Subproject A01 in SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". The project explores various historical and conceptual foundations underlying the structural change of and through property with a view to religious practices and theories. (Funding phase 1)
Subproject A01 in the CRC TRR294 ‘Structural Change of Property’. The starting point of the project is the realisation that property occupies a key position in the constitution and reproduction of relations between things, social relations and self-relations. (Funding phase 2)
Subproject A02 in the SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". The subproject explores the ownership of others’ bodies based on the history of slavery in the USA. (Funding phase 1)
Project management Prof. Dr. Jürgen MartschukatDuration
01/2025 - 12/2028
Subproject A02 in SFB TRR294 ‘Structural Change in Property’. The project is based on the recognition that property plays a key role in the constitution and reproduction of material, social and self-relations. (Funding phase 2)
Subproject A03 in the SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". The project is dedicated to the political anthropology of ownership between the eighteenth and early twentieth century. It investigates an assumption that is widespread in the humanities: that ownership structures bring about the formation of specific habits. (Funding phase 1)
Subproject A03 in the CRC TRR294 ‘Structural Change of Property’. The starting point of the project is the realisation that property occupies a key position in the constitution and reproduction of relations between things, social relations and self-relations. (Funding phase 2)
Project management SeveralDuration
01/2025 - 06/2028
Funding Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF): 690 000 €
In view of the increasing influence of data-based intelligent technologies, known as artificial intelligence (AI), on our daily lives, developing digital skills is a key social task that cannot be achieved in formal educational settings alone. With a focus on algorithms literacy and sourcing skills (the ability to competently evaluate sources), the project investigates how key aspects of digital skills can be fostered in young people in out-of-school educational settings.
Subproject B01 in the SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". The study seeks to harness the explicatory power of property for understanding the shifting societal systems and their underlying normative frameworks in post-liberalised India.(Funding phase 1)
Project management Prof. Dr. Martin FuchsDuration
01/2025 - 12/2028
Subproject B01 in the CRC TRR294 ‘Structural Change of Property’. The starting point of the project is the realisation that property plays a key role in the constitution and reproduction of relations between things, social relations and self-relations. (Funding phase 1)
Project management SeveralDuration
05/2024 - 04/2026
Funding Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF): 1 111 000 €
In the BBNE Hubs project, existing and tried-and-tested educational interventions from successful pilot projects are transferred and further consolidated.
Project management Prof. Dr. Jörg SeilerDuration
01/2019 - 09/2025
Subproject in the research network "Dictatorship Experience and Transformation". The research project is based on the observation that the disadvantages of young Christians in the GDR are mostly remembered in close connection with socialist educational institutions. Therefore, the historical study focuses on narratives, practices and structures of inequalities in the education system and explores the educational paths of Christian citizens of the GDR.
Project management Prof. Dr. Carsten Herrmann-PillathDuration
01/2021 - 12/2024
Subproject C01 in the SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". The project explores the interdependencies at play between the hybrid land ownership rights and the emergence of structures that are characteristic of property-based societies following China’s transformation into a market economy. It further investigates how this process yields new relationships between state and society (Governmentality). (Funding phase 1)
Subproject C06 in the SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". The project is based on the insight that ownership plays an important role in the establishment and reproduction of our understanding of things, society and ourselves. (funding phase 1)
Subproject C06 in the CRC TRR294 ‘Structural Change of Property’. The starting point of the project is the realisation that property occupies a key position in the constitution and reproduction of relations between things, social relations and self-relations. (Funding phase 2)
Project management PD Dr. Stefan SchmalzDuration
01/2021 - 12/2024
Subproject in the SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". This project aims to analyse ownership conflicts arising from Chinese direct investments in Germany and the EU.
Project management Prof. Dr. Constanze RossmannDuration
04/2018 - 02/2019
Funding Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA): 100 000 €
The project, funded by the Federal Centre for Health Education (Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung - BZgA), is developing an evidence-based communication strategy to promote physical activity among older and very old people in Germany as part of the "Älter werden in Balance" (Getting older in balance) programme based on qualitative guideline interviews and a representative telephone survey.
