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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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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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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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Questionnaire continued…

6. General Conclusion/Comments by Standing Committee on new procedure:Continue with process but put greater emphasis on pre-filtering step. The pre-filtering step is useful in weeding out poor proposals thus reducing the burden on referees.

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