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Regulating privatisation of “war”: the role of the EU in assuring the compliance with international humanitarian law and human rights (PRIV-WAR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Europe in the world
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,United Kingdom,Latvia,Netherlands,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1439749.0
EU funding (EUR): 1138682.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of the research project is to assess the impact of the extensive use of private military and security companies in situations of armed conflict and to discuss the regulatory framework at national, European and international levels, to assure compliance with international humanitarian law and human rights. Though this is not a new phenomenon, the fear motivating commentators and activists was that private companies operate in a legal vacuum. Although there is growing consensus now in the literature that the situation actually resembles more a complex patchwork of norms, the key question still remains whether and how these existing norms can be effectively applied and whether they need to be supplemented with new norms. Specific objectives are: to promote a better understanding of the phenomenon of the privatisation of war; to clarify the legal status of PMCs/PSCs employees under international humanitarian law; to foster knowledge on the impact of private military activities on the enjoyment of human rights; to analyse international responsibility and accountability of the corporations; to examine the existing regulation at national and EU levels, to explore the ways the EU could regulate PMCs/PSCs. The current proposal seeks to highlight the crucial role of the EU in three respects, which to date have not received much attention in the literature. First, the proposal will seek to offer insights into how the EU can and should develop a unified position on the international regulation of PMCs/PSCs. Second, the work to be undertaken will assess the need for and potential of harmonization of the EU member states’ domestic approaches towards PMCs/PSCs. Lastly, the present proposal will offer advice to policymakers on the development of a regulation scheme at the supranational level. To date, the existing literature on such schemes has largely neglected the role of the EU could and should play in this regard.

Keywords: privatization,armed conflicts,options for regulation,human rights,international humanitarian law
Identification of Priority RESearch TOpics for SME associations in the construction sector with a focus on new technologies in the Energy, ICT and New Materials domains (PRESTO)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Demonstration Activity
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Spain,Poland,United Kingdom,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SME-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2010-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 556429.55
EU funding (EUR): 556429.55
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

PRESTO aims at facilitating the identification of priority research topics for small and medium sized enterprises associations (hereinafter SMEsAs) -which in fact have a better capacity of influence than SMEs alone- by establishing a close and sustainable dialogue with ETPs. In order to conduct the activities contemplated by the project, PRESTO will approach four crucial industrial domains which play not only a remarkable role in the European economy, but also which are SMEs intensive sectors. Hence, PRESTO will address the construction sector and it will devote a specific focus on three construction-associated domains, namely: energy, information and communication technologies (ICT) and new materials. The first part of the project will be oriented towards the identification of both relevant SMEsAs as well as ETPs willing to collaborate with PRESTO. The goal will be to compose a core group -SMEsAs and ETPs- with which a close cooperation relationship will be established. Afterwards PRESTO will evaluate the research needs of SMEsAs in the construction sector as well as the technological offers where those needs can be better accommodated. The latter point will be articulated with a close dialogue with ETPs representatives. A further aim of the project will be to bring SMEsAs and ETPs a step closer and to favour the rapprochement of links of collaboration among them. PRESTO will produce an implementation strategy in order to appropriate conduct the cooperation relation between both parties. The strategy will have as one of its focal points the creation of SMEsAs Working Groups (WG) on ETPs. The main objective pursued by the establishment of such WGs will be to increase their leverage of SMEsAs and, hence, to gain influence in the decision-making organs of ETPs towards the formulation and shaping of ETPs' Strategic Research Agendas (SRA).

