Comparative Analyses of European Identities in Business and Every-Day Behaviour Erasmus Project

Project Title

Comparative Analyses of European Identities in Business and Every-Day Behaviour

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cooperation between educational institutions and business; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

The target group of the EU-CAB project are about 45 students coming from the participating countries France, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Poland and Portugal. The overall objectives are: The students shall acquire a high level of competencies in working together in a pan-European team. They shall gain in-depth understanding and a solid knowledge base of other European countries and the functioning of Europe as a whole. They shall support each other while working in a foreign country and respect eventual differences in behaviour and culture. They shall strengthen their competencies to learn together, take decisions in unstructured situations, solve conflict in a mutually respective work atmosphere and reach goals as a team.

In order to realize these overall objectives the students’ will conduct an empirical scientific study in the area of social sciences under the supervision of their professional staff. Their understanding of national and/or European identities and similar or different behaviour in the countries participating will be fostered. Students will learn how to differentiate between observation and judgement and between neutral data collection and clichés. Their curiosity to learn more about Europe and its various nations will be reinforced and their willingness to travel and to learn about other nations will be strengthened.

Students will collect self-concept in all of the participating countries data using the “Self-Concept Grid”-technique in order to measure collective identities (Orlik, P. 1979; 2006). To measure behaviours, they will create a pool of qualitative and quantitative data stemming from the structured observation tool “SYMLOG” (Bales & Cohen 1982). They will observe behaviour in business and every-day situations in all respective countries. As results several “atlases” will be delivered that show how near or far, behaviour in the six participating countries is as of 2018 and whether or not a kind of shared European identity is already existing.

All data and results will be shared open source, access will be offered to the scientific community, to political organisations on EU-, national and local levels and to the private economy in all the participating countries. The project is intending to start a broad discussion on Europe and on ways to accept national differences, to create synergies from difference and at the same time benefit from cross-national similarities.

Project Website

https://identities-behaviour-in-europe.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 436144 Eur

Project Coordinator

Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Karlsruhe & Country: DE

Project Partners

• INSTITUTO POLITECNICO DO PORTO
• université de Cergy-Pontoise
• BUDAPESTI GAZDASAGI EGYETEM
• KAAKKOIS-SUOMEN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY
• MAIEUTICA COOPERATIVA DE ENSINO SUPERIOR CRL
• POLITECHNIKA LODZKA
• UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG