(European Community Stud-ies Association), ARRISE be-came a full member of ECSA network, along with over 50 other national and regional academic associations who are interested in boosting teaching and research on European integration.

The Romanian Association of International Relations and European Studies (ARRISE)/ ECSA Roma-nia was established in 2010. It is composed by specialists – academics and practitioners – and it defines itself as a pro-fessional organization within the International Relations and European Studies (IRES) field. ARRISE was created in order to set up a functional and effective partnership with public authorities and with private legal persons that are

interested in this academic field. The scope of the associ-ation is to enhance knowledge about and to promote intrinsic values belonging to the area of IRES academic study and research, not only in Romania, but also in Europe and world-wide.

In November 2012, following a spring Bucharest-based evaluation visit conducted by Professor Enrique Banus, Ph.D, ECSA President

“MOVE-IN Louvain” Incoming post-doc Fellowships

―MOVE-IN Louvain‖ In-coming post-doc Fellow-ships is a new transnation-al fellowship programme developed by the Univer-sité catholique de Louvain (UCL) in partnership with the Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Univer-sité Saint-Louis (ULS-B) with the support of the European Commission (Marie Curie actions).

In line with the European Research Area (ERA) ob-jectives, the programme‘s goal is to create favoura-ble conditions for transna-tional mobility of highly skilled researchers. In re-spect for the EURAXESS <http://www.euraxess.be/> prin-ciples, fellows will be se-lected through a trans-parent selection process carried out, notably, by

independent experts.

The programme will last 5 years, issuing 3 calls for proposals. Depending on the duration of the stay of the candidates retained for funding, about 53 fellowships will be grant-ed per call.

The first call for pro-posals, which is now open, will be closed on the 1st of January 2015.

For further information on

the call 2015: http://www.uclouvain.be/en-movein.html

rise.org.ro

11/03/2014

ISSUE NO.3

ECSA Romania Newsletter

Editor:

Ioana Borcan Ph.D. Candidate Adviser to the President of

ARRISE

Inside this issue:

Jean Monnet/ECSA Con-

ferece 2014

2

Call for Conference: The

Image of the Other in the

European Intercultural

Dialogue

3

Call Piscopia - Marie Curie

Fellowship Programme

7

Call: Erasmus+: 2015 Call

for Proposals

7

Call for Papers 9-12

ECPR Winter School in

Methods and Techniques

11

European Research Council

Starting Grants 12

The annual Jean Monnet conference, which took place this year between the 1st and 2nd of October 2014, was focused on the following subject: ―what's next for European Union studies?‖. The European Commission President José Manuel Bar-roso and Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner for Education, Training, Multilingualism and Youth, opened the event. More than 300 Jean Monnet professors, decision-makers and representatives from international and business organisations attended the event speaking about different approaches for promoting excellence in teaching and research in the European Union studies worldwide, as well as about new ways of delivering teaching in this area. Moreover, the conference considered the ways in which an EU studies back-ground could contribute to improving European governance and policy-making, and how focusing on the EU could benefit areas of study and practice outside the 'classic' EU study domains such as law, politics and economics. A greater awareness of the

European integration process among the partners outside Europe could also contrib-ute to improving mutual understanding with partner countries throughout the world. The Conference participants had the opportunity of finding more about the opinion of the students and alumni in EU studies, following an online survey promoted via the Jean Monnet network and social media platforms in August and September 2014 in the EU Member states. The Romanian students and alumni were ranked first in terms of the number of responses (15% of the total number), them having also a good opinion about the excellence of EU studies field in the country at case. The debates from the four workshops were focused on: Towards a re-definition of the EU Studies; EU Studies feeding results in the policy decision making; EU Studies as an instrument for a better governance; The European Union in the World: the role of EU Studies. Romania was represented at the event by 10 Jean Monnet Professors, two from Bucharest, one from Braşov, one from Cluj-Napoca, two from Iaşi, two from Oradea, one from Suceava and one from Timişoara. The programme of the annual ECSA reunion included the election of the ECSA World Association board by the ECSA representatives from around the world (ECSA Romania was represented by Professor Ioan Horga, Vicepresident of ARRISE –ECSA Romania). Therefore, Professor Enrique Banus (Spain) was re-elected as Pres-ident of ECSA-World for a new 2 years mandate. And the elected Vice-presidents are: Leonce Bekemans (President of ECSA Belgium), Ewa Latoszek (President of ECSA Poland), Martin Holland (President of ECSA Asia-Pacific). And last, but not least, Professor Maria Cristina Silva Parejas (President ECSA Chile) was elected as the new General Secretary of the ECSA–Wold Association.

