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European Master in the Psychology of Global Mobility, Inclusion and Diversity in Society

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Sep 1, 2021,

Global-MINDS is the European Master in the Psychology of Global Mobility, Inclusion and Diversity in Society. It is a comprehensive 2- year study programme with 120 ECTS focusing on insights from Social and Cultural Psychology for contemporary social and societal issues. Universities from five countries jointly deliver the Global-MINDS programme in English and award graduates with a joint master d...
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Social Enterpreneurship in Structurally Weak Rural Regions: Analysing Innovative Troubleshooters in Action (RURACTION)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2020,

Structurally weak rural regions are faced with major social and economic problems. In comparison to urban or intermediate regions, predominantly rural regions are economically less productive and they provide a less extensive scope of desired goods and services. As a consequence, the regions experience a loss of inhabitants, especially of young and highly skilled people. Thus, downward spirals are...
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Critical Heritage Studies and the Future of Europe_Towards an integrated, interdisciplinary and transnational training model in cultural heritage research and management (CHEurope)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

CHEurope focuses on developing a new integrated theoretical and methodological framework to enhance the academic and professional training and open future job opportunities in cultural heritage preservation, management and promotion. Heritage has commonly been perceived through its contingent relationship to other areas, preventing it to be considered as a ‘legitimate’ scientific discipline. Moreo...
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INter-sectoral Health Environment Research for InnovaTions (INHERIT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The overarching aim of INHERIT is to define effective inter-sectoral policies and interventions that promote health and well being across the social gradient by tackling key environmental stressors and related inequalities in the areas of living, consuming and moving.INHERIT will bring together relevant stakeholders from different sectors, including the private sector. It will support inter-sector...
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Inclusive Education and Social Support to Tackle Inequalities in Society (ISOTIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

ISOTIS addresses the nature, causes and impact of early emerging social and educational inequalities in the context of socioeconomic, cultural and institutional processes. The aim is to contribute to effective policy and practice development to combat inequalities. Quasi-panels and pooled longitudinal datasets will be used to examine the variation in early educational gaps and developmental trajec...
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Below 10

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

"Below 10" is a three-year project promoted by a Partnership of nine Organisations in six different EU countries. The Partners comprise schools and school networks, NGOs, and University research centers. It aims to address the challenge of early school leaving (ESL) by focusing on an approach aimed at the prevention, through new pedagogical strategies for co - operation and strategic planning bet...
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REFUGIUM: building shelter cities and a new welcoming culture. Links between European universities and schools in Human Rights.

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

The overall objective of this project is to develop initiatives and innovative educational practices aimed at strengthening the role of higher education institutions as agents of social innovation. Through transnational cooperation it seeks to promote the social responsibility of higher education institutions faced to a subject of great interest such as the immigration and refugee crisis registere...
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Systemic Action for Gender Equality (SAGE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Increasing the participation of women in research, and promoting gender equality, is vital in strengthening the competitiveness of European research. A greater involvement of women in research will contribute not only to an increased number of skilled researchers in our institutions, but will also add a different perspective to research programmes, promote diversity, improve descion-making and con...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Examining the Boundaries of Embodiment (ExamBoundEmbod)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The proposed research program is designed to investigate the embodied mechanisms that ground cognition, in first (L1)and second (L2) language. We suggest that different languages shape our thinking, perceiving and feeling of the world.More importantly, they are grounded differently. We argue that whereas L1 is embodied, this is not the case for L2, or atleast not to the same degree. The proposed e...
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Multilevel governance of cultural diversity in a comparative perspective: EU-Latin America (GOVDIV)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

"The overall aim of this proposal is to create a transnational interdisciplinary research and training network between European and Latin American Universities and Research centres in order to promote transfer of knowledge and to produce innovative research in the field of the multilevel governance of cultural diversity in a comparative perspective. The governance of cultural diversity is a key is...
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Science in everyday life (SCILIFE)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

SCILIFE – Science in Everyday Life – is a European Researchers’ Night (ERN) proposal. It builds on previous experience of successful editions to bring ERN’s aims to a different level in the Portuguese context. Using the theme of Science in Everyday Life as a point of departure, SCILIFE will address ‘traditional’ science and society issues – e.g. citizens’ engagement with sustainable and inclusive ...
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Mentoring Pathways toward Employment

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Unfortunately, those most in need of up-skilling are barely participating in continued learning at all. Non-formal second chance education for ESL is almost non-existent and adult participation in lifelong learning is negligible amongst the low skilled or unemployed. The lack of lifelong learning creates a low skills trap for the seventy million adults without upper secondary education attainment ...
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Mentoring between teachers in secondary and high schools

