In total, eight projects from the EUROCORES ECRP 2005 Competition were funded. You will find below the project abstracts and the list of Project Leaders, Principal Investigators and Associate Partners.
05_ECRP_FP006 Eye-Movement Control in Reading: Basic and Applied Issues of Fixation and Saccade Generation
Reading is a central cultural skill enabling the pursuit of goals ranging from education to social participation. At the behavioral level, reading comprises alternations of eye fixations (ca. 200 ms) and quick movements of the eye (saccades; 20-40 ms). Visual (e.g., contrast), language-related (e.g., word/sentence difficulty), and oculomotor dynamics (e.g., saccade-accuracy limits) systematically modulate fixation durations and fixation probabilities. Computer programs simulate these effects for “easy reading” of normal adults. We will research new, much more complex reading dynamics with a three-pronged program. First, we collect new reading data according to a common protocol that will enable the analyses of the interplay of oculomotor, visual, and language processes and allow us to isolate language-dependent and language-independent effects. Second, for the first time, computer models of reading will be tested in different languages and against each other. Third, the theoretical expertise of Individual Projects is linked to the collaborative research via associated experiments. These address, for example, differences between oral and silent reading, semantic associations in sentence comprehension, spatial coding of text material during reading, cortico-visual impairment and reading behavior, and dyslexic attentional spans for eye-movements in reading.
Project Leader
- ReinholdKlieglE-Mail
- University of PotsdamFaculty of Human SciencesDepartment of PsychologyPotsdam Ot GolmGermany
Principal Investigators
- AlanKennedy
- The University of DundeeDepartment of PsychologyDundeeUnited Kingdom
- Richard CharlesShillcockE-Mail
- University of EdinburghSchool of Informatics and School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language SciencesEdinburghUnited Kingdom
- HeinzWimmerE-Mail
- Universität SalzburgDepartment of Psychology and Center of Neurocognitive ResearchFachbereich PsychologieSalzburgAustria
Associate Partners
- VictorKupermanE-Mail
- Stanford UniversityDepartment of LinguisticsStanfordUnited States
- PetarMilinE-Mail
- University of Novi SadFaculty of PhilosophyDepartment of PsychologyNovi SadSerbia
- RonanReillyE-Mail
- NUI MaynoothDepartment of Computer ScienceMaynoothIreland
- GrzegorzSedekE-Mail
- University of Social Sciences and Humanities,Center for Applied Cognitive StudiesWarsawPoland
- HuaShuE-Mail
- Beijing Normal UniversityState Key Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience and LearningBeijingChina
- ShravanVasishthE-Mail
- University of PotsdamDepartment of LinguisticsPotsdamGermany
- FrançoiseVitu-ThibaultE-Mail
- CNRS UMR 6146University of ProvenceLaboratory of Cognitive PsychologyMarseilleFrance
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. Project website: www.tiesproject.eu/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/lang,en/
Project Leader
- MauriceCrulE-Mail
- University of AmsterdamFaculteit voor Maatschappij en gedragswetenschappen (FMG)Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES)AmsterdamNetherlands
Principal Investigators
- RosaAparicioE-Mail
- Universidad Pontificia ComillasInstituto de Estudios sobre Migraciones (IEM)MadridSpain
- RositaFibbiE-Mail
- Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies (SFM)NeuchâtelSwitzerland
- EbbaHedlundE-Mail
- Stockholm UniversitySocial Science FacultyCentre for research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (CEIFO)StockholmSweden
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
- Christienvan den AnkerE-Mail
- University of the West of EnglandSchool of PoliticsBristolUnited Kingdom
Principal Investigators
- Martin S. RonaldCommersE-Mail
- Ghent UniversityFaculty of Philosophy and ArtsDepartment of PhilosophyGhentBelgium
- DušanDrbohlavE-Mail
- Charles UniversityFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Social Geography and Regional DevelopmentPraha 2Czech Republic
- ShahramKhosraviE-Mail
- Stockholm UniversityDepartment of Social AnthropologyStockholmSweden
- GillianWylieE-Mail
- Trinity College DublinIrish School of EcumenicsDublin 6Ireland
- PawelDabrowskiE-Mail
- Institute of Electronic Materials TechnologyThe Centre of Migration ResearchWarsawPoland