Keywords: construction,renewable energy,sustainability,new materials
Support SMEs in Disseminating and Exploiting Research Results of ECO-Innovation (ECOINNO2SME)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Demonstration Activity
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,United Kingdom,Italy,Estonia,Hungary,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-SME-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2010-03-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 741303.75
EU funding (EUR): 728742.5
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

ECOINNO2SME comprises 7 partners from 7 European countries (DE, EE; ES; HU, IT, SE, UK) all with long experiences in supporting SMEs in dissemination and exploitation of research results. The overall aim of the project is to reinforce the dissemination and explotation of project results of SMEs in the areas Eco-Innovation in such a way that they are supported to bridge the gap between research and exploitation, hence expand their businesses and, accordingly, raise their competitiveness in the world markets. As ECO-Innovation is of crucial importance for the economic development and of high actual public interest in Europe, ECOINNO2SME will concentrate on this cluster. The project will evaluate completed FP5/6-projects with the involvement of SMEs in view of identifying key success factors and good practices for dissemination and exploitation of results. By defining sub-clusters of ECO-Innovation (e.g. energy, waste, eco-products) the project will follow an interdisciplinary approach in order to support exploitation and dissemination of results in these clusters. Through different kinds of activities like interdisciplinary platform meetings (regional ,EU-level) as well as through specific road shows in partner countries, SMEs will be able to exchange good practices and to meet strategic exploitation partners. Project results will be constantly assessed and disseminated via the project’s website. A final assessment of the interdisciplinary approaches will be made and disseminated to other multipliers as well as to the EC in order to reach the outmost impact on reinforcing the exploitation activities of SMEs in Europe and to contribute positively to the creation of a lead market for ECO-Innovation in Europe, too.

Keywords: dissemination,exploitation,rtd-results,eco-innovation,life sciences,environment,health,food,energy,waste,interdisciplinary approach
Media and Citizenship: Transnational Television Cultures Reshaping Political Identity in the European Union (MEDIA & CITIZENSHIP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: The Citizen in the European Union
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,United Kingdom,Sweden,France,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-04-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1485689.92
EU funding (EUR): 1240224.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Media & Citizenship studies the ways transnational media, in particular Arabic language television, reshape the political landscapes of citizenship (Area 8.5.1) in the European Union. It provides the first European wide empirical research on the use of Arabic language television and its effect on integration in multicultural societies (Area 8.3.1). After collecting ratings data across 7 EU nations, focus group studies explore how Arabic speakers themselves construct citizenship in the light of their media use, and their adopted national cultures. Models of democratic participation continue to be based on the nation state, while political debate is no longer contained within its boundaries. Concerns around extreme expressions of Islamic fundamentalism on one hand, and the advance of moral panics around a threatening religious difference on the other, have brought Muslim communities into the core of political and media debates about citizenship in Europe. Those communities now have access to a shared ‘public sphere’, the space of Arabic language television. The project will gather quantitative and qualitative comparative empirical data on the use of Arabic language television in Europe, in order to deliver well founded policy advice on issues relating to the media and its regulation. The project works with Arabic speakers on their understandings of citizenship, derived from the media on the one hand and imposed by citizenship testing regimes on the other, in order to involve the community to influence policy at the national and European level. The project will be disseminated to the community through public meetings with stakeholders and a documentary.

Keywords: media,transnational television,ratings,cultural citizenship,arabic speakers in europe
STrengthening Engagement in Public health research (STEPS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: A more dynamic governance of the science and society relationship
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Netherlands,Estonia,Poland,Czechia,Slovenia,Latvia,Latvia,Lithuania,Slovakia,Hungary,Romania,Bulgaria,Malta,Cyprus
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 737375.8
EU funding (EUR): 661000.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Public health is of growing importance to the European Union and its citizens. STEPS is designed to increase civil society organisation participation in the development of public health research in each of the twelve new member states, and in Europe as a whole. The project has three partners. Coordination and project management are led by UCL, and the coordinator will also promote engagement of national ministries of health. The European Public Health Association (EUPHA) will engage its member national public health associations, support the Steering Group and maintain the web knowledge base. The Latvian Public Health Network (LPHN) will engage the health NGOs in each country and strengthen Europe-wide alliances. Together, EUPHA and LPHN will hold national workshops between these national partners to address the development of public health research in each country, taking a particular theme relevant to their own perspectives. Each will provide a report and generate discussion of the research issues among citizens through their organisations and national media. Reports from the twelve national workshops will be presented at the annual European conference of EUPHA in Poland, and learning drawn for comparisons which can be shared across the new member states and also with European level alliances. There will be international dissemination through the Council for Health Research and Development and Global Forum for Health Research. STEPS will increase citizen engagement in public health research in the new member states, and more broadly promote public health research within the developing European Research Area.