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28 - 30 May 2015

We invite academics,

researchers, policy mak-

ers, non-governmental

organisations‘ activists,

journalists and doctoral

students to participate in

a three day conference

that will take place from

28th May to 30th May

2015 at University of

Oradea, Romania having

the workshops:

Workshops:

Challenges of inter-cultural dialogue co-operation in the con-

Call for Conference: The Image of the Other in the European

Intercultural Dialogue

text and aftermath of the economic

crisis

Communication through intercultural dialogue at Europe-

an Union Borders

Cultural communica-tion and conflict prevention in Euro-

pean Union

Communication and cultural diversity – the core of Europe-

an identity

We invite the submission

of abstracts of up to

300 words with a list of

4 key words and author‘s

first name, surname and

affiliation to the Confer-

ence Coordinator Dana

Pantea

(dana-

pantea@yahoo.com )

Deadline for submission is

30th November 2014

For more information,

please go to: http://

www.rise.org.ro/2014/11

/call-for-conference-the-

image-of-the-other-in-the-

european-intercultural-

dialogue/

Deadline: 9 or 23 January 2015 (depending on course) Open to: students from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bos-nia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Hungary, FYR of Macedonia, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Monte-

negro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey and Ukraine Scholarship: contribution to 100% of University and college fees and a grant for living costs (of at least £12,900). Dulverton Trust is inviting application for scholarships

for graduate Students. The Dulverton Scholarships funds are open for the students from Central or Eastern Eu-rope to study for one-year, full-time master‘s courses in any subject. Scholarships will be awarded on the basis of academic merit. This scholar-ship is available for pursuing master‘s degree level at Uni-

versity of Oxford in UK. The Dulverton Scholarships fund students from Central or East-ern Europe to study for one-year, full-time master‘s cours-es in any subject. Applicants should be apply-ing to start a new one-year master‘s course in any subject at Oxford.

Scholarships will be awarded on the basis of academic merit and priori-ty will be given to appli-cants who have not previ-ously studied in the US or UK. For more infor-mation, please go to: http://

www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/fees-and-funding/graduate-scholarships/university-wide-scholarships/dulverton-scholarships

Dulverton Scholarships for Graduate Students in UK, 2015

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The subject matter of the

contract is a study which

will analyse the value of

the new generation of e-

government services and

how the public sector can

become an agent of inno-

vation through ICT. The

study will:(i) produce a

taxonomy (categorisation)

of the new generation of

e-government services

based on the open gov-

ernment aspects;(ii) carry

out an analysis of the

value, including the costs

and benefits of the dif-

ferent groups of the new

generation of e-

Call for tender: Analysis of the value of the new generation of

e-government services and how the public sector can become an

agent of innovation through ICT

government services,

also taking into account

non-monetary benefits;

and(iii) provide an anal-

ysis, including recom-

mendations, on how the

public sector could be-

come an agent of inno-

vation through

ICT.Results of the study

would provide evidence

for public administra-

tions and policymakers

to facilitate the emer-

gence of new genera-

tion e-government ser-

vices and contribute to

achieving several goals

of the e-government

action plan 2011–2015,

especially around empow-

erment. In addition, the

study will provide guid-

ance for public admin-

istrations on how to har-

ness innovation through

ICT in order to enhance

public value.

