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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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Spinning in the Era of the Spinning Wheel 1400-1800 (SESW)
Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2015,
From the introduction of the spinning wheel to England during the later Middle Ages to its eclipse by the powered spinning machine early in the nineteenth century, hand-spun yarn was vital to the success of the textile industries that dominated English manufacturing. Indeed, hand spinning of wool, flax and ultimately cotton became the principal income-generating activity pursued by women. For many ...
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Towards an Embodied Science of InterSubjectivity (TESIS)
Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,
TESIS, “Towards an Embodied Science of InterSubjectivity”, is an integrated ITN programme to investigate the foundations of human sociality. It brings together the complementary expertise of 13 European research institutes, clinical centres and private enterprises that span the biomedical sciences and the humanities. Thus, TESIS provides critical mass in the fields of philosophy, cognitive neurosc ...
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Rocky Planets Around Cool Stars (RoPACS)
Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2012,
The search for life bearing planets elsewhere is one of the major themes in contemporary astronomy, and much science investment is committed or being directed to seek and study extra-solar planets, with projects like Corot, Kepler, JWST, and Darwin. Previous search efforts focus on finding earth-like planets around Sun-like stars, however, cool stars are by far the most populous potential planet h ...
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"The Ethics of Information Warfare: Risks, Rights and Responsibilities" (EIW3R)
Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2012,
"This is a two-year research project on the ethical implications of information warfare. Information warfare is a new form of conflict characterised by strategies designed to strike at communication nodes and infrastructures, and by the deployment of artificial agents as tools of offence (robotic weapons). It has its roots in the military use of intelligence as a strategic means, but has developed ...
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Selves in Time: Temporal Emplacement and Affective Identification in Personal Identity Theory (SELVESINTIME)
Start date: Jul 12, 2010, End date: Mar 11, 2012,
"This project develops a new approach to the problem of personal identity, establishing a productive new avenue of investigation for this important and highly contested branch of philosophy. While traditional metaphysics has treated the self as just another object (albeit one of a rather unusual kind), with objective identity and persistence conditions, recent philosophy has begun to appreciate th ...
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