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Social Cohesion, Identity and Religion in Europe, 400-1200
ID269591From0 May 2011to6 April 2016FunderEuropean CommissionThe period between 400 and 1200 AD saw the emergence of new fundamental modes of identification in Europe. Firstly, strong religious identities took shape and became hegemonial over vast regions where Christian communities developed. And secondly, new kingdoms with ethnic denominations were formed,..."Taxation, Heterogeneity and Employment"
ID321740From6 September 2012to0 August 2014FunderEuropean Commission"The objective of this project is to study the proper design of benefit and tax programs that promote employment and reduce inequality when individuals are heterogeneous in several dimensions. To do so, we will develop original mathematical models some of which will relate optimal taxation theory to...Biomedical Research and the Future of Property Rights
ID263447From2 March 2011to3 December 2014FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorTHE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORDThis research project investigates the dynamics of private and public property in contemporary biomedical research. It will develop an analytical framework combining insights from science and technology studies, economic sociology, and legal and political philosophy, and pursues a social scientific...Tolerance, Pluralism and Social Cohesion. Responding to the Challenges of the 21st Century in Europe
ID243837From1 March 2010to5 May 2013FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorEUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTEIn 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 clai...Teacher leadership for school improvement: community capacity building towards effective leadership, educational success and social cohesion
ID628982From2 April 2014to4 April 2016FunderEuropean CommissionThe applicant, Dr. Gisela Redondo Sama is associate professor at the Department of Sociological Theory, Philosophy of Law and Methodology of the Social Sciences at the University of Barcelona since 2009. She is also researcher at CREA (Centre for Research in Theories and Practices that Overcome Ineq...Pictorial History in Mesoamerican Religions
ID271935From4 March 2012to6 February 2015FunderEuropean CommissionThe highly developed civilisation of the Aztecs in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica used a writing system based on picto- and ideograms, being declassified by colonialists and scientist as evolutionary primitive, preliminary stages of writing so far. In the last few years, however, some US-American scholars...Finding a Place for Islam in Europe: Cultural Interactions between Muslim immigrants and Receiving Societies
ID215863From0 February 2009to2 July 2012FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorUNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAMThe 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 inter...The Seductive Power of the Neurosciences: An Intellectual Genealogy
ID276664From3 June 2011to6 May 2014FunderEuropean Commission"The current explosion of neuroscientific references in a plethora of disciplinary fields, with plenty of psychological and cultural phenomena that have been ‘turned neurobiological’, represents one of the most remarkable characteristics in our epoch. What once was described with recourse to a human...GAY AND MUSLIM IN EUROPE
ID298019From4 March 2012to3 April 2014FunderEuropean CommissionThis project aims to allow the applicant (an experienced researcher) to achieve a turn in her career after a two years break, to increase her chances to be recruited as permanent senior researcher, through the acquisition of knowledge, experience in the new field of Gender and Sexualities. The host...“Between the Times”: Embattled Temporalities and Anti-Historicism in Interwar Europe
ID626491From4 January 2015to6 December 2016FunderEuropean CommissionThe inter-war period in Europe – politically, ideologically, and socially – has remained as if a misfit in our narrative schemes of modern history. While various aspects of its cultural and intellectual histories have intrigued scholars for decades, one of the key experiences that shaped its self-pe...Philosophy of History and Globalisation of Knowledge. Cultural Bridges Between Europe and Latin America
ID612644From6 March 2014to3 February 2018FunderEuropean Commission"Bridges are built to interchange not only goods, but also knowledge, received historical heritage and ethical-political projects that can complement one another. International cooperation can only be fruitful if it is based on real dialogue, interaction and engagement, in this specific case that of...The innovation in the plan of the current floor: Zoning in blocks of flats for the middle class in the first half of the 20th century
ID200636From6 December 2007to2 December 2010FunderEuropean Commission"In Nouvelles Impressions d’Architecture, Libeskind (1998) writes ""When architecture no longer deals with Space, all transactions, in which the container and the contained twisted together […] have come to an end"". A systemic analysis can be performed morphologically, functionally or dynamically....West African Pentecostal Christianity in Southern Europe. Engendered Spaces, Spiritual Power and Aesthetic Practices
ID302640From1 October 2012to3 September 2015FunderEuropean CommissionThe research proposes to address the social, religious and aesthetic impact of African Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in European cities and societies shaped by Catholicism. This approach is applied to the case study of Nigerian and Ghanaian churches in Italy where the Catholic Church play...Hospitality vs Hatred of the Other: A Study of Welcoming versus Prejudiced Representations of Otherness in Britain and Poland
