Objective
"The objective of this project is to build a European counterpart to work I have conducted in North America over the past eight years and, in this way, to establish the foundations for a long and productive research career in Europe. The goals of the project are (1) to leverage a record of high quality research and association with centres of excellence outside Europe to build effective and lasting contacts with leading researchers and institutions within the European Research Area; (2) to conduct research on the global expansion of European mining firms and institutions at the end of the 19th century, in ways that enable direct comparisons with my earlier work in North America; and (3) to accelerate the process of embedding these research capabilities at m y new institutional home, the University of Manchester in the UK. At the core of the project are striking parallels between the internationalisation of capital-intensive mining in the late 19th century and contemporary patterns of mineral investment. Both periods witnessed a geographical expansion of mining activity as firms scrambled to 'the ends of the earth' to explore and develop mineral deposits. In both periods geologists and engineers fanned out across the globe to probe its remotest corners, the embodiment of a series of exchanges of knowledge, capital, and material (rock samples, instruments, documents) - between core and periphery. The apparent similarities between the globalisation of resource exploration at the close of the 19th and 20th centuries provide an opportunity to conduct a detailed and systematic study of the one of the first economic sectors to 'go global' and, in so doing, to use the vantage point of the past to deepen our understanding of the significance of contemporary processes of globalisation."
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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.
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.
- humanities history and archaeology history
- engineering and technology environmental engineering mining and mineral processing
- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry post-transition metals
- social sciences other social sciences development studies development theories global development studies globalization
- social sciences economics and business economics political economy
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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.
FP6-2004-MOBILITY-12
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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.
IRG - Marie Curie actions-International re-integration grants
Coordinator
MANCHESTER
United Kingdom
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