Gypsy Policy and Roma Activism: From the Interwar Period to Current Policies and Challenges

The editorial introduces the key ideas of this thematic issue, which originated within the European Research Council project ‘RomaInterbellum. Roma Civic Emancipation between the Two World Wars.’ The period between WWI and WWII in the region of Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe was an era of worldwide significant changes, which marked the birth of the Roma civic emancipation movement and impacted Roma communities’ living strategies and visions about their future, worldwide. The aspiration of this thematic issue is to present the main dimensions of the processes of Roma civic emancipation and to outline the role of the Roma as active participants in the historical processes occurring in the studied region and as the creators of their own history. The editorial offers clarifications on the terminology and methodology employed in the articles included in this issue and their spatial and chronological parameters while also briefly introducing the individual authored studies of this issue.

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The way forward: the Executive Committee's views on the proposed European Research Council: Supporting Excellence in the Science Base

The Biochemist ◽

10.1042/bio02603050 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 26 (3) ◽

pp. 50

Author(s):

John Coggins

Keyword(s):

Executive Committee ◽

Research Council ◽

European Research ◽

European Research Council ◽

Science Base ◽

The Way

The Biochemical Society has been asked by FEBS for its views on the structure, organization and role of the proposed European Research Council (ERC). This was discussed at the January Strategy Meeting of the Executive Committee and there was a clear consensus among the members present. These views, which are summarized below, were communicated to FEBS in February.

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Success in grant applications for women and men

Advances in Geosciences ◽

10.5194/adgeo-53-107-2020 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 53 ◽

pp. 107-115

Author(s):

Johanna Stadmark ◽

Claudia Jesus-Rydin ◽

Daniel J. Conley

Keyword(s):

Research Council ◽

European Research ◽

Success Rates ◽

Contributing Factors ◽

European Research Council ◽

Grant Applications ◽

Future Success ◽

Funding Agencies ◽

Engineering And Technology ◽

The Individual

Abstract. Sex-disaggregated data on the success rates of applications to the individual grants at the European Research Council and selected national funding agencies show similar outcomes for women and men. There are large differences in success rates between countries and in all countries with applicants to the European Research Council men are applying disproportionally more (and women less) compared to the demography of the researchers in the higher education sectors in the respective countries. Therefore, the proportion of women funded is even lower than their representation in the fields of Natural Science and Engineering and Technology. Some contributing factors are discussed and the question on how the current and future success rates could be interpreted is raised.

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