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5th Call for Research Grants at IRISS-C/I Differdange
under
A. the IRISS-C/I program, funded by the "Access to Large Scale Facilities"
activity of the European Commission, DG XII, TMR, and
B. the IRISS, USA program funded by the US National Science Foundation
Deadline: The deadline for submission of research proposals to the present
call for applications is November 15, 1999.
Period of Stay at CEPS/INSTEAD: Between December 1999 and March 2000 (up
to 3 weeks per individual or joint research project).
Topics: Proposals should deal with comparative socio-economic European
research based on the international micro-databases available at
CEPS/INSTEAD:
> the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS),
> the Luxembourg Employment Study (LES),
> the Household Panel Comparability Project and Database (PACO), and
> the European Community Household Panel Study (ECHP user database).
IRISS-C/I promotes problem-oriented socio-economic analyses based on
international micro-data. It aims at bringing together individual
researchers from different countries and disciplines in an informed
socio-economic research environment. Preference will be given to projects
focusing on cross-sectional and dynamic analyses based on cross-section or
longitudinal panel data, and contributing to the advancement of comparability.
IRISS-C/I offers opportunities to work in the following fields:
- poverty and inequality,
- panel/survey methodology,
- income dynamics,
- persistent and new poverty,
- education and training, continued education,
- labor markets, unemployment, segmentation of labor markets, new forms of
work,
- child well-being/poverty, child care,
- impact of aging populations, intergenerational relations,
- effects of family policies, social protection and redistributive policies,
- family structures and change,
- family and household budgets,
- geographical and social mobility,
- gender, ethnic and social inequality,
- regional development and structural change.
Who may apply?
Researchers who are nationals of an EU member state or an associated state
(currently Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Norway)and conducting research
in a research team working inside the member states of the EU or associated
states may apply for the TMR funding US Researchers may receive funding for
participation in IRISS sponsored by the US NSF.
IRISS particulary encourages joint US-EC research team proposals that
involve joing stays at CEPS/INSTEAD.
Interested US researchers may contact Prof. Tim Smeeding
([log in to unmask]). EU member or associated state researchers may
contact Ulrike Kohl ([log in to unmask]). Only
researchers/research teams doing non proprietary research (who are entitled
to publish the results of their work in the open literature) may apply.
Level of research: preferably doctoral candidates or beyond (no limitation
concerning applicant's age). Researchers from other countries may also
participate in the activities, being understood that they will have to be
funded by other sources.
What do the research grants offer to Candidates?
Technical and scientific assistance; free access to databases available at
CEPS/INSTEAD (LIS, LES, PACO/ECHP, and - at a national and regional level -
the Luxembourg Household and Firm Panel, as well as the inter-regional
institutional database EURES on transborder labor market regulations); use
of individual PCs with Internet access / personal e-mail; training on the
use of the Center's databases, if necessary; exchange with experienced
CEPS/INSTEAD researchers and research partners working on similar themes
and projects; free use of the IRISS-C/I facility with administrative
support (secretarial assistance, photocopying, communication);
reimbursement of travel from and to home country; daily allowances and
overnight stay in the Center's apartments. Free access to JSTOR Journals
via WWW.
Review and Selection Procedures: Each proposal is reviewed by 3-4 members
of the User Selection Panel (see composition of the EU- and the
US-Selection Panel at our homepage:
http://www.ceps.lu/iriss/iriss_eusp.htm, and
http://www.ceps.lu/iriss/iriss_ussp.htm).
Evaluation criteria: scientific and technical quality of the project
(scientific/technical interest, originality, methodological approach,
feasibility, cohesion/structure/clarity), comparative and/or longitudinal
approach, appropriateness to study the project at CEPS/INSTEAD, projected
publication or other product, added value for European socio-economic
research. Applicants are informed about the result of the evaluation within
4-6 weeks after the deadline.
Feedback to applicants: Applicants are informed about the result of the
evaluation within 4-6 weeks after the deadline.If Panel members reject a
proposal, they will indicate why and possibly make suggestions for a
revised proposal.
Seminars: While at IRISS, each researcher should prepare to present a
seminar on their work. This may take place at the end of the stay (final
product, progress report) or at the beginning (a discussion of proposed
work) or both.
Reports: At the end of their visit, IRISS-C/I users are asked to provide a
report on the work they have done at the Center, preferably in the form of
one or more research papers. Papers to be published as a result of the
visit should acknowledge that the work was supported by the EU - Training
and Mobility of Researchers Program or by the US National Science
Foundation. A copy of each paper should be sent to IRISS-C/I for inclusion
in the Center's working papers series.
Technical note: Candidates may apply by e-mail, fax or ordinary mail. The
application form may be copied directly from our IRISS-C/I homepage (In
Luxembourg: http://ceps-nt1.ceps.lu/iriss/iriss.htm. In USA:
http://www-cpr.maxwell.syr.edu/~lisaa/index.htm) to the PC and returned via
e-mail, confirmed by signed fax or original mail. E-mail applications
should use a file attached in Word 6.0 or 7.0. Applicants may also print
out the pdf-version of the application form directly from the homepage or
ask for a paper version under an adress indicated below.
Contacts for further information:
Applicants from the EU and Associated States:
http://wwww.ceps.lu/iriss/iriss.htm
Vincent Hildebrand, IRISS-C/I Database Expert
IRISS at CEPS/INSTEAD
Rue Emile Mark 44,
B.P. 48
L-4501 Differdange
Tel: (00352) 58 58 55 - 520
Fax: (00352) 58 55 88
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Ulrike Kohl, IRISS-C/I Manager
IRISS at CEPS/INSTEAD
Rue Emile Mark 44,
B.P. 48
L-4501 Differdange
Tel: (00352) 58 58 55 - 555
Fax: (00352) 58 55 88
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Applicants from the United States:
Kati Foley
Luxembourg Income Study
426 Eggers Hall
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244-1020
Tel.: 315-443-4526
Fax: 315-443-1081
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Prof. Tim Smeeding, Director
Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244-1020
Tel: 315 443 9042
Fax: 315 443 1081
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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