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Projects arranged by subject and age group, ready to use in class.

Ages 10-19:10+12+14+16+18+

Languages, art and culture · Ages 10-19
What do languages and the arts reveal about the people who make them?

Showing 153 of 153 projects

HE2024–2026· 2 🌍

PhLex · Phylogenetic Lexification: Patterns of meaning through time

Languages encode knowledge, culture, and identity, yet more than half of the world’s languages are currently endangered, and many are represented only through short, fragmentary wordlists. These sparse records restrict our ability to unders…

HE2023–2026· 3 🌍

EUROPROP · Female Prophecy in Early Modern European Religion

During the 16th century secular and temporal powers fought to gain monopoly on the future, striving to gradually eliminate religious expectations from the domain of political decision-making. This project looks at this struggle, that peaked…

HE2023–2026· 2 🌍

IEIA · Imagination in the Experience of Installation Art

Several works by Ernesto Neto present huge, warm-colored, pleasantly smelling Lycra tunnels. They are cases of installation art: the public is supposed to enter the tunnels and interact with the physical environment, experiencing the works…

HE2023–2026· 3 🌍

SMART · Social Media Artistic tRaining in Teenagers

The digital age has transformed how we interact with technology, with over 60% of the global population using the internet and more than 5 billion people having social media accounts. This digital immersion starts remarkably early –some rep…

HE2022–2024· 3 🌍

OPANDA · Opera Fandom in the Digital Age

Opera hinges on audience participation. Throughout history, opera audiences have shaped theatrical spaces, cultural policies and communication networks, influencing production models, canons, and even politics.

HE2022–2025· 2 🌍

ARIAH · Chemical speciation of A Revolution In Art History

The ARIAH (Chemical Speciation of A Revolution In Art History) project sought to unravel the intricate molecular and nanoscale composition of Renaissance mixed-media paints, which combined egg- and oil-based binders. This material innovatio…

HE2022–2024· 2 🌍

PlauDe · Judging Plausible Deniability

Plausible deniability (PD) is a linguistic strategy that consists in intentionally conveying content in such a way that the intention can later be denied. PD is essential in the success of e.g., covert threats (“It would be a shame if somet…

H20202022–2024· 2 🌍

RadNIW · Writing on Air: Radio and Northern Irish Writers, 1966–1986

This interdisciplinary project seeks to combine studies of media broadcasting, cultural history, collaboration, and literary analysis to consider the lives and works of recent Irish writers whose careers were closely tied to the BBC and RTE…

H20202022–2024· 2 🌍

CaPer · Catholic Performance Culture in Early Modern England

Catholic Performance Culture in Early Modern England (CaPer) explored how practices of representation and recreation were vital to shaping and sustaining Catholic minority in early modern Protestant England. It comprehensively investigates…

H20202021–2024· 2 🌍

Novel and the Heart · The Novel and the Heart: 1840-1940

“The Novel and the Heart: 1840–1940” examines the heart as a focus of experiential description in anglophone fiction of the Victorian (1837–1901) and modernist (1901–1939) periods. Methodologically, it requires a multi-disciplinary approach…

H20202021–2025· 4 🌍

TransMigrArts · Transforming Migration by Arts

The reality of migration in the 21st century is a major social challenge for Europe and the whole world. The TransMigrARTS project, Transforming Migration through the Arts, aimed to prove, using an applied creative research methodology, tha…

H20202021–2024· 2 🌍

LAREGRE · Latin Relics in a Greek Egypt

The project LAREGRE focuses on a specific era – Late Antiquity, 200 to 600 AD – in a specific region of Africa – Egypt – and addresses the problem of quite a strong and specific linguistic policy enforced for the first time in that country…

H20202021–2023· 2 🌍

UViMCA · Utility and Usership in Virtual Museums of Contemporary Art

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, arts organizations have accelerated their lagging digital transition in an effort to provide broader public access to their collections and projects, and increase their stake in the attention economy. Y…

H20202020–2023· 2 🌍

ITACA · Intercultural Theatre And Cultural Appropriation

ITACA (Intercultural Theatre and Cultural Appropriation) intends to explore the complex phenomenon of cultural appropriation in contemporary theatre with the aim of setting up a form of theatre aesthetics. Cultural appropriation is defined…

H20202020–2023· 2 🌍

EcoSF · The Ecology of Italian Science Fiction

EcoSF investigates the prominence and distinctive representation of ecological issues in Italian science fiction (1952-2019). Through an extended comparative analysis, the research shows how science fiction is able to imagine and conceptual…

H20202020–2025· 17 🌍

OCSEAN · OCeanic and South East Asian Navigators.

