CIVICA Research Blog

Governments across Europe are pursuing a range of digitalisation projects to improve the provision of public services. But as Jessica Breaugh, Gerhard Hammerschmid, Maike Rackwitz and Ridhima Singh note, the involvement of private companies in this process raises important questions about the potential impact on public values.

Marion Lieutaud is Research Fellow in Computational Social Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Thanks to the CIVICA Research Postdoctoral Mobility Scheme, she stayed for 3 months in the Sciences Po - CRIS laboratory.

From October through December of 2022, EUI Max Weber postdoctoral fellow Gozde Kilic was embedded at CEU in Vienna as part of CIVICA’s postdoctoral mobility program, which offers postdoctoral researchers from across the alliance the opportunity to visit other CIVICA member institutions to advance their research.

The outcomes of the EPO-WG project, funded by CIVICA Research, do not end with the study of political polarisation in Europe; a new network of computational social scientists is also emerging.

CIVICA Research Excellence Tours are designed to develop the scientific identity of the CIVICA alliance within the global academic community. During these visits, leading scholars present their research, share their expertise, and meet with faculty and early-stage researchers at the host institutions.

Postdoc Ivo Gruev to lead the CIVICA-funded study examining democratic backsliding in East Central Europe.

Silvia Griselda took advantage of the CIVICA Research Postdoctoral Mobility Scheme opportunity to refine her research with a stay at the London School of Economics and Political Science

The European University alliance CIVICA, to which the EUI belongs, announced in late 2022 the winners of funding after the latest call for collaborative research projects.

Télio Cravo is investigating the complex interplay between global mining, gold standards, and slavery. His research, and a CIVICA Research mobility scheme, has brought him from the EUI Max Weber Programme and the History Department, to the Centre for History at Sciences Po.

WELDECO is a collaborative research project of CIVICA Members: CEU, Bocconi, EUI and LSE

The Stockholm School of Economics hosted the CIVICA Doctoral Conference from 30 November to 2 December 2022. The conference offered early-stage researchers from CIVICA institutions an opportunity to get involved in various feedback sessions, talks, and hands-on academic practice training workshops to prepare them for their academic job market.

The team of the research project “When the Law is Silent: Hate Crime Prosecution and Implicit Bias in Law Enforcement Agencies (SILAW)” – one of the winners of the CIVICA’s first call for collaborative research proposals – presented the preliminary results of research in Oxford last October.

The LSE Data Science Institute hosted a research hackathon in November 2022 that provided participants with the chance to explore the environmental crises of wildfires and drought in Europe. Professor Ken Benoit (LSE) explains what happened.

“I would advise being very open with your network about your ambitions and where you want to take your career, it is how advice and opportunities can be given to you.”

Eleven collaborative projects selected for funding to address CIVICA’s four core themes.

Researchers at CEU and Bocconi reinforced their contacts thanks to CIVICA Research and are now planning to conduct joint projects on the spread of transmissible diseases

Catherine Lefèvre, EUI Max Weber Fellow at the History Department, is the winner of the poster competition hosted by the Central European University (CEU) in the framework of the first CIVICA Research Conference. The event took place on 1-2 September at the CEU’s Budapest campus

Riccardo Zecchina is a theoretical physicist and the Head of the new Department of Computing Sciences at Bocconi University in Milan.

Federica Querin, Max Weber Fellow at EUI, shares her experience at Bocconi's Dondena Centre through the CIVICA Postdoctoral Mobility Scheme.

The 'Digital Trade Integration' research project draws on the expertise and experience of academics and practitioners from the CIVICA alliance and beyond. They are now on their way towards delivering a dataset covering digital trade regulations in 94 countries.

Scholars from across the CIVICA European university alliance met on 16-17 June at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence to discuss how politicisation of the EU judiciary affects the European constitutional order.

The Historical Archives of the European Union at the EUI, along with CIVICA partners, carried out a survey for CIVICA Research on those institutions’ archives services, to identify complementarities in collections, and explore further collaboration.

Organised by institutional partners and hosted by CEU, the recent CIVICA Research Collaborative Hackathon under the CIVICA theme ‘Democracy in the 21st Century’ explored the measurement of ‘democracy with adjectives’.

Giulia Gentile is Italian, from Naples, but she arrives to the EUI from the UK. A law fellow at LSE, Giulia has returned to Italy as a visiting fellow scholar at the EUI through the CIVICA postdoctoral mobility scheme.

SNSPA launched the Academic Advance Research, a research hub on instruments dedicated to social sciences researchers, with the aim of creating an academic network of excellence.

The new CIVICA Research Excellence Tours kick off at Sciences Po and consecutively at the EUI with the talk "Governance for transformative change: Lessons from the EU’s sustainability transition" by Assistant Professor Jerneja Penca (EMUNI).

CEU hosted Sciences Po Research Fellow Bruno Cautres to teach the first workshop of CIVICA Research’s Innovative Research Methods Workshop Series.

Flavia and Bastien, PhD candidates at Sciences Po, explain how the CIVICA Research doctoral conference helped them prepare for the professional academic market.

Fifteen PhD candidates from across the alliance met at the EUI for a training conference on how to prepare for the job market.

In the first edition, you can learn more about CIVICA Research, meet some of our researchers, and discover research initiatives, opportunities and events from across the alliance.

SNSPA's Andrei Țăranu visited the Hertie School in Berlin to explore existing and new ties within CIVICA and CIVICA Research.

The LSE Data Science Institute hosted a research hackathon in December 2021 to find out why societies have had such different experiences of COVID. Ken Benoit (LSE) explains what happened.

The two researchers discuss current and upcoming CIVICA Research highlights and opportunities, and what the project brings to researchers across the alliance.