For more info, please go

to: https://

etender-

ing.ted.europa.eu/cft/

cft-display.html?

cftId=627

This highlight notice, open until the end of July 2015, seeks to encourage re-search networking applica-tions that explore innova-tive areas of cross-disciplinary enquiry that straddle the remits of the AHRC and other Research Councils and which involve significant boundary-

crossing engagement and exchange between arts and humanities researchers and researchers/ practi-tioners in emerging areas of science and technology (broadly defined, including social science, engineering and medicine). We hope that the networking awards funded under the highlight will help to bring distinctive

arts and humanities perspec-tives and approaches more centrally into these emerging fields of cross-disciplinary enquiry. The highlight notice also provides an opportunity to build networks to explore, through inter-disciplinary dialogue, how arts and hu-manities research might play a leading role in the devel-

opment of research agendas in a number of areas (see below for further infor-mation) of potential future collaborative working across the Research Councils. Areas:

Risk

Conflict, transnational

organised crime or cyber- security

Cities / urbanisation/

urban Living / ‗smart‘ cities

Valuing nature

Anti-microbial re-

sistance (AMR)

Wellbeing

Emerging areas of

science and technolo-gy.

For more info, please go to this page.

Cross-Disciplinary Research Networks Exploring Emerging Areas

of Cross-Council Enquiry Highlight Notice

We are pleased to an-nounce the call for the third round of the ESRC Transformative Research Call. The aim of this call is to provide a stimulus for genuinely transformative research ideas at the frontiers of the social sci-ences, enabling research which challenges current thinking to be supported and developed. We regard transforma-tive research as that which involves, for exam-ple, pioneering theoreti-

cal and methodological innovation. The expecta-tion is that the transform-ative research call will encourage novel develop-ments of social science enquiry, and support re-search activity that entails an element of risk. Successful applicants will receive a grant of up to £250,000 (at 100 per cent full economic cost (fEC)). ESRC will meet 80 per cent of the full eco-nomic costs on proposals submitted.

As in previous rounds, the number of proposals a Research Organisation can submit will be limited. Only two applications can be accepted from each eligible Research Organi-sation. Proposals should be pre-selected by the Research Organisation and will need to be sub-mitted to the ESRC on 19 February 2015. For more info, please go to the following page.

Transformative Research Call

being comprising 10 do-mains. A recent All Party Political Group has pub-lished a report on translat-ing wellbeing evidence into policy.

Decisions about good pub-lic services are made on the basis of strong evi-dence and what works. The government has estab-lished a number of What Works Centres to enable evidence to better inform decision making and ESRC has invested heavily in the-se.

ESRC is now embarking on a joint three year invest-ment with Public Health England, Arts and Humani-ties Research Council and a number of government de-partments and other part-ners to further progress the understanding and appli-cation of wellbeing evi-dence.

On behalf of all funding partners ESRC is commis-sioning four wellbeing-themed evidence pro-grammes to look at what works for wellbeing com-prising:

Community

work and learning

culture and sport

cross-cutting capabili-ties

DL: 02.12.2014

For more info, please go to the following page.

COMING SOON: What Works Wellbeing – ESRC

The interest in wellbeing is growing both nationally and internationally and the UK is regarded as one of the leading countries in this area. I

nternational focus has been on how societies, govern-ments, communities and populations measure their progress, economic and social – including the UK‘s Legatum Institute‘s Commission on Wellbeing and Policy. I

n November 2010, David Cameron launched a na-tional ‗measuring wellbe-ing‘ programme undertak-en by the Office of Nation-al Statistics (ONS) driven by public consultation.