The Oceanic and South East Asian Navigators (OCSEAN) project unites researchers from Canada, Europe, Island Southeast Asia and Oceania to re-evaluate our understanding of the Austronesian expansion. It does so using new high-density data fr…

H20202020–2024· 3 🌍

TPAAE · Transcultural Perspective in Art and Art Education

The project Transcultural Perspectives in Art and Art Education (TPAAE) investigated contemporary art in Europe and East Africa, and forms of art education on both continents in a transcultural perspective. Innovative in our approach was se…

H20202020–2024· 8 🌍

COBRA · COnversational BRAins

COBRA aimed to train the next generation of researchers to accurately characterize and model the linguistic, cognitive, and brain mechanisms deployed by human speakers during conversational interactions with both human interlocutors and art…

H20202020–2023· 2 🌍

TICLAUS · Transitivity in Courtroom Language: A Unified Solution

TICLAUS intended to improve the current TRANSITIVITY framework through the analysis of discourse retrieved from forensic contexts. In doing so, the ER could use her analysis to draw awareness to societal issues that are largely under the ra…

H20202019–2024· 8 🌍

EUROVA · European Oocyte Biology Research Innovation Training Net

“Ex Ovo Omnia”: “From the egg comes all” (William Harvey 1578-1657): The oocyte is the foundation of life, developing from a single fertilized cell to a multicellular organism capable of an independent existence. Oocyte quality, is influenc…

H20202019–2023· 8 🌍

ApPEARS · Appearance Printing - European Advanced Research School

Humans are highly skilled in assessing the appearance of objects. By comparing the relative qualities of materials, such as whether they are flexible or rigid, soft or hard, smooth or rough, rotten or fresh, we can quickly tell if these are…

H20202019–2023· 6 🌍

Syn2Psy · Synaptic Dysfunction in Neuropsychiatric Disorders

The large public health burden and individual suffering associated with mental disorders speaks to the need to study their biological underpinning. Genetic research, animal models of disease and human neuroimaging studies have provided conv…

H20202019–2023· 2 🌍

SATYRANDO · Insults in Italian City States.Criminal Literary History

As European societies strive towards increased complexity and integration, the challenge is to bring together diverse individuals and communities without eroding their unique identities and diversity. Understanding how such harmonious integ…

H20202018–2022· 12 🌍

MultiMind · The Multilingual Mind

Europe has been a melting pot throughout history, resulting from constant waves of migration. More recent waves of migration have led to the establishment of many multilingual communities across the continent.

H20202017–2020· 2 🌍

ModelingCommonGround · Modeling Common Ground

Language is one of the most important building blocks of human social life. We use it to coordinate our social activities, to transmit knowledge from one individual to another and to express our thoughts and feelings.

H20202017–2022· 2 🌍

Womenswriting · Women’s Plague Writing in Early Modern England

While early modern plague epidemics have been thoroughly addressed within the disciplines of literature, literary history, history and material culture over the past decade, much of this scholarship has focused on male-authored texts that e…

H20202017–2019· 2 🌍

HISTPLAY · The History Play and the British Enlightenment, 1750-1815

The aim of this Fellowship is for the researcher, Dr David O’Shaughnessy, to develop the professional prowess, advanced training, high-impact dissemination, and practical experience commensurate with a leading independent researcher in the…

H20202017–2020· 2 🌍

LIDISNO · Linguistic Dimensions of Sexual Normativity

LIDISNO (Linguistic Dimensions of Sexual Normativity), is a language and sexuality research project carried out at Florida Atlantic University and Goethe-University Frankfurt. It seeks to study how shifts in sexual norms are associated with…

H20202017–2020· 2 🌍

LCLW · Literary Communities and Literary Worlds

Literary Communities and Literary Worlds (LCLW) is a project about the nature of and relationship between community, labour and belonging. At a time of increasing nativism and nationalism, it considers the fates of several mid-twentieth cen…

H20202017–2020· 9 🌍

QUARTZ · Quantum Information Access and Retrieval Theory

All of us are users of Information Access and Retrieval (IAR) systems such as Web search engines. The peculiar difficulty of IAR is the fact that relevance cannot be precisely and exhaustively described by the data itself.

