Awarded Projects - ECRP I
In total, eight projects from the EUROCORES ECRP 2005 Competition have been funded. You will find below the project abstracts and the list of Project Leaders, Principal Investigators, Project Members and Associate Partners.
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05_ECRP_FP006 Eye-Movement Control in Reading: Basic and Applied Issues of Fixation and Saccade Generation
Abstract: Reading is a central cultural skill, enabling the pursuit of goals ranging from education to social participation. At the behavioural level, reading comprises alternations of eye fixations and quick eye movements modulated by visual, language related and oculomotor dynamics that can be simulated by computer programmes. This project will research new, complex reading dynamics with a three-pronged programme:
- Collecting new reading data to isolate languagedependent and language-independent effects.
- Testing computer models of reading in different languages and against each other for the first time.
- Linking the expertise of Individual Projects through associated experiments (addressing, for example, differences between oral and silent reading, or spatial coding of text material during reading).
Project Leader
- ProfessorReinholdKlieglE-Mail
- University of PotsdamFaculty of Human SciencesDepartment of PsychologyGolmGermany
Principal Investigators
- ProfessorAlanKennedy
- The University of DundeeDepartment of PsychologyDundeeUnited Kingdom
- Dr.Richard CharlesShillcockE-Mail
- University of EdinburghSchool of Informatics and School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language SciencesEdinburghUnited Kingdom
- Dr.HeinzWimmerE-Mail
- Universität SalzburgDepartment of Psychology and Center of Neurocognitive ResearchFachbereich PsychologieSalzburgAustria
Project Members
- ProfessorRalfEngbertE-Mail
- Universität PotsdamHuman SciencesDepartment of PsychologyPotsdamGermany
- Dr.Martin HerbertFischerE-Mail
- University of DundeeSchool of PsychologyDundeeUnited Kingdom
- Dr.Wayne StuartMurrayE-Mail
- University of DundeeDepartment of PsychologyDundeeUnited Kingdom
Associate Partner
- ProfessorRonanReillyE-Mail
- NUI MaynoothDepartment of Computer ScienceMaynoothIreland
05_ECRP_FP009 The Integration of the European Second generation (TIES). A research project in fifteen cities in eight countries.
Abstract: Immigration and the subsequent integration of newcomers is one of the foremost challenges for Europe’s increasingly heterogeneous cities. The integration of the second generation – the children born of immigrant parentage in the country of immigration – is crucial to this process. The oldest group of the second generation is now entering the labour market and the TIES project will describe its position in several domains (education, labour market, housing, identity, social relations, family formation, transnationalism, religion) through a standardized international survey.
In the TIES project we will compare the Turkish, Moroccan and ex-Yugoslavian second generation across fifteen cities in eight countries: Sweden, Germany, France, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Switzerland. Go to website
Project Leader
- Dr.MauriceCrulE-Mail
- University of AmsterdamFaculteit voor Maatschappij en gedragswetenschappen (FMG)Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES)AmsterdamNetherlands
Principal Investigators
- ProfessorRosaAparicioE-Mail
- Universidad Pontificia ComillasInstituto de Estudios sobre Migraciones (IEM)MadridSpain
- Dr.RositaFibbiE-Mail
- Swiss Forum for Migration and Population StudiesNeuchâtelSwitzerland
- Dr.EbbaHedlundE-Mail
- Stockholm UniversitySocial Science FacultyCentre for research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (CEIFO)StockholmSweden
Project Members
- Dr.LiesbethHeeringE-Mail
- Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)The HagueNetherlands
- Dr.Helgade ValkE-Mail
- Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)Den HaagNetherlands
- Dr.JensSchneiderE-Mail
- University of AmsterdamInstitute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES)AmsterdamNetherlands
- ProfessorAndrésTornosE-Mail
- Universidad Pontificia ComillasInstituto de Estudios sobre Migraciones (IEM)MadridSpain
05_ECRP_FP018 Trafficking for forced labour in industries other than the sex industry across Europe
Abstract: This proposal follows on from a research project currently underway in the UK, Czech Republic, Portugal and Ireland undertaken by Anti-Slavery International (London), the CSGE (University of Birmingham) and local partner NGOs, which aim is to focus specifically on persons trafficked for forced labour, services, slavery or practices similar to slavery and their access to justice in EU countries.
