The European Research Council (ERC) awards Starting Grants to eleven Max Planck researchers; humanities and social sciences lead the internal ranking.
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Study is the first to document dialect differences in a parrot across its European range
parakeets have dialectic differences in European cities Hear how parrots in Brussels
Prof. Dr. Marie-Claire Foblets Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (since 2012).
Advocate Member of the Brussels bar (Orde français des avocats du barreau de Bruxelles
Wer in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren ein Kind bekommen wollte, heiratete vorher. Heute dagegen sind in vielen Ländern mehr als die Hälfte der Geburten nichtehelich – Tendenz weiter steigend. Nur in Osteuropa zeigt sich ein entgegengesetzter Trend: Dort werden zunehmend mehr Kinder von verheirateten Paaren geboren. Eine Studie des Max-Planck-Instituts für demografische Forschung in Rostock hat diese Entwicklungen von 1910 bis in die Gegenwart analysiert.
Brussels: Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles) © MPI für demografische Forschung
Unmarried births are becoming the norm in Western Europe, but their share is falling in Eastern Europe.
Brussels: Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles © MPI for Demographic Research
This year’s ERC Synergy Grantees of the Max Planck Society
Rüdiger Hesse Brüsseler Büro der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft +32 2 250-1410 r.hesse
Holger Fleischer is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Herbert Wiedemann 1995-1999, research visits during this time to Brussels, Milan,
This year’s ERC Synergy Grantees of the Max Planck Society
Rüdiger Hesse Brüsseler Büro der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft +32 2 250-1410 r.hesse
This year’s ERC Synergy Grantees of the Max Planck Society
Rüdiger Hesse Brüsseler Büro der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft +32 2 250-1410 r.hesse
From a research perspective, reading and writing is a fascinating phenomenon. After all, the first writing systems date back less than 6,000 years – the blink of an eye in the timescale of human evolution. How the human brain is nonetheless able to master this complex task is a key question. Current topics of scientific interest include exploring the differences between practised readers and illiterate individuals – and the consequences for people with reading difficulties – as well as the impact of poor reading and writing skills on global democracy.
Some years ago, José Morais from the University of Brussels determined that reading
