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Integrated Macro-Financial Modelling for Robust Policy Design (MACFINROBODS)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

"During the global financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession, economists at policy-making institutions had little choice but to augment macroeconomic models with ad-hoc assumptions and adjustments in order to provide analysis and advice for policy makers. Our consortium’s proposal aims to move policy-focused macroeconomic modelling beyond this approach to the endogenous modelling of the dynamic ...
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Intelligent Piracy Avoidance using Threat detection and Countermeasure Heuristics (IPATCH)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

The IPATCH project addresses Security Topic SEC-2013.2.4-2: Non-military protection measures for merchant shipping against piracy. The goal of the IPATCH project is three-fold:(1) To perform an in-depth analysis of the legal, ethical, economic and societal implications of existing counter piracy measures.(2) To produce a manual to aid in the usage and further development of counter-piracy measures ...
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Sustainable Lifestyles 2.0: End User Integration, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (EU-INNOVATE)

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

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 shapi ...
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Macro-Risk Assessment and Stabilization Policies with New Early Warning Signals (RASTANEWS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

"RASTANEWS intends to enhance knowledge base, at both theoretical and an applied level, on many aspects of the future of macro-economic and monetary integration in Europe thus paving the way to a revised governance of the EMU, and the EU as a whole, in the wake of the debt crisis. We see three key issues about the working of the EU macro-economy that deserve deeper investigation. The first is th ...
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The evolving concept of security: A critical evaluation across four dimensions (EVOCS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

The EvoCS project deals with the evolving concept of security and has a focus on the European Union and its close neighbours. The project aims at providing a holistic view on the complex and somewhat diffuse concept of security by evaluating it across four dimensions:1) Core values: What aspects of security are taken into account?2) Perceptions of security: From whose perspectives is security cons ...
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Increasing Resilience in Surveillance Societies (IRISS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

"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 cri ...
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Understanding and Supporting Families with Complex Needs (SUPPORTING FAMILIES)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Understanding and supporting families with multiple and complex needs is an area of policy and practice that is gaining importance and emphasis across the European Union and beyond. This growing policy interest is mirrored by emergent theoretical and empirical research in various countries. Despite this interest, a recent international research review of approaches to supporting families with comp ...
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Complexity Research Initiative for Systemic InstabilitieS (CRISIS)

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

In his opening address to the ECB Central Banking Conference, Jean-Claude Trichet said that "in the face of the crisis, we felt abandoned by conventional tools", and went on to call for the development of complex systems based approaches to augment existing ways of understanding the economy. This project proposes to address this need by creating an integrated set of complex systems-based ICT too ...
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Human Computer Confluence Research in Action (HC2)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

HCC, Human-Computer Confluence, is an ambitious research program studying how the emerging symbiotic relation between humans and computing devices can enable radically new forms of sensing, perception, interaction, and understanding. The horizontal character of HCC makes it a fascinating and fertile interdisciplinary field, but it can also compromise its growth, with researchers scattered across d ...
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The Ethical GovernAnce of emergIng technologieS – New Governance Perspectives for Integrating Ethics into Technical Development Projects and Applications (EGAIS)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

"EGAIS will investigate the ethical governance in EU research projects with the goal of providing a framework for improved governance mechanisms that will address potential ethical issues arising from new and emerging technologies.The Ambient Intelligence projects will be used as a starting point of analysis, but the results will be tested to other emerging fields such as nanotechnologies, biodive ...
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An inquiry into the health and safety at work; a European Union perspective (HEALTHatWORK)

Start date: Aug 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2012,

This proposal aims to review current knowledge and issues related to the economic impact of health at work, to assemble, organise, analyse and synthesise data from national projects and surveys, and to recommend future actions for research and policy development aiming at improving health and safety at work in a changing labour market environment in the European Union in an era of ageing populatio ...
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"Monetary, Fiscal and Structural Policies with Heterogeneous Agents" (POLHIA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

"It is almost a commonplace that macroeconomic policies, if well conducted, are a stability-enhancing device. By providing a non-inflationary environment, they “keep in order” the backstage of a movie in which the actors -- firms and households – determine long run growth by means of saving/investment decisions. In this view aggregate outcomes can be improved upon by means of microeconomic or stru ...
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Learning 4 Security (L4S)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2011,

"Effective collaboration dynamics are at the core of crisis management in the transportation sector. Nevertheless, in today’s global environment, a very large number of crisis management initiatives fail to deliver the value expected, as the collaboration challenges in crisis are very high. This is because of the complexity of the knowledge integration processes as well as the diversity and distri ...
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