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Universities to benefit from £60m funding pot |
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Written by News Desk
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008 |
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The universities of Cambridge and East Anglia have been named as initial regional beneficiaries of an €80 million (£60m) funding pot from the European Commission for new projects to promote social sciences, humanities and the role of science in society.
Following calls for proposals launched in December 2006, the European Commission is about to select a total of 93 projects to be funded under the two programmes that address research and policy actions on science, economy and society.
The Seventh Framework Research Programme (FP7) Science in Society programme will fund 28 projects for a total budget of over €21m (£15.7m), Under this programme Cambridge is involved in the Practising Gender Equality in Science (PRAGES) whose main objective is to identify the most relevant activities to fight against vertical segregation in scientific professions.
The University of East Anglia (UEA) participates within the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) programme, which funds 65 research projects with a total budget of over €59m (£44m), covering widely the main EU challenges and the multidisciplinary aspects of this field of research.
Specifically, UEA will work on Assessing the multiple Impacts of the Common Agricultural Policies (CAP) on Rural Economies (CAP-IRE), related to the development of concepts and tools to support the future Common Agriculture Policy design, based on improved understanding of long-term socio-economic mechanism of change in rural areas.
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