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Emergence of complex internal representations in humans (EMCOREP)

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

"Human learning is uniquely complex and powerful in terms of its efficiency, its level of abstraction and its range of skills compared to any other species. The proposed research will investigate the fundamental cognitive and computational foundations of human sensory learning in adults and infants in an integrated interdisciplinary manner. We will carry out behavioural studies, computational anal ...
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"Family Politics, Party Politics, and Gender Politics: Comparing Five Cases" (FAMGENPO)

Start date: Feb 21, 2013, End date: Aug 20, 2016,

"Why are we seeing a proliferation of female politicians who members of political dynasties? Female politicians who are the wife, widow, daughter or sister of a prominent male politician have risen to the highest posts in politics as heads of parties and even heads of state. How can we account for this phenomenon? What does it mean about the trajectories of women in politics? Does the trend signal ...
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Neuro-Enhancement: Responsible Research and Innovation (NERRI)

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

This project aims to contribute to the introduction of Responsible Research and Innovation in neuro-enhancement (NE) in the European Research Area and to the shaping of a normative framework underpinning the governance of NE technologies. These will be achieved through mobilization and mutual learning (MML) activities engaging scientists, policy-makers, industry, civil society groups and the wider ...
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Physiological mechanisms underlying interpersonal coordination and observation in joint action (PHYSIO COUPLING)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

"Interpersonal coordination and observation are crucial to social interactions, whether we are engaging in conversation with other people, jointly assembling furniture, or performing in a musical duet. Previous research in social cognition has so far been mostly restricted to measuring behaviour and brain signatures of isolated individuals, in the absence of a real interaction. There has been a re ...
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The Sense of Commitment: a minimal analogue of commitment for joint action (SENSE OF COMMITMENT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

The project aims to establish the theoretical need for a minimal analogue of the concept of commitment, and to develop the notion of a sense of commitment as such a minimal analogue. The project focuses on commitments within the context of joint action, i.e. within a context that is both fundamental and paradigmatic for human sociality in general. The project aims to articulate the functions that ...
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The Governance of Energy Technology Innovation: Investigating Regulatory Regimes in Shale Gas (G-ETI)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Energy technology innovation (ETI) is widely considered crucial to both secure affordable energy supplies and cater climate goals. ETI does however not happen in vacuum. Rather, it is subject to a complex interplay between the public sector, private actors and the surrounding institutional environment. This research project focuses on the role of governance and regulation in fostering or preventin ...
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"Mediterranean Cities in Conflict: Urban Wars, Inter-Ethnic Coalitions and the Prospects for Peaceful Coexistence in Lebanon and Israel/Palestine, 1918 to the present" (PEACEMED)

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

"This research aims at mapping inter-ethnic relations in contested cities in the Eastern Mediterranean by comparing urban dynamics in Lebanon, Israel and Palestine. While most of the geopolitical scholarship on ethnonational conflicts in the region has focused on the territorial struggles between rival nation-states and other regional actors, this project proposes a historical anthropology of intr ...
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Judicial Training in European Enlargement Towards a Common Judicial Culture? (EurJTC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

This proposal aims at exploring the judicial training reforms adopted in South-East Europe (SEE) in the framework of the pre-accession conditionality and at shedding light on the relationship between judicial training and judicial culture. The purpose is to explore whether such reforms influence national judicial cultures in the sense of the ability of judges to participate in the “European consti ...
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"""Racial thinking and relevant sciences in East-Central Europe in the decades around 1900""" (Racialism)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

At the core of my proposed research lies the desire to understand turn-of-the-century European fascination with the idea of race and the employment of modern sciences in the construction of racial theories in national and imperial contexts of East-Central Europe. The project will explore the history of racial thinking and related biological, human and social sciences in the mostly uncharted region ...
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Perspectival Thoughts and Facts (PETAF)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"PETAF aims to serve as a European research and training platform for joint philosophical research on perspectivalism in thought and language and its consequences for our conception of objective, mind-independent reality. PETAF comprises seven full network partners and five associate partners, four of which from industry. It is to provide seven Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) with the skills necess ...
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MIGRANT WOMEN WRITERS ON THE MARGINS OF EUROPE: THE CASE OF HUNGARY (MIGLIT)

Start date: Aug 30, 2012, End date: Dec 29, 2013,

"The central objective of this research project is the investigation of Hungary’s immigrant women’s textual production in the comparative context of European migrant literatures. The diversity of languages and cultures in motion is central to contemporary European experience. Such diversity is represented in a variety of textual forms (poetry, fiction, memoir, drama, multimedia, etc) that challeng ...
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Training Network in Electoral Democracy (ELECDEM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"This Initial Training Network in electoral democracy will bring together 11 expert teams from 9 European countries, including 1 from an associated country and 2 new Member States and 2 full industry partners. The goals of the ELECDEM network are encapsulated in three linked, inter-dependent themes which evaluate the effects of globalisation, communication and institutions on the quality of electo ...
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Economic Nationalism and the European Union: The case of the automobile industry (ECONAT)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2013,

"Heated debates about ‘Buy American’ clauses and ‘British jobs for British workers’ have demonstrated the continued salience of economic nationalism as a public policy issue today. Among scholars, too, there has been a growing interest in the theme in recent years, which has gone hand in hand with a shifting understanding of economic nationalism away from a mere focus on state policies, and toward ...
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Infants' Understanding of Social Relationships (IUSR)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2013,