ONS now publishes regular wellbeing reports and da-ta at a national and local level and has developed a measurement tool for well-

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Enhancing Learning and Re-

search for Humanitarian

Assistance, under its humani-

tarian innovations fund, in-

vites proposals for its large

grant facility. Funding sup-

ports the development, im-

plementation and testing of

a humanitarian innovation

that will lead to demonstrat-

ed cost-effective improve-

ments in humanitarian prac-

tice.

Non-profit organisations

such as non-governmental

organisations, public or gov-

ernmental institutions and

academic or research insti-

tutes that have legal status

and are registered in the

country in which the project

will be carried out, may

apply. There is no geo-

graphic restriction as to the

origin of an applicant. Or-

ganisations may apply indi-

vidually or in consortia. For-

profit organisations can be

part of a consortium but

cannot be the lead appli-

cant or grant beneficiary.

Lead applicants can only

submit two applications per

round, but can be part of

any number of consortia.

Grants will be allocated to

projects with an implementa-

tion period of up to 18

months and range from

£75,000 up to £150,000.

DL: 03.11. 2014

For more info, please go to:

http://

www.humanitarianinnovation

.org/funding/awards/large

-grant

Call: Enhancing Learning and Research for

Humanitarian Assistance

education among young people.

Partnerships are open to any organisation active in any field of education, train-ing and youth or other socio-economic sectors as well as to organisations carrying out activities that are transversal to different fields, such as local and regional authori-ties, recognition and valida-tion centres, chambers of commerce, trade organisa-tions, guidance centres and cultural organisations. Part-nerships mainly target the cooperation between organ-isations established in pro-gramme countries. However, organisations from partner countries can be involved in a strategic partnership as partners, if their participa-tion brings an essential add-ed value to the project. A

strategic partnership must be composed of at least three organisations from at least three programme or-ganisations. Special types of strategic partnerships must be composed of organisa-tions from minimum two pro-gramme countries.

Funding will cover up to 80 percent of eligible costs.

DL: 04.02.2015

For more info, please go to: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus-plus_en

Ref: OJ 2014/C 344/10, EAC/A04/2014.

Call: EU call on Strategic partnerships in the field

of youth

The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agen-cy‘s Erasmus Plus pro-gramme invites applications for its strategic partnerships in the field of youth. These support the development, transfer and implementation of innovative practices at organisational, local, region-al, national or European levels. Priority will be given to partnerships that:

promote high-quality youth work;

promote empowerment with a special focus on access to rights, autono-my, participation and the active citizenship of young people;

promote entrepreneur-ship education and so-cial entrepreneurship

Piscopia - Marie Curie Fellowship Programme The Piscopia call 2014 is open. The deadline for submitting the proposals is November 21, 2014 at 13:00 (CET). This call for proposal is issued by the University of Padova (UNIPD) within the Project PISCOPIA, co-funded by UNIPD and by the European Commission

within the objectives of the 7th Framework Pro-gramme for the period 2007-2013 – ―People‖ specific pro-gramme – FP7 Marie Cu-rie Actions – Co-funding of Regional, National and Internation-al Programmes (G.A. n. 600376). Macro-area SH: Social Sciences and Hu-manities 1. Philology, Literature,

Art and Ancient Sci-ences

2. History, Philosophy and Pedagogical Sciences

3. Juridical Sciences 4. Economical Sciences

and Statistics 5. Social and Political

Sciences For more info, please go to: http://www.unipd.it/en/call-piscopia-marie-curie-fellowship-programme

Call Piscopia - Marie Curie Fellowship Programme

Knowledge Alliances;

Sector Skills Alliances;

Capacity building in the field of higher education; and

Capacity building in the field of youth.

Key Action 3 (KA3) — Support for policy reform

Structured Dialogue: Meetings between young people and decision-makers in the field of youth

Jean Monnet activities

Jean Monnet Chairs;

Jean Monnet Mod-ules;

Jean Monnet Centres of Excellence;

Jean Monnet Support to Institutions and As-sociations;

Jean Monnet Net-

works; and

Jean Monnet Projects.