Project management Prof. Dr. Christiane KullerDuration
01/2019 - 09/2025
Funding Several donors 1 500 000 €
The starting point of the project is the assumption that not only individual and collective experiences during the GDR (German Democratic Republic - DDR) itself, but also the deep biographical upheavals of the post-reunification period shape the memory of the GDR. In the following decade, the political debates of 1989/90 gave rise to a conflict of memory that continues to have an impact today. This determines the time frame of the project, which takes a look at the last two decades of the GDR…
Project management Prof. Dr. Claudia SteinbrinkDuration
10/2024 - 09/2027
Funding Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): 311 000 €
Correlative studies show that morphological awareness (awareness of the morphological structure of words and the ability to reflect on and manipulate these structures) is related to the acquisition of written language. However, in order to test whether morphological awareness has a causal effect on the acquisition of written language, additional experimental training studies with pre-school children are required. In this project, a programme for training morphological awareness in preschool…
The doctoral programme "De-Globalisation and Global Decoupling" (DeGlobE) is researching how the recalibration of market and state, economic paradigms and regulatory levels and approaches that is emerging under conditions of de-globalisation manifests itself. On the one hand, DeGlobE is interested in the developing, specific "post-globalisation logics" that characterise these sectors. On the other hand, the question will be asked as to what consequences de-globalisation, unbundling and global…
The research centre aims to conduct interdisciplinary basic research at the interface of international political economy, law, international relations and conflict research as well as public policy and to tie this back to the special situation of the European, German and Thuringian economies. It has its origins in the ‘Security Capitalism Research Group’.
The research centre focuses on the "East German experience". The research centre takes up the specifics of the GDR and transformation period and discusses the methodology of oral history in this context. As a central institution of this kind in the East German Länder, the research centre is to be expanded into a supra-regional centre and, in terms of its design, be a building block of the nationwide network of oral history institutions that is currently being established.
Project management Dr. Sabine BestDuration
04/2024 - 03/2026
Funding Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (BMEL): 400 000 €
The aim of the research work is to examine existing visualisations for food-related dietary recommendations (food based dietary guidelines, FBDG) based on specific reception criteria for different target groups. Based on qualitative studies, Sabine Best's team wants to use creative techniques to identify the challenges for the target groups (e.g. children, adults, senior citizens) and develop ideas for suitable forms of visualisation. Quantitative studies will then be used to review these…
Project management (apl.) Prof. Dr. Heike HahnDuration
01/2024 - 06/2026
Funding Several donors 377 000 €
Based on extensive analyses of needs, target groups and tasks, this project aims to develop specific support materials for teachers of non-specialist subjects to help them design lessons and diagnose the learning status of pupils in the subject of mathematics in grades 5/6 and 7/8 for mainstream schools. The project is aimed at teachers who have acquired a teaching qualification for two subjects (first and second state examinations) without the subject of mathematics, but who teach mathematics…
Project management Dr. Agnès ArpDuration
01/2019 - 09/2025
Subproject in the research network "Dictatorship Experience and Transformation". The research project focuses on the generational stratification of family memories and narratives about experiences in the SED dictatorship and transformation phase after 1989/90. The starting point is the results of the Thuringia Monitor, according to which a predominantly positive judgement of everyday life in the GDR, which is essentially based on the traditions in the close circle of family and friends,…
Project management Prof. Dr. Sandra TänzerDuration
01/2019 - 09/2025
Subproject in the research network "Dictatorship Experience and Transformation". The average age of teachers at Thuringian schools is around 50. A large number of the primary school teachers working in Thuringia today were educated in the GDR and personally experienced the social upheaval of 1989/1990. They witnessed the change in educational policy and the transformation of the subject of local history from an ethos to a subject, which is now called local history in Thuringian primary schools.…
Project management PD Dr. Monika MüllerDuration
04/2024 - 12/2024
Funding Staatskanzlei des Freistaats Thüringen: 80 342 €
The research library preserves an important numismatic collection of historical prints and manuscripts. It is an expression of the collecting interests of the dukes of Gotha and learned numismatists, who were responsible for expanding the numismatic collections at the Gotha court from the end of the 17th century. Among their 225 numismatic manuscripts are famous works such as the Magnum Ac Novum Opus, which Jacopo Strada produced in the mid-16th century, first for Johann Jakob Fugger of Augsburg…
Project management Dr. Mirjam JennyDuration
11/2023 - 12/2026
Funding Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (BMG): 911 000 €
The project "Behavioural data for effective heat communication – HEATCOM" investigates how citizens behave in heat situations, which factors influence their protective behaviour and which interventions could contribute to health-promoting adaptation. The aim of the project is to generate evidence that can be used by relevant organisations, authorities or the public health service to design specific communication campaigns and intervention programmes. The project will be carried out using the…
The research project examines Hellenic polytheism in contemporary Greece, focussing on beliefs, ritual practices and the symbolic struggle for the Greek heritage. It analyses the many facets of this movement and its critical engagement with the Greek Orthodox Church and state and academic institutions.