H20202017–2020· 2 🌍

PROPERA · The Profanation of Opera: Music and Drama on Film

PROPERA - The Profanation of Opera: Music and Drama on Film aims to shed new light on the relationship between opera and film. It draws on the hypothesis that the mediation of film displaces, broadens, and enriches our experience and unders…

H20202017–2020· 2 🌍

MAPS-URBE · The invisible city. Mapuche mapping of Santiago de Chile.

The research explores experiences of urban space among young indigenous Mapuche living in Santiago de Chile, in order to make visible indigenous subjects whose daily lives, collective concerns and social circumstances are often relegated to…

H20202016–2019· 2 🌍

MIM · Enhancing Motion Interaction through Music Performance

As Information Communications Technology (ICT) is now spreading outside of workspaces towards our everyday life, new elements of human life such as culture, emotion or experience must be embraced in technology for Human-Computer Interaction…

H20202015–2018· 2 🌍

SPEA · Socrates and Plato on Epistemic Authority

The project investigated the systematic interrelations between the problems related to authority, disagreement, and expertise in relation to justification, belief, and knowledge in Plato’s early (Socratic) and middle dialogues. Socrates and…

H20202015–2019· 4 🌍

ENHANCE · Environmental Humanities for a Concerned Europe

The main aim of ENHANCE has been to train twelve early-stage researchers (ESRs) based at three of Europe’s leading universities for environmental research––the University of Leeds, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich (LMU), and the Royal…

H20202015–2020· 7 🌍

InnoChain · Building Innovation in the Extended Digital Chain

The InnoChain ETN network is a shared research training environment examining how advances in digital design tools challenge building culture enabling sustainable, informed and materially smart design solutions. The network aims to train a…

H20202015–2019· 14 🌍

CHIBOW · Children Born of War - Past, Present and Future

As described forcefully by consecutive Special Representatives of the UN Secretary General (UNSRSG) for Children Armed Conflict, the physical and psychosocial impact of armed conflict on children is immense. This is true for all children di…

H20202015–2019· 5 🌍

ArcInTex ETN · ArcInTex ETN

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project A fundamental challenge in design research today is to define design programmes that suggest methods for turning current scientific knowledge and technical development into the de…

FP72009–2014· 7 🌍

CLARA · Common Language Resources and their Applications

The scientific objectives of the CLARA project have been twofold: (1) to develop the next generation of data-intensive language models and applications by integrating approaches across language and country boundaries; (2) to contribute to t…

FP72008–2012· 5 🌍

ELDEL · Enhancing Literacy Development in European Languages

For the relevant information, please see the attached document entitled: ELDEL Publishable Summary Final Report, and further supporting documentation in the in document entitled: Results and Key Findings to Date. Below, we provide the repor…

FP62007–2011· 10 🌍

S2S · Sound to sense

Speech is studied by linguists, engineers, psychologists, sociologists and many others. Researchers in one area are often unaware of insights from another, or may lack the technical competence to make full use of them.

FP62007–2011· 2 🌍

HUMOREV · Human Modeling, Reconstruction and Recognition in Video

Detecting humans, reconstructing their structure and motion or understanding human action from video sequences are problems of key importance in the advancement of a variety of technological fields including video indexing and coding, enter…

FP62006–2010· 5 🌍

TEXTE · Transfer of expertise in technologies of editing

The project was designed to develop new interdisciplinary research competence at the National University of Ireland, Galway by transferring to staff and researchers up-to-date knowledge about the theories and practices of textual editing wi…

FP62004–2007· 10 🌍

ADONET · Algorithmic discrete Optimization

The aims of the Marie Curie network "Algorithmic Discrete Optimisation" were twofold: On the one hand, it was the task of the consortium to bring forward the research in Integer Programming, Convex Programming and Combinatorial Optimisation…