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Forensic Architecture: The Media Environments of Conflict (FAMEC)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2021,

Forensic Architecture is an emergent field that refers to the presentation of architectural evidence in legal contexts. As contemporary conflicts increasingly take place within urban areas, homes and neighbourhoods become targets and a growing number of civilian casualties occur within cities and buildings. Architectural investigation thus becomes an essential tool of conflict analysis, not only f ...
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Boosting Engagement of Serbian Universities in Open Science

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

Open science provides an effective framework for the enhancement of research transparency, dissemination, collaborations, and accountability. Serbian academic community have recognized the importance and advantages of open science principles which is manifested through the numerous initiatives undertaken by the government bodies, faculties, libraries, NGOs, and journal publishers. However, in the ...
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TIDE – new Tools for Inclusion of Dyslexic studEnts

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

With the acronym DSA (ADHD in the English-speaking world) in Italy and in several European countries, identify all those Specific Learning Disorders regarding dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia and dysorthography. In Anglo-Saxon countries the definition includes: specific speaking difficulties, dyspraxia, auditory processing disorder and nonverbal learning disorder. These types of difficulties are ...
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Peopling Europe: How data make a people (ARITHMUS)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

Who are the people of Europe? This question is facing statisticians as they grapple with standardising national census methods so that their numbers can be assembled into a European population. Yet, by so doing—intentionally or otherwise—they also contribute to the making of a European people. This, at least, is the central thesis of ARITHMUS. While typically framed as a methodological or statisti ...
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Empowering Museum Professionals and Heritage Organizations Staff by cultural entrepreneurship training and research

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Context In many European countries, art and culture are subsidized by the government; however, due to the crisis and budget cuts, the amount of funds for direct subsidies is decreasing; some cultural heritage organisations and museums do not have enough funds to sustain themselves. Putting entrepreneurial skills into practice- for example network building, fundraising, creating new ways to involve ...
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'Mediterranean Imaginaries: Literature, Arts, Culture'

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Specialisation in literature and cultural studies is often accompanied by the loss of vital connections. The separation between Anglophone and Francophone literatures, and between classical and contemporary literary and cultural studies are examples of how connections can be lost. ‘Mediterranean Imaginaries: Literature, Arts, Culture’ presents the particular space of this sea as an area of study, ...
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The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism (RNF)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Focusing on neoliberalism's emergent feminist discourse in the UK and the US, I aim to provide a multi-dimensional theorization of this phenomenon. Two central questions inform this project: 1) Why does neoliberalism need feminism at this particular historical juncture in order to reinforce its hegemony? and 2) How and in what ways do certain themes of feminism lend themselves to the neoliberal pr ...
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Smart entrepreneurial skills for Creative Industries: an inclusive perspective

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

Creative industries realise a vast number of activities which includes not only the so called cultural industries (such as media, design, the movies), but also products and services that contain as a substantial element a creative or artistic effort, thus considering also architecture, fashion, communication. Despite the great potential of creative and cultural enterprises, some 900.000 in Europe ...
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Market-Based Initiatives as Solutions to Techno-Scientific Problems (MISTS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

MISTS engages with market based initiatives employed as potential solutions to techno-scientific problems. MISTS will draw together two strands of STS research: the turn to research on markets and STS literature on science problems (and solutions). These two areas will be drawn on in exploring four sub-projects which feature market based initiatives as solutions to problems: an attempt to build a ...
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Realtime Adaptive Prototyping for Industrial Design of Multimodal Interactive eXpressive technology (RAPID-MIX)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

RAPID-MIX brings together 3 leading research institutions with 4 dynamic creative industries SMEs and 1 leading wearable technology SME in a technology transfer consortium to bring to market innovative interface products for music, gaming, and e-Health applications.RAPID-MIX uses an intensely user-centric development process to gauge industry pull and end-user desire for new modes of interaction t ...
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THE GENDER OF JUSTICE: THE PROSECUTION OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN ARMED CONFLICT (GOJ)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The international community now recognises the impact of ‘gender-based harms’ of conflict, the armed violence that targets or disproportionately affects women. It also acknowledges the obligation to prosecute these crimes. However, many claim that international justice continues to fail women victims of war. So are we witnessing a new age of accountability for these crimes against women? Or does i ...
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Citizen Sensing and Environmental Practice: Assessing Participatory Engagements with Environments through Sensor Technologies (CITIZENSENSE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

This project will investigate, through three case studies, the relationship between technologies and practices of environmental sensing and citizen engagement. Wireless sensors, which are an increasing part of digital communication infrastructures, are commonly deployed for environmental monitoring within scientific study. Practices of monitoring and sensing environments have migrated to a number ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 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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Creative Primary School Partnerships with Visual Artists

