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Wyświetleń 11 do 20 (178 Razem)

NaturaConnect - Designing a resilient and coherent Trans-European Network for Nature and People

101060429 - HORIZON EUROPE

Kierownik: Giergiczny Marek, Opiekun: Cichocka Agnieszka
Początek: 2022-07-01, Koniec: 2026-06-30
Wartość projektu: 674 250,00 PLN

NaturaConnect - Designing a resilient and coherent Trans-European Network for Nature and People

101060429 - HORIZON EUROPE

Together with key stakeholders, NaturaConnect will co-develop knowledge, tools and capacity building programmes to support Member States in implementing an ecologically representative, resilient and well-connected trans-European nature network (TEN-N) that builds on the existing network of protected areas and Green and Blue Infrastructure.

Through research, engagement and dissemination activities at the European scale and in a set of six case studies, we will elicit stakeholders’ visions and preferences about conservation objectives, tap into best practices in protected areas management and funding mechanisms, mobilize data and test the TEN-N spatial prioritization analyses and tools produced by NaturaConnect. This addresses two major obstacles identified by the EU Nature Legislation Fitness Check: lack of stakeholder awareness and cooperation, and insufficient knowledge and access to existing funding mechanisms. NaturaConnect will further address a third major obstacle, limited availability of knowledge on biodiversity distribution, drivers of change and conservation solutions. To address this, NaturaConnect brings together a consortium of the top European scientists, policy experts and NGOs to produce and mobilize relevant data and knowledge. This includes refining and applying state-of-the-art models on biodiversity, ecosystem services and environmental change across Europe and under current and future climate and land-use. Equipped with improved data, knowledge, models and spatial planning methods we will identify gaps in protected area coverage, connectivity and resilience under climate and land-use change. We will further develop scenarios for expanding protected areas, establish ecological corridors and other areas of connectivity to address these gaps, thereby offering a blue-print for realizing TEN-N. NaturaConnect will further provide knowledge and decision support for policy, financing and implementation of TEN-N at all relevant scales.


Environmental Consciousness: A Behavioral Rebound Effect

EU-LAC/4/1/ENCON/2023 - EU-LAC

Kierownik: Rana Umair Ashraf, Opiekun: Cedro Monika
Początek: 2023-04-01, Koniec: 2026-04-30
Wartość projektu: 455 720,00 PLN

Environmental Consciousness: A Behavioral Rebound Effect

EU-LAC/4/1/ENCON/2023 - EU-LAC

A common public policy recommendation for climate change mitigation is the implementation of energy efficiency measures. Popular thought is that these measures result in a proportional reduction of energy consumption. However, efficiency gains can lead to a less than proportional decrease in energy consumption, or even a net increase. This is what is known as the rebound effect.

The aim of this study is to address the issue of the rebound effect on household energy uses when implementing energy efficiency measures. Previous studies have shown the rebound effect to be as large as 30% of potential energy savings in households, reducing considerably the environmental impact. Counteracting the rebound effect is of significant importance, but measures to reduce it in households are not well studied.

In order to address the study goals, we will first measure the rebound effect in four different countries with a survey-experiment. This will allow the research team to see differences or similarities of this effect in different contexts.

Furthermore, two public policies will be studied, anchoring heuristics and labeling. Laboratory experiments with repeated games and a survey experiment will be implemented.

All in all, the outcomes of the our project will be (1) assessment of experimental methods that can be most effective in developing pro-ecological behaviors and awareness among energy users and (2) decision-making framework and guidelines for policy makers and involved stakeholders. The implementation of the project will lead to more sustainable energy use in the future and hopefully, the costs and energy consumption savings on a larger scale can be achieved and strengthen integration and collaboration between the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean.

 


Environmental Consciousness: A Behavioral Rebound Effect (ENCON)

- EU-LAC

Kierownik: Rana Umair Ashraf, Opiekun: Cedro Monika
Początek: 2023-04-01, Koniec: 2026-03-31
Wartość projektu: 455 620,00 PLN

Environmental Consciousness: A Behavioral Rebound Effect (ENCON)

- EU-LAC

A common public policy recommendation for climate change mitigation is the implementation of energy efficiency measures. Popular thought is that these measures result in a proportional reduction of energy consumption. However, efficiency gains can lead to a less than proportional decrease in energy consumption, or even a net increase.

This is what is known as the rebound effect.

