Objective
As the EU expands, our ability to integrate diverse cultures without overt 'cultural engineering' or suppressing cultural diversity will determine our success in finding peaceful solutions to problems of convergence. 'Convergence', in this sense, is the process of harmonizing local administrative and political institutions with the principles of sound governance established for the Community as a whole.
Convergence invariably creates conflicts of interest on national, regional and local scales and the peaceful enlargement of the EU is probably the biggest challenge Europe has faced since the end of WWII. Investment in cultural research is clearly necessary, not least because the integrative challenges we face now will soon be dwarfed by those of economic globalization. Any general lessons we can learn about cultural ecodynamics will obviously be of strategic significance later in the century. Innovation involves work between epistemic communities that may bring physical, life and human scientists into contact with each other and stakeholder communities.
It is hampered by clashes about whether boundary judgments - the definitions of systems and problems - are universal and real or expedient and socially constructed. ISBP will avoid extreme positions and explore ways of managing the tension between these ideas in integrative research. At one end of the spectrum we will study issues in cultural and natural resource management to understand how negotiating new institutional and epistemic boundaries can reduce tension between antagonized stakeholder communities and promote social cohesion.
At the other, we will explore the ways of characterizing problems in natural science using heuristic data-mining methods to search for boundary judgments that help make problems tractable. We will study water management, asylum and immigration, environmental impact assessment and career structure in integrative research among other topics.
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.
- social sciences sociology governance
- social sciences other social sciences development studies development theories global development studies globalization
- social sciences sociology demography human migrations
- engineering and technology environmental engineering natural resources management water management
- natural sciences computer and information sciences artificial intelligence heuristic programming
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Keywords
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Programme(s)
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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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FP6-2005-NEST-PATH
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Funding Scheme
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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
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
United Kingdom
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