Transnational Project Research Articles

Building the European Nanomedicine Research and Innovation Area: 10 years funding innovative research projects

EuroNanoMed (ENM) is an ERA-NET for nanomedicine. ERA.NET is an EU funded network which had been established to support and increase the coordination of European research programmes and related funding. It is a platform for funding agencies and ministries to develop joint activities and programmes with the aim of coordinating high-quality research in diverse research fields, in this case nanomedicine, across national borders. It has been 10 years since the establishment of EuroNanoMed presently in its third phase. For those 10 years, Research and Innovation funding organizations in Europe and beyond have been joining forces to fund excellent innovative research projects in the main 3 topics defined by the European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine: targeted drug delivery, diagnostics and regenerative medicine. Ten joint transnational calls have been launched (the 10th call is ongoing). So far, 90 transnational projects have been funded, including 460 research groups from over 20 countries. In the Joint Transnational Call 2017—co-funded by national and regional funding organizations and the European Commission—16 projects were funded with a total investment of 14 million euros, including 3.3 million euros from the European Commission. In addition to EuroNanoMed's main activity of funding transnational innovative research projects, it collaborates with sister initiatives in nanomedicine and translational research. ENM has organised review seminars as well as safety, ethics and regulatory affairs training workshops. The purpose of this article is to summarise the activities of EuroNanoMed over the last 10 years.

A Plurisensorial Device to Support Human Smell in Hazardous Environment and Prevent Respiratory Disease

Products embedded with wearable technologies can be a useful tool to support humans’ senses in situations where they can be insufficient, mistaken, or misleading. In this article, we discuss the findings of a two-year Transnational European Research Project named “POD: Plurisensorial Device to Prevent Occupational Disease.” The research was based on the evidence that human senses are not always reliable in making objective judgments. The specific field of application was coating plant, an environment that exposes workers to the risk of inhaling dangerous particles. The results obtained in the first part of the research pointed out that workers, largely relying on their sense of smell, which instead is often untrustworthy, do not protect themselves enough. Based on this ground, we designed a wearable system for providing workers with objective data both on their respiration activity and on the quality of the air in the working environment, with the ultimate goal of engaging them in wearing their personal protecting equipment (PPE). The article describes the development and testing of the solution; an example of how wearable technologies can enhance senses and improve workers’ health.

Decolonizing Knowledges as a Feminist Process

When the Centre for Transnational Development and Collaboration (CTDC) and Kohl Journal came together to contribute to a transnational project of decolonizing knowledge around gender and sexuality, we knew, materially and affectively, that decolonial processes were neither linear nor evident. We were motivated by the desire to engage in a decolonial project that would extend to our practices, structures, and mechanisms, not simply in the content of the knowledges we produce. This prompted us to ask difficult, but necessary questions.

Yugoslavia: other modernities, other histories

ABSTRACTThe Non-Aligned Movement was a transnational political project, a coalition of small and middle-sized states, mostly former colonies and developing countries, from the global south or the Third World. It was formed in 1961 in Yugoslavia at the Belgrade summit. The NAM represented the first major disruption in the Cold World map, a quest for alternative political alliances, for “alternative mundialization.” Culture was accorded particular importance in the NAM, despite the fact that it never took center-stage at summits and conferences. However, NAM’s cultural politics strongly condemned cultural imperialism and epistemic colonialism. Western (European) cultural heritage was to be understood in terms of “juxtaposition”; this heritage would be interwoven with and into the living culture of the colonized, and would not simply be repeated under new (political) circumstances. Consequently art and culture in the NAM were largely about politics and history, or to put it differently, they were a way of staking a claim to history. It seems the movement was somehow aware of the fact that this was the only way it could enter the world’s (cultural) space on an equal footing. There existed a heterogeneous artistic production, a variety of cultural politics and extensive cultural networks which enriched the cultural landscape of the NAM and enabled discussions about the meaning of art outside the Western canon.

