Objective
"The research project aims at exploring potentialities offered in the Environmental and Community Planning field by the direct involvement of university faculty, staff and students in promoting social and economic development in long-term underdeveloped areas. The research will be conducted through the direct involvement of the researcher in Participatory Action Research experiences in the host and return phases of the project, in two geographic areas that – even characterized by significant differences in culture, history, economy, etc. – share the status of lagging regions, especially if compared with their countries of belonging: the Mid-South (USA) and Sicily (Italy). The aim of the research is to implement and compare at least two high quality case studies, at the neighbourhood scale (one in the city of Memphis during the host phase and the other in the city of Catania during the return phase), evaluating the effectiveness of planning strategies adopted in practice and highlighting how community-University partnerships can have transformative impacts as sustainable development and research organizations in difficult contexts like those mentioned above. Such an outcome will give a significant contribution to the European debate on how spatial planning can address territorial cohesion among regions with different status of development. Moreover, addressing a longer project of collaboration between the two institutions involved, with the possibility of establishing in the future a ""Promoting Community Environmental Participatory Planning"" Italian-American Consortium, the project will significantly contribute to the advancement of the researcher's career, allowing her to achieve fundamental skills and steps to fulfil her academic curriculum such as: excellent international records in her fields of interest together with full responsibility in the fund-rising and organizing activities of the possible consortium."
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
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Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Topic(s)
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Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Call for proposal
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Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IOF
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Funding Scheme
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Coordinator
95131 CATANIA
Italy
The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.