. POCACITO’s approach
uses participatory scenario development as a mutual learning and living lab environment strategy. The project recognises that post-carbon city transitions should improve
urban resilience to fluctuating environmental and socio-economic pressure. Pressure in
this context includes long-term changes in urban resident demographics, city and rural
migration patterns, and potential city health concerns.
Further, POCACITO develops innovative long-term outlooks for European post-carbon
cities to address climate adaptation and urban environmental metabolism concerns
by using a participatory city case study approach. Case study cities include Barcelona,
Copenhagen/Malmö, Istanbul, Lisbon, Litomerice, Milan/Turin, Offenburg and Zagreb. These cities will develop qualitative post-carbon visions with local stakeholders.
Visions will be chosen based on selected best-practice measures and preliminary city
assessments. Accompanying studies will yield a typology of post-carbon cities and a
post-carbon city index. A “marketplace of ideas” will spread best practices from other EU
cities and global cities in global emerging nations, allowing an international exchange
of urban best practices. Related research will produce case study city roadmaps and an
evidence-based 2050 roadmap for post-carbon EU cities within a global context. The
project’s research supports the sustainable development objective of the Europe 2020
strategy and the Innovation Union flagship initiative.
Coordinator:
ECOLOGIC INSTITUT gGMBH
DE
http://www.ecologic.eu/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
challenges
Topic:
Post-carbon cities in Europe: A long-term outlook
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung
http://www.irs-net.de/
01.01.2014
EC Contribution:
Weitere Partner:
2.494.914 €
- Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, IT
- Politecnico di Torino, IT
- Energy Cities Association, FR
- IVL Svenska Miljoeinstitutet AB, SE
- United Nations Development Programme, US
- Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, AT
- Istanbul Teknik Universitesi, TR
- Inteli - Inteligencia em Inovacao, Centro de Inovacao Associacao Privada Semfins Lucrativos, PT
Project Website:
http://pocacito.eu/
Proposal Number:
613286
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 -1 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Juli 2014
SANDERA
The future impact of security and defence policies on the European Research Area
SANDERA focuses on the future relationship between two critical European policy domains: namely, the EU strategy since Lisbon to move towards the European Research
Area and those EU policies focused on the security of the European citizen in the
world.
SANDERA uses exploratory scenarios to 2020 to examine how future developments in
European security and defence policies combined with technological change and the
evolution of European science and technology policy could interact in intended and
unintended ways to affect the pace and character of the move towards the ERA as well
Coordinator:
as priorities for FP8.
The University of Manchester, Manchester Institute
Bringing together a multidisciplinary team that crosses the boundaries between
of Innovation Research, Manchester
security policy and science and technology policy, SANDERA addresses an issue of
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potentially great importance that has, until now, been at the margins of academic and
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a. an improved understanding amongst policy-makers and other stakeholders of the
potential implications for the ERA and FP8 of future developments at the interface
Funding Scheme:
between security policy and science and technology policy;
b. the stimulation of dialogue between stakeholders and the facilitation of new policy
networks;
c. the strengthening of the strategic policy intelligence capacity in Europe through
the development of an Indicator Monitoring Framework and a Policy Analysis Toolkit;
Research Area:
d. useful inputs for the preparation of the 8th Framework Programme through the
identification of new research areas and research capacity requirements;
e. the attraction of more researchers into the foresight field not least researchers from
the security policy field.
Topic:
Blue sky research on emerging issues
Duration:
24 months
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Forschungsgruppe Sicherheitspolitik
Berlin
Dr. Christian Mölling
http://www.swp-berlin.org/
Start date:
01.06.2009
EC Contribution:
700.868 €
Weitere Partner:
- University of Lund, Lund, SE
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Valencia, ES
- Association pour la Recherche et le Développement des Méthodes et Processus
Industriels, Paris, FR
- Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, DK
- Institute of Economics - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, HU
- Royal Institute of International Relations (EGMONT), BE
Project Website:
http://www.sandera.net/
Proposal Number:
225544
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
SHRINK SMART
Governance of shrinkage within a European context
The aim of SHRINK SMART is to study the role of policies and governance systems in
different types of shrinking urban regions. It is based on comparative case studies from
seven urban regions throughout Europe with a focus on disadvantaged urban regions
in Eastern and Southern Europe that will provide a basis for analyzing different trajectories of shrinkage, understanding main challenges for urban planning and elaborating alternatives for urban governance.
Firstly, the impact of shrinkage for urban and regional development that are caused
by population losses will be identified focusing on different fields; the main challenges
will be elaborated in a comparative perspective.