Comparisons and Deflections: Indian Nationalists in the Political Economy of Japanese Imperialism, 1931–1938

With the onset of the Great Depression in 1929 and the 1931 Manchurian Incident, Japanese intellectuals and business leaders appealed to the language of self-determination and Pan-Asianism to advocate for domestic reform and imperial expansion. At the same time, Indian nationalists in Japan, such as Rash Behari Bose, Anand Mohan Sahay, Aiyappan-Pillai Madhavan Nair, and others, viewed the creation of Manchukuo in 1932 as evidence of Japanese sincerity toward Asian nationalism, as well as a model of development that India and Asia should follow. These invocations were used to legitimize their own nation-building projects and critique trends within the mainstream Indian nationalist movement. This article analyzes the encounters between Japan, India, and the Indian merchant diaspora in East Asia from 1931 to 1938. The author argues that Japanese Pan-Asianists as well as some Indian nationalists sought to legitimize their own national and transnational projects during this period by appealing to a common Asian civilization that was mediated through a politics of comparison and deflection. The article also demonstrates that comparisons often occluded the issue of imperial violence and revealed the limitations of accepting nationalism and the nation-state as the foundation of civilizational discourse and transnational community.

Erdoğanism as a Transnational Social Engineering Project and Turkish Muslim Diaspora in the West

Erdoğanism as a Transnational Social Engineering Project and Turkish Muslim Diaspora in the West

Not Fit to Stay: Public Health Panics and South Asian Exclusion by Sarah Isabel Wallace

132 OHQ vol. 120, no. 1 conflict, how tribal diplomacy fared, and how application of theoretical lenses can help readers understand this conflict in greater context. To accomplish these aims, Colley interviewed thirteen Grand Ronde tribal members, eleven Warm Springs tribal members, and two non-member employees from each community . These thirty interviews took place over ten years of research, and the tribal voices that appear in this work are among the book’s most important contributions to Native American Studies and gaming scholarship. Native scholars, Native community members, and non-Indigenous scholars know how difficult it can be to locate Native and Indigenous voices in order to make space for them as tellers of their own stories. Colley reminds readers that this methodology centers the values of Indigenous research practices. As an extension of this methodological approach, I would have liked a discussion of where these interviews and transcripts are held. Do the recordings and transcripts remain with the author, are they held in tribal locations, are they at her alma mater, did interviewees retain them or copies of them? As Native and Indigenous scholars strive to work with and within our communities , it is helpful to learn how other scholars practice their research and also whether scholars can access the invaluable resources she collected. This small suggestion aside, this is an important first work. As the first study of Indian casino gaming focused on the Pacific Northwest , it can also be read as a companion to Oregon histories, including scholarship by Katrine Barber, David R.M. Beck, and Andrew H. Fisher. Gaming scholarship is enhanced by the methodology, the perspectives, and the content within this complex narrative of Tribes and tribal leaders working on behalf of their communities even when those efforts might injure other Tribes. I look forward to seeing more from Brook Colley. Laurie Arnold Sinixt Band Colville Confederated Tribes Gonzaga University NOT FIT TO STAY: PUBLIC HEALTH PANICS AND SOUTH ASIAN EXCLUSION by Sarah Isabel Wallace University of British Columbia press, Vancouver, B.C., 2017. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. 292 pages. $39.95 paper. Sarah Isabel Wallace’s book, Not Fit to Stay: Public Health Panics and South Asian Exclusion , details the history of early Indian-ancestry migration to the Pacific coastal regions of Canada and the United States. This transnational project offers a comprehensive account of exclusionary practices and legislation that limited the settlement of Indian-ancestry migrants and their disenfranchisement on the North American West Coast. Drawing on an array of archival data, including newspaper articles; health inspection reports; legislative hearings, debates, reports, orders in council and regulations; and personal correspondences, oral history narratives, and key informant interviews with descendants, Not Fit To Stay provides substantive evidence of anti-Indian “panic” and early colonial ideologies that have had a far-reaching impact on the Indian diaspora in both countries. Furthermore, this book makes a meaningful contribution to the general history of Canada and the United States and addresses a significant gap in the public health, post-colonial, and critical race literature regarding colonial, racialized constructions of South Asian ancestry migrants and citizens in North America. A wide range of interdisciplinary health scholars, healthcare providers, and students would benefit from reading this invaluable text to understand how non-white communities have been historically racialized and continue to face racially motivated panic regarding their presence in diaspora homelands. This book is organized into thematic chapters that provide a historiography of how racialized, Orientalist ideologies permeated in the early to mid 1900s, with emphasis on how racial hierarchies positioned British Indian subjects as inferior to “white” communities. Chapter One, titled “‘Leprosy and Plague Riot 133 Reviews in Their Blood’: The Germination of a Thesis, 1906,” details early migration history with emphasis on government agencies, policies, and laws enacted to monitor and limit the influx of Indian-ancestry migration. Most significantly, the chapter outlines climate, germ, morality, labor, and eugenics theories to exclude “Hindus ” as inferior and dangerous to the physical, social, and moral well-being of existing European settlers. The following chapter, “Riots, Plague, and the Advent of Executive Exclusion ,” comprehensively narrates the ongoing social-political sentiment of 1907 as well as the “sick immigrant...

