ECRP V - 2009

Six projects from the ECRP 2009 competition were funded. You will find below the abstracts of the projects as well as the lists of Project Leaders, Principal Investigators and Associate Partners.


09-ECRP-015 EUPERFORM

What is the European Union doing in international institutions? Throughout the project’s different phases, this question has served as the backbone of our scientific inquiry and explains our focus on the European Union’s performance in international institutions (both international organizations and regimes). The project has produced intriguing answers to the guiding question. This result has been achieved through a range of case studies on the major international organizations (UN, NATO, WTO etc.) as well as studies of the EU’s performance in international regimes. The case studies have been informed by a common analytical framework, thus enabling comparison of institutional settings and different policy areas. The project has been designed to cover EU relations with all major international institutions and members of the project have presented their findings in a number of publications (both articles and books), contributing in a decisive fashion to the state-of-the-art of the field of study... Read more

Project Leader

Knud ErikJørgensenE-Mail
Aarhus UniversityFaculty of Social SciencesDepartment of Political SciencesAarhusDenmark

Principal Investigators

NinaGraegerE-Mail
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)Department for International PoliticsOsloNorway
RobertKissackE-Mail
Barcelona Institute for International StudiesBarcelonaSpain

Associated Partners

EugeniaBaroncelliE-Mail
University of BolognaFaculty of Political ScienceForliItaly



09-ECRP-020 Intentional Inhibition of Human Action

Most people recognise the experience of stopping themselves ‘just in time’ before committing an unwise action.  We call this process ‘intentional inhibition’.  The capacity for intentional inhibition is as important for human volition as the capacity for initiating actions, and is essential for successful social interaction.  However, it has been largely ignored, perhaps because it produces no measurable behavioural output.  Yet preliminary studies have successfully identified processes of intentional inhibition distinct from external inhibition previously studied with ‘stop’ signals.

This is the first systematic research programme on intentional inhibition of human action.  Experimental paradigms for eliciting intentional inhibition are developed and implemented across four complementary laboratories.  These are used to investigate psychological and neural mechanisms of intentional inhibition, and interactions of these mechanisms with reward, emotion and social context.  The emergence of intentional inhibition in normal child development is contrasted with striking pathologies of the action/inhibition balance in Tourette’s Syndrome.  Specific research collaborations transfer knowledge and skills between partners, and integrate the various studies. 

Project Leader

PatrickHaggardE-Mail
University College LondonInstitute of Cognitive NeuroscienceDepartment of PsychologyLondonUnited Kingdom

Principal Investigators

MarcelBrassE-Mail
Ghent UniversityPsychology and Educational SciencesDepartment of Experimental PsychologyGhentBelgium
EvelineCroneE-Mail
Universiteit LeidenFaculty of Social and Behavioural SciencesDepartment of PsychologyBrain Development LaboratoryLeidenNetherlands
AlexanderMünchauE-Mail
Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg-EppendorfDepartment of NeurologyUniversity Medical Center Hamburg-EppendorfHamburgGermany



09-ECRP021 National Transfer Accounts and intergenerational redistribution in European institutional settings

In all societies the very young and the very old consume more than they produce. The survival and welfare of the human species therefore require transfers of resources across ages through family, public taxation or capital market saving. This fundamentally affects the working of financial markets, wealth accumulation and public finance. The project mapped these resource flows into a National Accounts framework as part of an international project to create comparable National Transfer Accounts... Read More

Project Leader

AlexiaFürnkranz-PrskawetzE-Mail
Vienna University of TechnologyInstitute for Mathematical Methods in EconomicsResearch Unit: EcoViennaAustria

Principal Investigators

RobertGalE-Mail
TARKI Joint Research CentreBudapestHungary
ConcepciónPatxot CardonerE-Mail
Universitat de BarcelonaFacultad de Ciencias EconomicasDepartament de Fundamentos de Analisis EconomicoCentre d'Anàlisi Econòmica i de les Polítiques Socials (CAEPS)BarcelonaSpain
GustavÖbergE-Mail
Institute for Future StudiesStockholmSweden