Secondly, the relation between local institutional structures and modes of decision
making on the one hand and the challenges of shrinkage on the other will be analysed. Here, the focus will be on strategies and instruments, on the relation of public
and private actors and on institutional frameworks and cross-scale interactions. As a
result, different trajectories of shrinkage processes within Europe will be defined and
a set of policy recommendations for different constellations of shrinking cities will be
developed.
Furthermore, with the aim of providing practicable knowledge for decision-makers,
SHRINK SMART will engage in extensive dissemination activities and develop a set of
tools and policy recommendations.
Summarizing, SHRINK SMART embarks on the following key objectives:
a. to identify main challenges caused by shrinkage for urban and regional development;
b. to develop an analytical framework for understanding the challenges of development in different types of shrinking urban regions;
c. to draw lessons and develop sustainable and transferable policy-recommendations;
d. to establish a network of experts on the phenomenon of shrinking urban regions;
e. to discuss the findings with practitioners and policy-makers in order to improve
transferability of knowledge into action.
Coordinator:
Helmholtz - Zentrum für Umweltforschung
Dept. of Urban and Environmental Sociology
Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Dieter Rink
http://www.ufz.de
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Topic:
Regional development challenges in an evolving
international context
Duration:
Weitere Partner:
36 months
- Liverpool John Moores University, School of the Built Environment, Liverpool, UK
- University of Ostrava, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development,
Ostrava, CZ
- Uniwersytet Slaski (University of Silesia), Department of Economic Geography, Katowice, PL
- University of Nottingham, School of Geography, Nottingham, UK
- University of Rome, Rome, IT
- Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara, Department of Sociology-Anthropology, Timisoara, RO
- Industrial Economics Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Division
of Public Governance and Regulation of Production, Industrial Economics Institute,
Donetsk, UA
Start date:
01.05.2009
EC Contribution:
1.496.091 €
Project Website:
http://www.shrinksmart.ufz.de/
Proposal Number:
225193
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
VERA
Forward Visions on the European Research Area
The VERA project aims to provide relevant strategic intelligence for the future governance and priority-setting of the research, technology, development and innovation
(RTDI) system in Europe and for better adapting science, technology and innovation
policy to the shifting global environment and upcoming socio-economic challenges. For
this purpose VERA carries out an in-depth stocktaking of RTDI related forward looking
activities in Europe and internationally and a thorough review of trends and drivers of
long-term change of European RTDI governance. On the base of these insights VERA
develops scenarios on the evolution of the European Research Area, assesses the critical
issues for the ERAs future capabilities emerging from these scenarios, explores subsequent strategic options and ultimately generates a set of policy recommendations for
responsive and future oriented multi-level, multi-domain RTDI policy strategies.
VERA is conceptualised as a continuously progressing two-way communication process
among ERA actor groups from society, industry, academia and policy across domains,
levels and regions. It is setting up a strategic conversation between these stakeholders
that evolves through several carefully tailored stages in order to jointly discover shared
visions and strategic options around the ERAs future perspectives towards 2020 and far
beyond. VERA is exploring gradual evolution following from current patterns of change
but is also explicitly embracing transformative and disruptive developments with a longterm horizon.
The VERA project is being proposed by a consortium of ten internationally renowned
institutes from 9 EU countries involving a team of more than 20 researchers with outstanding expertise both in terms of relevant knowledge and forward looking methodology
and excellent contacts with RTDI stakeholders in Europe and the world.
Coordinator:
Fraunhofer -Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V.
Maximilian Steiert
http://www.fraunhofer.de/
Funding Scheme:
Support action
Research Area:
challenges
Topic:
Forward Visions on the European Research Area
Duration:
30 months
Weitere Partner:
- Universiteit Twente, NL
- Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifica, ES
- Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus, VTT, Suomi, FI
- Universite de Marne La Valle, FR
- JRC -Joint Research Centre, European Commission, BE
- Unitatea Excutiva Pentru Finantarea Univatamantului Superior, RO
- Zentrum für Soziale Innovation, AT
- The University of Manchester, UK
Start date:
01.02.2012
EC Contribution:
1.459.370 €
Project Website:
Proposal Number:
290705
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 -1 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Mai 2012
Activity 8:
Horizontal actions
CHINA EU STANDARDS
China EU information technology standards research partnership
This action will promote research collaboration and engagement between research
and policy in relation to information technology standardisation in China & Europe.
