Researchers funded for collaborative projects across Europe and Japan

6 Apr 2016 04:03 PM

€19 million has been awarded to 20 research projects that will allow academics in Europe and Japan to collaborate on a range of exciting projects that will push the boundaries of our understanding of individual and social behaviour and influence policy.

The funding has come from the Open Research Area for the Social sciences (ORA), a scheme run collaboratively by the national funding organisations of France, Germany and the Netherlands, as well the Economic and Social Research Council, representing the UK. ORA aims at strengthening international cooperation in the social sciences while minimising bureaucratic obstacles and restrictions usually associated with international funding.

This is the fourth ORA open call and the sixth operation since the scheme launched in 2010. In this round, the four ORA agencies were pleased to associate the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, which has enabled Japanese researchers to participate in the applications of their choice. Two projects involving Japanese teams are funded, with JSPS providing an extra €0.5 million for the research of Japanese investigators.

The following projects will be funded for three years:

• The ABC of online disclosure duties: Towards a more uniform assessment of the transparency of consumer information in Europe
  Joanna Luzak, University of Amsterdam (NL); Alexander Wulf, SRH Hochschule Berlin (DE)
  Disciplines: Law and Legal Studies; Economics
• Agendas and interest groups
  Amy McKay, University of Exeter (UK); Patrick Bernhagen, University of Stuttgart (DE); Joost Berkhout, University of Amsterdam (NL)
  Disciplines: Political Science and International Studies
• Asian educational mobilities: A comparative study of international migration of Japanese and Chinese higher education students
  Yasemin Soysal, University of Essex (UK); Thomas Faist, University of Bielefeld (DE)
  Disciplines: Sociology; Education
• Adaptive social learning in typical and atypical developing adolescents
  Anna van Duijvenvoorde, Leiden University (NL); Wouter van den Bos, Max Planck Institute for Human Development (DE); Essi Viding, University College London (UK)
  Discipline: Psychology
• Behavioral and experimental analyses in macro-finance
  Nobuyuki Hanaki, University of Nice (FR); Martin Weber, University of Mannheim (DE); Jan Tuinstra, University of Amsterdam (NL); Yukihiko Funaki, Waseda University (JP) (JSPS associate partner)
  Discipline: Economics
• Control of attention by the motor system: A motor bias theory of attention
  Daniel Smith, Durham University (UK); Thomas Schenk, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (DE); Stefan van der Stigchel, Utrecht University (NL)
  Disciplines: Psychology
• Deltas? Dealings with uncertainty: Multiple practices and knowledges of delta governance
  Arthur Petersen, University College London (UK); Jean-Philippe Venot, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - IRD (FR); Margreet Zwarteveen, University of Amsterdam (NL); Atsuro Morita, University of Osaka (JP) (JSPS associate partner)
  Disciplines: Environmental planning; Science and technology studies; Anthropology of development
• Emergence and significance of transnational elderly care arrangements
  Cornelia Schweppe, University of Mainz (DE); Anita Böcker, Radboud University (NL)
  Disciplines: Social Policy, Sociology of Law, Law
• Food consumption, advertising and dynamics
  Pierre Dubois, Toulouse School of Economics (FR); Rachel Griffith, Institute for Fiscal Studies (UK)
  Discipline: Economics
• Implicit partner evaluations: How they form and what they do to relationships
  Francesca Righetti, VU University Amsterdam (NL); Wilhelm Hofmann, University of Cologne (DE)
  Disciplines: Psychology, Social psychology
• The knowledge politics of experimenting with smart urbanism
  Rob Raven, Utrecht University (NL); Eric Jolivet, University of Toulouse I Capitole (FR); Timothy Moss, IRS - Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (DE); Simon Marvin, Durham University (UK)
  Disciplines: Geography, science and technology studies
• Whose knowledge matters? Competing and contesting knowledge claims in 21st century cities
  Paul Benneworth, University of Twente (NL); Beth Perry, University of Salford (UK)
  Disciplines: Geography, Sociology, Economics
• Supporting cognitive and academic development in children at risk: Metacognitive executive function training in children from low socioeconomic backgrounds
  Julia Karbach, Goethe University Frankfurt (DE); Nicolas Chevalier, University of Edinburgh (UK)
  Discipline: Psychology
• Finding appropriate and original solutions: An investigation into personal and situational factors that influence motor problem solving and creativity
  Daniel Memmert, German Sport University (DE); Geert Savelsbergh, VU University (NL)
  Disciplines: Psychology
• Understanding NEETS: Individual and institutional determinants of youth inactivity in France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and the UK
  Mark Levels, Maastricht University (NL); Jean-François Giret, University of Burgundy (FR); Heike Solga, WZB - Berlin Social Science Center (DE); Ewart Keep, Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (UK)
  Disciplines: Sociology, Labour Economics, Social Policy
• Positive-negative asymmetry of intergroup contact: A dynamic approach
  Miles Hewston, University of Oxford (UK); Oliver Christ, University of Hagen (DE); Eva Jaspers, Utrecht University (NL)
  Disciplines: Social Psychology, Sociology
• Quantification, administrative capacity and democracy
  Andrea Mennicken, London School of Economics and Political Science (UK); Fabian Muniesa, Mines ParisTech (FR); Michael Huber, University of Bielefeld (DE); Arjen Boin, Leiden University (NL)
  Disciplines: Management, Public administration, Accounting, Sociology, Science and technology studies
• Rapid visual stability for action
  Artem Belopolsky, VU University Amsterdam (NL); Heiner Deubel, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (DE)
  Discipline: Psychology
• Sub-national context and radical right support in Europe
  Kai Arzheimer, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (DE); Gilles Ivaldi, University of Nice (FR); Wouter van der Brug, University of Amsterdam (NL); Jocelyn Evans, University of Leeds (UK)
  Discipline: Political scienceand& international studies
• Democratic legitimacy in the EU: Inside the “black box” of informal trilogues
  Gijs Jan Brandsma, Utrecht University (NL); Ariadna Ripoll Servent, University of Bamberg (DE); Justin Greenwood, Robert Gordon University (UK)
  Disciplines: Political science and international studies

