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06/02/2012
Funding Approved until 2019 for IMPRS-SPCE Doctoral Program
An application for ongoing funding of the IMPRS-SPCE (International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy) has received a positive response from the Max Planck Society. The decision was reached in January 2012 and was based on an evaluation carried out in 2011. The international school, jointly founded in 2008 by the MPIfG and University of Cologne, may now admit up to nine new doctoral students each year until 2019. For the future, the school plans to have an even greater international emphasis.25/01/2012
Arndt Sorge Is Scholar in Residence 2011/2012 at the MPIfG
Arndt Sorge, Emeritus at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), is the MPIfG Scholar in Residence for the 2011/2012 winter term. He is conducting research on the interaction between firms’ internationalization strategies and their national institutional embeddedness as demonstrated by the cases of three major European airlines: Air France, British Airways and Lufthansa. Each year the MPIfG invites a distinguished scholar in the field of political science, economics or sociology to spend six months at the institute. Scholars in Residence pursue a specific project that relates to research being conducted at the MPIfG and give three public lectures during their stay.24/01/2012
MPIfG and Sciences Po: Conference on Instability in Market Societies
At a joint conference in Paris on December 15 and 16, 2011, the MPIfG and Sciences Po presented the subjects that will be investigated at the future German-French Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies. The Center will study how western societies are handling the growing instability of their economies. Markets are increasingly dominating many areas of life, which has led to a culture of individualization that is destabilizing traditional social structures. How can states, organizations and individuals cope with increasingly unstable economic, social and political environments? The center, which is being run jointly by the MPIfG and Sciences Po, will be located in Paris. Currently two research groups are being set up. moreNews from the MPIfG by E-Mail and Regular Mail
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