Objectif The goals of this proposal are to 1. Lay down the building blocks for a long-term mutually beneficial collaborative research program examining the causes and consequences of species adaptation to environmental change between Prof Bugnyar (U Vienna), Dr Healy (U St Andrews), Prof Güntürkün (Ruhr-U Bochum), and Dr Griffin (U Newcastle, AUS), 2. Create a synergistic team of three experienced scientists (Dr Griffin, Dr Bailey, Dr Schwab) and three world-leading researchers in avian cognition, behaviour, and neuroscience (Bugnyar, Healy, Güntürkün) that will exchange research expertise and pool research facilities to undertake the first geographically global exploration of the role of behavioural flexibility and brain anatomy in species adaptation to rampant worldwide urbanization, and 3. Position three exchange researchers (Griffin, Bailey, Schwab) as interdisciplinary experts capable of working at the interface between behaviour, neuroscience and urban ecology. We propose a program of studies and researcher exchanges to investigate the behaviour and brains of three highly successful invasive avian species across a rural to urban environmental gradient. We seek funding for secondments of two outgoing European researchers, and one incoming Australian researcher to collect scientific data on avian species local to the area, learn new skill sets, and build collaborative links by participating in ongoing collegial exchange and national conferences. By examining several avian species, in several planet-wide geographical locations, using several different measures of behavioural flexibility, and describing associated brain changes, we will gain the first firm evidence for, or against, the hypothesis that increasing behavioural flexibility and enlarged brain size predispose animals to surviving on an increasingly urbanized planet. The program will achieve knowledge transfer between research partners, and create new knowledge of significant theoretical and applied importance. Champ scientifique natural sciencesbiological sciencesneurobiologynatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologynatural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyplanetary sciencesplanets Programme(s) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Thème(s) FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES - Marie Curie Action "International Research Staff Exchange Scheme" Appel à propositions FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES Voir d’autres projets de cet appel Régime de financement MC-IRSES - International research staff exchange scheme (IRSES) Coordinateur UNIVERSITAT WIEN Contribution de l’UE € 12 600,00 Adresse UNIVERSITATSRING 1 1010 Wien Autriche Voir sur la carte Région Ostösterreich Wien Wien Type d’activité Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contact administratif Thomas Bugnyar (Prof.) Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Site web Opens in new window Coût total Aucune donnée Participants (2) Trier par ordre alphabétique Trier par contribution de l’UE Tout développer Tout réduire THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS Royaume-Uni Contribution de l’UE € 12 600,00 Adresse NORTH STREET 66 COLLEGE GATE KY16 9AJ St Andrews Voir sur la carte Région Scotland Eastern Scotland Clackmannanshire and Fife Type d’activité Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contact administratif Trish Starrs (Ms.) Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Site web Opens in new window Coût total Aucune donnée RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM Allemagne Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse UNIVERSITAETSSTRASSE 150 44801 Bochum Voir sur la carte Région Nordrhein-Westfalen Arnsberg Bochum, Kreisfreie Stadt Type d’activité Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contact administratif Onur Güntürkün (Prof.) Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Site web Opens in new window Coût total Aucune donnée