EURODIFFUSION – Exploring EU citizens mobility and regional integration through the analysis of Euro coins circulation - FHSE

The project at a glance

Start date:

04 Jan 2010
Duration in months:

36
Funding:

Uni
Principal Investigator(s):

Geoffrey CARUSO

About

This thesis aims at analyzing European citizens’ mobility and regional integration through the study of the spatial diffusion of national Euro coins within the Greater Region. The main challenge of the research is to bring new knowledge on the functioning of this particular cross border area, including aspects related to the attractiveness of the different places, barrier effects, limits of the Greater Region as revealed by people mobility, etc. More generally it seeks to develop a method, within a data scarce environment, to evaluate spatial diffusion processes and networks across European territories. Furthermore, this research provides the opportunity to link different families of models used in social sciences (geography, sociology, economy, and demography) or experimental sciences (medicine, biology, physics) with complex system theory.