Project management SeveralDuration
11/2025 - 10/2026
Funding German Alliance for Global Health Research: 120 000 €
Skin lightening is a complex public health and social problem that is widespread in many countries of the Global South, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. The practice is shaped by beauty ideals, social and economic expectations, and inadequate regulation, and poses significant health risks due to harmful substances. Previous research has focused primarily on users, while products, sales structures and unclear labelling have been largely unexamined. The IMPACTS project aims to close this gap by…
Project management PD Dr. Felix KrämerDuration
01/2025 - 12/2028
Subproject JRT05 in the CRC TRR294 ‘Structural Change of Property’. The starting point of the project is the realisation that property occupies a key position in the constitution and reproduction of relations of things, social relations and self-relations.
Project management apl. Prof. Dr. Bettina HollsteinDuration
10/2022 - 09/2025
Funding Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF): 300 000 €
The sub-project of the University of Erfurt deals with exemplary transformative teaching-learning arrangements (LLA), which are to be evaluated with regard to their sustainability and transformational relevance. On this basis, conditions for success for transformative CLIMA-LLA and quality development measures are to be developed.
Susanne Rau & Jörg Rüpke: Cities and religion(s) have had a deep impact on each other. Up to now, research has focused on religion in cities - on the reciprocal changes in religious practices and urban space, at best in "global cities" and in the present. We want to fill the research gap that has arisen in this way by investigating the historical depth of the reciprocal formation within the framework of a collegiate research group.
Martin Fuchs: ICAS-MP combines the benefits of an open, interdisciplinary forum for intellectual exchange with the advantages of a cutting-edge research centre. The centre focuses on key political processes that have emerged in parallel in many parts of the world during the twentieth century through to the present day, processes that are entangled yet heterogeneous.
Project management Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans JoasDuration
01/2016 - 12/2022
Funding Max-Planck-Gesellschaft: 750 000 €
Hans Joas searches for the connecting factors and possibilities of understanding between religion and modernity and has developed a model for this purpose with which religious patterns of experience can be interpreted and described.
Project management Prof. Dr. Kai HafezDuration
06/2015 - 12/2017
Funding Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD): 100 000 €
Kai Hafez: In the context of globalization, it makes sense to do research on structural similarities and differences of media systems extending it beyond the usual nationally oriented comparative media systems research. In different regions of the world, transformations often take place with a time lag and a shift in context, but they are similar in structure. The aim of the project is to increase the theoretical and prognostic quality with regard to the participating media systems by means of…
Project management Prof. Dr. Christiane KullerDuration
01/2019 - 09/2025
Subproject in the research network "Dictatorship Experience and Transformation". The project focuses on two concrete spaces of experience and action in the urban landscape of the GDR and the perceptions and memories associated with them.