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Teaching and learning in and through visual arts tend to simulate everyday life, connect school life to real-world issues, engage children in meaningful learning processes and provide in-depth experiences. The involvement of students with the processes of contemporary artists could allow the development of meaningful relationships and alternative learning that could inspire their adult lives. Furt ...
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

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

This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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FACING the creative industries to innovate entrepreneurship

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

Cultural background, education, religion and language are just some of the variables characterizing the modern appearance of a business. These different "colors" lead us to the definition of the "plural" and heterogeneous enterprise, increasing the importance of an “aware” management of the human resources. This phase of change shows up strongly in the Creative Industries economic segment, whereas ...
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Meta-Gesture Music: Social, Embodied, Interactive Musical Instruments (METAGESTUREMUSIC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

"The era of recorded music that dominated the 20th century is near its end. Jacques Attali predicted that society would pass from a use of music in ""répétition"" (reproduction) to physically engaged acts of ""composition."" Christopher Small coined the term, ""musicking"" to refer to all acts of engagement with music, breaking down the barriers between performer and spectator. This interdisciplin ...
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Spaces of possibility for the creative re-use of Europeana's content (Europeana Space)

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

The objective of Europeana Space is to increase and enhance the creative industries' use of Europeana by delivering a range of resources to support their engagement. The use of Europeana by the creative industries is still limited by factors including issues around the IPR status of content and the need for business models demonstrating the potential for exploitation of available content. In addr ...
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FORMER WEST, Culminating Phase: Edits, Annotations, Proposals

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

This application seeks support for the Culminating Phase (1.9.2014–31.12.2016) of FORMER WEST (FW), a long-term, collaborative, pan-European, transdisciplinary project. Initiated in 2008, and realized through intensive European cooperation—which has assured sustainability of creative practices, knowledges, and network throughout the project’s successive phases—FW aims at developing a critical unde ...
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CReativity Enhancement through Advanced brain Mapping and stimulation (CREAM)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Description CREAM, CReativity Enhancement through Advanced brain Mapping and stimulation  Main idea behind this project: current ICT technology provides new capabilities to measure the functional activity of the brain and to compute in real-time stimuli that can be applied to the brain itself in o ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

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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Concept Invention Theory (COINVENT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The capacity of combinational creativity---i.e., when novel ideas are produced through unfamiliar combinations of familiar ideas---is difficult to recreate computationally. In particular, it is a hard task for autonomous computational systems to tackle the combinatorial explosion of potential combinations, and to be capable of recognizing the value of newly created ideas (concepts, theories, solut ...
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The What-If Machine (WHIM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

In Computational Creativity research, we study how to engineer software which can take on some of the creative responsibility in arts and science projects. There has been much progress towards the creative generation of artefacts of cultural value such as poems, music and paintings. Often, when produced by people, such artefacts embed a fictional idea invented by the creator. For instance, an arti ...
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Universalism, universal design and equitable access to the designed environment (UNIDESIGN)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The proposed research examines the proposition that the values and attitudes embedded into the production of the designed environment display little or no knowledge of how to respond to the manifold complexities of the body. This will be explored through the context of disability and design, with the focus on assessing the relevance of the principles and practices of one of the foremost, contempor ...
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Promoting the Scientific Exploration of Computational Creativity (PROSECCO)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Creativity is a long-cherished and widely-studied aspect of human behavior that allows us to re-invent the familiar and to imagine the new. Computational Creativity (CC) is a recent but burgeoning area of creativity research that brings together academics and practitioners from diverse disciplines, genres and modalities, to explore the potential of computers to be autonomously creative or to colla ...
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Enabling Audiovisual User Interfaces for Multisensorial Interaction (ENABLING AVUIS)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

The research proposes the notion of AVUI (AudioVisual User Interface), a multisensorial interface combining user interaction with interrelated sound and image. In AVUI, a user interaction brings upon interrelated sonic and visual feedback. AVUI combines Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), sonification, and audio visualisation techniques, aiming to create a cognitive totality or “gestalt” in the user ...
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Intersectional Contract. Understanding the Intersection of Gender and “Race”/Ethnic Inequalities in the Care-Domestic Sector in the UK by Means of Racial-Sexual Contract Analysis (INTERSECTINGCONTRACT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Nov 12, 2015,

The 2007 EC Report “Tackling Multiple Discrimination” addressed for the first time at the EU level the issue of intersectionality, an approach that seeks to understand several forms of discrimination (based on gender, “race”/ethnicity, class and so forth) as the results of intersecting biases rather than of single sources of inequality. This represents a significant step towards increasing awarene ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

