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MIME - MOBILITY AND INCLUSION IN MULTILINGUAL EUROPE (MIME)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Using an innovative interdisciplinary approach, MIME will generate an organised body of policy-relevant propositions addressing the full range of questions raised in the call. Our aim is to identify the language policies and strategies that best combine “mobility” and “inclusion”.MIME emphasises complementarity between disciplines, and brings together researchers from sociolinguistics, political s ...
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DRIVING RE-INVESTMENT IN R&D AND RESPONSIBLE ANTIBIOTIC USE (DRIVE-AB)

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is widespread. Its global human and economic burden is tremendous and increasing annually. Yet today only a few pharmaceutical companies retain active antibacterial drug discovery programmes. While the elaboration of antibiotics with novel mechanisms of action is scientifically complex, the chief challenge is diminishing incentives. Pre-market regulatory requirements ...
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"Resilience in East African Landscapes: Identifying critical thresholds and sustainable trajectories – past, present and future" (REAL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

"The strong temporal dynamics of the East African landscape and natural-resource distributions have always encouraged people to innovate and adapt to changing conditions. However, increasing population growth, changes in patterns of land tenure, industrialization, weak systems of governance, and global climate change have exacerbated previously localized environmental problems such as soil erosion ...
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Sustainable futures for Europe’s HERitage in CULtural landscapES: Tools for understanding, managing, and protecting landscape functions and values (HERCULES)

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

European cultural landscapes are valued as everyday living environment, countryside, heritage, scenery with aesthetic and recreational qualities and unique biodiversity, and as a source of ecosystem services that they provide to society. Cultural landscapes, however, are undergoing rapid and fundamental transformations across Europe, mainly as a result of an on-going polarization of land use, with ...
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Infants predicting own and others’ actions: the neurocognitive development of action prediction (Predicting Infants)

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

Predicting others’ actions is crucial for acting in a social world. How we come to these predictions is hotly debated. The simulation account states that the motor commands used to predict the sensory consequences of our own actions are also used to predict others’ actions. In contrast, rationality theory suggests that predictions of others’ actions are based on inborn, abstract rules and thus rel ...
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The Legitimacy of Mutual Recognition as a Regulatory Strategy for the Policy Area of Civil Justice in the EU (RECLAiM)

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

The research will focus on the principle of mutual recognition and the therewith presumed mutual trust between courts in the policy area of EU civil justice. The principle of mutual recognition, held to be the cornerstone of civil justice, has been transposed from its traditional Internal Market context to this novel policy arena. This transposition raises the question of how the economic and othe ...
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NEGAtive REpresentation: Ostracism, Recall and Negative Voting as Electoral Innovations Against Extremism (NEGARE)

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

In the last two decades, Europe has been witnessing a steady rise of anti-democratic trends and disappointment with politics. Faced with these challenges, contemporary democracies appear vulnerable and unable to defend themselves. This project proposes a democratic theory of ‘negative representation’ that involves the re-activation of electoral agency with the aim of producing responsible leadersh ...
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