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Rethinking Eastern European Cinema in a Post-Cold War Ideological Framework
ID256265From2 June 2010to6 May 2014FunderEuropean CommissionEASTFILM aims to rethink the cinema of Eastern Europe in a revised theoretical framework and promote the values of this cinema locally and internationally. The project seeks to achieve its goal by focusing on three objectives: 1. The publication of a scholarly book on Eastern European cinema with a...European Network engaging CIvil society in Low Carbon scenarios
ID213106From3 April 2009to6 March 2012FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorRESEAU ACTION CLIMAT - FRANCEThe overall aim of ENCI-LowCarb is to engage civil society in research on low carbon scenarios. This will be achieved by : - Creating a European network related to the factor 4 composed by Civil Society Organisations and research institutes - Elaborating two national studies (France and Germany) bas...Food-based solutions for Optimal vitamin D Nutrition and health through the life cycle
ID613977From5 November 2013to2 October 2017FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorUNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORKVitamin D deficiency has significant implications for human health and impacts on healthy growth and development and successful aging. Fundamental knowledge gaps are barriers to implementing a safe and effective public health strategy to prevent vitamin D deficiency and optimize status. ODIN will pr...European Union Conditionality, Labour Law, and Women in Employment: The Case of Turkey
ID321846From6 September 2012to3 August 2016FunderEuropean CommissionThe European Union considers the labour law framework as one of the fundamental parameters for the creation of jobs and a gender equal labour market, both of which foster European economic growth and social cohesion. The European Union has introduced a substantial body of equal treatment legislation...Grammar and memory: Evidence from agrammatic aphasia and probable Alzheimer's disease in German, Italian and Greek
ID329795From0 September 2013to1 August 2015FunderEuropean Commission"In Europe, there is an increasing number of people with neurological problems, such as probable Alzheimer’s disease (pAD) or aphasia, which often result in severe language and memory impairments. It has been argued that memory deficits contribute to the language problems brain-damaged populations f...Impact of international trade on labour market performance in selected counties of Central Europe: does EU accession matter?
ID237170From2 September 2009to2 August 2010FunderEuropean CommissionThe submitted research project is supposed to contribute to the ongoing debate on the impact of growing international trade on labour market performance. As trade theory shows, opening of economy entails long term welfare improvement, but in the short run it poses a serious problem of adjustment to...Safeguarding Academic Freedom in Europe
ID327101From1 September 2013to2 September 2015FunderEuropean CommissionThis research addresses a fundamental human right and a key element of the creation of a European knowledge economy: academic freedom. Universities are vital elements in the construction of a European knowledge economy, while academic freedom is considered essential to the proper functioning of a Un...Enhancing European Competitiveness by Leveraging Highly Skilled Indian Professionals
ID251442From1 November 2010to5 October 2014FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorUNIVERSITEIT NYENRODE BVAbstractDue an aging demographic profile, low labour mobility and a mismatch between education and labour market demand, it is has been argued that the EU region will face a scarcity of highly skilled talent in the near future. Many EU member states recognize that maintaining and increasing their pr...Sailing into Modernity: Comparative Perspectives on the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century European Economic Transition
ID284340From0 January 2012to3 December 2014FunderEuropean CommissionThis research project analyses the economic transition in Early Modern Europe through an innovative and interdisciplinary approach that will employ tools from legal, economic and social history for the comparative analysis of the legal position and the economic treatment of sailors active in the Med...Environmental Acclimation of Photosynthesis
ID316427From1 October 2012to5 September 2016FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorHEINRICH-HEINE-UNIVERSITAET DUESSELDORFAccliPhot is an interdisciplinary, intersectorial research andtraining network devoted to study photosynthetic acclimation processesin plants and algae. We will train 13 early-stage researchers (ESRs)and 1 experienced researcher (ER) in cutting-edge experimentaltechnologies, modern modelling approac...When bad things come together: multivariate shocks, interacting risks and their applications in economics
ID618794From4 August 2013to1 July 2017FunderEuropean CommissionThe project I am presenting is meant to fulfill the ideals behind a Marie Curie CIG. In fact, while it has its solid roots in the studies I have conducted so far, in my PhD thesis and during my postdoctoral research period at Bern University (CH), it also possesses all the ingredients to integrate a..."Subjectivity, Identity and Penal Power: Incarceration in a Global Age"
ID313362From1 October 2012to6 September 2017FunderEuropean Commission"This project has two primary, interrelated, goals: to develop new methodological and intellectual tools in understanding the global and transnational reach of penal power and to revitalize the literature on subjectivity and identity in criminology. It is guided by three research questions that it...Ernst Jünger's Intercultural Encounters