Associated Partners

FannyKlugeE-Mail
Max Planck Institute for Demographic ResearchRostockGermany
MarjaRiiheläE-Mail
Government Institute of Economic ResearchResearch Unit on Taxation and Social TransfersHelsinkiFinland
RistoSullströmE-Mail
HelsinkiFinland
ReijoVanneE-Mail
HelsinkiFinland
RistoVaittinenE-Mail
Finnish Centre for PensionsEläketurvakeskusFinland
Francois-CharlesWolffE-Mail
University of NantesInstitut d’Economie et de ManagementNantes CedexFrance



09-ECRP-025 Optimising the detection of criminal intent and deception among criminal networks

This collaborative project focused on two previously unexplored issues: (i) the discrimination between true and false intentions and (b) detecting deception among small cells of suspects. Both these issues are highly relevant given modern terrorism and current security threats. Uniquely the project was firmly embedded in psychological theory and considered deception to be strongly linked to attention, memory, processing capacities and behavioural control. The project examined how these aspects are linked to behavioural, verbal and physiological cues to deception... Read more

Project Leader

Pär AndersGranhagE-Mail
Göteborg UniversityDepartment of PsychologyGöteborgSweden

Principal Investigators

GeertCrombezE-Mail
Ghent UniversityDepartment of PsychologyGhentBelgium
MatthiasGamerE-Mail
University Medical Center Hamburg-EppendorfDepartment of Systems NeuroscienceHamburgGermany

Associated Partners

GershonBen-ShakharE-Mail
The Hebrew University of JerusalemFaculty of Social SciencesDepartment of PsychologyJerusalemIsrael



09-ECRP-032 Qualitative Tracking with Young Disabled People in European States (Quali-TYDES)

The original Qualitydes study aims included the generation of a comparative understanding of national policy regimes in relation to disability, family, work and welfare, and the investigation of the potential for using qualitative case study methods to assist in monitoring states’ implementation of international policy obligations, such as those arising from the United Nations and European Union... Read more
http://quali-tydes.univie.ac.at/home

Project Leader

MichaelShevlinE-Mail
Trinity CollegeFaculty of Arts & HumanitiesDepartment of EducationDublinIreland

Principal Investigators

GottfriedBiewerE-Mail
University of ViennaFaculty of Philosphy, Education and Human DevelopmentDepartment of Education and Human DevelopmentWienAustria
Miguel A. V.FerreiraE-Mail
Universidad Complutense de MadridFacultad de CC. Políticas y SociologíaDepartamento de Cambio Social (Sociología I)Pozuelo De AlarcónSpain

Associated Partner

JanSiskaE-Mail
Charles University, PragueFaculty of EducationPrague 1Czech Republic



09-ECRP-044 Toward a European Society: Single Market, Binational Marriages, and Social Group Formation in Europe

This collaborative international research project seeks to measure trends in binational marriages between citizens of the European Union and to examine the extent to which these binational couples both express and contribute to the emergence of a new European middle class.  The study departs from previous research on intermarriage through its exclusive focus on marriages between EU citizens and through the examination of binational couples not from the perspective of how foreigners integrate in host societies, but rather from the standpoint of the formation of new social groups that could be described as European. 

Project Leader

JuanDiez MedranoE-Mail
University of BarcelonaInstitut Barcelona d'Estudis InternacionalsBarcelonaSpain

Principal Investigators

Helgade ValkE-Mail
Vrije Universiteit BrusselDepartment of Social ResearchBrusselsBelgium
JörgRösselE-Mail
Universität ZürichSoziologisches InstitutZürichSwitzerland
LeonardusVan WissenE-Mail
University GroningenFaculty of Spacial SciencesDepartment of DemographyGroningenNetherlands