ID302609From1 October 2012to2 September 2014FunderEuropean CommissionThe objective of this project is to complete my research into prejudiced representations of the Other (hostility) vs cultural initiatives to create welcoming representations (hospitality) in Britain and Poland. There are significant differences in the approaches to the Other between and within the t...The impact of the portrayal of the African continent in textbooks on racism against students of African ancestry in German schools
ID273569From0 January 2012to2 December 2013FunderEuropean Commission"The image of Africa in German textbooks and curricula is based on racist stereotypes, which can be traced back to the colonial era when dehumanisation of African people served to justify the colonisation of their continent. Poverty, violence and underdevelopment are the prevailing images of Africa...Innovative, Highly Efficient Road Surface Measurement and Control System
ID315029From3 August 2012to4 July 2014FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorINSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU OPTOELECTRONICA INOE 2000One of the most important aims in today’s transport systems is the security they provide. Even-though in air and rail transports we have managed to have extremely low accident and death rates this is not the case with road transport. The majority of the EU countries are now heading towards “the Visi...Narrative media/cultural interaction as means of preventing adolescent violence and political/religious extremism
ID203487From4 January 2009to6 December 2011FunderEuropean CommissionThe ERG-project draws on the results from a MC-EIF-project Media/Trauma-Therapy, pursuing the question of how the psycho-affective and narrative processes of an individual’s mental interaction with media and literary narratives interrelates with her/is life history, and how the person unwittingly im...Sephardi Halakhic Literature and Ladino Rabbinic Language
ID629304From0 June 2014to2 May 2016FunderEuropean CommissionThe goal of this project is the study of practical halakhic guides for religious observance written by Sephardi rabbis in Judeo-Spanish between the 16th and 20th centuries, in their social and religious contexts. The Ladino rabbinic texts under discussion were printed in Hebrew letters and include e..."Mediterranean Cities in Conflict: Urban Wars, Inter-Ethnic Coalitions and the Prospects for Peaceful Coexistence in Lebanon and Israel/Palestine, 1918 to the present"
ID294249From4 December 2011to0 November 2014FunderEuropean Commission"This research aims at mapping inter-ethnic relations in contested cities in the Eastern Mediterranean by comparing urban dynamics in Lebanon, Israel and Palestine. While most of the geopolitical scholarship on ethnonational conflicts in the region has focused on the territorial struggles between ri...Reception and Integration of Muslims in France, Quebec and English Canada
ID301049From0 July 2012to1 June 2014FunderEuropean CommissionThis project compares the experiences of Muslim minorities in three contexts: France, Quebec, and English Canada. The objective is to assess the extent of integration of Muslim minorities in each setting, to identify key similarities and differences, to find the most important reasons for any diffe...Becoming Intercultural - the Diversification of the Political Subject in Multicultural Societies A Theoretical and Practical Approach
ID220861From5 August 2008to6 July 2010FunderEuropean CommissionIt is agreed that multiculturalism (MC) has become one of the dominant discourses in Western political theory and practice concerning the needs and demands of weakened minorities, giving increasing attention to issues of identity and recognition of cultural difference. Despite nearly thirty years of...Public participation and urban transport innovation. The European light rail renaissance and user involvement, city revitalization, urban mobility agenda
ID252489From6 May 2010to1 December 2012FunderEuropean CommissionSince the 1970s, we can identify a coincidence of four societal evolutions in cities throughout Europe: the emergence of new social movements (1), new forms of direct deliberative democracy (2), new emphasis for urban space and culture (3) and a renaissance of the urban tram (4). The research projec...Islam in the Making of a European Public Sphere
ID230244From1 December 2008to0 March 2013FunderEuropean CommissionDuring the last three decades, Islam has gained visibility in European public spheres through new religious symbols, but as well as new public figures, men and women, pious and secular who carry Islam in European public life. Islamic entry in the public sphere, and the claims for religious visibilit...EUROPEANISATION OF PUBLIC DEBATES AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN TURKEY
ID294307From6 September 2012to0 August 2014FunderEuropean Commission"This research project, introducing a novel conceptual framework to Europeanisation studies, is designed to explore the impact of the EU and other institutions, norms and policies of European integration on the politically mobilised civil society in Turkey. By the impact of Europe on civil society o...Making Capabilities Work
ID244909From0 November 2009to3 October 2012FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorUNIVERSITAET BIELEFELD“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, c...