The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Germany, is planning to establish an institute for social cohesion. A network of 11 higher education institutions and research institutes from ten Federal States was selected for this purpose, and the SOCIUM – Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy of the University of Bremen is one of them. Bremen’s focus will be on the middle classes as a preserver and threat to social cohesion.  

Maria Petrova, ICREA-UPF research professor with the Department of Economics and Business, linked to the Institute of Political Economy and Governance (IPEG), has obtained an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The researcher will receive a grant of 1,467,736 euros to carry out, over five years, research focusing on the various personal factors and factors of the social and media environment that help to explain the phenomena of populism and extremism.

From Maastricht University --> To University of Eastern Finland My visit to UEF allowed me to first, collaborate with a top research group in the field of dementia prevention/epidemiology and thereby further strengthen my research network; secondly, to work with the largest and the most state-of-the-art dementia prevention trial worldwide: the Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability (FINGER).

From UC3M --> To University of Antwerp Nuria Bautista is a PhD student from the Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain). She is working in the area of Bibliometrics and Scientometrics in the Research Institute for Higher Education and Science (INAECU), a research centre composed by researchers from the University Autonomous of Madrid (UAM) and the Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M).

Are you a researcher from a YERUN institution willing to collaborate with another researcher from a member of our network? Then, stay tuned and read about the YERUN Research Mobility Awards. They will be launched for its second time in the coming weeks. Following the great success of the first edition, we are working hard to make the process and your application as smooth as possible. Read below what the YERUN Research Mobility Awards are.