Partners
Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO (NL) (Coordinator)
Swedish Defence Research Agency FOI (SE)
University of Kent (UK)
The University of Kent was founded in1965 in Canterbury, England. It is the closest British university to mainland Europe, and aims to be a focus both for its local and its European region. This has been demonstrated in its development of campuses in Brussels, Tonbridge and Medway, and the foundation of the University of the Transmanche with the three Lille Universities and the University of the Littoral in France. Today the University has an income of over £112m, with over 15,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students studying at the University from 128 countries around the world.
The University is based around 19 Departments and Schools in 3 Faculties (Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medical Studies). It has a strong and supportive research culture, and has made it a priority to attract and retain excellent researchers and academics. It takes seriously its responsibilities towards researchers, and is a signatory (through Universities UK) to the UK Research Careers Initiative (RCI) concordat. It supports in principle the European Charter for Researchers and Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers, and intends to adopt them once the clarification sought by Universities UK has been obtained from the EC. In the interim, the University's internal Quality Assurance and Validation procedures ensure that fair and objective systems are in place to safeguard the rights of researchers. The University of Kent encourages the research aspirations and careers of its entire academic staff and its centralised Research Services provide full support to investigators in identifying funding opportunities, applying for grants, negotiating contracts and managing projects. For more information about the University, please go to www.kent.ac.uk.
Frank Furedi is in charge of the University's contribution to CPSI. He is a Professor of Sociology at SSPSSR (School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research). During the past decade Furedi’s research has been oriented towards the way that risk and uncertainty is managed by contemporary culture. He has published widely about controversies surrounding issues such as health, children, food and new technology. His Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age (March 2004) explores the ascendancy of the therapeutic imagination. It develops the arguments contained in two previous books The Culture of Fear (2003) and Paranoid Parenting (2001). In recent years Furedi has been exploring the way that fear has come to dominate public discussions in Western Societies. His Politics of Fear: Beyond Left and Right, published in September 2005 explores the crisis of meaning afflicting the West. His new book, Invitation to Terror (2007) explores the relationship between 21st century Western culture and its preoccupation with terrorism.
Sogeti Europe (FR)
TEMIS SA (FR)
Sigmund Freud Private University, CEUSS | Center for European Security Studies (AT)
The Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP (NL)
VLC Projects (NL)