Background of the scheme
The national research funding agencies of around fifteen countries had agreed on a protocol, which allowed them to consider European research team project applications submitted to a common deadline. The protocol operated from 2001 to 2004.
Researchers based in universities and research institutions in those countries whose national research funding agencies are signatories to the scheme were eligible to apply for grants.
The scheme was open to applications on any topic within the social sciences that demonstrated an international framework for research collaboration. Projects needed not be exclusively European in their topic focus.
The scheme offered the opportunity to fund multilateral projects addressing international topics and issues pooling European research expertise. Project applications had to involve collaboration amongst research teams in a minimum of three protocol countries.
The scheme was designed to enhance the continuing process of European academic networking and career development by providing financing for problem-driven research projects to consolidate these achievements and trends. It offered the opportunity for researcher-led innovation in topic choice and directions for international research. By enabling European project teams to submit a common text application simultaneously to several national funding bodies, according to an annual deadline and schedule for decision making, the scheme seeked to provide an innovative mechanism for advancing international research collaboration in the social sciences.
The ECRP scheme ran from 2001 to 2004, before ECRP became a EUROCORES Programme.
Running ECRPs - Awards 2001 to 2004
The tables below give an overview of the running ECRP projects.
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ECRPs 2004
Proposal # | Proposal title | Main applicant | Countries | Abstract |
2004/14 | Migrants’ Transnational Practices in Western Europe | Gianni D’Amato | Switzerland, Belgium (FNRS), France, Germany, Italy | |
2004/17 | Science and Technology Research in a Knowledge-Based Economy | Reinhilde Veugelers | Belgium (FWO), Belgium (FNRS), France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, UK | |
2004/18 | The Integration of the European Second-Generation (TIES) | Maurice Crul | Netherlands, Austria, Belgium (FWO) | |
2004/19 | Scaffolding, Structuring and Regulating Collaborative Learning for Knowledge Construction and Sharing | Päivi Häkkinen | Finland, Germany, Switzerland | |
2004/23 | Serial Action: a Mutilevel Approach | Willem B. Verwey | Netherlands, Belgium (FNRS), France, Spain | |
2004/32 | Building the EU’s Social Constituency | Klaus Eder | Germany, Spain, UK | |
2004/40 | Emotions and Social Identity: Toward an Integrated View of Intergroup Conflict | Vincent Yzerbyt | Belgium (FNRS), France, Netherlands, UK | |
2004/49 | European Wages and Employment under Low Inflation | Per Lundborg | Sweden (FAS), Norway, Switzerland |
ECRPs 2003
Proposal # | Proposal title | Main applicant | Countries | Abstract |
2003/01 | Variable Pay, Industrial Relations and Collective Bargaining | Franz Traxler | Austria, Norway, UK | |
2003/02 | Home Ownership, Commuting and Labour Mobility | Casper van Ewijk | Denmark, Netherlands, Spain, UK | |
2003/16 | Poverty Dynamics and Fertility in Developing Countries | Arnstein Aassve | Austria, Italy, UK | |
2003/22 | Technology, Talent and Tolerance in European Cities: A comparative analysis | Bjorn Asheim | Finland, Norway, Sweden (VR), UK |
ECRPs 2002
Proposal # | Proposal title | Main applicant | Countries | Abstract |
2002/05 | The Consumer’s Adaptation to Currency Change | Rob Ranyard | Italy, Poland, Sweden | |
2002/08 | Immigration, Racism and Acculturation: A Three-Nation Study | Rupert Brown | Belgium, Germany, UK | |
2002/12 | Language and Social Action: A Comparative Study of Affiliation and Disaffiliation Across National Communities and Institutional Contexts | Anna Lindström | Denmark, Finland, Sweden, UK | |
2002/13 | Social Justice and Risks: New Approaches | Frank Cowell | Belgium, Germany, Spain | |
2002/14 | Human Capital Effects of the Welfare: Institutional Resources, Work Histories and Social Inequality | Markus Gangl | Germany, Ireland, Sweden |
ECRPs 2001
Proposal # | Proposal title | Main applicant | Countries | Abstract |
2001/03 | Behavioural Models in Economics and Finance | Carlos Alos-Ferrer | Austria, Spain, Switzerland | |
2001/07 | Official Interventions on Foreign Exchange Markets | Agnès Bénassy-Quéré | Belgium, France, Netherlands | |
2001/08 | Third Sector European Policy (TSEP) | Jeremy Kendall | Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Netherlands, UK | |
2001/10 | Human Smuggling and Trafficking in Migrants: Types, Origins and Dynamics in a Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspective | Friedrich Heckmann | Austria, Germany, Italy, Netherlands | |
2001/14 | Reading Acquisition and Disability in European Orthographies | P.H.K.Seymour | Belgium, Finland, Spain, Sweden (VR), UK | |
2001/25 | National Systems of Innovation in a Globalising, Knowledge-Based Economy: A Comparative Study of Small Developed Countries in Europe and Asia | Charles Edquist | Denmark, Finland, Norway, Netherlands | |
2001/29 | Children in Tort Law: Children as Tortfeasers and Victims | Miquel Martin-Casals | Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain |
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