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Advancing SSA-EU cooperation in research and innovation for global challenges (CAAST-Net Plus)
Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,
In 2007, heads of state and government from Africa and Europe launched the Joint Africa-EU Strategy (JAES) formulated in response to geopolitical changes, globalisation and the processes of integration in Africa and Europe. At the heart of the JAES is an overtly political relationship and among the features distinguishing JAES from previous Africa-Europe policy initiatives is the associated actio ...
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(International) Socio-Technical Challenges for implementing geological disposal (INSOTEC)
Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2014,
InSOTEC aims at identifying the main socio-political challenges for implementing geological disposal and their interplay with technical challenges. It will furthermore provide the IGD-TP with concrete suggestions on how to address these entangled socio-technical challenges.The biggest challenge today lies in adapting the generic concept of geological disposal to the real world environment (both na ...
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Impact of local welfare systems on female labour force participation and social cohesion (FLOWS)
Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2014,
The aim of this project is to analyse how local welfare provision affects the labour market participation of women, and how female employment in turn affects the life-course (of women and men), structures of inequality, social cohesion and hence the sustainability of the European social model.Two types of welfare provision have been singled out to be of major importance for female employment: care ...
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Conceptualizing representative democracy in the EU polity by re-thinking classical key conceptual clusters for the EU multi-level polity (EUPOLCON)
Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Mar 24, 2014,
"Aims of the research project: The interdisciplinary project aims at a thematic set of post-Habilitation studies of the applicant in co-operation with senior scholars from the host institute. More specifically, the aims are 1) To sketch a conceptual framework for representative democracy in the European Union developed in a broad historical perspective of political thought and conceptual change th ...
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"Diasporas for Peace: Patterns, Trends and Potential of Long-distance Diaspora Involvement in Conflict Settings. Case studies from the Horn of Africa." (DIASPEACE)
Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,
"DIASPEACE seeks to generate policy-relevant, evidence-based knowledge on how diasporas (exiled populations from conflict regions) play into the dynamics of conflict and peace in their countries of origin. In a globalised world diasporas have become new forces shaping the interactions between countries, regions and continents. On one hand, they are seen to fuel conflict by transferring remittances ...
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