Partners

In our research, we regularly exchange ideas with colleagues from a wide range of fields; in some cases, there are joint research projects.

Academic institutions and research groups:

• Working Group for Health Communication, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
• Harding Centre for Risk Literacy, University of Potsdam
• "Boosting" research field of the Centre for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development
• Working Group for General Psychology, University of Mannheim
• Social Cognition Centre Cologne, University of Cologne
• Department of Social Structure and Social Inequality, Bielefeld University
• Professorship of Methods of Empirical Social Research, Dresden University of Technology
• Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Research)

Media organisations

• Science Media Centre Germany (SMC)

Scientific think tanks and alliances

• KLUG - Deutsche Allianz Klima und Gesundheit
• Centre for Planetary Health Policy (CPHP)
• Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC)
• SciBeh
• Stiftung Gesunde Erde Gesunde Menschen

Positioning within the University of Erfurt

The institute is primarily embedded in the university’s key research area "Education, School, and Behaviour". However, due to its broad thematic scope and global network, it also connects with other fields, particularly the key research area “Religion, Society, and World Relations”. Additionally, clear links exist to "Knowledge, Spaces, and Media" given the role of media in shaping knowledge and behaviour.

With its empirical focus, the institute is closely associated with the Erfurt Lab. For scientific exchange on current research projects, institute members regularly meet at the colloquium of the graduate program of the Center for Empirical Research in Economics and Behavioral Sciences (CEREB).