Keywords: public health,civil society organisations,ucl,eupha,civic alliance-latvia,council for health research and development,global forum for health research,workshops,dissemination
Bridging the gap between science and stakeholders: Phase I – Common Ground (GAP1)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: A more dynamic governance of the science and society relationship
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,Denmark,Germany,Denmark,Norway,France,Spain,Italy,Malta,Spain,United Kingdom,Estonia,France,Sweden,Latvia,Sweden,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Spain,Sweden,Sweden,Estonia,Not available
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-04-01
End date: 2009-09-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 795383.62
EU funding (EUR): 648390.04
Participants: 30
Project status: CLOSED

Together, the stakeholder and scientist participants in GAP1 will initiate cooperative research by making plans to combine knowledge in future participatory research. They will engage through a series of European and regional workshops. GAP1 represents phase 1 of a three-phase programme that aims to explore the complementary nature of alternative knowledge and investigate how to combine it in ways that will enhance understanding and management of natural resources. Tied to knowledge, GAP1 is an evidence-based approach that uses participation as the vehicle to improving understanding on fisheries research and management issues of common concern to stakeholders, scientists and policy makers. This is a pre-requisite for fostering the mutual respect essential for successful future collaboration. Through initiation of cooperative research and helping build the capacity of stakeholders to engage in participatory research, GAP1 contributes towards the wider aspiration of the Science in Society programme. In particular, to enhance democratic debate with a more engaged and informed public, thus providing better conditions for collective choices on scientific issues relating to sustainable management, conservation of ecosystem integrity and biodiversity of the marine environment.

Keywords: sustainability fisheries stakeholder society social science participation marine ecosystem
Mapping Controversies on Science for Politics (MACOSPOL)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: A more dynamic governance of the science and society relationship
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Norway,Italy,Germany,Belgium,Switzerland,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2009-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1034315.91
EU funding (EUR): 924514.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

MACOSPOL is a joint enterprise of researchers in science, technology and society across Europe to bring together their various expertises in order to devise a collaborative tool (called a platform) to map out scientific and technical controversies. The idea is that European citizens wishing to involve themselves into technical and scientific issues, need an equipment that is similar to those devised for generating opinions in normal political matters. This equipment does not exist yet for technical democracy even though enormous amount of research has already been done. The digital world facilitates exchange of methods and expertise and it is this facilitation that we want to maximize by bringing together the MACOSPOL consortium. This consortium allows the connection of the best research in Science, Technology and Society with the best research on web-based tools. Once the platform devised and tried out, it will be tested whether or not, in real sized controversies, it is possible for European citizens to come to better judgment about those issues.

Keywords: democracy design web based politics collaboration research science-technology-society controversies public involvment science in society
International multi-stakeholder dialogue platform framing the responsible development of Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies (NS&T) (FRAMINGNANO)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: A more dynamic governance of the science and society relationship
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,Czechia,Switzerland,Netherlands,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2010-03-31
Duration (months): 23.0
Total project cost (EUR): 742934.74
EU funding (EUR): 675044.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The FramingNano project will support the establishment of a multistakeholders dialogue on NS&T regulation and governance among the scientific, institutional, industrial communities, the broad public to articulate consensus and absence of consensus between the various stakeholders, sustain a European debate between them, and foster the development of a shared frame of knowledge, objectives, actions to define constructive and practicable regulatory solutions toward a responsible development of NS&T. This action will lead to a proposal of a Governance Plan designing a deliberative process for the responsible development of NS&T at European level and beyond, including recommendations for future research, policy actions, and co-operative research processes over the years 2009-2013. The activity of the project will be articulated in 28 months and geared around 4 key actions: 1. Analysis and review of existing-proposed regulatory processes, identification of stakeholders; 2. collection and analysis of stakeholders positions and needs; 3. Development of an appropriate proposal of a Governance Plan; communication and dissemination of information on the project and NS&T governance. Project website and Newsletter, a mid term international workshop, a final international conference, and national workshops will be organised. The project brings together 6 partners from 6 countries, covering all main European geographical areas (North, Eastern, Centre, South). Consortium partners have a long experience in NS&T, in S&T assessment, consultation processes, analysis of technological and societal issues, communication, and liaison already established with many relevant stakeholders. The project will support the European Commission, EU policy makers and stakeholders in designing a European model that assure that the development of NS&T takes place responsibly and to the benefit of the individuals and the society.

