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
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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