The People‘s Republic of China has recently begun to be remarkably active in many
areas of ICT interoperability standards. This raises important issues for China about
standardisation processes and technology promotion policy. Their outcome will have
important consequences for the European economy and global ICT market. They are
flagged as of particular interest to the 7th Information Society Technologies Framework Programme.
This project brings together the leading European and Chinese centres for research
into ICT interoperability standards for a comparative examination of ICT standardisation processes and associated policies between EU and China. It will develop
a knowledge network of top researchers in the field in Europe, China and beyond.
It will examine the new ICT standardisation activity emerging in China, apparently
linked to its goals to promote indigenous technology, and compare these emerging
standardisation processes with the more established approaches that have evolved at
a European level.
Three strategic studies will address a selected sample of areas flagged by IST as
bearing critically on European technology and industrial strategy. They will examine
the standardisation approach adopted, the strategies of public policy, technical and
industrial players, the likely implementation/uptake of standards and their consequences for innovation and markets.
In particular: will the outcomes be open standards and alignment between regional
economies or competitive standards processes leading to so-called „standards wars“
or the fragmentation of global markets.
Attention will be paid to social learning by standardisation bodies, industry and policy
actors.
Findings will be discussed with Chinese & European standards bodies and policy communities who will assist in pulling out the policy implications.
Coordinator:
The University of Edinburgh
Institute for the Study of Science, Technology &
Innovation, Edinburgh
UK
Robin Williams
http://www.isstl.ed.ac.uk
Funding Scheme:
Coordination and support action (support action)
Research Area:
Activity 8 - Strategic activities
Area: Horizontal measures to support international
cooperation
Topic:
Horizontal measures to support international
cooperation
Duration:
24 months
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
Cosc Dept., Informatik 4
Aachen
Dr. Kai Jakobs
http://www.rwth-aachen.de
Start date:
01.03.2008
EC Contribution:
468.788 €
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
Fraunhofer ISI
München
Prof. Dr. Knut Blind
Project Website:
http://www.china-eu-standards.org
Proposal Number:
217457
Weitere Partner:
- University of Oslo, Department of Informatics/Global Infrastructures, Oslo, NO
- Vitautas Magnus University, Faculty of Informatics, Launas, LT
- Tsinghua University, Humanities and Social Science School, Beijing, CN
- Institute of Science and Management of Chinese Acadamy of Science, Beijing, CN
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
CREATING
Cooperative research on East African territorial integration within globalisation
This project seeks to improve research capacity and develop collaboration amongst
researchers in Europe and East Africa, and by doing so to contribute to the larger
objective of regional integration.
The project enhances integration in the research community in both Europe and East
Africa through bringing together junior and senior researchers in a series of training
activities.
These activities focus on two kinds of transborder environment: mountains and Lake Tanganyika. Through this focus on resources which span the borders of the multiple political
units of East Africa, the project contributes directly to public understanding of some of
the challenges to regional integration in East African context. Specific activities are the
building-up of a comprehensive electronic research platform (WP2), and the training of
advanced MA and PhD students from East Africa and (some) from Europe by senior scholars and researchers in fieldwork methods, including pilot researches in selected areas.
The project is organized around four themes, all of which relate to human use and management of cross border resources and processes: resource management and livelihood
sustainability (WP3), environmental and climatic change (WP4), mobilities and identities
(WP5), and the role of small and medium cities (WP6).
The project is bringing together ten institutions - nine European, and one East African ;
its management is ensured by French and British Research Institutes in Nairobi in close
collaboration with the Interuniversity Council for East Africa (Kampala).
All the individuals and institutions involved have substantial experience of work in
Africa, and have commitment both to the enhancement of an integrated European
research capacity and to the building of research capacity and regional integration in
East Africa.
Coordinator:
Université de Toulouse 2 - Le Mirail, UTM
Toulouse
FR
Bernard Charlery de la Masseliere
http://www.univ-tise2.fr
Funding Scheme:
(coordination action)
Research Area:
Activity 8: Strategic activities
cooperation
Universität Bayreuth
Institut für Afrikastudien (IAS)
Prof. Dr. Achim von Oppen
http://www.ias.uni-bayreuth.de
Topic:
cooperation
Duration:
24 months
Start date:
Weitere Partner:
01.03.2008
- Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique (IFRA), Nairobi
- British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA), Nairobi
- Musée Royal de l‘Afrique Centrale, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology,
Tervuren, BE
- Inter-University Council for East Africa, Projects and Programmes, Kampala, UG
- Dynamiques des Milieux et des Sociétés dans les Espaces Tropicaux, ADES-DYMSET,
Pessac, FR
- Stockholm University, Department of Human Geography, Stockholm, SE
- Trinity College Dublin, School of Natural Sciences, Dublin, IE
EC Contribution:
676.417 €
Project Website:
http://www.creating7.net
Proposal Number:
217231
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
EDC2020
European development co-operation to 2020
This is an important moment in the history of Europe‘s development policies and its
relations with developing countries.
