European Research Council and the Czech Republic
Horizons for Social Sciences and Humanities
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Workshop organized by the Technology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences
in cooperation with the Faculty of Arts of Charles University
and with the Office of the ERC Vice-President Pavel Exner
14 November 2014, Prague, Charles University, Faculty of Arts,
Hybernská 3, Prague 1, room H303
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:15 Welcome address
Pavel Exner, ERC Vice-President
9:15-10:00 Social Sciences and Humanities and the ERC
Núria Sebastián Gallés, ERC Vice-President, SSH Domain Coordinator
10:00-10:20 ERC grants: The rules, the evaluation procedure and support to the
applicants
Petra Perutková, NCP, Technology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences
10:20-10:40 Coffee Break
10:40-12:10 Scientific Presentations - Experience of ERC grant holders
Moderator: Mirjam Fried, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University
Tomáš Sobotka, Austrian Academy of Science, ERC Grantee – project EURREP
(Fertility, reproduction and population change in 21st century Europe)
Péter Szabó, The Institute of Botany of the CAS, ERC Grantee – multidisciplinary
project LONGWOOD (Longterm woodland dynamics in Central Europe: from
estimations to a realistic model) at the interface of Palaeoecology, History and
Vegetation ecology
12:10-13:30 PANEL DISCUSSION
Striving towards Excellence in Social Sciences and Humanities – Czech views
Do we in the field of social sciences and humanities have chance to succeed in the
ERC competition? Can excellence be found in the Czech Republic? What were the
right conditions to support excellence in social sciences and humanities in the
Czech Republic? Should we have a strategy?
Moderator: Pavel Exner, ERC Vice-President
Panelists (tbc): Mirjam Fried, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University
Núria Sebastián Gallés, ERC Vice-President
Michal Kejak, CERGE-EI, Economics Institute of the CAS
Tomáš Sobotka, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Péter Szabó, The Institute of Botany of the CAS
The meeting will be held in English.Translations will not be provided.
Registration is required via the following link: http://geform.tc.cz/ercssh/