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Enabling knowledge for disaster risk reduction in integration to climate change adaptation (KNOW-4-DRR)

Start date: Jun 3, 2013, End date: Jun 2, 2015,

“Mobilizing knowledge” suggests that there is need to dynamize the context in which knowledge about risks is developed, shared, and maintained. It conveys the implicit assumption that knowledge is perhaps currently fragmented and stuck in different compartments and bodies, be they institutions, agencies, universities, research centres, communities, individuals.While with this proposal we fully agr ...
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European Museums in an Age of Migrations (MeLa)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

“Migration” is a key word that indicates a complex condition of contemporary society, in which mobility doesn’t only pertain to people, but to objects, information and knowledge too. Hence, the “age of migrations” that MeLa adopts as its framework reflects a set of global processes that do not only involve the transnationalization of labor, but also the refashioning of the cultural and political s ...
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Impact of local welfare systems on female labour force participation and social cohesion (FLOWS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

The aim of this project is to analyse how local welfare provision affects the labour market participation of women, and how female employment in turn affects the life-course (of women and men), structures of inequality, social cohesion and hence the sustainability of the European social model.Two types of welfare provision have been singled out to be of major importance for female employment: care ...
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Welfare Innovations at the Local level In favour of Cohesion (WILCO)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

The effort to strengthen social cohesion and lower social inequalities is among Europe’s main policy challenges. It means that local welfare systems are at the forefront of the struggle to address this challenge – and they are far from winning. While the statistics show some positive signs, the overall picture still shows sharp and sometimes rising inequalities, a loss of social cohesion and faili ...
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Enhancing resilience of communities and territories facing natural and na-tech hazards (ENSURE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2011,

Since a long time vulnerability is a key concept in disaster literature. Nevertheless the majority of studies and grants have been allocated to hazards related research, neglecting the influence of vulnerability of exposed systems on the death toll and losses in case of natural or man made disasters. There is the need to better identify and measure also the ability of menaced and affected communit ...
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