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. Project website: www.ces.ed.ac.uk/research/FabQ/index.htm
Project Leader
- JennyOzgaE-Mail
- University of EdinburghCentre for Educational Sociology (CES)EdinburghUnited Kingdom
Principal Investigators
- PeterDahler-LarsenE-Mail
- University of Southern DenmarkDepartment of Political Science and Public ManagementOdense MDenmark
- HannuSimolaE-Mail
- University of HelsinkiFaculty of Behavioural SciencesDepartment of EdcuationHelsinkiFinland
Associate Partners
- ChristinaSegerholmE-Mail
- MidSweden UniversityDepartment of EducationHärnösandSweden
- 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
- Robin M.HogarthE-Mail
- Pompeu Fabra UniversityDepartment of Economics and BusinessBarcelonaSpain
Principal Investigators
- PhilippeDelquiéE-Mail
- INSEAD FranceDecision Sciences AreaFontainebleauFrance
- MartinWeberE-Mail
- Universität MannheimLehrstuhl für Allg. BWLFinanzwirtschaftslehreMannheimGermany
- UlrichHoffrageE-Mail
- Université de 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. Project website: stat.gamma.rug.nl/ECRP-DANL/default.htm
Project Leader
- TomSnijdersE-Mail
- University of GroningenFaculty of Behavioural and Social SciencesDepartment of SociologyInteruniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS)GroningenNetherlands
Principal Investigators
- EmmanuelLazegaE-Mail
- Université de Paris IX - DauphineIRISSOParisFrance
- UlrikBrandesE-Mail
- University of KonstanzDepartment of Computer & Information ScienceKonstanzGermany
- Jose-LuisMolina GonzalezE-Mail
- Universitat Autonoma de BarcelonaFacultat de lletres-Edifici BDepartamento d'Antropologia SocialBellaterraSpain
- HåkanStattinE-Mail
- Örebro UniversityDepartment of Behavioural, Social and Legal SciencesÖrebroSweden
- AlessandroLomiE-Mail
- University of LuganoFaculty 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. Project website: www.unice.fr/urmis/spip.php
Information on the December 2007 conference can be found here.
New (2010): "De l’ouvrier immigré au travailleur sans papiers. Les étrangers dans la modernisation du salariat", edited by Alain Morice and Swanie Potot, Karthala (see http://www.karthala.com/rubrique/detail_produit.php?id_oeuvre=2183)
Project Leader
- SwaniePototE-Mail
- Université de Nice Sophia-AntipolisCNRS Research Unit on Migrations and Society - URMIS SOLIIS (UMR 7032)NiceFrance
Principal Investigators
- MarekOkolskiE-Mail
- University of WarsawThe Centre of Migration ResearchWarsawPoland
- DoloresRedondo ToronjoE-Mail
- Universidad de HuelvaFacultad de Ciencias del TrabajoEconomía General y EstadísticaObservatorio Local de EmpleoHuelvaSpain
Associate Partners
- MaurizioAmbrosiniE-Mail
- University of GenoaDiSA - Department of Anthropological SciencesGenoaItaly
- EmanuelaAbbatecolaE-Mail
- University of GenoaDiSA - Department of Anthropological SciencesGenoaItaly
- 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 of childcare facilities in many countries, and a growing gap in welfare state provision for the care of older, frail and disabled people, is intensifying this demand. The Lisbon Agenda recognises that the ageing population of Europe will create more demand for these workers in the future. Likewise, more childcare is required in order to meet the Lisbon target of 60% participation of women in the labour market by 2010. Migrant women are meeting much of the new demand for care/domestic service in private households, with non-EU nationals officially accounting for over 10% of those employed in this sector (COM/2003/0336). However, since much of this work is undocumented and informal its contribution to the European economy is much greater. 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 most intimate of institutions, the home and family, will be examined and policy recommendations will be made.
Project Leader
- LindaConnollyE-Mail
- University College CorkInstitute for Social Sciences in the 21st CenturyDepartment of SociologyCorkIreland
Principal Investigators
- HelmaLutzE-Mail
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe UniversityInstitut für Gesellschafts- und PolitikanalyseFachbereich GesellschaftswissenschaftenFrankfurt am MainGermany
- J. FionaWilliamsE-Mail
- University of LeedsSchool of Sociology & Social PolicyLeedsUnited Kingdom
- Sarah KatherineVan WalsumE-Mail
- Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamLawDepartment of Administrative Constitutional LawAmsterdamNetherlands
