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The Consortium: Partnership, Management and Resources
Reflecting the Projects objectives the Consortium draws
together academics from Universities in each of the small states, which are the
subject of this research, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland and
Slovenia. The academics forming the research partnership bring to the project,
firstly, established academic reputations in the areas of European Union
politics and public administration and secondly, experience of large scale
inter-institutional research projects.
The Dublin European Institute, National University of Ireland
Dublin, provides the Management Team for this Project under the Direction
of Professor Brigid Laffan. The members of this management team co-ordinate the
scientific and administrative features of this project while also participating
directly in the research partnership. This partnership includes Professor Dr.
Wolfgang Drechsler, University of Tartu; Professor Teija Tiilikainen, University
of Helsinki; Professor Calliope Spanou, University of Athens; Professor Attila
Ágh, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration; and
Professor Danica Fink-Hafner, University of Ljubljana. Each of the research
partners is assisted by a team of researchers from their respective
universities.
The Management Board, comprising the principle
researcher partner from each of the universities participating in the consortium
and members of the project management team, meets regularly and is responsible
for major policy decisions relating to the Project. A series of workshops
scheduled over the duration of the project enable all of the researchers
involved in the project to meet in a Partnership Plenary to discuss the
research methods being applied and the national and comparative reports
presented on completion of each section of the project.
Project Management
The Project management team is based in the newly established
Institute for the Study of Social Change, National University of Ireland,
Dublin. The Institute provides research facilities and support for a range of
projects in an interdisciplinary environment. Among the Institute's aims is
the implementation of a co-ordinated interdisciplinary research programme in six
key fields: British-Irish studies, economics, equality studies, European
studies, public opinion research and social research. Further information about
the Institute for the Study of Social Change may be obtained from its website
www.ucd.ie/~issc/.
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