Five CEU Projects Win Horizon 2020 Funding

November 18, 2014

Five CEU projects will receive total EUR 1 million under the European Commission's Horizon 2020 Programme, Societal Challenges, the Academic Cooperation and Research Support Office (ACRO) at CEU announced. Horizon 2020 is the new Framework Programme (2014-2020) of the European Commission for research and innovation. The Societal Challenges section of Horizon 2020 reflects the policy priorities of the Europe 2020 strategy and addresses major concerns shared by citizens in Europe and elsewhere. All five projects will be delivered in consortia with other European universities.

The five H2020-funded projects are:

- Center for Network Science, Professor Janos Kertesz: CIMPLEX, Bringing Citizens, Models and Data together in Participatory, Interactive Social Exploratories

- Center for European Union Research, Professor Uwe Puetter: EMU_SCEUS,The Choice for Europe since Maastricht. Member States' Preferences for Economic and Financial Integration

- Department of Political Science, Professor Dorothee Bohle: ENLIGHTEN, European Legitimacy in governing through Hard Times: the role of European Networks

- Center for Policy Studies, Professor Nikolai Sitter: TransCrisis, Enhancing the EU’s Transboundary Crisis Management Capacities: Strategies for Multi-level Leadership

- Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Professor Jean-Louis Fabiani: CulturalBase, Social Platform on Cultural Heritage and European Identities