The project aims to address the fact that so far the identification, assistance and protection strategies for victims of trafficking are designed almost exclusively to address the needs of persons trafficked into the sex industry. Project outcomes will lead to policy recommendations and should improve the understanding of the issue of trafficking for labour exploitation and ensure that it is mainstreamed in the EU.
Project Leader
- Dr.Christienvan den AnkerE-Mail
- University of the West of EnglandSchool of PoliticsBristolUnited Kingdom
Principal Investigators
- ProfessorMartin S. RonaldCommersE-Mail
- Ghent UniversityPhilosophyGhentBelgium
- Dr.DušanDrbohlavE-Mail
- Charles UniversityFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Social Geography and Regional DevelopmentPraha 2Czech Republic
- Dr.ShahramKhosraviE-Mail
- Stockholm UniversityDepartment of Social AnthropologyStockholmSweden
- Dr.GillianWylieE-Mail
- Trinity College DublinIrish School of EcumenicsDublin 6Ireland
- Dr.PawelDabrowskiE-Mail
- University of WarsawThe Centre of Migration ResearchWarsawPoland
Project Members
- Dr.WimVandekerckoveE-Mail
- Ghent UniversityPhilosophyCentre for Ethics and Value EnquiriesGhentBelgium
- Ms.AnVerlindenE-Mail
- Ghent UniversityPhilosophyGhentBelgium
- Dr.DagmarDzurovaE-Mail
- Charles UniversityFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Social GeographyPragueCzech Republic
05_ECRP_FP021 Fabricating Quality in European Education
Abstract: Quality assurance and evaluation (QAE) is increasingly important nationally and transnationally in education. It may steer policy and practice at all levels and in all sectors of education in national systems, and may be understood as a form of governance of education. This project draws on detailed individual multi-level studies that share a common design. These studies enable the collaborative project to identify and analyse, through a variety of theoretical approaches, the ways in which education is controlled, managed and governed through QAE. This collaborative project will contribute to the development of comparative methodologies that are sensitive to the influence of trans-national pressures for QAE on national systems, while also recognising the importance of context in shaping responses to these pressures. Go to website.
Project Leader
- ProfessorJennyOzgaE-Mail
- University of EdinburghCentre for Educational Sociology (CES)EdinburghUnited Kingdom
Principal Investigators
- ProfessorPeterDahler-LarsenE-Mail
- University of Southern DenmarkDepartment of Political Science and Public ManagementOdense MDenmark
- ProfessorHannuSimolaE-Mail
- University of HelsinkiFaculty of Behavioural SciencesDepartment of EdcuationHelsinkiFinland
Project Members
- Dr.LindaCroxfordE-Mail
- University of EdinburghMoray House School of EducationCentre for Educational SociologyEdinburghUnited Kingdom
- ProfessorMartinLawnE-Mail
- University of EdinburghSchool of EducationCentre for Educational SociologyEdinburghUnited Kingdom
- ProfessorRobertLingardE-Mail
- University of EdinburghMoray House School of EducationEdinburghUnited Kingdom
- Dr.FarahShaikE-Mail
- University of EdinburghMoray House School of EducationCentre for Educational SociologyEdinburghUnited Kingdom
- Dr.SotiriaGrekE-Mail
- University of EdinburghMoray House School of EducationCentre for Educational SociologyEdinburghUnited Kingdom
- ProfessorRistoRinneE-Mail
- University of TurkuFaculty of EducationDepartment of EducationCentre for Research on Lifelong Learning and EducationTurkuFinland
- Ms.MirkaMäkinenE-Mail
- University of TurkuFaculty of EducationDepartment of EducationTurkuFinland
- Ms.HannelePitkänenE-Mail
- University of HelsinkiFaculty of Behavioural SciencesDepartment of EducationHelsinkiFinland
