Scientific Objectives
The main purpose of the EuroCORECODE programme is to create a better understanding of the ways in which regional cohesion developed in the longue durée within a changing European context, through a programme of comparative projects.
When starting to compare the historical developments of regions all over Europe, and the contributions to these developments made by different fields of human activity, it is striking how many unexpected similarities and differences can be found in the complex ways in which societies in the past were created and behaved.
Mono-disciplinary research during recent decades has grown enormously in depth and quality. This calls for a new approach that aims at comparison and interdisciplinary analysis. This only can be achieved if a composite package of research projects is undertaken, in which research on a joint conceptual basis allows the development of a coordinated research plan in order to come to conclusions that rise above the disciplinary level.
Through interdisciplinary comparison at a European level, regional studies can reach a new and innovative phase of analysis. Comparisons across both time and space, and comparison of results between different disciplines can build a three dimensional analytical framework. Through synergy between different approaches a new understanding can be reached.
A multi-disciplinary research programme towards understanding regional dynamics in Europe
Following agreement with funding organisations in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey the European Science Foundation is launching a Call for Outline Proposals for Collaborative Research Projects (CRPs) to be undertaken within the EUROCORES Programme EuroCORECODE: European Comparisons in Regional Cohesion, Dynamics and Expressions.
This programme aims to support high quality multidisciplinary research and is expected to run for 3 years; it includes national research funding as well as support for networking and dissemination activities managed by the ESF. The participating funding organisations have brought together a research budget of approx. 5 Mio Euros.
Outline Proposals were to be submitted by Tuesday 10th March 2009. Full Proposals were invited on Tuesday 21st April 2009 with Tuesday 16th June 2009 as the deadline for submission. Funding decisions were finalised by March 2010.
To download the EuroCORECODE Call for Outline Proposals click here.
EuroCORECODE Theme proposal |
EUROCORES is a truly “bottom-up” funding mechanism, where - through its annual call for theme proposals – the ESF solicits new ideas from the scientific community with a view to creating large-scale collaborative research programmes in and across all scientific domains. Out of these submitted ideas - called EUROCORES theme proposals – around five will be selected each year to be developed into EUROCORES programmes. The names of the people who submitted the EuroCORECODE theme proposal, and in this way stood at the basis of the EuroCORECODE programme, can be downloaded here. |
