Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques
Centre de Recherches Politiques de Sciences Po (CEVIPOF)
The Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po) is a fully-fledged, self-governing research university specialised in the social-economic sciences and the humanities which enrols some 6,000 students per year. It is home to a doctoral school offering 7 graduate programmes in political science, history, economics and sociology, a library with a million-volume collection, a publishing press which focuses on disseminating research results and nine research centers, five of which are closely linked to the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Sciences Po facilitates laboratories' participation in the European Research Area. Today, around 15 of our research teams are involved in FP6. Finally, Sciences Po is a signatory of The European Charter for Researchers and The Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers and fully supports all the principles set out in this Recommendation.
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Manlio Cinalli (FNSP) will be the principal investigator for the French team. He has worked across various fields addressed by the proposed research, producing various scientific articles for national and international journals, as well as several research reports for British funding bodies and the European Commission. In particular, concerning the political exclusion of the unemployed in Europe, he has taken on responsibility for research in the UK part of the UNEMPOL project (5th EU FP). Concerning exclusion of minority groups, he is currently project leader for the French part of the LOCALMULTIDEM project (6th EU FP). Prior to that, he also focused on asylum policy in Britain within the frame of the ASYPOL project (funded by the ESRC) and issues of xenophobia and political violence within the frame of the VETO project at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy).
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Didier Chabanet is Fernand Braudel Senior Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He is also Research Fellow at Triangle - Ecole Normale Supérieure (Lettres et Sciences Humaines) in Lyon. He has established himself as a well-known international scholar in the field of discrimination, integration, exclusion, and in particular unemployment. He has extensively advanced research and knowledge on the mobilization of the unemployed, engaging in a number of European comparative projects. He has been national coordinator of the UNEMPOL project (5th EU FP). Recent relevant publications include: i) European Governance and Democracy. Power and Protest in the EU (with Richard Balme), Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008; ii) “When the Unemployed Challenge the EU: The European Marches as a Mode of Externalisation of Protest”, Mobilization, Special issue Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe, September 2008; iii) “Transcending Marginalization. The Mobilization of the Unemployed in France, Germany and Italy in a Comparative Perspective” (With Britta Baumgarten, Simone Baglioni and Christian Lahusen), Mobilization, Special issue Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe, September 2008; iv) L’Europe du chômage (with Jean Faniel), Politique européenne, n°21, Paris, Editions L’Harmattan, 2007.