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THE COLOUR OF LABOUR: THE RACIALIZED LIVES OF MIGRANTS (COLOUR)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

This project is about the racialization of migrant labourers across political boundaries, with a main focus on impoverished Europeans who served in huge numbers as indentured labourers in nineteenth-century Guianese, Caribbean and Hawaiian sugar plantations and in the workforce of late nineteenth and early twentieth century New England cotton mills. With this project I aim to provide major, innova ...
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Measuring and Analysing the Politicisation of Europe before and after the Eurozone Crisis (MAPLE)

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2021,

The Eurozone crisis forces us to reconsider the conventional wisdom that “Europe” has little effect on national electoral politics. MAPLE’s central goal is to analyse the degree of politicisation the European issue has acquired following the Eurozone crisis, in Belgium, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain in 2000-2016, and to focus on its consequences for voting behaviour. Our main thesis ...
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Gender citizenship and sexual rights in Europe: transgender lives from a transnational perspective (TRANSRIGHTS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

"The TRANSRIGHTS project investigates transgender lives and the institutional apparatus that frames them. Rather than focusing exclusively on self displayed identities, four lines of inquiry will be developed. Firstly, gender politics and sexual rights are analyzed as the opposition between politics of equality and of difference is unable to provide answers for the inclusion of trans-people. Secon ...
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Families and food poverty in three European Countries in an Age of Austerity (FFP)

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

Food poverty in the global North is emerging as an urgent social and moral concern, increasingly recognized as a central issue in the field of health inequalities in industrialized countries. With widening income disparity in Austerity Europe and ‘the end of cheap food’, these effects are being exacerbated. International media report an increase in the number of children arriving at school hungry, ...
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Conserving threatened habitats and species in Berlengas SPA through sustainable management (LIFE Berlengas)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Background In 2011 the Berlengas Natura 2000 site (SPA) was enlarged to include a significant proportion of its marine area. Linked to this site extension, the Portuguese nature conseravtion agency (ICNF) launched an initiative to develop a management plan for the new area. Unfortunately, the baseline information proved to be insufficient and clear planne ...
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Cultures of Disaster Resilience among children and young people (CUIDAR)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Cultural sensitivity is essential to effective disaster management and disaster risk reduction, yet disaster plans still largely ignore the needs and capacities of children and young people. Addressing Topic 2 of this call, the ‘given cultural group’ is therefore children, not viewed as a homogenous group, but one which offers diverse cultural perspectives and diverse experiences of roles taken on ...
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Power and Region in a Multipolar Order (PRIMO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

"PRIMO (Power and Regions in a Multipolar World) starts from the premise that the importance of non-western regions and certain of their leading states – notably Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, the so-called BRICS states – for international politics and the world economy is rapidly growing. However, the nature of these processes, the consequences for global governance, and the mater ...
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Strengthening and widening the European infrastructure for social science data archives. (CESSDA-SaW)

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

After CESSDA's successful launch we must now achieve full European coverage, and strength and sustainability for the widened network. European coverage:In each country the barriers to, and the potential value and benefits from, membership will be examined, and existing relevant infrastructure mapped. Bespoke coordination, networking activities, and stakeholder forums, all designed to address the ...
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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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MOBILISING THE POTENTIAL OF ACTIVE AGEING IN EUROPE (MOPACT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The starting point for MOPACT is the ambitious goals set by Horizon 2020 and the European Innovation Partnership Pilot Project on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIPAHA). Our response is ambitious too: we aim to provide the research and practical evidence upon which Europe can make longevity an asset for social and economic development. MOPACT will create a high quality, multi-disciplinary critical mas ...
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Gender and Citizenship (GENDERCIT)

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

The overall aim of the proposal is to implement an exchange program and to promote a mutual and beneficial transfer of knowledge between Europe (Spain, Portugal, Italy and France) and Latin America (Argentina and Mexico) in the field of Gender Studies, in order to enrich the theoretical framework, to consolidate the institutional dimension of the different research programs having gender as focus ...
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Forward Looking Analysis of Grand Societal cHallenges and Innovative Policies (FLAGSHIP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

The objectives of FLAGSHIP are: i) Understanding and assessing the state of the art of forward looking methodologies in relation to Grand Societal Challenges (GSC) and developing tools and modelling frameworks beyond state of the art; ii) Applying an enhanced set of forward looking methods and tools to support EU policies, by analysing reference and alternative scenarios of long-term demographic, ...
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Sustainable Urbanisation in China : Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Mega-trends towards 2050 (URBACHINA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

"""Sustainable Urbanisation in China : Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Mega-trends towards 2050 (URBACHINA) combines the knowledge and expertise from a number of different disciplines to provide new and innovative insights and scenarios that can be used guide urbanization in China over the next 40 years. A key strength of the proposal is the use of 'thematic pairs' of European and Chine ...
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Social platform on research for families and family policies (FAMILYPLATFORM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

The overall objective of the planned FAMILYPLATFORM is to elaborate a focussed research agenda that will address fundamental research issues and key policy questions for future research and family policies in Europe. Therefore, the platform will match three relevant perspectives: The perspective of the scientific community, the perspective of European families represented by important stakeholders ...
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Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union (PIREDEU)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

"This three-year design study will assess the feasibility of providing an infrastructure for research into citizenship, political participation, and electoral democracy in the European Union (EU). Such an infrastructure would endow the social science community with the most essential information required for a recurrent audit of the most important aspects of the electoral process in the European U ...
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