CORDIS · 640557 · H2020
BIRTH Births, mothers and babies: prehistoric fertility in the Balkans between 10000 – 5000 BC
Coordinator: BIOSENSE INSTITUTE - RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN BIOSYSTEMS (RS)
The BIRTH project will investigate the key biological and cultural mechanisms affecting fertility rates resulting the Neolithic Demogaphic Transition, the major demographic shift in human evolution. We integrate skeletal markers with micro-nutritional and macro-scaled cultural effects on fertility rates during the Early-Middle Holocene (10000-5000 BC) in the Central Balkans. Human, animal and plant remains, will be analysed using methods from bioarchaeological, forensic, chemical sciences in order to: 1) Investigate variability in the pattern of birth rates (number of pregnancies, interval(s)…
About Horizon 2020 (2014–2020)
Horizon 2020 was the EU's flagship research and innovation programme for 2014–2020, with a budget of around €77 billion. It bundled FP7's strands with the EIT and the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme, introduced a stronger societal-challenge orientation, and pushed the funding logic toward closer-to-market innovation. New calls closed in 2020 but funded projects continued through 2024.
EU contribution: €1.7M awarded to the consortium. The project runs over approximately 5.3 years from 2015-10-01 to 2021-01-31.
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Frequently asked questions
- Who funds this research project?
- This project is funded by the European Union through the Horizon 2020 (2014–2020) programme, under the ERC-STG funding scheme.
- What is the EU contribution?
- The European Commission contributes €1.7M toward a total project budget of €1.7M.
- Which EU programme funds it?
- The project is funded under Horizon 2020 (2014–2020), call ERC-2014-STG.
- Who coordinates the project?
- The project is coordinated by BIOSENSE INSTITUTE - RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN BIOSYSTEMS (RS).
- What is the project timeline?
- The project runs from 2015-10-01 to 2021-01-31 — approximately 5.3 years.
- Where can I find the full project record?
- The complete record — partners, deliverables, publications and news — is published on CORDIS under project ID 640557.