Sport

Collaborative partner-ships in the sport field; and

Not-for-profit European sport events.

The total budget ear-marked for this call for proposals is estimated at EUR 1.7 billion.

Further information about the specific actions under this Call can be found in the 2015 Erasmus+ Pro-gramme Guide (links pro-vided below).

Additional Information

Call text in the OJEU

Erasmus+ Programme Guide for 2015 (.pdf)

Commission‘s website on Erasmus+

Call: Erasmus+: 2015 Call for Proposals

The Call, which is open to any public or private body active in the fields of education, training, youth and sport, covers

the fol-lowing actions of the Eras-mus+ Pro-gramme:

Key Action 1 (KA1) — Learning mobility of indi-viduals

Mobility of individuals in the field of education, training and youth;

Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees; and

Large Scale European Voluntary Service Events.

Key Action 2 (KA2) — Cooperation for innova-tion and the exchange of good practices

Strategic partnerships in the field of education, training and youth;

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The Directorate-General for

Justice invites proposals for

the establishment of three-

year framework partnership

agreements with EU-level

networks and operating

grants for 2015. This call

will provide support for ac-

tivities and operating costs

of EU-level networks for the

period 2015 to 2017,

whose statutory aims fall

under or contribute to the

specific objectives of the

justice programme and the

rights, equality and citizen-

ship programme. Activities

must focus on one of the

following policy areas:

judicial cooperation in civil

or criminal matters;

access to justice;

Daphne – combating

violence;

rights of the child;

racism, xenophobia,

homophobia and other forms of intolerance;

non-discrimination;

rights of persons with

disabilities;

equality between wom-

en and men.

The network must be organ-

ised at European level and

have member organisations

or authorities in a minimum

of 10 countries or in a mini-

mum of 15 countries de-

pending of the programme

area. For the Daphne and

rights of the child parts of

the REC programme, partici-

pants in all EU member

states and Iceland may ap-

ply. Participants applying

for the remaining policy

areas within the REC pro-

gramme may be established

in any EU member state,

Iceland or Liechtenstein.

The grant will

cover the costs

for the appli-

cant‘s financial

year starting

in 2015. The total budget is

€9.08 million.

DL:14.11.2014

More info: http://

ec.europa.eu/justice/

grants1/calls/

just_2014_spob_og_netw_e

n.htm

Call: EU justice programme and the rights, equality

and citizenship programme

relevant EU legislation and

the Council of Europe

Guidelines on child-friendly

justice as well as the findings

of the Study to collect data

on children‘s involvement in

criminal, civil and adminis-

trative judicial proceedings,

for which the criminal justice

EU summary was published

on 6 June 2014.

Projects should be prepared

together with and involve

children, teachers and/or

staff and should enable

children to experience the

phases of mock criminal, civil

or administrative cases, and

improve their understanding

of the various roles and re-

sponsibilities (for example,

child subject to or party to

proceedings, witness, guard-

ian, parent, lawyer, prosecu-

tor, judge, social worker,

police officer and so on) as

well as their

own rights.

DL: 11.12.2014

Webpage for

call: http://ec.europa.eu/

justice/grants1/calls/

just_2014_jppi_ag_chil_en.h

tm

Call: EU Call Launched for Transnational Projects

on Children’s Rights in Judicial Proceedings

This new Call, launched by

the Directorate General for

Justice, aims to co-fund

transnational projects that

will raise the awareness of

children with regard to their

rights in judicial proceed-

ings. To this end, projects

should develop and roll out

comprehensive awareness-

raising programmes in

schools targeting secondary

school children.

