Awarded Projects - ECRP I

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