New call announced : “Enhancing well-being for the future” – closing date 21 September 202330/05/23

NORFACE are pleased to announce a call for international social science research projects on: Enhancing well-being for the future. The call is launched with the assistance of CHANSE, Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe. All call documents can be found on the CHANSE website. Web

NEW CALL FOR PROPOSALS “Enhancing well-being for the future” – Pre-announcement 26 April 202328/04/23

NORFACE are pleased to pre-announce a call for international social science research projects on: Enhancing well-being for the future. The call is launched with the assistance of CHANSE, Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe. Countries participating in the call: Aus

26 projects awarded funding in the CHANSE Call on Transformations: Social and Cultural Dynamics in The Digital Age31/05/22

The transformation of social relations resulting from the digitalisation of homes, the communication of knowledge about health in the 20th and 21st centuries and challenges for work safety in times of digital transformation will be addressed by researchers awarded in the CHANSE Call. CHANSE (Collabo

21-22 October 2021: Final conference ‘Dynamics of Inequality Across the Life-Course’ (DIAL)25/06/21

The NORFACE transnational research programme ‘Dynamics of Inequality Across the Life-course: structures and processes’ (DIAL) will hold a final conference on 21st and 22nd of October 2021, in Brussels. DIAL started in 2017, with thirteen interdisciplinary and international research projects focusing

Transition NORFACE Coordination Office15/06/21

In 2021, the NORFACE Coordination Office will transition from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to the French National Research Agency (ANR). This may affect your interaction with NORFACE in some ways. Although the coordination efforts for the NORFACE network will move to ANR, for the purpose of cont

Professor Sophie Lecheler appointed as Scientific Programme Coordinator of the NORFACE Governance programme08/02/21

The NORFACE partners are pleased to announce that Professor Sophie Lecheler has been appointed as Scientific Programme Coordinator for the research programme Democratic governance in a turbulent age. As Scientific Programme Coordinator she will work for the duration of the programme to bring togethe

NORFACE and HERA launch a new programme – CHANSE Transformations: Social and Cultural Dynamics in the Digital Age11/12/20

The NORFACE and HERA networks are pleased to announce that the CHANSE (Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe) consortium will soon announce a call for international research projects on ‘Transformations: social and cultural dynamics in the digital age’. CHANSE will support new an

Recruiting a Scientific Programme Coordinator for research programme Democratic Governance in a Turbulent Age28/05/20

NORFACE is in search for a Scientific Programme Coordinator for its ERA-NET Cofund research programme Democratic Governance in a Turbulent Age (Governance). The Scientific Programme Coordinator will promote cohesion and cooperation in the programme by communicating the activities, outcomes and succe

Transformations to Sustainability projects respond to COVID-19 crisis12/05/20

The COVID-19 coronavirus crisis is affecting all members of the Transformations to Sustainability community and posing new questions about how we understand social transformations. Researchers involved in various projects funded within the NORFACE – Belmont Forum programme Transformations to Sustain

14 projects funded in transnational programme Democratic Governance in a Turbulent Age20/04/20

Grants Governance programme within NORFACE Fourteen transnational and multi-disciplinary social science research consortia have received funding from the European NORFACE network within the research programme ‘Democratic governance in a turbulent age’. Over the next few years they will focus, on sub

HIGH NUMBER OF WORKING PAPERS PUBLISHED BY DIAL RESEARCH TEAMS03/04/20

HIGH NUMBER OF WORKING PAPERS PUBLISHED BY DIAL RESEARCH TEAMS First results of transnational research on inequality across the life-course While working on new research projects, researchers are generally eager to share their first results, with other scientists in the field or with a wider audienc

NORFACE DIAL Podcast Series05/02/20

The NORFACE transnational research programme “Dynamics of Inequality Across the Life-course: structures and processes” (DIAL) focuses on the complex and highly intertwined sources of inequalities in contemporary societies, and their consequences. In 2017, thirteen interdisciplinary and international
