Posted on Wednesday 11th January 2012
With the award of a new ERC Advanced Grant following the 2011 Call for Proposals, the EUI will soon be hosting five ERC Advanced Grants.
The first four were awarded to Prof. Hans-W. Micklitz – "European Regulatory Private Law - ERPL ", to Prof. Donatella della Porta – "Mobilizing for Democracy: Democratization Processes and the Mobilization of Civil Society", and to Prof. Olivier Roy – "The (Re)Construction and Formatting of Religions in the West through Courts, Social Practices, Public Discourse and Trans-national Institutions" to Prof. Giovanni Federico – "Market Integration and the Welfare of Europeans (INMARWEL)" , and to Professor Hans-Peter Blossfeld, “Education as a Lifelong Process – Comparing Educational Trajectories in Modern Societies” (eduLIFE) .
Following the 2011 ERC Advanced Grant call for proposal, the EUI will be hosting a new project coordinated by Prof. Sven Steinmo – "Willing to Pay? Testing Institutionalist Theory with Experiments".
The EUI is also hosting the 2010 ERC Starting Grant of Prof. Raffaella del Sarto – "Borderlands: Expanding Boundaries, Governance, and Power in the European Union's Relations with North Africa and the Middle East" and hosted the ERC Starting Grant from Professor Nicolas Pavoni – "Social Insurance and Welfare-to-Work Programs: Optimal Design and Structural Evaluation (SIWTW)" in 2010.
The ERC's mission is to encourage the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-initiated frontier research across all fields of research, on the basis of scientific excellence. ERC grants are awarded through open competition and the sole criterion for selection is scientific excellence. The aim is to recognize the best ideas, and retain and confer status and visibility to the best brains in Europe, putting excellence at the heart of European Research.
The choice of six EUI faculty members out of a community of 50 full-time professors, and of one fellow and a part-time professor validates the EUI internationally recognised academic excellence in a large number of disciplines relevant to European Integration.