Following agreement with funding organisations in Austria, Croatia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the UK, the European Science Foundation is launching a Call for Outline Proposals for Collaborative Research Projects (CRPs) to be undertaken within the EUROCORES Programme EuroHESC: Higher Education and Social Change.

This programme aims to support high quality multidisciplinary research and is expected to run for 3-4 years; it includes national research funding as well as support for networking and dissemination activities managed by the ESF.

The main purpose of EuroHESC is to develop and implement a programme of interdisciplinary comparative research into the relationship between higher education and society.

The Programme is one of the outcomes of – and is strongly influenced by – the recent ESF Forward Look on Higher Education (Higher Education Looking Forward, HELF). The Forward Look has sought to examine higher education and research within a wider context of research in the social sciences and other fields by relating it to more general conceptual frameworks of, for example, human capital theories; theories of power, inequality and social exclusion; theories of organisations; new public management etc. By so doing, it has begun to address some large questions concerning the changing relationship between higher education and society and to develop research agendas that would be relevant, not just to researchers, but to policy makers and practitioners. These large questions should now be dealt with in more detail in the course of this programme on higher education and social change.

Outline Proposals are to be submitted by May 15, 2008, 12:00 pm (noon). It is expected that Full Proposals will be invited by June 19, 2008 with an expected deadline for submission of September 16, 2008, 12:00 pm (noon).

Proposals from individual researchers and research groups eligible for funding by the participating funding agencies will be accepted for consideration in the EUROCORES Programme EuroHESC.
Proposals must involve a minimum of 3 eligible Principal Investigators from 3 different countries participating in the programme (“three nation requirement”).

Applicants should contact their national funding agencies in order to verify their eligibility and to ensure compliance with the relevant agencies’ current granting rules and regulations.

Contact Point in Croatia:
National Foundation for Science, Higher Education and Technological Development of the Republic of Croatia
Ms. Janja Trkulja
janja@nzz.hr

Further open calls

A research programme in the field of Endangered Languages

Following agreement with funding organisations in Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey, UK and US, the European Science Foundation is launching a Call for Outline Proposals for Collaborative Research Projects (CRPs) to be undertaken within the EUROCORES Programme EuroBABEL: Better Analyses Based on Endangered Languages.
(deadline: May 20, 2008 noon CET)

Funding initiatives in the field of Membrane Architecture and Dynamics (EuroMEMBRANE)

Following agreement with funding organisations in Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Italy (tentative), Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey, the European Science Foundation is launching a Call for Outline Proposals for Collaborative Research Projects (CRPs) to be undertaken within the EUROCORES Programme EuroMEMBRANE: Membrane Architecture and Dynamics.
(deadline: May 22, 2008 noon CET)

Source: ESF EUROCORES Call Website