Over the next decade a combination of old and new domestic issues and substantial
changes in the global landscape require a reshaping of Europe‘s development policies.
These include challenges facing EU‘s development policy agenda, issues around energy security, climate change and the emerging role of China and India in international
affairs.
All these changes take place in times of wide-ranging global challenges, and at a time
when questions of European identity loom large in national debates.
A key question will remain: how will Member States approach the issue of working
together on common problems? It is crucial for decisions on the emerging matters to
be based on good research and sound evidence.
The public and policy-making debate need to be informed by research voices.
To this end, the overall objective is „to improve EU policy-makers‘ and other societal
actors‘ shared understanding of emerging challenges facing EU development policy
and external action.
In addition, it seeks to understand how EU development policy-making processes work
and why or how EU policies then change or remain the same.
EDC2020 will contribute to this objective by promoting interaction across the research and policy arenas to share perspectives, learn from each other, and strengthen
working relationships through policy-oriented publications, a shared project website
and high-level European policy forums.
The proposal contributes to the work programme as it is addressing „new challenges“
which go beyond the issues touched by SHH work programme 2007 and take a wider
and longer term view of the challenges facing concerned policy fields. In order to
effectively contribute to the work programme both in promoting understanding and
drawing the attention of the policy-makers, the project has strong interdisciplinary
approach and communication components.
Coordinator:
European Association of Development Training
and Research Institutes (EADI), Bonn
DE
Can Akdeniz
http://www.eadi.org/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Activity 8 - Strategic activities
cooperation
Topic:
Horizontal measures to support
international cooperation
Duration:
36 months
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik
Environmental Policy and Management of Natural Resources
Bonn
Dr. Imme Scholz
Dr. Sven Grimm
http://www.die-gdi.de
Start date:
01.04.2008
EC Contribution:
1 .333. 754 €
Project Website:
Weitere Partner:
http://www.edc2020.eu/
- Overseas Development Institute, London, UK
Proposal Number:
- Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE),
Madrid, ES
- Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton, UK
217346
- Society for International Development (SID), Chapter Netherlands , The Hague, NL
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
EURASIA-NET
Europe-South Asia exchange on supranational (regional) policies and instruments
for the promotion of human rights and management of minority issues
Human rights, and especially minority rights, have a clear supranational dimension
both in Europe and in South Asia.
Europe has made wide use of the mechanisms and soft law approaches developed and
implemented at regional level by the OSCE, the Council of Europe and the European
Union.
In South Asia there is a long tradition of study and robust experience in the field of cultural, religious, linguistic and ethnic management, including the gender dimension,
within national boundaries.
However, it is only recently that some albeit limited attempts have been made to
enhance regional cooperation on these very sensitive issues.
Studies carried out by South Asian scholars have created the knowledge base underlying the first rudimentary attempts by the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and the foresight initiatives of human rights NGOs and activists.
Furthermore, the geopolitical context is now particularly favourable to a supra-national discourse on human and minority rights as a consequence of recently improved
relations between India and Pakistan.
The overall objective of EURASIA-Net is therefore to enhance the requisite knowledgebase for new policies and instruments to reduce ethnic-religious conflicts and to foster
stability and security in South Asia.
The specific objectives are:
a. to develop a better understanding of regional South Asian attempts to define (by
the research community) and implement (by decision-makers and activists) new
supranational instruments for the protection and promotion of human rights, with a
particular focus on cross-border minority issues;
b. to sustain Euro-Asiatic research cooperation and exchange on those issues and to
enlarge the discussion forum to encompass politicians and human rights activists;
c. to create a framework for future research cooperation between Europe and South
Asia that is twofold: a Joint Research Agenda and a modus operandi based on mutual
knowledge and understanding.