- Dr.JanneVarjoE-Mail
- University of HelsinkiFaculty of Behavioural SciencesDepartment of EducationHelsinkiFinland
- Mr.JaakkoKaukoE-Mail
- University of HelsinkiFaculty of Behavioural SciencesDepartment of EducationHelsinkiFinland
- Dr.CarstenStrømbæk PedersenE-Mail
- University of Southern DenmarkDepartment of Political Science and Public ManagementOdenseDenmark
- Dr.VibekeNormann-AndersenE-Mail
- University of OdenseDepartment of Political Science and Public ManagementOdenseDenmark
Associate Partners
- Dr.ChristinaSegerholmE-Mail
- MidSweden UniversityDepartment of EducationHärnösandSweden
- Dr.OlaLindbergE-Mail
- MidSWeden UniversityDepartment of EducationHärnösandSweden
05_ECRP_FP025 Decision Making: “Exploiting” bounded rationality
Abstract: Because people lack the “computational power” needed to take decisions in a fully rational manner, it is important to understand how and how well simple decision rules (that people can use) fare in both different kinds of environments and for different types of tasks. An additional, and often critical, consideration is to find ways of helping people make decisions in complex tasks.
The methodology used involves simulations, theoretical statistical analyses and experiments with human participants. In all cases, it considers in detail how abstract or behavioural rules lead to functional or dysfunctional outcomes in different environments. This approach, therefore, leads to develop “environmental” theories of decision behaviour.
Project Leader
- ProfessorRobin M.HogarthE-Mail
- Pompeu Fabra UniversityDepartment of Economics and BusinessBarcelonaSpain
Principal Investigators
- ProfessorPhilippeDelquiéE-Mail
- INSEAD FranceDecision Sciences AreaFontainebleauFrance
- ProfessorMartinWeberE-Mail
- Universität MannheimLehrstuhl für Allg. BWLFinanzwirtschaftslehreMannheimGermany
- ProfessorUlrichHoffrageE-Mail
- Université de LausanneHECLausanneSwitzerland
Project Members
- ProfessorManuelBaucellsE-Mail
- University of NavarraIESE Business SchoolSpain
- ProfessorJuan AntonioCarrascoE-Mail
- Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaDepartment of Electronic EngineeringSpain
- ProfessorFranz H.HeukampE-Mail
- University of NavarraIESE Business SchoolSpain
- ProfessorEnricoDiecidueE-Mail
- INSEAD Decision Science AreaFontainebleauFrance
- ProfessorVictorSuñéE-Mail
- Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaElectronic EngineeringSpain
- ProfessorAyseÖnçülerE-Mail
- INSEADDecision Science AreaFontainebleauFrance
- ProfessorIoanaPopescuE-Mail
- INSEADDecision Science AreaFontainebleauFrance
- Mrs.SinaBorgsenE-Mail
- University of MannheimBusiness SchoolMannheimGermany
- Dr.NataliaKarelaiaE-Mail
- University of LausanneHECLausanneSwitzerland
05_ECRP_FP026 Dynamics of actors and networks across levels: individuals, groups, organizations, and social settings
Abstract: Social networks are recognised more and more as important explanations for behaviour and well-being of individuals but also for performance of organisations. Simultaneously, social actors choose their relationships on the basis of behaviour patterns and network positions of actual and potential interaction partners. Enhanced understanding of these phenomena require the empirical study of the mutual influence between the social actor and the social network; in addition, the multiplicity of social subgroups and the diversity of organisations and social settings provide further levels that need to be taken into consideration. This ECRP project brings together various disciplines, with the purpose of elaborating and implementing this new methodology in an optimal way and to profit from it in various studies. Go to website.
