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Research
The research centre Roots of Europe – Language, Culture and Migrations (funded by the UCPH Programme of Excellence from 2008 to 2013) serves as a coordinating unit for a range of externally funded research projects that are concerned with the linguistic, cultural and ethnic prehistory of Europe in a cross-disciplinary co-operation between, above all, Indo-European comparative linguistics, , archaeology, comparative mythology and population genetics. Besides providing a framework for research co-operation, the centre coordinates other activities such as contact to external collaborative partners, guest
lectures, conferences and cross-disciplinarily oriented education programmes. Currently,
the following projects are affiliated with the centre:
- The Linguistic Origins of Europe: Word-formation and Lexicon in Anatolian and Core Indo-European (Marie Curie scholarship)
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The Homeland: In the footprints of the early Indo-Europeans (funded by a grant from the Carlsberg Foundation and the department 2015)
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Individual, kin and family in prehistoric Europe - what words can tell (funded by a grant from the Velux Foundation 2013)
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Postdoctorate Talking Neolithic – recovering the Language of the first European Farmers (Funded by the the Danish Council for Independent Research Sapere
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Towards a New European Prehistory (funded by Svenska Riksbankens Jubileumsfond)
Completed projects:
- The projects Roots of Europe - Language, Culture and Migrations (funded by UCPH's Programme of Excellence (completed)