Coordinator:
Europäische Akademie Bozen / Accademia
Europea Bolzano, Institute for Minority Rights,
Bolzano, IT
Günther Rautz
http://www.eurac.edu
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Activity 8 : Strategic activities
cooperation
Topic:
cooperation
Duration:
30 months
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
The Wilhelm Merton Center for European Integration and International Law
Frankfurt am Main
Prof. Dr. Rainer Hofmann
http://www.uni-frankfurt.de
Start date:
01.01.2008
EC Contribution:
643.686 €
Weitere Partner:
- Brunel University, School of Law and Social Sciences, Middlesex, UK
- Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, IN
- South Asia Forum for Human Rights , Kathmandu, NP
- Democratic Commission for Human Development, Lahore, PK
- University of Dhaka, Faculty of Law, Dhaka, BD
Project Website:
http://www.eurac.edu/eurasia-net
Proposal Number:
216072
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
FACIT
Faith-based organisations and exclusion in European cities
The research concerns the present role of Faith-Based Organisations (FBOs) in matters
of poverty and other forms of social exclusion (such as homelessness or undocumented persons) in cities.
FACIT defines FBOs as any organisation that refers directly or indirectly to religion or
religious values, and functions as a welfare provider or as a political actor.
The central assumption is that FBOs tend to fill the gap left after the supposed
withdrawal of the welfare state in several domains of public life, particularly in social
welfare and in social protection.
At first sight, this looks like a return to the charity of former times, when such associations occupied the fore of social help in many countries.
But it could be the beginning of a new type of welfare regime with a stronger focus
on local policies and strategies and new interplays between local authorities and civil
society organisations.
What is the position of FBOs in combating poverty and other forms of social distress
cities? How has this role changed over time and how do these activities contribute to
combating social exclusion and promoting social cohesion? What are the implications
for policies and the governance of European cities?
From both scientific and policy perspectives, there is a great need for better empirical
and comparative data on what is going on in European cites in matters of poverty
and exclusion policies and, in particular, the contribution of FBOs in the reduction
(or deepening) of the problems. FBOs have direct entrance to the ‚poor side‘ of cities
because of:
a. their activities in deprived urban neighbourhoods and among excluded groups;
b. as in the case of many FBOs with a non-western background, because their members often belong to these deprived and excluded groups themselves.
Coordinator:
Universiteit Antwerpen
Oases (Research Group Poverty, Social Exclusion
and the City), Antwerpen
BE
Jan Vranken
http://www.ua.ac.be/oases
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Area: Emerging needs
Topic:
Emerging needs
University of Cologne
Research Institute for Sociology
Köln
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Friedrichs
http://www.fis.uni-koeln.de
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.01.2008
Weitere Partner:
- Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, Urban and Regional Studies
Institute (URSI), Groningen, NL
- Stichting Dr. Hilda Verwey-Jonker Instituut, Research Group Youth and Education,
Utrecht, NL
- University of Exeter, Department of Geography, School of Geography, Archaeology
and Earth Resources, Exeter, UK
- Middle East Technical University, Center for Black Sea and Central Asia (KORA), Ankara, TR
- Fundación Centro de Iniciativas e Investigaciones Europeas en el Mediterráneo
Fundación CIREM, Barcelona, ES
- Örebro University, Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURES), Örebro, SE
EC Contribution:
1.495.980 €
Project Website:
http://www.facit.be
Proposal Number:
217314
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
FLASH-IT
FaciLitating Access to Socio-economic ResearcH through Information
and Communications Technology
The general objective of the project is to contribute to increased dissemination and
exploitation of the SSH projects research findings. The project, taking also advantage
of new ICT-based technologies and tools, will :Provide consolidated information arising
from FP6 & FP7 SSH research projects and activities addressing major societal challenges
on issues close to the main political priorities of the EU identified in the new Europe 2020
strategy: 1. Innovation Union (including economic and social innovation, social cohesion and demographic changes); 2. Youth, 3. Employment, 4. Poverty; Develop effective
communication tools (such as Policy Snapshots, Policy Research Alerts, E-newsletters,
multi-stakeholder policy dialogue workshops, roundtables, interactive and innovative
web platform), engaging all relevant SSH players such as European, national and local
decision-makers and multipliers (policy-makers, journalists, academics, industry, civil
society organisations); Improve access to research data as results of SSH projects focusing
on common rules and frameworks to be applied in data management, exploring the
possibilities of ex-ante and ex-post coordination with FP funded projects. Expected
outputs: Evaluation of the opportunities offered by new forms of ICT for networking and
clustering ongoing SSH research projects and enable exchange and knowledge transfer
between projects/clusters of projects; Assessment and collection of best practices
among SSH research projects in exploiting ICT technologies for knowledge transfer and
dissemination of results & key messages targeting different stakeholders; Dissemination
of relevant SSH projects results through effective communication tools; Analysis of the
state of the art related to the usage of Open Access pilot to identify data standards to be
applied by the projects; Connection with European SSH Research Infrastructure for designing and implementing data management plans for future inclusion of SSH projects.