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Across Europe, the issue of the quality of teaching and its impact on the pupil attainment has assumed an increasing importance in maintaining a growing and competing economy. A variety of initiatives have appeared both at the national and European level, focusing on the competence of teachers and the ways to improve their work. However, the mentoring between teachers is one of these areas where s...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Flâneur - New urban narratives

Start date: Mar 16, 2015, End date: Mar 15, 2017,

Flâneur is a European art project that encourages photographers to work the urban territory with a new approach to enable a fresh look on the dynamics of European cities and their geographic and social landscapes. The project will explore the idea of the “flâneur”, in a European daily reality. More than “clichés”, the project seeks what is not obvious in the city, which is underneath the evidence,...
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Patterns of Resilience during Socioeconomic Crises among Households in Europe (RESCuE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

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 ...
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Curriculum Quality Analysis and Impact Review of European ECEC (CARE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

"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 professio...
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Crossing Boundaries: Knowledge and Technology Transfer and Innovation (CrossingBoundaries)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

CrossingBoundaries aims to develop, through a programme of staff exchange, a new international & multi-disciplinary research community working in exploring the processes, challenges & implications on innovation performance of knowledge & technology transfer across national boundaries.This research community will focus particularly in addressing five research questions:1. Who are the actors involve...
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Social Innovation on active and healthy ageing for sustainable economic growth (SIFORAGE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The general aim of SIforAGE project will be to strengthen the cooperation mechanisms and tools among the stakeholders working along the value chain of active and healthy ageing, with the aim of improving the performance of the European Union competitiveness and growth, through research and innovative products for more and better lives.The objective is change minds and attitudes for a new vision of...
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Measuring Youth Well-Being (MYWEB)

Start date: Mar 3, 2014, End date: Sep 2, 2016,

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 ...
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Training parents for detecting and preventing risks on Social Networks and Internet

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Currently Social Networks and Internet are more than a tool, they have created a revolution in social connectivity. Children grow now immersed in this Information Society; they therefore embrace it in a fully natural manner, actively participating and taking the best advantage of their possibilities for communicating and socialising. Social networks are virtual meeting places where users interact...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

ISCTE-IUL has pursued since the creation of the Erasmus programme, and in the fields of education, training, research and knowledge transfer to society, giving a major contribution to addressing the major challenges that Europe is facing. In its acting this institution has as much as possible, helped to overcome the socio-economic crisis affecting European countries, fostering growth and employmen...
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Civil Engagement in Social Work: Developing Global Models (CIVIL_SW)

Start date: May 27, 2013, End date: May 26, 2016,

This 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 work provides an important role in civil society of protecting, supporting and advocating for societie...
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The Future of Preschoolers At Risk: The Mediational Role of Executive Functions on Effects of Maltreatment and Neglect on Pre-Academic Skills, and the Moderation of Family SES and Classroom Quality (At-Risk Preschoolers)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 4, 2015,

Early exposure to contextual risk factors can have dramatic consequences for children’s cognitive skills. My postdoctoral work will focus on the effects of maltreatment and neglect, and the mediational role of executive functions, on the pre-academic skills of 200 Portuguese preschoolers under the care of Child and Youth Protection Committees [CPCJ]. I also propose to examine the moderating effect...
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Non-Equilibrium Social Science in ICT and Economics (NESS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Traditional economics uses models that assume limited interaction between agents, simplistic behavioural assumptions and equilibrium analysis. Yet economies and social systems are often strongly correlated, heterogeneous and far from equilibrium hence traditional approaches do not provide the tools to understand, model or design systems in rapid change. The current financial and world order consti...
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Quality and safety in European Union hospitals: A research-based guide for implmeenting best practice and a framework for assessing performance (QUASER)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"This translational study aims to design and disseminate an evidence based guide for hospitals to implement quality and safety improvement programmes, and an evidence based framework for payers to assess and monitor the quality and safety of hospitals across the EU. These outputs will be based on empirical findings from research in five partner countries. However, in addition, the development of t...
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Success at school

Start date: Oct 1, 2012,

An EU benchmark was set, that the proportion of early school leavers should not be more than 10% by 2010 (European Commission, 2006). Only six of the twenty seven Member States had met this benchmark. The average early school leaving statistic in Europe is 18%. This is nearly the double the benchmark to be reached by 2010-“ a real challenge” underlined by the European Expert Network on Economics o...
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