Project Leader
- ProfessorTomSnijdersE-Mail
- University of GroningenDepartment of SociologyInteruniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS)GroningenNetherlands
Principal Investigators
- ProfessorEmmanuelLazegaE-Mail
- Université de Paris IX - DauphineParisFrance
- ProfessorUlrikBrandesE-Mail
- University of KonstanzComputer & Information ScienceKonstanzGermany
- ProfessorJosé LuisMolinaE-Mail
- Universitat Autonoma de BarcelonaFacultat de lletres-Edifici BDepartamento d'Antropologia SocialBellaterraSpain
- ProfessorHåkanStattinE-Mail
- Örebro UniversityDepartment of Behavioural, Social and Legal SciencesÖrebroSweden
- ProfessorAlessandroLomiE-Mail
- University of Italian SwitzerlandFaculty of Communication SciencesLuganoSwitzerland
Project Members
- Dr.Ainhoade Federico de la RúaE-Mail
- Université de Lille 1Institut de Sociologie et d'AnthropologieIFRESILilleFrance
- Mrs.LiseMounierE-Mail
- ENSCentre Maurice Halbwachs, UMR CNRS 8097ParisFrance
- Dr.PaolaTubaroE-Mail
- Ecole Normale SupérieureParisFrance
- Mr.KristsBoitmanisE-Mail
- University of KonstanzComputer & Information ScienceKonstanzGermany
- Dr.JürgenLernerE-Mail
- University of KonstanzComputer & Information ScienceKonstanzGermany
- Dr.ChristianSteglichE-Mail
- University of GroningenFaculty of Behavioural and Social SciencesDepartment of SociologyInteruniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS)GroningenNetherlands
- Dr.CarlosLozares ColinaE-Mail
- Universitat Autonoma de BarcelonaFacultat de Sociologia i Ciencies PolitiquesBellaterraSpain
- ProfessorMiranda J.LubbersE-Mail
- Universitat Autonoma de BarcelonaFacultat de Sociologia i Ciencies PolitiquesBarcelonaSpain
- ProfessorIsidroMaya JariegoE-Mail
- University of SevillaFacultad de PsicologíaSocial Psychology DepartmentSevillaSpain
- ProfessorMargaretKerrE-Mail
- BSRÖrebro UniversityDepartment of Behavioural, Social and Legal SciencesÖrebroSweden
- ProfessorErikLarsen ReimerE-Mail
- University of Italian Switzerland (University of Lugano)Faculty of EconomicsInstitute of ManagementLuganoSwitzerland
- Mr.MohamedBoukhrisE-Mail
- University of Italian SwitzerlandFaculty of EconomicsLuganoSwitzerland
- Mrs.LeiWangE-Mail
- University of Italian SwitzerlandFaculty of EconomicsLuganoSwitzerland
05_ECRP_FP037 New migrations dynamics : regular and irregular work on the european labour market
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Abstract: This collaborative project will deal with working migrations and gendered matters in three economic sectors — agriculture, domestic services and prostitution — in which foreigners and among them, women, are over-represented. The study will analyse the contradictory demands with regard to immigration in the EU, considering the gap between political will, which intends to reduce extra-EU migrations and economic practices in sectors where low paid jobs allow maintaining, in Western countries, an economic activity which would not survive otherwise.
Researches will analyse both the social and economic implications in the areas concerned in industrialized countries and the impact of these types of jobs and mobility on the migrants' careers. In this context, the role played by women will be underlined. Go to the CRP's website.
Information on the December 2007 conference can be found here.
