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Exploratory Workshop Advisory Group meetingBath, UK, 21 October 2009
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Chair: Roderick Floud
Participants:Arsen BačićPieter HooimeijerRainer Kattel (written comments)Sabine Krolak-SchwerdtAlgis KrupaviciusSlavko SplichalJohn Yfantopoulos
Office support:Balázs KissRhona Heywood-Roos
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2009 Call
• 261 (eligible) proposals were received for all ESF scientific units
• 115 were relevant to the SCSS. • The pre-filtering group selected 64
for further evaluation (89 with addition of trans-committee proposals) which were assessed by external referees
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Advisory Group Work
• Each member was allocated 12-15 proposals
• The group focused on the highest ranked proposals, according to referee grades and with ranking from advisory group members
• The proposals with the top rating of 5 were split into the « top 10 » most deserving and 6 very deserving
• A further 15 proposals with the grade of 4 were ranked
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Top Ten - unconditional
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EW09-076LESC SCSS
Socio-Economic And Environmental Implications Of Energy Crop Production In Europe – So Little Land So Many Services
EW09-164SCH SCSS
Postmigrant Youth Scenes In Urban Europe
EW09-165 Preventing And Sanctioning The Hindrances To The Right To Apply Before The European Court Of Human Rights
EW09-204SCH SCSS
Forgiveness
EW09-219 Borderless Planning In Europe
EW09-242SCH SCSS
Demystifying The Caliphate: Advocates, Opponenets And Inmplications For Europe
EW09-249 Exploring And Comparing Prostitution Policy Regimes In Europe
EW09-269 Migrant Legality, Work, And Employment In Contemporary Europe
EW09-285SCH SCSS
Reconstructing The Female Labor Force Participation Rate In Western Europe, 18th And 19th Centuries
EW09-302 The Impact Of Training For Teachers In Higher Education
5/10 trans-committee proposals
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The 6 « very deserving »
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EW09-260 Information And Behavior In Networks
EW09-222Boxing Or Dancing? the Changing Role Of Unions In Europe In Light Of The Financial Crisis
EW09-283SCH SCSS
Public Art And Its Distresses. From Mainstream City Marketing Strategies To A Tool For Social Regeneration.
EW09-259In/equality For Third Country Nationals: Implementation And Effects Of Eu Directives On Migration And Asylum.
EW09-243 Transnational Lives, Mobility And Gender
EW09-021EMRC SCSS
The Challenges Of Developing Social Care Informatics As An Essential Part Of Holistic Health Care.
2/6 trans-committee proposals
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15 – ranked in order of preference
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EW09-258
Hrs - Human Resources For Research: Perspectives And Tendencies For Researchers Career, Expectations And Job Satisfaction In The European Research Area
EW09-254Fiscal Federalism: How Can Court Judgments Lead To Harmonization In Tax Law?
EW09-202SCH SCSS
Energy, Environment And Institutional Change In Europe Over The Long Run.
EW09-221SCH SCSS
Representation Without Elections: The Transformations Of Representative Government
EW09-074LESC SCSS Environmental Convergence
EW09-265Making Connections For A European Health Workforce: Managing Professional, Social And Institutional Diversity
EW09-214SCH SCSS
My Father - The Enemy: Children Of War And Occupation Born During And After World War II
EW09-278Outcomes Of Contentious Politics: Theoretical, Methodological, And Empirical Perspectives
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15 – ranked in order of preference – continued…
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EW09-264Law And Governance Of Biomedical Issues In The European Union
EW09-208SCH SCSS Legal Science And Legal Theory
EW09-289
Shooting At A Moving Target: Modernisation Of Vocational Education And Training (vet) During A Time Of Recession; Directions For Vet Research And Policy Nationally And Across Europe
EW09-071LESC SCSS
Storm-Events And Water-Related Disease In Europe: Understanding And Communicating The Risks (seaward2010)
EW09-231Youth Migrants And Religion: How Does Christianism Change In The Integration Process?
EW09-160SCH SCSS
Musical Agency In Music Education – Developing A European Perspective
EW09-027EMRC SCSS Promoting Normality In Childbirth Across Europe
8/15 trans-committee proposals
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Distribution of proposals by applicant country
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AT BE CY DE DK ES FI FR GR HU IE IT LT NL NO PL PT RO SE SI SK UK US0
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All proposals final selection
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The next steps
• The SCSS is asked to endorse the recommended list
• At the ESF the workshops are allocated according to– Available funding– Committee priorities– The more trans-committee
proposals are awarded, the more workshops on the recommended list
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Further input from SCSS
Once the list of awarded workshops is known, members are asked to volunteer to act as
rapporteur. This involves making a presentation on ESF and SCSS at the workshop and
writing a short report
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Revised procedure for the assessmentof ESF Exploratory Workshops proposals
** Questionnaire to ESF Standing Committees ** 1. Did your committee fully adopt the new process of selecting EWs using a pre-filtering step, as described in the document circulated at the April Core Group/SC meeting ?a) Yes, we fully adopted the suggested new process 2. Please select as appropriateFor pre-filtering:
b) We used Core Group members as well as other members of the Committee to conduct the pre-filteringFor assessment:
d) We used a mix of external referees and Core Group/Committee membersFor ranking:
a) Some of the referees who assessed the proposals were also part of the ranking group
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Questionnaire continued…
3. Do you think the pre-filtering step increased the effectiveness of the selection process for identifying the top EW proposalsThe Advisory Group would like to see the impact of the 25 trans-committee proposals before responding4. Do you think the pre-filtering step reduced the overall peer review burden in your committeeSomewhat reduced5. Do you think the pre-filtering step should be permanently adopted?Definitely Yes
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