European Ph.D on Social Representations and Communication
Funded by European Commission
  • Grants for international mobility funded by the European Commission DG-Research

    As a Marie Curie Multi-Partner Training Site(Contract nr. HPMT-CT-2000-0152), the European Doctorate on Social Representations and Communication has offered in the years 2000-2005 substantial financial support for the stage abroad (from 3 to 12 months), which included a monthly allowance during the stay abroad.

    It also covered the registration fee of the European Doctorate on Social Representations and Communication for the participants admitted in the European Ph.D. programme.

    Since 2001, 48 Marie Curie Fellowships have been assigned not only to doctoral research trainees enrolled in the European Ph.D. on Social Representations and Communication, but also to other Ph.D. candidates enrolled in other doctorates in social sciences across Europe. Below find a chart demonstrating the mobility flows (3 months minimum – 1 year maximum) that have already been achieved.

       

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  • Grants for international mobility funded by the European Commission DG-Research and DG-Education and Culture
    • Grants for international mobility both of the research trainees and professors
      • DG-Education and Culture Erasmus-Socrates grants assigned on the basis of the bilateral agreements not only between the coordinating University "La Sapienza" and each of the network universities, but also at the network level between all the partner universities in accordance with the Socrates Institutional Contracts approved by the DG-Education and Culture and co-funded by universities and ministries.
      • Research trainees and professors coming from the network universities under the ERASMUS-SOCRATES programme co-ordinated by University of Rome “La Sapienza”, can apply for financial support on the basis of the mobility exchanges programme.
    • Grants for international mobility aimed at funding participation in the ten editions of the International Summer School (1995-2004)
      • From 1995 to 2004, 519 participants (385 doctoral research trainees and 134 professors, belonging to the Scientific Board of the European Network universities, or invited from outside the network, from the USA, Canada, and Latin America) have been funded by DG-Research (Training Mobility Research program and High Level Conferences) and DG-Education and Culture (Erasmus Intensive Program).
      • Below is a chart demonstrating the international mobility flows achieved by the 10 annual International Summer Schools held in Finland (1995), France (1996), Portugal (1997), Spain (1998), and Italy (1999-2004).

                

               
    • Grants for international physical and virtual mobility aimed at funding participation in the twelve editions of the new series of the International Lab Meetings (2005-2008)
      • The European PhD on Social Representations and Communication International Lab Meetings, successor to the decade of International Summer Schools, provides an important opportunity for young researchers to obtain advanced academic and technical skills needed to conduct state-of-the-art research. Twelve ten days-long courses are organised around the theme of Social Representations in Action and Construction in Media and Society and focus on advanced practical training for 25 participants.  The first two events each year integrate virtual and face-to-face sessions, aimed at training doctoral students in meta-theoretical analysis of the literature. The following one is face-to-face intensive training courses requiring the physical mobility of participants and open to long-term dissemination via web. These events share common objectives and have a didactic structure with multiple training opportunities for critical analysis of the link between multi-media communication systems and social representations. The methods, techniques, software packages and related method theory guiding applications in research design, will provide the unifying theme for each event of the proposed advanced courses. The topics developed in the participants' research projects presented and discussed during the workshops will provide a variety of societal issues mediated and constructed via traditional and new media.  The program's originality is in its training methods, integrating face-to-face interaction (workshops, lectures, presentations) with mediated virtual interaction (Internet forum discussion, web-videoconferencing, streaming videos). Key lectures expand the horizon to other communication fields (semiotics, linguistics, sociology, mass communications, media studies etc.). The phenomena we cover (information society, new socialization and communication strategies and applications for politics, health, the environment, social minorities, gender, etc.) are clearly relevant to EU policy.
    • Grants funded by the DG-Research under Marie Curie Actions program are available for the Target participants as follows:
      • Doctoral research trainees enrolled in the European PhD on S.R. & C.
      • European PhD on S.R. & C.  Marie Curie Fellows
      • A limited  number  of young  researchers  (no more than 5) with  4-10  years  of post-graduate  experience  from  organisations,  institutions,  and public or private research centres interested in the subjects (preferably  among participants in previous European PhD on Social Representations and Communication International Summer Schools or introduced  by  one  of  the universities of the Socrates-Erasmus network or the European PhD Vinci network).
      • Postgraduates, doctoral research trainees including those  not belonging  to the European  PhD on S.R.   & C.  network and from outside Europe enrolled  in  national  PhD  courses  or  in  team  research  programmes   (preferably  among participants in previous European PhD on Social Representations and Communication International Summer Schools or introduced  by  one  of  the universities of the Socrates-Erasmus network or the European PhD Vinci network).

      Priority in the selection procedure will be given to the regularly enrolled European PhD on S.R. & C.  research trainees, by taking into account that the European PhD on Social Representations and Communication International Lab Meetings is a  crucial  didactic  stage  in  their  training,  for  which  10  credits  per  year  are  awarded  under  the  Euro  PhD  system.   Each  young researcher has a national tutor and a foreign tutor, possibly present at least in one of the three per year European PhD on Social Representations and Communication International Lab Meetings or connected via web-auditorium. 
      If places will be still available, young researchers not enrolled in the Euro PhD programme will be selected. For them the European PhD on Social  Representations  and  Communication  International  Lab  Meetings  provide  an  opportunity  to  broaden  their  specialised knowledge in the subject area.