Coordinator:
Agenzia per la Promozione della Ricerca Europea
Roma, IT
Dr. Diassina di Maggio
Funding Scheme:
(supporting action)
Research Area:
Activity 8: Horizontal actions (support actions)
Topic:
ICT-based networking and exploiting of
SSH projects and results
Duration:
Spia UG (Science Policy Interface Agency)
Terry Martin
http://www.spia-europa.de
24 months
Start date:
01.11.2011
Weitere Partner:
EC Contribution:
499.775 €
- Synbea Sarl, Marseille, FR
- Pour la Solidarité ASBL, Brussels, BE
- Ethniko Idryma Erevnon, Athens, GR
Project Website:
Proposal Number:
290431
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 1644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: Mai 2012
NET4SOCIETY
Trans-national co-operation among National Contact Points for Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities (SSH NCPs)
NET4SOCIETY is the international network of National Contact Points for Socio-economic
Sciences and Humanities (SSH) in the 7th European Framework Programme (FP7).
National Contact Points (NCPs) are set up to guide researchers in their quest for securing
EU funding. NET4SOCIETY includes over 50 SSH NCPs from European and non-European
countries - weaving a net from Iceland to South Africa and Mexico to Russia.
NET4SOCIETY actively supports networking in the SSH research community and offers
improved partner search facilities and matchmaking events for connecting potential
project partners in the SSH calls. An analysis of topics in all of the FP7 work programmes
helps to identify funding opportunities over and beyond Theme 8 „Socio-economic
Sciences and Humanities“. An event calendar on the project website informs you about
relevant SSH events all over Europe.
SSH researchers and stakeholders are invited to register in the SSH Research Directory - a
database of key European and International players, which has been launched in June
2010. By entering their profile, researchers will increase their chances of finding and
being found by partners in over 50 countries in Europe and the rest of the world.
NET4SOCIETY will carry out an online survey about SSH experiences with FP7. The results
of the survey will help to draw up recommendations on how to improve conditions for
SSH researchers in FP7 and beyond.
NET4SOCIETY offers dedicated networking workshops, specific high quality trainings,
and mentoring to the SSH NCPs of the network. The project website provides a library of
EC documents of key SSH relevance, and other documents of key interest. A best practice
handbook for SSH NCPs and a refined partner-search tool are in the making.
NET4SOCIETY is a learning network: by reaching out across borders and through the
effective use of existing resources, each SSH NCP will gain full and easy access to all the
essential tools of the trade. Thus, each SSH NCP will have state-of-the-art know-how
to support SSH researchers in the FP7 proposal preparation process, and ultimately
strengthen the role of SSH research in the Framework Programmes.
Weitere Partner:
- Ministry of Education and Science (MASH), Albania
- Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH (FFG), Austria
- Service d’information scientifique et technique/ SPP Politique scientifique - Dienst voor
Wetenschappelijke en Technische Informatie/ POD Wetenschapsbeleid (STIS/ BELSPO),
Belgium
- Association Economy and Democracy (AED), Bulgaria
- Belarusian State University (BSU), Belarus
- Verein Euresearch (Euresearch), Switzerland
- Research Promotion Foundation (RPF), Cyprus
- Forsknings- og Innovationsstyrelsen, Ministeriet for Videnskab, Teknologi og Udvikling
(Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation; Ministry of Science, Technology
and Innovation) (DASTI), Denmark
- Archimedes Foundation (ARCHIMEDES), Estonia
- Centro Para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial (CDTI), Spain
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
- National Documentation Centre / National Hellenic Research Foundation (EKT NHRF),
Greece
- Croatian Institute of Technology (HIT), Croatia
- National Office for Research and Technology (NKTH), Hungary
- Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS), Ireland
- MATIMOP-ISERD (ISERD), Israel
- The Icelandic Centre for Research (RANNIS), Iceland
- Agenzia per la Promozione della Ricerca Europea (APRE), Italy
- Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology (ASIT), Lithuania
- Luxinnovation GIE (LUXINNOVATION), Luxembourg
- Starptautiska Lietiskas Optikas Biedriba (The International Society for Optical Engineering) (SPIE), Latvia
- Agency for International Scientific, Educational, Cultural and Technical Cooperation
(ZAMTES), Montenegro
- Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST), Malta
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico
- National Sun Yat-Sen University (NSYSU), Taiwan
Coordinator:
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.