Projects should include inter-

active activities such as mock

trials or moot courts that

allow children to understand

their rights. Projects should

also take account of the

On a number of relational levels, and with different functional goals, not only States and international institutions, but also busi-nesses, non-governmental organizations, public-private bodies, regional and local administrations, inter-governmental bodies, and national and super-governmental courts are all helping to create global polity and its relative glob-al policies. More than ever, an interdisciplinary orien-tation is needed in order to reflect on this new global political form and its con-crete expressions, bringing together different ap-

proaches and methods, perspectives, and perhaps even interpretations. Is it possible to identify a ruling global community? Who inspires the world‘s objec-tives? In other words, what are the goals of this partic-ipation in global polity? And is present-day interna-tional law able to guaran-tee the right to partici-pate? Global polity ap-pears to be a system with two levels: state and glob-al. But is this truly the case? Could a global constitution-al law exist and provide stability to global polity? And would it threaten or foster the development of

the present forms of demo-cratic rule? These are just a few of what could be the defining questions in search of new and innovative an-swers. To limit the search for responses to the eco-nomic institutions alone would only reaffirm a cli-ché that has clearly been rendered obsolete by the interlocking complexity of power. Papers deadline: Decem-ber 31, 2014. This issue is scheduled to appear at end-February 2015. For more info, click here.

Call for Papers 2015, 1 GLOBAL POLITY AND POLICIES

the following themes:

Economy & Trade

Society & Culture

Politics, Power & Insti-tutions

Resources & Environ-ment

We also offer participa-tion options for those in-dividuals who cannot attend the conference. Authors who wish to submit an article for potential publication in the Global Studies Journal may submit a Proposal for Article Sub-mission, while all members of the knowledge communi-ty with an accepted pro-posal may submit an online presentation to the knowledge community YouTube channel.

The 2014 focus theme for the Global Studies Confer-ence seeks to ask how do we make sense of this ‗leaderless world‘ claim? What can the digital age, and its communication tech-nologies, teach us about the future of order in glob-al life?

Fore more information, please go to: http://onglobalization.com/the-conference/call-for-papers

Call for Papers: Eighth Global Studies Conference

'Power and Participation in the Age of Big Data'

Imperial College London London, UK

20-21 July 2015

Conference Focus

The 2015 Global Studies Conference will address a range of critically im-portant ideas relating to globalization in the world today.

We are inviting proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive ses-sions, posters/exhibits, or colloquia addressing glob-al studies through one of

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14th-15th September

2015

Singapore

Topics of interest include,

but are not limited to:

International Relations

Globalization

Global Governance

International Political

Economy

state sovereignty

Ecological

Sustainability

Nuclear proliferation

Nationalism

Economic Develop-

ment

Global Finance

Crisis and Global

Change

Change and Order in

World Politics

Managing Global

Capitalism

International Terror-

ism

Territorial Conflicts

International Security

International Law

Political Theory and

International Justice

Principles and Prac-

tice of International Ethics

New trends in foreign

policy analysis

Quantitative and

qualitative methods in IR

research

NGOs – IGOs rela-

tions

Environmental Issues

and Green Diplomacy

Culture, Religions,

and World Politics

International Negoti-

ation and Diplomacy

Global Health Prob-

lems

Collective Security

and Sanction Policy

Organized Crime

Human Security

Foreign Intervention-

ism

Human Rights and

Democratization

Civil Society

Civilizations and World

Order

DL: 2nd April 2015

A number of best papers

will be selected and given

awards at the conference.

These papers will also be

considered for publication

in GSTF and other inter-

national refereed Jour-

nals.