"Social sciences have long stressed the importance of the capacity to represent social relationships. This project will focus on the early ontogeny of this capacity. Infants' understanding of two basic types of relationships, affiliation and dominance, will be studied. The continuities between infants' and adults' intuitions about social relationships will also be assessed. These investigations wi ...
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European national museums: Identity politics, the uses of the past and the European citizen (EuNaMus)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2013,

National museums are authoritative spaces for display and negotiation of community and citizenship. Through collecting and creating repositories of scientific, historic and aesthetic objects choices are made that protect and narrate ideas of virtues, unicity and place in the wider world. Explicitly and implicitly territorial identities are negotiated and related both to ideas in the tradition of u ...
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European Union – United States Research Cooperation Network: Link to the United States (Link2US)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

This project seeks to enhance the awareness of and participation in, by European scientists and research organisations, U.S. national collaborative funding schemes in order to help strengthen cooperative research with American counterparts under bilateral science and technology agreements. Because the U.S. federal research funding structure is highly decentralised with many different U.S. governme ...
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Living Organ Donation in Europe (Living Donation)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

The project on living organ donation in Europe is a coordination action that aims to 1) establish an inventory of living donation practices in Europe, 2) explore and promote living donation as a way to increase organ availability and 3) develop tools that improve the quality and safety of living organ donations in Europe. This action aims to achieve broad European coverage with a specific focus on ...
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A Hungarian Night for Researchers 2011- Hungary-EU Research Careers (HEURECA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"We will focus on enhancing researchers’ public recognition. Researchers, presented as persons that everyday people can relate to, can draw attention to science; and can make science seen as a casual but interesting adventure. Better understanding science can also lead to improving researchers’ recognition. Thus, the main message of the event will emphasize the human, accessible yet important figu ...
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Towards a “Topography” of Tolerance and Equal Respect. A comparative study of policies for the distribution of public spaces in culturally diverse societies (RESPECT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

Tolerance has been increasingly invoked as the inspiring ideal of a number of social policies in European democracies. Appeals to tolerance have animated especially the political debates on those policies addressed to accommodate minorities’ requests. Among such requests those for the allocation of public spaces have recently acquired pride of place in the political agendas of many European and ex ...
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Nationalism and Antisemitism: A study on their relations, continuities and discontinuities from a sociological, political and historical perspective (ReNatAntisem)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

The aim of the project is to shed light on the connections between antisemitism and forms of political community, the guiding assumption being that nationalism has a major impact onto the manifestations of antisemitism. By means of a sociological, political and historical comparative study the manifold relationships of nationalism and antisemitism shall be traced through the 20th century in order ...
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Regenerative medicine in Europe: emerging needs and challenges in a global context (REMEDiE)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

The globalization of regenerative medicine is gathering pace yet has not been examined with respect to its medium and long term implications for European regulators, the corporate sector or patients located within different member states. Over the coming years it is hypothesised that the global pace of change in this field will be extensive and this needs to be both tracked and assessed for health ...
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"Evaluation of Legislation and Related Guidelines on the Procurement, Storage and Transfer of Human Tissues and Cells in the European Union – an Evidence-Based Impact Analysis" (TISS.EU)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

"The Tiss.EU project will analyse the impact of current EU legislation and guidelines on biomedical research which is based on the procurement, storage and transfer of human tissues and cells in and across the European Union. The importance of tissue derived from the human body for biomedical research is ever increasing. In the Theme ""Translating research for human health"" of FP7, the EU activel ...
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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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A Hungarian Night for Researchers - Hungary-EU Research Careers (HEURECA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

"The 2010 HEURECA Researchers' night will build upon the experience the consortium gained in organizing the event in the previous years. It will actually consist of a further expanded version of the previous events.Partnership will be enlarged by 3 new cooperating bodies joining the 18 experienced partners, and possibly by several non profit organisations and companies having already expressed the ...
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Contextualising behavioural change in energy programmes involving intermediaries and policymaking organizations working towards changing BEHAVIOUR (CHANGING BEHAVIOUR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

This project aims to support the shift toward end-user services in European energy policy. It will (1) develop a sophisticated but practical model of end-user behaviour and stakeholder interaction (2) integrate knowledge of context (e.g., national culture and institutions), timing and actors into demand management practice (3) pilot the transfer of context-tailored demand side programmes from one ...
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Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

"The consortium assesses European citizenship as enacted by citizens as well as non-citizens (third country nationals, refugees, illegal aliens). By investigating what we call ‘acts o citizenship’ we aim to determine the meaning given to the idea of European citizenship by those whose acts create new forms of identification. We recognize that in a complex space such as the European Union, acts of ...
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Barriers for energy changes among end consumers and households (BARENERGY)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2010,

The main objective in this proposal is to develop methods to identify the relevance and strengths of various barriers for energy behaviour changes among end consumers and households, and to discuss how activities from political authorities, energy producers and NGOs can overcome these barriers. We will address changes in consumer behaviour along two dimensions. The first is energy saving and impro ...
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Development of a Platform for Deliberative Processes on Nanotechnology in the European Consumer Market (NANOPLAT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2009,

The main idea behind this Support action is to develop a platform for deliberative processes on Nano-science and Nano-technology (NS&T) in the European consumer market. Nanotechnology products are now reaching the consumer markets within a large number of branches. During the last year, the number of consumer products using nanotechnology has more than doubled, from 212 to 475. Clothing and cosmet ...
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