Past Spaces and Revisits in Transnational Poetry: The Sojourning Returnee of Shirley Geok-Lin Lim’s Do You Live In?

Author(s): Wagner, Tamara S. | Abstract: This essay explores the shifting vantage-point of a temporary returnee and an observant sojourner in the poetry of Shirley Geok-Lin Lim. Situating Lim’s recent collection, Do You Live In? (2015) both in the context of her renewed migrations to different places in Asia and within a widening transnational project of reconceptualizing traditional dichotomies of the diasporic, a critical discussion of her latest poetry enables us to trace how reflections on memory and place in a world of growing global change and exchanges can contribute to an awareness of the everyday experiences of the transnational. The lyric form allows Lim to express the emotional experience of the moment, and the collection as a whole consequently produces a juxtaposition of divergent emotions: snapshots of returns and the reordering of memory. While the bounded self is located in what Lim terms a “place of nomadism,” the heteroglossia of individual lyrics expresses the multiplicity of influences and their re-appropriation. In her seemingly most localized poems, personal memories encounter – and rip apart – heritage nostalgia to engage self-consciously with transnational experience.

Cənub qaz dəhlizinin enerji resurslarının şaxələndirilməsində mühüm yeri

Today's large-scale trans-national projects, such as TANAP, TAP, segments of the Southern Gas Corridor segments selected by their geopolitical and economic importance, have been successfully implemented by the initiative of Azerbaijan, with the "Contract of the Century" signed on the initiative of Heydar Aliyev is a logical continuation of the larger oil strategy.

Transnational Educational and Cultural Interaction Before and During the May Fourth Era: The Chinese Francophile Lobby and the Sino-French Connection

This article highlights the significance of an ambitious transnational project orchestrated by a group of Chinese Francophile intellectuals active in France from the turn of the twentieth century to the early 1920s (the Chinese Francophile lobby) who aimed to enhance Sino-French educational and cultural interaction, in the process effecting a fundamental moral transformation of both Chinese workers and students symbolized by the agenda of work-study that they promoted in Chinese-language journals published in France. These initiatives have tended to be overlooked by historians of the Fourth period, who primarily focus on key Fourth journals and newspapers published in China, a small coterie of intellectuals (both radical and conservative) based in elite Chinese educational institutions such as Peking University, student/worker demonstrations and strikes in Chinese urban centers and treaty ports, and intellectual and student networks and organizations within China itself. Illuminating the significance of the Chinese Francophile lobby widens the scope of the so-called May Fourth era both temporally and spatially.

The Power of Transnational Projects

The Power of Transnational Projects

Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) as an integrative factor in POLAND