More info: http://

www.pssir.org/

CallForPapers.html

Call for papers: 5th International Conference on Political

Science, Sociology and International Relations

University of Bamberg 13 - 20 February 2015

Now in its fourth year, the ECPR‘s Winter School in Methods and Tech-niques will take place at the Bam-

berg Graduate School of Social Sciences from 2015. Part of the ECPR‘s Methods School, the annual Winter School provides cutting-edge courses in the full span of qualitative and quantitative topics. Deliv-ered by a diverse range of experienced Instructors and supported by dedicat-ed Teaching Assistants, the

academic side of the School is designed to pro-vide young scholars with the methodological skill set they need at the start of the career, while an excit-ing plenary programme provides an opportunity for all important network-ing. Offering introductory and advanced classes, the course content of the Win-ter School is designed to complement its sister event, the ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques, which currently takes place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, eve-ry July/August. Participants who have completed a

course at the 2014 Summer School may wish to consid-er extending their studies to an advanced course in Bamberg. Not only will they benefit from a contin-uation in the expert teach-ing they received in Ljubljana, but will also re-ceive a course loyalty dis-count in Bamberg. DL: Latest date for course confirmations 17.12.2014; Registration deadline

12.01.2015. More info: http://www.ecpr.eu/Events/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=97

ECPR Winter School in Methods and Techniques

presentations.

We are inviting proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive ses-sions, posters/exhibits, or colloquia addressing the social sciences through one of the following themes:

Social and Community

Studies

Civic and Political Stud-

ies

Cultural Studies

Global Studies

Environmental Studies

Organizational Studies

Educational Studies

Communication

We also offer participation options for those individuals who cannot attend the con-ference. Authors who wish to submit an article for poten-tial publication in the The Social Sciences Collec-tion may submit a Proposal for Article Submission, while all members of the knowledge community with

an accepted proposal may submit an online presenta-tion to the knowledge com-

munity YouTube channel.

DL: 09.12.2014

For more information, please go to: http://thesocialsciences.com/the-

conference/call-for-papers

Call for Papers: Tenth International Conference on

Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

'Interdisciplinary Ap-proaches to Contempo-

rary Social Change'

University of Split Split, Croatia

11-14 June 2015

Conference Themes

The Conference will ad-dress a range of critically important issues and themes relating to the In-terdisciplinary Social Sci-ences community. Plenary speakers include some of the leading thinkers in the-se areas, as well as a nu-merous paper, colloquium, poster and workshop

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Call for papers: The European Conference on the

Social Sciences

RISE.ORG.RO

Administrative office:

6 Povernei Street, Sector 1, Bucharest, Romania

Phone: 555-555-5555

Fax: 555-555-5555

E-mail:

European Research Council (ERC) funding schemes are open to top

researchers of any nationality or age who wish to carry out their fron-

tier research in the 28 EU Member States or associated countries.

ERC Starting Grants are designed to support excellent Principal In-

vestigators at the career stage at which they

are starting their own independent research

team or programme. Applicant Principal

Investigators must demonstrate the ground-

breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of

their scientific proposal.

Profile of the ERC Starting Grant Prin-

cipal Investigator

The Principal Investigator shall have been

awarded their first PhD at least 2 and up to 7 years prior to 1 January

2015. The effective elapsed time since the award of the first PhD can

be reduced in certain properly documented circumstances.

DL: 03-02-2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)

For more information, please go to http://erc.europa.eu/

or to this webpage.

within two weeks of submis-

sion

Full conference registration

payment for all present-

ers: June 15, 2015

Full paper submis-

sion: August 15, 2015

Conference Theme: ―Power‖

Power as a commodity has

challenged the minds of

social scientists and philoso-

phers while its exercise has

always fascinated historians.

From classical thinkers‘ works

such as Aristotle‘s Politka or

Machiavelli‘s Il Principe

through modern figures who

manipulate power in the

Conference Theme:

“Power”

Thursday July 9 – Sunday

July 12, 2015

In order to present at the

conference, your abstract

must first pass a double

blind peer review. Upon

payment of registration

fees, your presentation will

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Abstracts submission: March

15, 2015

Results of abstract reviews

returned to authors: Usually

media, like Silvio Berlusconi

or Rupert Murdoch, to the

vast networks that support

major heads of state, power

has been a necessity to

some or like an aphrodisiac

to others. The dynamics of

power and its associations

with wealth and status now

shape the contemporary

world more visibly than ev-

er.

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