NCP SSH (National Contact Point Socio-Economic
Sciences and Humanities)
Bonn
Angela Schindler-Daniels
http://www.nks-swg.de
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Area: Trans-national cooperation among National
Contact Points (NCP) for Socio-economic sciences
and Humanities
Topic:
Trans-national cooperation among National
and Humanities
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.02.2008
EC Contribution:
2.595.215 €
Project Website:
http://www.net4society.eu/
Proposal Number:
217152
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
NET4SOCIETY
Trans-national co-operation among National Contact Points for Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities (SSH NCPs)
A strong an efficient Network of National Contact Points (NCPs) is not only elementary to
the success of the Socioeconomic Sciences and the Humanities (SSH) Programme of the
7th EU Framework Programme but also to the realization of the European Research Area.
The trans-national SSH NCP cooperation project NET4SOCIETY² strives to increase the
awareness for and the visibility of the SSH Programme and its new approach while endorsing a strong NCP network dedicated to increasing the professionalism of its members.
NET4SOCIETY² strengthens and enhances the existing SSH NCPs / network NET4SOCIETY.
NET4SOCIETY² offers web-based tools for easing SSH NCP work, specific high quality
training sessions, expert excahnges and dedicated workshops. NET4SOCIETY² organizes
large international SSH events to promote the relevance of SSH research in Europe and
the FP7 SSH Programme.
To support the specifications of the new approach these large events include interdisciplinary brokerage events. The project provides a dedicated SSH Research Directory for
the specific area of Socioeconomics and the Humanities, and a redefined partner-search
support system. These tools will be published on the projects dedicated internet website.
NET4SOCIETY² continues the work of the 2008-2011 SSH network NET4SOCIETY. The
Network consists of a total of 60 NCPs representing 53 countries, including NCPs from
International Cooperation Partner Countries (ICPCs). NET4SOCIETY² is open to all SSHNCPs. A core group of Work Package leaders, including the Third Country Contact Points,
works closely together with the co-ordinator to implement the projects objectives. All
SSH NCPs are invited to be involved either as „beneficiary“ or as third parties („national
expert“) and are thus entitled to access all network events and tools and share in the
network‘s pool of information.
Coordinator:
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.
NCP SSH (National Contact Point Socio-Economic
Sciences and Humanities)
Bonn
Angela Schindler-Daniels
http://www.nks-swg.de
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Area: Trans-national cooperation among National
and Humanities
Weitere Partner:
- Goverment Institution Centre for Science Research and Statistics, RU
- Sdruzhenie Asociaciya Ikonomikai Demokraciya, BG
- Belarusian State University, BY
- Research Promotion Foundation, CY
- Matimop, Israeli Industry Center for Research & Development, IL
- Autoritatea Nationala Pentru Cercetare Stiintifica, RO
- Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH, AT
- Instytut Podstawowych Problemow Techniki Polskiej Akademii Nauk, PL
- Verein Euresearch, CH
- Starptautiska Lietiskas Optikas Biedriba, LT
- Turkiye Bilimsel ve Tekonolojik Arastirma Kurumu, TR
- Ethniko Idryma Erevnon, GR
- Agenzia per la Promozione della Ricerca Europea, IT
- Norges Forskningrad, NO
- Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, IE
- The Icelandic Centre for Research, IS
- Malta Council for Science and Technology, MT
Topic:
Trans-national cooperation among National
and Humanities
Duration:
24 months
Start date:
01.02.2011
EC Contribution:
1.800.000 €
Project Website:
http://www.net4society.eu/
Proposal Number:
263924
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2011
- Agentschap NL (Agentschap NL), Netherlands
- Norges forskningsråd (Forskningsrådet), Norway
- Instytut Podstawowych Problemow Techniki Polskiej Akademii Nauk (IPPT-PAN), Poland
- Agência de Inovação - Inovação Empresarial e Transferência de Tecnologia, S.A. (ADI),
Portugal
- Autoritatea Nationala pentru Cercetare Stiintifica (National Authority for Scientific
Research) (ANCS), Romania
- Ministry of Science and Technological Development (MSCI), Rep. of Serbia
- Centre for Science Research and Statistics (CSRS), Russian Fed.
- Verket för Innovationssystem (VINNOVA), Sweden
- Turkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu (TUBITAK), Turkey
- Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), South Africa
- The Faroese Research Council (Granskingarráðið/Gransking), Faroe Islands
- Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (MHEST), Slovenia
- National Sun Yat-Sen University (NSYSU), Taiwan
- National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan
PLATON+
Strengthening the role that Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) have on the ERA development by
reinforcing interactions between SSH and non-SSH research communities
PLATON+ is an EU-funded initiative aiming to increase awareness of European
research in Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) and popularise relative
research results in technological oriented research areas.