The aim of this study is to address the issue of the rebound effect on household energy uses when implementing energy efficiency measures. Previous studies have shown the rebound effect to be as large as 30% of potential energy savings in households, reducing considerably the environmental impact. Counteracting the rebound effect is of significant importance, but measures to reduce it in households are not well studied.

In order to address the study goals, we will first measure the rebound effect in four different countries with a survey-experiment. This will allow the research team to see differences or similarities of this  in different contexts.

Furthermore, two public policies will be studied, anchoring heuristics and labeling. Laboratory experiments with repeated games and a survey experiment will be implemented.

All in all, the outcomes of the our project will be (1) assessment of experimental methods that can be most effective in developing pro-ecological behaviors and awareness among energy users and (2) decision-making framework and guidelines for policy makers and involved stakeholders. The implementation of the project will lead to more sustainable energy use in the future and hopefully, the costs and energy consumption savings on a larger scale can be achieved and strengthen integration and collaboration between the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean.


The impact of COVID-19 on public support for the EU (COVIDEU)

62-0000547 - Volkswagenstiftung

Kierownik: Krawczyk Michał, Opiekun: Cedro Monika
Początek: 2022-01-01, Koniec: 2025-12-31
Wartość projektu: 963 900,00 PLN

The impact of COVID-19 on public support for the EU (COVIDEU)

62-0000547 - Volkswagenstiftung

People compare national and EU responses and take cues from domestic governments, political parties and the media when forming opinions about the EU. The project COVIDEU will study the impact of the pandemic on these opinions through six work packages that are clustered around three main questions:

  1. How have the policy measures adopted by national governments and EU institutions affected eurosceptic attitudes, European solidarity and the performance of Eurosceptic parties?
  2. How have political actors, governments, political parties and social movements, influenced EU support? 
  3. How have media framing and fake news influenced public support?

 To answer these questions, an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars from political science, sociology and economics will use an original multi-method approach combining survey, observational and geocoded data with natural, survey and field experiments as well as innovative natural language processing technologies.


Globalization- and Technology-Driven Labour Market Change and Fertility - LABFER

866207 - HORYZONT 2020

Kierownik: Matysiak Anna, Opiekun: Wielgopolan Anna
Początek: 2020-10-01, Koniec: 2025-09-30
Wartość projektu: 8 400 000,00 PLN

Globalization- and Technology-Driven Labour Market Change and Fertility - LABFER

866207 - HORYZONT 2020

labfer-04.02.jpgLABFER is the first project that will comprehensively describe and evaluate fertility consequences of the unprecedented changes in the labour market, caused by digitalisation and globalisation.

These changes have been taking place during the last three decades and intensified after the Great Recession. They are reflected in: rising demand for skills, massive worker displacement, spread of new work arrangements, increasing work demands and growing inequalities in labour market prospects between the low-and-medium and the highly skilled. They are likely driving the post-crisis fertility decline in the most advanced nations, which is to date not understood. LABFER is thus highly relevant and timely. It has four main objectives:

1) to study the impact of the ongoing labour market change on fertility (macro-level);

2) to examine the individual-level mechanisms behind the observed macro-level fertility effects of the ongoing labour market change;

3) to investigate the role of the growing inequalities between the low-and-medium and the highly skilled for the relative fertility patterns of the two groups;

4) to study the role of family and employment policies in moderating the fertility effects of the labour market change. Our methodological approach is innovative. We will link data at several layers of observation (country, region, industry, firm, couple and individual) to account for the policy, work and family context of childbearing.

PROJECT WEBSITE: https://labfer.uw.edu.pl

BUDGET: 1 998 100 EUR (ca. 8 400 000 PLN)

We will also use novel labour market measures to capture the ongoing labour market change. Mixture cure models will be employed to separate the effects of covariates on birth timing and probability that the birth occurs. LABFER will break the ground by providing understanding of how the dynamic labour market changes are associated with and potentially affect the current and future fertility dynamics and its socio-economic gradients. It will also have implications for family and employment policies.


Economic analysis of competition for attention - the case of digital entertainment sectors

UMO-2020/39/B/HS4/01015 - OPUS

Kierownik: Hardy Wojciech, Opiekun: Cichocka Agnieszka
Początek: 2021-09-01, Koniec: 2025-09-01
Wartość projektu: 689 240,00 PLN

Economic analysis of competition for attention - the case of digital entertainment sectors

UMO-2020/39/B/HS4/01015 - OPUS

Digital transformation empowered services relying on consumers’ time and focus. With the growth of these new typesof markets, the goal shifted from direct sales to moDigital transformation empowered services relying on consumers’ time and focus. With the growth of these new typesof markets, the goal shifted from direct sales to monetization of attention. This increasingly popular strategy hasbecome the core of digital entertainment sectors. A recent HBR article[1] argues such strategy should extend to otherser

Digital transformation empowered services relying on consumers’ time and focus. With the growth of these new typesof markets, the goal shifted from direct sales to monetization of attention. This increasingly popular strategy has become the core of digital entertainment sectors.