This paper reviews the Marine Spatial Planning process in Poland under the BONUS BALTSPACE project, which systematize and integrate factors functioning in this process, in order to analyze the role of MSP in the integration of various types of human activates in marine governance. The project aimed to systematize and integrate those factors through selected integration challenges, which were, 1) transboundary/cross-border integration challenge, 2) policy/sectoral integration challenge, 3) stakeholder integration challenge, 4) knowledge integration challenge. The goal of this paper is to detect the main issues of the MSP process in Poland, in relation to those four integration challenges. The main conclusion is that MSP in Poland acts pretty well as a cross-scale integrator inside the country and also in the international set-up, however, cross-border integration is not required by Polish law and has been done at the voluntary basis. Some deficits can be identified in relation to stakeholder and cross-sectoral integration but the biggest problem is knowledge integration despite the huge effort of Polish Maritime Administration to collect all available knowledge. There is a need to work more intensively towards MSP relevant knowledge integration in the future in particular tacit knowledge of stakeholders. Another finding is that all those types of integration, even when achieved in Polish MSP will not prepare Poland towards joint transboundary planning effort at the BSR level. Here, there is a need for more research and continuation of transnational projects such as Baltic Lines or Baltic Rim.

WORK INTEGRATION SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE THROUGH STRUCTURAL AND SEMIOTIC TRANSFORMATIONS

The central question addressed is how the structural and semiotic contexts, seen from the perspective of the cultural political economy, of the selected post-communist societies of East-Central Europe (Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, and Poland) have affected the historical development and contemporary situation of social entrepreneurship focused on the integration of the disadvantaged social groups in the labour market (work integration social enterprises (WISEs)). Based on secondary data, surveys, semi-structured interviews and focus groups with the stakeholders from the transnational project INNO WISEs, we identify both the communist and post-communist transformations as mostly unfavourable for WISE, while the crucial factor contributing to their selection as a viable option after 2004 has been the external impact of the European Union-related structures and discourses.

The Role of Contextual Factors in Knowledge Transfer in Transactional Projects

Nowadays, with a significant growth in the number of organizations, they seeks to increase their competitive advantages as much as possible. One of the effective approaches is knowledge management, through which organizations try to reuse the experiences and knowledge created in their previous projects. Today, many projects are carried out by forces from other nationalities, in which each participating organization operates within complex national, organizational, and information contexts. So, knowledge is transferred between geographically dispersed individuals and organizations, and across cultural and national boundaries. Given these conditions, knowledge management processes, especially the transfer and acquisition of knowledge, are very important. The purpose of the present study is to design a conceptual framework of the contextual factors affecting the knowledge transfer in transnational projects using meta-synthesis method. For this purpose, firstly the previous research has been studied and interpreted the factors which are effective in transferring knowledge from different sources and then analyzed them using the open coding method to propose a conceptual framework

Project Governance beyond Foreign Aid: Mediating Neoliberalism in Lithuania

AbstractScholars have shown that foreign aid projects reconfigure social relations and political institutions, but projects are a novel form of governance that has significant social and political effects in other national and transnational contexts. My argument is based on seventeen months of ethnographic research at nonprofit organizations that work with youth in Lithuania. These organizations operate primarily through projects, which are publicly or privately financed initiatives open to competition. Individuals who are part of the project system get recruited into social roles and adopt terminology linked to European Union and transnational discourses. The project system transforms institutional relations, as organizations orient toward multiple sources of financing at different national and international levels, and prompts individuals to reconceptualize their activities as apolitical project work. Project governance, which is based on competition and short‐term initiatives, aligns with and reinforces some features of neoliberalism. However, individuals have complex and sometimes contradictory orientations to neoliberalism in that they also critique the state and the transnational project system. Projects not only highlight transformations of the political economy but also provide new resources to resist state withdrawal and aspects of neoliberalism.

The Internet as a transnational project: connecting Central America through computer networks (1990–1996)

This article argues that transnational flows of knowledge, data, and technologies are not only an actual feature of the Internet, but rather a constitutive characteristic of its historical development. To make this case, it discusses how six countries in Central America-Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama-connected to and through computer networks and technologies such as UUCP, BITNET, and the Internet in the first half of the 1990s. Drawing on archival research and interviews with protagonists of networking initiatives, this article argues that the establishment of these projects in Central America required forging a transnational network of collaborations, enabled by international organisations with presence in countries of the region. This study reveals how the Internet was imagined and enacted in a part of the world largely absent in academic literature. It thus broadens our understanding of the early development of computer networks in the global South.