Project Leader
- Ms.SwaniePototE-Mail
- Université de Nice Sophia-AntipolisCNRS Research Unit on Migrations and Society - URMIS SOLIIS (UMR 7032)NiceFrance
Principal Investigators
- ProfessorMarekOkolskiE-Mail
- Warsaw UniversityInstitute for Social StudiesCentre for Migration ResearchWarszawaPoland
- ProfessorDoloresRedondo ToronjoE-Mail
- Universidad de HuelvaFacultad de Ciencias del TrabajoEconomía General y EstadísticaObservatorio Local de EmpleoHuelvaSpain
Project Members
- Mr.AlainMoriceE-Mail
- Université Paris 7 - Denis DiderotCNRS Research Unit on Migrations and Society - URMIS (UMR 7032)ParisFrance
- Ms.FrancescaScrinziE-Mail
- Université de Nice Sophia-AntipolisCNRS Research Unit on Migrations and Society - URMIS (UMR 7032)NiceFrance
- Ms.MartaKindlerE-Mail
- Warsaw UniversityCentre for Migration ResearchWarsawPoland
- Ms.JoannaNapieralaE-Mail
- Warsaw UniversityCentre for Migration ResearchWarsawPoland
- Dr.BlancaMiedesE-Mail
- Universidad de HuelvaLabour SciencesGeneral Economics and StatisticsObservatorio Local de EmpleoHuelvaSpain
- Ms.CeliaSanchez LopezE-Mail
- Universidad de HuelvaObservatorio Local de EmpleoHuelvaSpain
Associate Partners
- Dr.MaurizioAmbrosiniE-Mail
- University of GenoaDiSA - Department of Anthropological SciencesGenoaItaly
- Ms.EmanuelaAbbatecolaE-Mail
- University of GenoaDiSA - Department of Anthropological SciencesGenoaItaly
- ProfessorAndreaRéaE-Mail
- Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULBInstitut de SociologieGroup for Study on Ethnicity, Racism, Migration and ExclusionBruxellesBelgium
- Ms.RalitzaSoultanovaE-Mail
- Université Libre de BruxellesDépartement rechercheGroup for Study on Ethnicity, Racism, Migrations and ExclusionBruxellesBelgium
05_ECRP_FP041 Migration and Networks of Care in Europe: A Comparative European Research Project
Abstract: The provision of domestic services in private households has emerged as a major issue in the EU. As female labour force participation has increased, demand for domestic workers has risen. Inadequate state provision for childcare facilities and the care of the elderly, frail and disabled is intensifying this demand, mostly met by migrant women with non-EU nationals officially accounting for over 10% of those employed in this sector. In this project, the causes and implications of these trends — including an analysis of how transnational migration is affecting the construction of welfare provision and the law in European societies, as well as the home and family — will be examined and policy recommendations made.
Project Leader
- Dr.LindaConnollyE-Mail
- University College CorkFaculty of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social ScienceDepartment of SociologyCorkIreland
Principal Investigators
- ProfessorHelmaLutzE-Mail
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe UniversityInstitut für Gesellschafts- und PolitikanalyseFachbereich GesellschaftswissenschaftenFrankfurt am MainGermany
- ProfessorJ. FionaWilliamsE-Mail
- University of LeedsSchool of Sociology & Social PolicyLeedsUnited Kingdom
- Dr.Sarah KatherineVan WalsumE-Mail
- Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDepartment of Administrative Constitutional LawAmsterdamNetherlands
Project Members
- Dr.SiobhánMullallyE-Mail
- University College CorkFaculty of LawLaw DepartmentCorkIreland
- Dr.CaitríonaNí LaoireE-Mail
- University College CorkFaculty of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social ScienceGeography DepartmentCorkIreland
- Dr.EwaPalengaE-Mail
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe UniversityInstitut für Gesellschafts- und PolitikanalyseFachbereich GesellschaftswissenschaftenFrankfurt am MainGermany
ECRP Scheme (2001-2004)
The ECRP Scheme ran from 2001 to 2004, before ECRP became a EUROCORES Programme. The projects awarded in these competitions can still be consulted here for information: forward