The overabundant creative content becomes increasingly disaggregated across providers, straining the scarce attention supply.

Moreover, all content now takes from the same pool of attention, implying a cross-sector competition.This change in paradigms has received little to no academic scrutiny. Existing studies rarely consider limited attention orcross-sector competition or at best rely on self-reported behaviour data or are theoretical in nature. Yet the speed of changes and attention scarcity affect the market dynamics, consumers privacy concerns and firms strategy.

The project aims to expand the current understanding of attention economics within the context of digital entertainment sectors.


Risks, Resources and Inequalities: Increasing Resilience in European Families

101060410 - HORIZON EUROPE

Kierownik: Matysiak Anna, Opiekun: Wielgopolan Anna
Początek: 2022-09-01, Koniec: 2025-08-31
Wartość projektu: 2 317 925,00 PLN

Risks, Resources and Inequalities: Increasing Resilience in European Families

101060410 - HORIZON EUROPE

The problem that rEUsilience tackles is of lack of adaptive capacities or resilience in some families. The context is of fast-paced changes in labour markets to which families are key responsive mechanisms, cushioning potentially negative impacts and enabling/disabling risk-taking. But some families cannot respond.

The project answers 2 research questions:

What challenges and difficulties are created or exacerbated for families by labour markets in the ‘new world of work’ and how do families try to overcome them?

How do policies contribute to family resilience especially in terms of their inclusiveness, flexibility and complementarity?

To answer these questions rEUsilience looks at what different families actually do in situations calling for adaptiveness (e.g., need to change labour supply, need to engage in training) and places this in a social and policy context through both pan-European analyses of existing data and new focus group research in 6 different countries (BE, ES, HR, PL, SE, UK). The project will identify the level of risk and socioeconomic insecurity faced by families across Europe, their relative capacity to absorb socio-economic shocks and the role of policy. The project is organised in 2 pillars: a Stocktaking pillar and a Policy Lab. The pillars are designed to closely interlink in terms of evidence flow and mission, to share some methodologies and to have inbuilt pathways to impact. The Lab involves citizens and
experts directly in policy review and problem solution and also uses simulations and other methods to road-test policy solutions. Among the outputs are: a compendium of the risk situation of Europe's families, a series of dynamic analyses of actual risk behaviour, accounts from families about how they view risk-taking and trade-offs between work and care, critical reviews of policies, a
questionnaire on family resilience taken to proof of concept stage, a set of policy proposals and roadmaps for their implementation.


Domestic and international effects of quantitative easing

UMO-2021/43/B/HS4/00355 - OPUS

Kierownik: Wesołowski Grzegorz, Opiekun: Gloeh Anna
Początek: 2022-07-04, Koniec: 2025-07-03
Wartość projektu: 512 436,00 PLN

Domestic and international effects of quantitative easing

UMO-2021/43/B/HS4/00355 - OPUS

The goal of this project is twofold. First, we aim to provide new empirical evidence on (i) the effects of quantitativeeasing (QE) undertaken by major central banks in advanced economies on other open economies; and (ii) the domesticeffects of QE undertaken by central banks in small open economies, including emerging market economies. Second, weplan to propose an original theoretical framework that, by incorporating bonds with different maturities and assetmarket segmentation into a general equilibrium model, will allow for an analysis of macroeconomic effects of large scaleasset purchases, their international spillovers, and their interactions with fiscal policy.The project will verify the following main hypotheses:

1. International spillovers of conventional and unconventional monetary policy can significantly differ from each other;

2. The direction of monetary policy spillovers crucially depends on: (i) monetary reaction in the recipient country, (ii) thestructure of the local bond market,  (iii) the degree of its integration with international bond markets, and (iv) the typeof the small economy (advanced/emerging);

3. The effects of quantitative easing significantly depend on the maturity structure of purchased assets;

4. Conventional and unconventional monetary policy easing in an open economy may have similarly expansionaryeffects on output, but have significantly different implications for international competitiveness.


Repeat migration as the optimal type of migration: A new approach based onrelative deprivation

UMO-2021/43/D/HS4/02255 - SONATA

Kierownik: Byra Łukasz, Opiekun: Lewandowska Magdalena
Początek: 2022-06-24, Koniec: 2025-06-23
Wartość projektu: 283 816,00 PLN

Repeat migration as the optimal type of migration: A new approach based onrelative deprivation

UMO-2021/43/D/HS4/02255 - SONATA

A considerable number of migrations involve repeated cycles of short-term stays in the host region followed by returns to the home region. Such cycles, usually pursued by labor migrants in agriculture, tourism, and construction sectors, are referred to as repeat or circular migrations. Several reasons for the prevalence of repeat migrations as an alternative to temporary or permanent migration have so far been identified, including barriers to other than repeat forms of migration (Dustmann and Görlach, 2016), preference for being in the home region (Nakajima, 2019), higher purchasing power of the host region’s currency in the home region (Dustmann and Görlach, 2016), risk management (Macours and Vakis, 2010; IOM, 2020), and tradition (Kępińska and Stark, 2013). However, it stands to reason that this list is incomplete, as it ignores the possible role of distress experienced on account of unfavorable (with respect to income,
social status, etc.) comparisons with others in one’s social space, namely the role of relative deprivation. Such an omission is puzzling, given the available evidence on the importance of relative deprivation as a motive for engaging in migration (Stark and Yitzhaki, 1988; Stark and Taylor, 1989; 1991; Flippen, 2013; Kafle, Benfica, and Winters, 2020).
Building on the concept of relative deprivation with respect to income, this research will propose and explore a new, social-psychological explanation for why some people prefer repeat migration over permanent migration. It assumes that a prolonged absence in the home region leads to a degradation of social ties between the migrants and those left behind, and to formation of new social ties between the migrants and those who are now close to them in geographic space. This leads to a gradual replacement by the migrants of their initial (home-region) reference group with a new (host-region) reference group, which affects their sense of relative deprivation. When the income of others in the new reference group is higher than the income of others in the initial reference group – a plausible assumption to make given that migration usually takes place from relatively low-income regions to relatively high-income regions – then the
substitution of reference groups causes distress of the migrants on account of adverse income comparisons, which grows stronger with time that they spend in the host region.
Assuming that the process of erosion of social ties with members of the initial reference group is reversed upon return-migrating, periodical returns to the home region can be seen as a strategic decision aimed at avoiding reference group substitution at the cost of foregone earnings. In such a setting, those who should prefer migrating repeatedly rather than permanently will be the ones who care the most about income comparisons, relative to how they care about their absolute income. For these individuals, repeat migration will present itself as “the best of both worlds:” it allows enjoying higher income than no migration (albeit not as high as permanent migration), while minimizing the negative consequences of adverse income comparisons.
In this proposed research, we will formalize the reasoning given above in a rigorous manner. Specifically, we will: (a) construct a theoretical framework to study the conditions which make repeat migration preferable to permanent migration under the assumption that migrants care not only about their absolute income, but also about their relative income; (b) calibrate the model for two pairs of countries – Mexico-US and Poland-Germany – to identify numerically threshold values of crucial parameters of the model which make repeat migration preferable to permanent migration, and (c) perform an empirical evaluation of the role of relative deprivation in determining individuals’ migration decisions based on the results of a lab experiment.


Online or in-person? Exploring gender and regional inequalities in academics' conference attendance

WNEI.3.9/001/2023 - IDUB

Kierownik: Matysiak Anna, Opiekun: Wielgopolan Anna
Początek: 2023-12-01, Koniec: 2025-05-31
Wartość projektu: 63 000,00 PLN

Online or in-person? Exploring gender and regional inequalities in academics' conference attendance

WNEI.3.9/001/2023 - IDUB

This project aims to support a research team which will collect unique data for investigating gender and regional disparities in academic conference attendance. The backdrop for this research is the shift to virtual participation in professional events driven by the COvid-19 pandemic. This shift has brought both benefits and drawbacks. On one hand, online events have the potential to foster inclusivity by allowing underrepresented grups, such as those with caregiving responsibilities or financial constraints, to participate more easily. However, this virtual participation may limit opportunities for networking and career development and may be problematic if persons who would otherwise participate in the conference onsite shift into the online mode of presenting. 

This project is of high importance as it seeks to investigate whether online options truly enhance opportunities among caregivers and scholars from more distant or porrly connected locations. Furthermore, the research can provide valuable inslights to event organisers (e.g. scientific societies) who are deciding ahether to offer hybrid event options, which are typically more resource-intensive.

 


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