ID300052From1 October 2012to2 September 2014FunderEuropean Commission"Ernst Jünger (1895-1998) is one of the most significant writers and thinkers of 20th-century Europe. This project is concerned with the extensive travel diaries that Jünger wrote after World War II and with their depictions of intercultural encounters. The project will contribute significantly to o...Random Dynamical Systems
ID255009From6 October 2011to1 September 2013FunderEuropean CommissionThe proposed research and training project aims at giving a major progress in the development of the interaction between classical and random dynamical systems, a key subject for the European Research Area with many applications. In particular, we want to deepen understanding of the following topics...The Limits of Demobilization, 1917-1923: Paramilitary Violence in Europe and the Wider World
ID240809From2 September 2009to5 February 2014FunderEuropean CommissionThe purpose of the proposed project is to think afresh about the violent aftermath of the Great War and its legacies. This will be achieved by forging a team of researchers who focus on the violent conflicts that erupted in many of the former combatant states after 1917/18 from a comparative or tran...Advance Challenging Statistical Analysis for Massive High-Dimensional Nonlinear Spatial Time Series
ID631692From4 May 2014to1 April 2018FunderEuropean Commission"Modern society, including Europe, faces a variety of global issues, such as global environmental (including climate) changes, global economic and financial crises as well as global energy and sustainable development. Many of these global challenges facing humanity are geo-spatial in nature, with bi...Scalable Measures for Automated Recognition Technologies
ID261727From3 June 2011to6 May 2014FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorUNIVERSITA TA MALTAAutomated recognition of individuals and/or pre-determined traits or risk factors/criteria lies at the basis, indeed is the very raison d’être, of smart surveillance systems. Yet new EU regulations and specifically those on information sharing between police and security forces explicitly prohibit a...Wage Dynamics, Sorting Patterns in Labour Markets and Policy Evaluation
ID269693From0 May 2011to6 December 2016FunderEuropean CommissionWASP is aimed at developing realistic empirical equilibrium search models of the labour market, with heterogeneous agents and long-term self-enforcing contracts, that• Can help better understand rent sharing mechanisms in labour markets, • Allow for multiple sources of productivity dynamics, includi...Arctic Health Risks: Impacts on health in the Arctic and Europe owing to climate-induced changes in contaminant cycling
ID226534From1 June 2009to5 January 2014FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorArctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme SecretariatLong-range transport of contaminants to the Arctic, the resulting exposures observed in Arctic human populations, and impacts of such exposures on human health have been the subject of considerable work in recent years, providing a baseline against which to compare future developments. Global climat..."Behavioural Economics and Strategic Decision Making: Theory, Empirics, and Experiments"
ID339179From2 April 2014to0 March 2019FunderEuropean Commission"I will study questions of central microeconomic importance via interwoven theoretical, empirical, and experimental analyses, from a behavioural perspective combining standard methods with assumptions that better reflect evidence on behaviour and psychological insights. The contributions of behaviou...Regimes of Ethnicity: A Global Database of Ethnic Demography and Survey of State Policies on Ethnicity
ID268392From1 November 2010to5 October 2014FunderEuropean CommissionThis project is aimed at, first, creating a database by gathering the most up to date information on the ethnic demography of the 172 countries in the world with a population over 250,000; and second, conducting a survey of state policies on ethnicity in these countries in order to gauge the relatio...Stability Islands: Performance Revolution in Machining
ID340889From6 March 2014to4 February 2019FunderEuropean Commission"Cutting went through a revolution in the 1990s when high-speed milling (HSM) was introduced: the sculpture-like workpieces produced with high precision and efficiency resulted in one order of magnitude less parts in cars/aircrafts, which kept this traditional technology competitive at the turn of t...First-passage times and optimization of target search strategies
ID277998From6 October 2011to6 September 2017FunderEuropean CommissionHow long does it take a random walker to reach a given target? This quantity, known as a first-passage time (FPT), has been the subject of a growing number of theoretical studies over the past decade. The importance of FPTs originates from the crucial role played by properties related to first encou...Civil Engagement in Social Work: Developing Global Models
ID318938From1 May 2013to4 May 2016FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorCOVENTRY UNIVERSITYThis project aims to examine the role of social work and its engagement with civil society in supporting vulnerable members of the community. It will examine the relationship within the context of social welfare reform in response to neoliberal reform and new public management initiatives. Social wo...Taking DFT Beyond the Boundaries of Chemistry: Solvation and Charge Transport in Biology
ID254444From1 June 2010to3 June 2012FunderEuropean CommissionI propose to study the charge transport properties of DNA using beyond the state-of-the-art computational tools. The charge transfer is a highly competitive phenomenon, involving multiple pathways. Such competition is at the base of the regulatory machinery of many biological processes. For the firs...