The three professors have received the University of Amsterdam the European Research Council for providing grants to (ERC Advanced Grants) so that they can in their respective areas of in-depth study.
Patti Valkenburg from the University of Amsterdam professor, André Nollkaemper Professor Annemarie Mol professors have received the European Research Council funding, the agency is committed to cutting-edge research within the European Union for providing funding. The Fund field of scientific research in Europe, prestigious, it only aided those who engage in pioneering research of outstanding researchers. This funding while paying attention to the concept of merits of the research itself, its grant is also based researchers track record and location of the research environment.
The University of Amsterdam’s award-winning professors and research topics:
Patti Valkenburg Professor (Communication Studies) – the younger generation of entertainment
Professor Patti Valkenburg will receive 2.5 million euros of funding for her research project – “The younger generation of entertainment.” She proposed that we are already in a stage of mainly young people, information, young people want content to be interesting, emotional, strong and dynamic, which involves education, health, advertising and journalism. She will assess how the information on children’s cognitive skills, behavior and hyperactivity have an impact. She will also which children are the effects of this trend the most sensitive research. Her assessment will take into account genetic differences, the role of parents and peer factors.
Andr̩ Nollkaemper Professor (Law) Рsharing of research responsibilities in the field of international law
Professor André Nollkaemper will receive 2.1 million euros in funding for shared responsibility in the field of international law research. Today to solve many problems must be through the inter-State cooperation, cooperation among international organizations and other cooperation, including the global economic crisis similar to the multinational military action and climate change. This also raises another problem: When a Who is responsible when things go wrong? In fact all the parties tend to hide each other (such as Srebrenica, the climate issue and over-fishing), in short, there is no one entity liable for the damage.
Nollkaemper professors will attempt to determine the principles and procedures to ensure burden-sharing, thus in a misconduct of each actor should be responsible for, despite the loss of live actors have all the blame.
Annemarie Mol, Professor (Anthropology) – Western diet subjects of Practice and Theory of