Further information

For further information contact:

• Pierre-Olivier Pin, ANR (France)
  Email: pierre-olivier.pin@agencerecherche.fr
  Telephone: +33 (0) 178 098083
• Dr Carlien Hillebrink, NWO (The Netherlands) 
  Email: c.hillebrink@nwo.nl
  Telephone: +31 (0) 703 494311
• Dr Christiane Joerk, DFG (Germany)
  Email: christiane.joerk@dfg.de
  Telephone: +49 (0) 2288 852451
• Dr Gabriela Nava, ESRC (UK)
  Email: ora@esrc.ac.uk
  Telephone: +44 (0) 1793 413035

Notes for editors

1. The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK’s largest funder of research on the social and economic questions facing us today. It supports the development and training of the UK’s future social scientists and also funds major studies that provide the infrastructure for research. ESRC-funded research informs policymakers and practitioners and helps make businesses, voluntary bodies and other organisations more effective. The ESRC also works collaboratively with six other UK research councils and Innovate UK to fund cross-disciplinary research and innovation addressing major societal challenges. The ESRC is an independent organisation, established by Royal Charter in 1965, and funded mainly by the Government.
2. The French National Research Agency (ANR) provides funding for project-based research in all fields of sciences. Employing a method based on competitive peer reviews that complies with international standards, ANR attaches great importance to providing the scientific community with instruments and conditions that promote creativity and openness, and stimulate new ideas and partnerships, particularly between the public and private sectors. Its activity also contributes to enhancing the competitiveness and the influence of French research in Europe and across the world. Since 2010, ANR has also been the principal operator of the Investments for the Future programme in the field of higher education and research. In this role it ensures the selection, funding and monitoring of projects relating to the centres of excellence, health, biotechnologies, and the transfer of technology and the creation of value from research.
3. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) is the central, self-governing research funding organisation in Germany. Its mission is to fund and promote all fields of science and the humanities. It does so by relying on its statutory bodies and its Head Office, which shape the work and structure of the DFG. In an international context, the DFG is a member of several scientific and science policy associations, thus contributing to international dialogue, cooperation among researchers, and to the formation of a European Research Area.
4. The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) is the national research council in the Netherlands and has a budget of more than 500 million euros per year. NWO promotes quality and innovation in science by selecting and funding the best research. It manages research institutes of national and international importance, contributes to strategic programming of scientific research and brings science and society closer together. Research proposals are reviewed and selected by researchers of international repute. More than 5000 scientists can carry out research because of funding by NWO. Twenty per cent of the funds and the projects are related to social and behavioural sciences.