NOWE MODELE W DYDAKTYCE KULTURY. POLSKO-NIEMIECKIE MIEJSCA PAMIĘCI JAKO PRZYKŁAD INNOWACYJNEGO NAUCZANIA JĘZYKA NIEMIECKIEGO W KSZTAŁCENIU AKADEMICKIM

One of the main aims of uniting Europe is to create a common European culture of remembrance. To achieve this, different transnational projects are carried out, especially in historical sciences, but increasingly also in other disciplines such as pedagogy. This paper shows a new solution in teaching German as a foreign language at an academic level using the didactics of culture. The lesson unit discussed in this paper was developed within a bilateral project New models of didactics of culture. Polish-German realms of memory during a workshop which had been conducted by students of four universities (two Polish and two German), in order to design lessons curriculums. This article discusses how history and foreign language can be taught within an intercultural lesson unit which focuses on area studies.

Knowledge coordination in transnational engineering projects:a practice-based study

Several multinational engineering firms offshore the delivery of engineering design or structural detail drawings to their globally distributed delivery centres. Studies have reported knowledge-sharing challenges when such work is co-ordinated across boundaries. This study takes a practice-based approach to explore knowledge-coordinating challenges across two multinational engineering firms that offshore projects to their global delivery centres in India. Data was collected from six infrastructure projects in the two delivery centres through direct observations augmented with real-time interviews and reviews of e-mails and project documents. This data was analysed qualitatively using ethnographic-coding techniques. Empirical findings identified a set of eight coordinating practices, many of which were emergent, which the teams creatively recombined and enacted as co-ordinating mechanisms that spanned organisational boundaries. Seven practices served to transfer knowledge and one practice transformed knowledge across onshore and offshore units. The study contributes to our understanding of co-ordinating by identifying emergent and informal coordinating practices in offshored construction projects and provides insights to practitioners on the boundary spanning capabilities of these practices.

Children of the world on British television: national and transnational representations

This article analyses comparative representations of childhood in British television programmes shortly after 1968, focusing on transnational broadcasting and international co-productions. Television played a relatively conservative role, limited to programmes associated with pedagogical, public service aims. However, programmes engaged with adults’ insight into the importance of listening to children and attributing them with greater agency and voice, recognition of diversity in children’s culture, and the need to communicate with both adults and children about social problems, not least of which were problems affecting children themselves. Comparative representations of British childhoods had already been made for British television, the most celebrated being the documentary series 7 Up (1964-). It follows the life stories of the same seven-year old children from different social classes and geographical locations around the UK, for a new programme every seven years. In the 1971 edition the children were asked their views about politics, race and sex, implicitly critiquing British class privilege and opportunity, and expressing a desire for social change linked with experiences of childhood. However, transnational projects representing and comparing British childhoods with those in other nations rarely appeared on British television. The live broadcast Children of the World (1971), hosted by US actor and UNICEF representative Danny Kaye, representing children’s lives in 45 countries, fitted a model for upbeat global simulcasts exemplified by Our World (1967), and was produced by an international consortium including the BBC in Britain, but it was not screened within Britain. Programmes made for children did investigate and compare childhoods in different countries, however. The 1971 BBC television series If You Were Me, an international co-production, showed boys and girls from different countries swapping lives with each other, foregrounding similarity and difference. The British commercial ITV channel used a 1971 French film to launch an educational series for adults, Children to Children (1973), addressing childhood as experienced in various national contexts. Its short documentaries of widely differing styles were part of an outward-looking agenda preceding Britain’s entry into the Common Market. With reference to these examples, the article assesses the significance of the internationalization and universalization associated with 1968, inasmuch as it underlay television representations of childhood.

Partnerships for now?

Scientific alliances are typically referred to as ‘collaborations’ but in recent times, those with global health or other development goals are increasingly referred to as ‘partnerships’. I observe that one of the features common to this type of partnership is temporality: flagship programs are frequently initiated but less commonly sustained. Thus the pressure that short-term transnational projects place on African health and educational systems that implement them is sometimes hard to justify. I suggest that one reason for the short life spans of partnerships is inadequate attention to the need to build ‘hard’ and leadership capacities: infrastructure, managerial expertise, administrative capabilities, and the capacity to improvise at African partner institutions.