Keywords: nanotechnology,dialogue,deliberative process,regulation,governance,responsible development
European Network of Science Centres in communicating energy-related topics (SCICOM)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: Science and society communicate
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Germany,Austria,Switzerland,Estonia,Italy,Austria
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-04-01
End date: 2011-07-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1000927.92
EU funding (EUR): 894609.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The SCICOM project consortium proposes as Co-ordination and Support Action for networking experts who work with and on new concepts for communicating science to the public. One of these concepts is to address the interests and concerns of citizens through interactive exhibitions in association with science concepts with citizens´ debates and participative democracy tools. Especially, the research topic of Renewable Energy is discussed very much these days in the public and therefore needs more involvement of the public into the development of science and research. Such a European Network is considered to be innovative communication models for enlarging the public at the European level when communicating science in Renewable Energy. In many European countries initiatives have been started in setting up science centres, science museums and in organising national or regional events. The SCICOM project will combine different experiences and know-how in order to develop a synergatic network when setting up common projects. The Lisbon and Göteborg Strategies of a knowledge-based society require a strong involvement and active participation of citizens in the creation, sharing and dissemination of knowledge. The consortium of SCICOM will bring together experienced partners from: - Science Centres who have been practicing the communication of Renewable Energy science and research to the public - Museums who have experience in organising exhibitions and events - Other stakeholders that gained experience in communicating science and research to the public The overall objective of the project will be to develop a operating network of science centres and experts in Renewable Energy, a joint policy paper, addressed to National and European decision makers, the organisation of a series of events and the exchange and dissemination of good practices examples. A common management and organisation platform will support the ambitious goals of the network.

Keywords: science center science museum network,renewable energy,energy efficiency,saving energy,co-ordinated events and exhibitions,co-ordinated actions in communicating science to the public
Monitoring Ideas Regarding Research Organizations and Reasons in Science (MIRRORS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: A more dynamic governance of the science and society relationship
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2009-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 312000.0
EU funding (EUR): 278000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The 2000 Lisbon Conference claimed to make the EU “the most competitive knowledge-based society and economy” by 2010. Our project is designed as a contribution to the achievement of such an ambitious goal. Our research project divides into two parts. The first part involves coordinating and analyzing descriptive models concerning the relationship between science, politics and society, which have been employed by philosophers, historians and sociologists of science in the last decades. The scholars involved come from different national backgrounds. Their contribution to the understanding of the relationship between science and society has produced different theoretical and empirical models of the way in which science interact with society in their respective national realities. In this stage of the project we ask them to direct their efforts towards the understanding of the correlation between national and international research policies. Capitalising on the knowledge acquired during the first stage, the second part divides further into two steps. The first consists of practical applications of the studied models to the dynamic of the relationship between science and society in different EU member states policies. Once a clear view of how different attempts at democratising the decision-making process in science and technology policy function in individual members of the EU, we rely on the expertise acquired to take a normative stance, i.e. to suggest sound research policies for an European knowledge-based society. The project will be carried out through seminars involving the scholars of the group and a Conference open to a wider audience. We intend to provide dissemination of results through the creation of a website and the publication of the Conference Proceedings. As we work in a Education Department, we will involve schools in order to contribute to a real participation to the understanding of the role of science in the building of a shared European identity.

Keywords: philosophy,sociology,history of science,knowledge-based society,decision making,research policy,innovation,communication,identity.