Project management SeveralDuration
12/2020 - 11/2024
Funding Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF): 422 000 €
MusCoDA examines songwriting processes as an example of collective creativity in (post-)digital communities. The Paderborn (University) sub-project focuses on informal bands, while the Erfurt sub-project looks at songwriting in schools. Collaborative and cooperative learning in divergent educational contexts will be researched, the intertwining of informal and formal self-learning processes in digitally networked communities will be reconstructed, the respective constitutive role of digital and…
Project management SeveralDuration
04/2022 - 03/2026
Funding Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF): 4 000 000 €
The Network investigates how historically formed postcolonial hierarchies manifest themselves in contemporary conflict dynamics and what implications this has for sustainable conflict transformation in the future. To do so, the Network brings together historical perspectives on the contexts of conflict formation (in particular those shaped by colonialism) with postcolonial research perspectives as well as with methodologies and theories of peace and conflict research.These perspectives are…
Project management Prof. Dr. Tilmann BetschDuration
10/2013 - 12/2020
Funding Several donors 592 000 €
At what age and under what conditions do children systematically use probabilistic information in decision-making? How do they use it - as criteria for orienting selective information searches and/or as weights of values in the integration of information? With regard to these questions, the empirical research findings are poor and inconsistent. Against the background of two model classes of decision making (multiple strategy approach vs. connectionist approach) competing assumptions about…
Project management Prof. Dr. Bernhard Lothar KleebergDuration
03/2024 - 02/2026
Funding Gerda Henkel Stiftung: 183 000 €
The current situation of academia at risk in the European landscape raises three distinct research questions. First, what is the current institutional framework that responds to academic displacement in Europe? Second, what are the normative contours of protecting academic freedom in future democratic societies? Third, how does an improved system of integrating displaced academics connect to broader values such as the protection of a thriving academic culture? This project builds on our seed…
Project management Prof. Dr. Christiane KullerDuration
01/2013 - 12/2019
Funding Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): 428 700 €
Social Protestantism in the Federal Republic of Germany has developed a new profile since the 1960s. At the same time, and in interaction with it, German society has undergone fundamental changes in its living environment, values and culture. In dealing with the economic and social challenges and in view of the increasing scientific character of the relevant debates, Protestantism adopted central dispositions of thought, some of which went back to the Weimar period, and realigned itself in terms…
Project management Prof. Dr. Hartmut RosaDuration
01/2021 - 12/2028
Funding Several donors 23 400 000 €
The Sonderforschungsbereich aims to (re)gain a comprehensive socio-theoretical perspective on property and to investigate an assumed structural change of property in the present. The aim is to a) re-explore historical and conceptual foundations of the Western property system, b) empirically investigate current conflicts over private property, and c) analyse alternatives to (private) property.
Project management Prof. Dr. Kathrin DederingDuration
10/2024 - 09/2026
The aim of the study is to gain a detailed picture of the tasks, roles and responsibilities of school supervision within the education administration. To this end, the researchers conduct interviews with employees of the school supervisory authority and other support systems (such as school inspections, school development consultations, etc.) and carry out a standardised survey of school subject speakers and department heads in five federal states.
The cooperative eTeach impulse project ‘Situated learning in social virtual reality in teacher training’ between the TU Ilmenau and the University of Erfurt is affiliated to the eduroom media education workshop. Closely linked to the eduroom's conceptual orientation of providing educational spaces to promote media and digitality-related skills, the aim of the eTeach impulse project is to create realistic practice scenarios in the virtual classroom for student teachers based on virtual reality…
Project management Dr. Helene ZeebDuration
08/2022 - 08/2024
Funding Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): 28 000 €
This research project will examine the extent to which teachers' assessments and feedback differ depending on whether they are dealing with students with or without a migration background. It will also examine the extent to which such assessments are related to teachers' explicit and implicit attitudes.
Project management Dr. Stefanie ErtzDuration
02/2024 - 01/2027
Funding Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): 317 000 €
The aim of the project, which at the same time further strengthens the focus on natural law at the Gotha Research Centre, is to explore the natural law teachings of Heinrich Cocceji (1644–1719) and his son and editor Samuel Cocceji (1679–1755). In a monograph, Cocceji's natural law, which centres on a theocratic-voluntarist concept of inalienable liberties, will be presented in its political and ideological-historical contexts and in its controversial reception in the European…
Project management Prof.in. Dr. Judith SchweppeDuration
10/2022 - 10/2026
Funding Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): 380 000 €
The project addresses the question of whether and under what conditions actively retrieving learning content from long-term memory is conducive to learning, even when the learning material consists of complex texts.
The project brings together perspectives from communication science, sociology, psychology and educational research to answer the overarching question of how research communication and journalism should best deal with uncertainty in science. To this end, quality criteria and ways of presenting scientific uncertainty based on them will be worked out and tested with the participation of journalists, science communicators and citizens. Successful communication of uncertainty should 1) create an…
Project management Prof. Dr. Holt MeyerDuration
02/2018 - 01/2021
Funding Several donors 420 000 €
The project focuses on spatio-temporal practices regarding the production and representation of westernness. With the question of what is Western about the West, it takes up a highly political and socially relevant question.
Project management Prof. Dr. Frank DomahsDuration
10/2025 - 09/2029
Over the next four years, the German Research Foundation (DFG) will provide a total of 4.1 million euros in funding for a new research group entitled ‘Weak Elements in Phonology: Development, Processing and Modality’. The group, which is led by the University of Marburg, will investigate weak elements in language development and language processing. In addition to researchers from the University of Mannheim, the Goethe University Frankfurt, the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the German…
