Eight UvA researchers receive ERC Starting Grants

Picture: rawpixel.com - The European Research Council (ERC) has this year awarded Starting Grants to eight UvA researchers. The laureates are: Thijs Bol, Janna Cousijn, Efstratios Gavves, Imke Harbers, Kristine Krause, Sanne Kruikemeier, Boris Noordenbos and Damian Trilling. Their projects are respectively about: labour market change and careers, youth alcohol and cannabis use, expectational visual artificial intelligence, undocumented citizens, care relocation, microtargeting and digital influence, conspiracy theories in Eastern Europe, and feedback loops in news consumption. A Starting Grant is a personal grant of about €1.5 million and provides research support to talented researchers for a period of five years. The recipients:. Thijs Bol (Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research): From School to Career: Towards A Career Perspective on the Labour Market Returns to Education - How do we educate the workforce of the future? In times of major technological change, does specialist vocational training or general training offer better career prospects on the labour market? An important hypothesis is that workers with vocational training have relatively more difficulty remaining employed later in their careers because their specialist skills have become outdated. In his project, Thijs Bol and his team will explore these issues by mapping careers in six countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.