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Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies (ECIS)
ECIS (Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies) is a research centre based at Faculty of Innovation Studies of the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. ECIS frequently organises workshops, seminars and conferences. More information on these events may be located on the "Seminars & Events" page of this website. Additionally, ECIS stimulates the creation of so-called "Synergy Projects" which aim to maximize inter- and transdisciplinary knowledge transfer between the five constitutive research programs.
Representations of the Past: The Writing of National Histories in Europe (NHIST)
The aim of this five-year ESF Scientific Programme, which started in May 2003, is to
1. analyse in depth national historiographies and their relationship to wider national historical cultures,
2. study systematically the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of European states,
3. bridge the existing historiographical gap within Europe by bringing together the histories of Western and Eastern Europe,
4. methodologically converge cultural transfer and comparative approaches in examining the relationship between national
historiographies and national historical cultures.
The programme is the collaborative effort of almost 200 scholars from 31 European countries. Its agenda is being implemented by four teams.
ToE explores and defines ways to study transnational European history with a focus on the role of technology as a force of change. Technology is defined not only as machines, products, systems, and infrastructures but also as skills and knowledge that make them work. In addition, technological change is understood as a deeply political and social process involving people and institutions. This insight facilitates research into how the construction and use of new technologies have been crucial research sites for articulating a range of Europe's, and also more specific various European integration projects in material, institutional, and discursive ways.
EUROCRIT: The emergence and governance of critical transnational European infrastructures
The purpose of EUROCRIT to put the current discussion on critical infrastructures in Europe in a historical and transnational perspective. It takes as its point of departure the expansion of infrastructures in Europe both through the interconnection across national borders and through interconnections of different kinds of infrastructures with one another. We will refer to the former type of interconnection as "horizontal" integration and to the latter as "vertical" integration. The project will analyse how these two kinds of infrastructural interconnections (i.e. horizontal and vertical) have created new forms of interdependencies and shared vulnerabilities among nations in Europe. It will inquire how actors of different kinds have interpreted such interdependencies and vulnerabilities, and developed institutions for handling them.