Three students took part in traineeships with a total duration of 13 months; 17 took part in study mobility with a total duration of 64 months, of which 12 were from a disadvantaged background; 5 staff took part in teaching mobility, totaling 31 days; 21 staff undertook staff training mobility totaling 183 days. Results of the project Student traineeships: the purpose of this activity was to give ...
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Practice and peRformance Analysis Inspiring Social Education (PRAISE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The recent explosion of social media sites is creating an unprecedented opportunity to build radically new types of learning environments, which use all the capabilities of social media but augmented with learning agents that can foster collaborative learning by doing. Music is a potentially very attractive domain to test this idea. There is an enormous need for education in music but personal mus ...
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Gambling in Europe (GAMSOC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

This project uses an innovative anthropological approach to study gambling as a social and cultural activity, and uses these findings to establish a new research paradigm that is technologically astute, internationally focused and aggressively future oriented. Gambling in Europe is worth an estimated E89billion and is a rapidly expanding and changing industry. It is also a source of concern to leg ...
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Organizing Disaster. Civil Protection and the Population (OD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

The proposed project takes up the fundamental question of how the state orders society and applies it to an unexpected, but highly insightful case of disasters. It takes disasters as moments when the state attempts to reorder society and thus analyses the encounter between civil protection as state organisation and the population. What happens when civil protection encounters the population in cas ...
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Media Aggregation and Plotting Platform (MAPP)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2015,

In February 2011, the four-year ERC funded project Forensic Architecture (FASLW) was launched, exploring the role of spatial evidence within the law. In the first 24 months we have collaborated with the world’s foremost organisations in the field of human rights and achieved highly successful results in the production of spatial analysis for the investigation of human rights violations. While the ...
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Human Embodied MultiSensory Development: An investigation of the construction of embodied multisensory experience in human infancy and early childhood (HEMSDEV)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2015,

We perceive our body and peripersonal environment through multiple sensory modalities. The distance receptors (e.g., vision and audition), provide information about stimuli in both personal and extrapersonal space. The direct receptors (e.g., touch and proprioception) provide information about the body and external stimuli impinging on the body. Having multiple modalities bestows advantages by pro ...
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The Collective Experience of Empathic Data Systems (CEEDs)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The Collective Experience of Empathic Data Systems (CEEDS) project will develop novel, integrated technologies to support human experience, analysis and understanding of very large datasets.Making use of humans' implicit processing abilitiesCEEDS will develop innovative tools to exploit theories showing that discovery is the identification of patterns in complex data sets by the implicit informati ...
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FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE: The Space of Law in War (FASLW)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

Although violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and human right (HR) conventions are frequently undertaken in cities and by means that deliberately manipulate the elements that constitute their built fabric, this project contends that organizations of international justice could benefit from a closer engagement with the operational procedures, conceptual assumptions, methodologies, and ...
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Third Wave HCI: Methods, Domains and Concepts (ThirdWaveHCI)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

This proposal is for interdisciplinary research that will help bring to maturity the emerging paradigm of third-wave HCI , which addresses interaction as situated meaning-making in everyday life. With my established interdisciplinary research team, I will design prototypes that show how third-wave thinking is relevant for domains of recognised importance to help bring this paradigm to the centre ...
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Video Communications for Networked Communities (Vconect)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

The inability to discover the conversations that matter, to understand how others are feeling, to recognise a friend in need, to share the joy of someone happy, or to see how certain things should be done, are common limitations of social networks. All these require people to be able to see and hear each other. Vconect targets this space by aiming to develop capabilities that will allow ad-hoc gro ...
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Automatic Data relevancy Discrimination for a PRIVacy-sensitive video surveillance (ADDPRIV)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

"ADDPRIV proposes novel knowledge and developments to limit the storage of unnecessary data, to be implemented on existing multicamera networks in order to make them better comply with citizen´s privacy rights.ADDPRIV tackles the challenge of determining in a precise and reliable manner private data from video surveillance which is not relevant from the perspective of security and which need not t ...
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Conscientious objection in the UK and Italy: a qualitative study of health providers’ perspectives on abortion (CONOB)

Start date: Apr 4, 2011, End date: Oct 3, 2013,

"A qualitative study of obstetricians-gynecologists’, residents’ and medical students’ experiences and attitudes towards conscientious objection and abortion is proposed in two European countries: one in Northern Europe - the UK, and the other in Southern Europe - Italy. The main objectives are to examine how conscientious objection is experienced by these physicians and by medical students and ho ...
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