{"id":8051,"date":"2022-03-01T13:09:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T11:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snspa.ro\/en\/?p=8051"},"modified":"2022-03-01T13:43:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T11:43:52","slug":"meet-the-winners-of-civicas-research-call-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snspa.ro\/en\/meet-the-winners-of-civicas-research-call-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the winners of CIVICA’s research call 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

The six teams selected for seed funding will tackle research ranging from counterterrorism to attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n

Six collaborative research projects have been selected for funding<\/a> in the second call<\/a> for research proposals launched by CIVICA \u2013 The European University of Social Sciences<\/a>. The call aimed to jumpstart innovative research and create new ties between CIVICA\u2019s member universities. Faculty and postdoctoral researchers from the alliance were encouraged to team up and submit new research ideas aligned with, but not necessarily limited to, CIVICA\u2019s focus areas: societal and environmental crises, democracy, Europe, and data science.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs with the 2021 research call<\/a>, the winning projects cover a broad range of disciplines and confront some of the most important issues of our times,\u201d said Carsten Q. Schneider, Professor in the Political Science Department, Central European University, and Co-chair of the Permanent Design Team (PDT), the alliance\u2019s research governance body that evaluated the submissions. \u201cThe second series of funded projects confirms CIVICA\u2019s ambition to support excellent research in the social sciences.\u201d<\/p>\n

Getting research off the ground<\/strong><\/p>\n

The seed funding from CIVICA will enable researchers to scale up their projects and apply for larger research grants.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe funding will help our experts bring their ideas to life in a European research network,\u201d said Guillaume Plantin, Vice President for Research, Sciences Po, and Co-chair of the PDT. \u201cResearch thrives on international exchanges and collaboration, and the CIVICA setup makes it possible for our researchers to engage at a completely new level.\u201d<\/p>\n

The alliance awarded the six winning projects approx. \u20ac100,000 in total funding, financed from the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, and partners\u2019 own resources. One of the selection criteria was a project\u2019s potential to develop into fully-fledged research and be eligible for larger grants. The PDT also considered aspects like innovation, coherence, and contribution to CIVICA\u2019s efforts towards integrated research.<\/p>\n

New possibilities for researchers<\/strong><\/p>\n

The winning projects span across six of the CIVICA universities and connect, on average, experts from three different institutions. Four of the proposals align with CIVICA\u2019s focus on democracy and Europe: citizenship regimes in post-communist Europe; European and EU practices to protect academics at risk; local mobilisation against the EU; and European responses to young Islamic State returnees. On the data science front, a project will aim to understand social media narratives about COVID-19 vaccination. Another winning project will connect four alliance institutions to strengthen research ethics, transparency and research data management.<\/p>\n

This is the alliance\u2019s second round of collaborative research projects, adding to the 11 multidisciplinary teams who are conducting joint research since 2021 with Horizon 2020 funding.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled to be able to back outstanding research in our alliance thanks to these calls\u201d, says Susana Mourato, Pro-Director of Research, LSE, and member of the PDT. \u201cCIVICA\u2019s growing portfolio of joint projects will open up new roads for our researchers in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Winning projects<\/strong><\/p>\n

CIVICA congratulates the winning projects and the researchers involved:<\/p>\n