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NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS Designing for Language Learning in the Wild: creating social infrastructures for second language learning.

The funding shall shape a network of researchers in the Nordic countries who work with experiential forms of second language learning and teaching. The network will contribute both to theory development and to the development of new pedagogical practices. The theoretical background for the work ...

Awarded: NOK 69,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS Surveillance and Scandinavian Exceptionalism. An Odd Couple?

A series of three workshops, as follows: 1) preparing research proposals to fund the full project 2) literature review on prospective cases for the full project 3) mass media review on prospective cases for the full project Further analysis of steps 2 an d 3 will remain for later, but these init...

Awarded: NOK 79,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS Cultural Journalism in the Nordic Countries

The workshops address the following topics: 1) Demarcating cultural journalism - from Nordic perspectives: Defining cultural journalism as journalistic and research topic is a challenge. Literature, movies, celebrities, food, religion etc. compete on the Nordic media agendas and dissolve the tra...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS The Nordic Model of Consumer Culture: Exploring Contexts and Concepts

This project seeks to investigate the Nordic variation of consumer culture by bringing together expert researchers from across the Nordic countries in two exploratory workshops to discuss the Nordic model of consumer culture, a domain that is under invest igated in contemporary discussions of the...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS Nordic countries in the Young Europe - Future Europe

Norden i en ung Europa - framtidens Europa. Huvudsyftet är att i en internationell, tvärvetenskaplig grupp av forskare utveckla ett forskningsprogram och förbereda en forskningsansökan till Horizon 2020. Den generation som kommer att stå i centrum för vår t framtida samhälle är dagens ungdomar, m...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS Spices and stockings: Studies of early modern consumption. A Nordic/Southern European comparative approach

The series of Workshops are part of the development of a research project for an ERC Starting Grant within the Horizon 2020 Work Programme. The project involves an international group of early career female academics working in the field of Consumer Histo ry and it explores the appropriation /ass...

Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS Nordic network on alcohols harms to others

Selv om alkoholrelaterte skader til andre enn den som drikker er ikke en ny tilnærming, effekten av drikking på tilskuere har den siste tiden blitt gjeninnsatt som en vesentlig del av det generelle begrepet alkoholrelaterte skader. Et bredt spekter av neg ative konsekvenser av drikking er inklude...

Awarded: NOK 76,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Oslo

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS YOUTH ORGANISATIONS AND THE TRANSMISSION OF EUROPEAN CULTURAL HERITAGE AND EUROPEANISATION IN NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE 1918-2018

By the early twentieth century, youth organisations had become a common feature in many European societies. Some of them were local or national; some developed international networks and others were national branches of international or transnational orga nisations. We propose to investigate thro...

Awarded: NOK 0.21 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS Virtual Zones of Peace & Conflict; three international workshops exploring new areas of Nordic Peace & Conflict Research

"Virtual Zones of Peace & Conflict" utforsker digitalisering av fred og konflikt. På den ene siden, økte IT-tilkobling og virtuelle cyberspace gir en ny plass for deponering av opplevelser av krig, samtidig krigføring er å bli løsrevet fra fysisk kontakt på tradisjonelle frontlinjen og med fremv...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS Exploring life transitions in old age through a Visual Matrix

The situation of elderly Nordic communities is challenging basic premises of Nordic welfare systems while the question of how elderly communities experience the transitions of old age remains under-researched. Yet these communities live within a highly vi sual culture which mediates psycho-social...

Awarded: NOK 80,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Rogaland

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS The global financial crisis and the public sector in the Nordic countries

Acute financial crises, as the one being experienced since 2008, tend to exercise a negative effect on the provision of public services - largely as a result of resource stringencies and efficiency-enhancing measures.Despite the fact that the Nordic count ries as a whole have been less affected b...

Awarded: NOK 56,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Agder

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS Human Practising - in Physical Education, Sport and Rehabilitation

Human practising is part of the body-cultural heritage of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, which is most specifically revealed in the terms legemsøvelser, kroppsøving and kroppsövning respectively. However, in contemporary research and pedagogical approaches i n the fields of physical education (PE), ...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS Population Whole Genome Sequencing: Implications for the Nordic Solidaristic Health Care

The time frame of the PopGen exploratory workshops is from 1 September 2014 to 31 December 2015. The activities during this period will involve three two-day workshops in Reykjavik, Helsinki and Linköping, respectively. The primary focus of the workshops is on the ethical, social and political i...

Awarded: NOK 82,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS On the Conceptual History of the Good: Working towards a New Understanding of Ethics (CHG)

The projected workshops take as their starting point the fact that, since antiquity, the general framework of ethical thinking has changed considerably. One such change that forms the theme of our first workshop is that at some point happiness becomes dis connected from the moral good. Starting f...

