The European Research Council (ERC) has selected 349 researchers to receive this year's Consolidator Grant, a prestigious grant awarded to mid-career scientists. One of the two successful applicants is scientist Rune Steenberg from FF UP. In competition with more than three thousand applications, he succeeded with a project focused on remote ethnography of the Uyghur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang. The second grant, also in the field of anthropology, goes to the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, where anthropologist Deborah Nadal will study changes in the relationships between humans and animals in everyday life.
Rune Steenberg (Faculty of Arts, Palacký University) - Project NEWXUAR – A New Normal After the Camps? State-kinship Dynamics in Minoritised Communities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region seeks to provide a holistic view of the problems faced by the Uyghurs, who are subject to long-term repressive state policies. The NEWXUAR project focuses its analysis on kinship relations as the key to understanding the transformation of society under the influence of the state. The project will systematically use the method of so-called remote ethnography and other hybrid research methods that take into account the ethical boundaries and security risks associated with conventional field research," explains the project's principal investigator, Rune Steenberg from FF UP.
Deborah Nadal (EU AZVCR) - The project INtruders and VANISHers. Living with wildlife on the move amidst a changing climate will focus on four regions where climate-induced changes in animal movement are particularly evident and where humans must respond significantly.
The ERC received 3,121 applications for this call, representing a 35% increase over the previous round. The success rate for applications in the current ERC Consolidator call was 11.3%, with 349 of the 3,121 projects receiving funding. Consolidator grants, funded by the EU's Horizon Europe program, will support cutting-edge research at universities and research centers in 25 EU member states and associated countries.
Rune Steenberg from FF UP.
Photo: FF UP Archive
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Source: erc.europa.eu , zurnal.upol.cz , eu.avcr.cz