A wide range of activities (such as policy-oriented publications, policy dialogue
meetings, international conferences, training courses, etc) will be developed in order
to further demonstrate the value of socio-economic research and assist researchers
from other disciplines understand which socio-economic issues are most important
for them and how they can benefit from them.
Thus, PLATON+ will facilitate access to valuable information on socio-economic
research results and promote the participation of organisations active in the
respective field, in projects under the technology oriented areas.
Website:
Leibniz Universität Hannover
uni transfer
Hannover
Dr. Martina Venschott
http://www.tt-uni-hannover.de
Weitere Partner:
- Agenzia per la Promozione della Ricerca Europea (APRE), Rome, IT
- The Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences (ICCR),
Vienna, AT
- Tudomanyos es Technologiai Alapitvany, Budapest, HU
- Politechnika Wroclawska (Wroclaw University of Technology), Wroclaw Centre For
Technology Tranfer, Wroclaw, PL
- Hill and Knowlton Eesti As, Public Policy Communications, Tallinn, EE
- Economic & Social Research Institute, Macro-economics & Resource Economics,
Dublin, IE
- Applied Research & Innovation Projects, Athens Laboratory of Business Administration, Athens EL
- Institut Européen d‘Administration des Affaires, Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies (CALT), Fontainebleau, FR
- Alma Consulting Group, Innovation Department, Lyon, FR
- Turkiye Bilimsel Ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu, EU FPS National Coordination Office,
Ankara, TR
Coordinator:
International Environment and Quality Services
Q-PLAN North Greece, Development Department,
Thessaloniki
EL
Iakovos Delioglanis
http://www.qplanng.gr
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Area: Measures to support dissemination of
research
Topic:
Measures to support dissemination of research
Duration:
30 months
Start date:
01.01.2008
EC Contribution:
997.184 €
Project Website:
http://www.platonplus.net/
Proposal Number:
217154
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010
REMEDIE
Regenerative medicine in Europe: emerging needs and challenges in a global context
The globalization of regenerative medicine is gathering pace yet has not been examined with respect to its medium and long term implications for European regulators,
the corporate sector or patients located within different Member states.
Over the coming years it is hypothesised that the global pace of change in this field
will be extensive and this needs to be both tracked and assessed for healthcare systems across Europe.
But we also argue that it is a field that is characterized by complex dynamics across
a range of scientific, clinical and industrial sectors, highly unstable, yet developing
rapidly.
Building on a platform of research experience, academic and policy networks, and
data relevant to the field, this 3 year collaborative project will examine the economic,
political and bioethical implications for Europe of near-term and future global developments in the field of regenerative medicine.
It will adopt an interdisciplinary approach which brings together social science
and humanities researchers to understand the emerging needs, expectations and
challenges that Europe faces that are conceptually and methodologically innovative,
empirically robust and policy relevant.
The objectives of the project are to provide:
a. a detailed analysis of the competitive position of Europe within the globalisation of
regenerative medicine, the requirements of successful innovation in this field and the
EU policies that need to be developed to support Europe‘s global advantage in the
field;
b. an integrated series of work packages organised around three inter-related streams
of research that constitute the platform for this analysis (the economic, political and
bioethical);
c. an integrated quantitative relational database on the geo-economic pattern of
activity within the field of regenerative medicine derived from ongoing review of
secondary data sources and primary data derived from partner projects;
the use of novel techniques to interrogate results using geometric mapping of data
items secured by different projects in the three streams of work;
d. a continuing engagement with national and international policy-makers and others
to test and refine the implications of emergent findings for future European policy and
regulation in particular.
Coordinator:
University of York
Department of Sociology - SATSU, York
UK
Andrew Webster
http://www.york.ac.uk/
Funding Scheme:
Research Area:
Activity 8 : Strategic activities
Area: Emerging needs
Topic:
Emerging needs
Duration:
36 months
Start date:
01.05.2008
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Institute of Political Science
Hannover
Prof. Dr. Kathrin Braun
http://www.uni-hannover.de/de/
EC Contribution:
1.310.253 €
Project Website:
http://www.york/ac.uk/res/remedie/index.htm
Weitere Partner:
- University of the Basque Country, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bilbao, ES
- University of Vienna, Department of Political Science, Vienna, AT
- Central European University, Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine, Budapest, HU
- King‘s College London, Director of the Global Biopolitics Research Group, London, UK
Proposal Number:
217180
53227 Bonn
Telefon: 0228 38 21 - 644
www.nks-swg.de
Stand: August 2010

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