Awarded: NOK 0.18 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS Human-Seal Interrelations Exploratory workshops on faunal history and exploitation of seals in Northern Europe

The exploratory workshops on Human-Seal Interrelations aim to address issues concerning the ecology and social behavior of different seal species from a diachronic perspective in connection to human activity and environmental change. The focus will be on specific seal species, harp seal, grey se...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS CURRENT EUROPEAN TRENDS IN PRE-TRIAL PROCEDURES -Comparative studies in Nordic and former East European countries

Projektet CURRENT EUROPEAN TRENDS IN PRE-TRIAL PROCEDURES - Comparative studies in Nordic and Former East European countries omfattar förberedelsen i tvistemål från jämförande perspektiv mellan de nordiska och de forna östeuropeiska länderna. En av de st örsta utmaningarna för dagens civilproces...

Awarded: NOK 56,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS Eurasian Empires, Public Space/Sphere, and Collective Identities at the Threshold of Modernity

This proposed series of two two-day workshops will be held at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) and the Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (Sweden) in the fall of 2014 and 2015, respectively. It aims to bring together leading scholars from the Nordic region and other parts of...

Awarded: NOK 89,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS Security in an Age of Cyber War - Nordic Answers to Global Challenges

Over the last couple of decades, a new man-made domain of war has materialized. Alongside war in the domains of land, sea, air, and space, hostilities between different types of political actors are now destined to take place in cyberspace. Most analysts agree that a few state actors have actual...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS SINO-NORDIC NETWORK IN ETHICS OF RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH

The plan is to create a network of academic units in the Nordic countries and in China. Included in the project are some of the leading bioethics centers in these countries. It will be a network of senior researchers and PhD students. The aim of the netw ork is to prepare joint research proposal...

Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Vestland

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS Welfare States and the Impact of Religion: Exploring the Place of Faith Based Organisations in Civil Society in a Europe in Turmoil

The series comprises three 2 day workshops each exploring in depth one major topic of relevance to the overarching theme of the role of faith based organisations as part of civil society within changing nordic welfare models. The aim of the series is to d evelop key research questions which could...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS Marine Resource Governance in the Arctic

We will bring together academic experts on the economics of living marine resources in the Arctic Ocean with resource managers and policy makers to advance understanding of management of these valuable resources and develop flexible, ecosystem-integrated management solutions. The overall purpos...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Vestland

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

NOP Nordic Journal of African Studies issue 23 (2014)

The Nordic Journal of African Studies (NJAS) promotes the study of a variety of topics relating to the African continent, as well as to Africans living abroad. Focus areas are culture, language, history and literature, but contributions from neighbouring fields, in particular the social sciences...

Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

NOP Ethnologia Scandinavica. A Journal for Nordic Ethnology

Ethnologia Scandinavica publishes peer reviewed articles in English based on all branches of material and social culture, and in reviews, biographical notes and reports reflects ethnological contributions and activities in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Swe den.

Awarded: NOK 74,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

NOP Sjuttonhundratal: Nordic Yearbook for Eighteenth-Century Studies

The application concerns: (1) Travel Grants in order to hold a Nordic editorial meeting. The yearbook Sjuttonhundratal, which was first published in 2004 by the Swedish Society for eighteenth-century studies, have now (2013) become an annual publication t hat collects all five Nordic societies fo...

Awarded: NOK 84,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

NOP NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

NORA is an interdisciplinary journal of gender and women?s studies and a conduit for high-quality research from, and across, all disciplines. Rooted in the politics of its Nordic location, the journal recognizes and conveys in particular the situatedness of Nordic feminist research. NORA puts e...

Awarded: NOK 56,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

NOP Development of Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health

Our goal going forward is to gradually phase out subscriptions and fund the Journal through individual open access purchases, institutional membership in our newly founded publishing not-for-profit society (NOROSH), charging for print copies and external funding. In order to maintain SJWEH's rig...

Awarded: NOK 73,592

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

NOP Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory

Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes papers which make a substantial contribution to contemporary social theory. The journal particularly investigates the interface between social and political theor y, often explored in thematic issues. Dis...

Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

NOP Nordic Psychology

The purpose of Nordic Psychology is to promote exchange between psychological theory and practical application, through giving access to research to a broad, international readership including researchers, practitioners and students. Empirical, theoretica l and methodological papers are welcomed,...

Awarded: NOK 55,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

NOP Heraldisk tidsskrift - utgivelse i papirutgave for perioden 2014-2016

Heraldisk tidsskrift er det eneste nordiske fagtidsskrift innen heraldikk og beslektede emner (flagg, bumerker, seglmerker, symboler m.m.) Tidsskriftet utkommer med 2 hefter pr. år, 10 hefter, 5 årganger utgjør et bind. Artiklene publiseres på enten dansk , norsk eller svensk med et engelsk abstr...

Awarded: NOK 24,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

NOP Norma: Nordic Journal of Masculinity Studies

NORMA aims to promote scholarly work that analyses practical problems in equal-rights politics in which men and masculinity are parts, to strengthen theoretical and methodical development and to present new thematic and interdisciplinary aspects within th e Nordic research environment. NORMA is ...

Awarded: NOK 74,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke