Seed-funded Projects
The Una Europa Seed Funding initiative aims to spark and support long-term collaborative activities between our partner universities, to "plant a seed" that will eventually attract external funding.
Here you can learn about all our seed funding projects so far. Please use the filters to search by call, Focus Area or academic discipline. You can find more information in the downloadable PDFs. If you have further questions regarding a specific project, please reach out to the coordinator(s) of the project using the contact details provided.
All Seed Funding projects
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Dialogues between policy-makers and academiaContact: Maria C. Latorre Muñoz, Vice Dean of Graduate Studies, Research and Int. Relations
cmlatorre@ucm.esDownload (PDF, 84 KB)The project aims at creating a full-fledged interdisciplinary “Una Europa Global Governance Research Group” composed by Una Europa members.
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Humor in the European public sphereContact: Delia Chiaro, Professor, Dept. of Interpreting and Translation
delia.chiaro@unibo.itDownload (PDF, 66 KB)Humor in the European public sphere - Fostering societal debate about contested expression in a globalizing world
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ALIHASContact: Silvio Cruschina, Associate professor, Dept. of Languages Italian Philology
silvio.cruschina@helsinki.fiDownload (PDF, 79 KB)A Lingustic Investigation of Hate Speech: How to identify it and how to avoid it
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Creating a collaborative UNAEUROPA Service-Learning networkContact: Cinzia Albanesi, Professor, Dept. of Psychology
cinzia.albanesi@unibo.itDownload (PDF, 82 KB)Creating a collaborative UNAEUROPA Service-Learning network to transform teaching and learning in the European Space of Higher Education
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Meeting the Peak (PEAKSOLVE)Contact: Margaret Graham, University of Edinburgh
margaret.graham@ed.ac.ukDownload (PDF, 528 KB)Peak human population (~10.5 bn) is expected within 50 years, before declining to ~10.3 bn by 2100. Most of the increase will occur in Africa whilst populations in many developed nations are already decreasing. Read more...
This project will explore changes in where people live, how they will impact the environment (especially freshwater) and how to respond to the global challenges of both increasing and shrinking populations.