The
IRCHSS in partnership with the European Science Foundation (ESF)
invited proposals to the EUROCORES Programme Human Values, Instituions
and Behaviours HumVIB 2007
The overarching objective of the HumVIB EUROCORES programme
is the realization of the concept of Europe as a natural laboratory
for the social sciences in which the diversity
of institutions, practices, histories, and resources enables
researchers to analyze how human values, attitudes and behaviour
are affected by the characteristics of the multi-level systems
or contexts in which they occur.
The
HumVIB Programme invited proposals in the very broad substantive
and disciplinary range of potential research projects made possible
by the development of the programme which can be seen by considering
the dependent variables covered by the term “human behaviour”.
As used here, the term includes a wide range of mass attitudes
and behaviour relating to, inter alia, environmental issues,
economic problems, health and health-related issues, experiences
of crime and security, welfare, governance, confidence in institutions,
voting, social and civic participation, national/ethnic conflict,
European integration, media use, migration, aging, gender, social
stratification and equality/inequality, family and work-life
balance, religious practice and belief and educational experience
and achievement.
Following
the evaluation process the IRCHSS is now co-funding three projects:
VTAC
Voter Turnout and abstention in context: a multi-level analysis
of the factors affecting voter turnout and abstention in systems
of multi-level governance
Project Leader: : Prof. Richard Sinnott, UCD
REPCONG
Representation in Europe: Policy Congruence between Citizens
and Elites
Project Leader: Professor Silvia Kritzinger, University of Vienna,
Austria
PI Ireland: Dr. Gail McElroy, TCD
HAPPINESS
HAPpiness, Political Institutions, Natural Environment and Space)
A comparative analysis of the influence of environmental conditions,
environmental regimes and political context on subjective well-being
Project Leader: Dr. Susana Ferreira UCD
Full
details are available via the ESF website at http://www.esf.org/humvib
