Forschungsprojekte

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A "Democratic State of Exception": The corona virus controversy in Germany
Project management
Several Duration
05/2021 - 10/2022 Funding
VolkswagenStiftung:
120 000 €
André Brodocz: The project aims at answering the question, in which way the 'state of exception' is rolled out and is overcome in a democratic public debate.
A Change of Mind. West-Eastern Church Experiences
Project management
Prof. Dr. Jörg Seiler Duration
05/2015 - 12/2016 Funding
Bonifatiuswerk:
6 000 €
Jörg Seiler: Ever since they moved to the East as a result of unification, people have been talking about a completely new experience of church and community and the relationship of these East German communities to the public. These experiences are to be examined exemplarily and empirically in the form of targeted interviews. The interviews will be presented in excerpts on listening stations (Katholikentag in Leipzig) and then scientifically evaluated.
Algorithmen Literacy und Sourcing-Kompetenz in außerschulischen Bildungssettings (AlLiS)
Project management
Several Duration
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.
Alms Collectors between Charity, Commerce and Denominationalisation
Project management
Prof. Dr. Vasilios Makrides Duration
06/2019 - 05/2020 Funding
Gerda Henkel Stiftung:
30 000 €
Vasilios N. Makrides: The immigration of Eastern Orthodox alms collectors from the Ottoman Empire into the Old Empire is the focus of the project. It pursues interwoven questions of migration, knowledge and denominational history. In order to clarify these questions, archives from different territories of the empire will be compared and insights into the history of other types of migrants (traders and students), but also of other charitable groups active in the same field, will be drawn upon.
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Explain and Overcome Vaccine Hesitancy
Project management
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Betsch Duration
01/2016 - 04/2019 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
201 905 €
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Explain and Overcome Vaccine Hesitancy
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BBNE-Hubs
Project management
Several Duration
05/2024 - 04/2028 Funding
Several donors
2 483 616 €
In the BBNE Hubs project, existing and tried-and-tested educational interventions from successful pilot projects are transferred and further consolidated.
Between Experience and Memory: Educational Paths of Christian Citizens of the GDR from Socialist Society to the Present Day
Project management
Prof. Dr. Jörg Seiler Duration
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.
Bewegte Kinder = Gesündere Kinder (BeKiGeKi)
Project management
Dr. Florian Bähr Duration
07/2022 - 12/2028 Funding
Several donors
652 241 €
‘Bewegte Kinder = Gesündere Kinder (BeKiGeKi) is a Thuringia-wide programme to support the movement-related skills of children of primary school age.
Bildungsverbund Batterie Mitteldeutschland
Project management
Claudia Müller Duration
04/2023 - 03/2028 Funding
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7 600 000 €
Cooperation project with the aim of sustainably building up skilled labour competence for the Central German region along the entire value chain of battery cell production in two main pillars: 1. qualification as well as further and advanced training of the employees of already resident companies to shape the change, whereby SMEs in particular receive support in personnel development; 2. development of offers for retraining and further education of skilled workers as a location factor for the…
Bio-economic Power in Global Supply Chains: Approaches, Impacts and Perspectives on Certification and Due Diligence for Biogenic Mass Raw Materials (Bio-Power)
Project management
(apl.) Prof. Dr. Lena Partzsch Duration
01/2017 - 12/2020 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
890 000 €
Lena Partzsch: The overall objective of the project is to formulate recommendations for action regarding the possibilities and limits of corporate due diligence and certification systems in the global value chains of biogenic mass raw materials.
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COSMO – COVID-19 Snapshot Monitoring
Project management
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Betsch Duration
03/2020 - 04/2022 Funding
Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA):
431 002 €
The aim of the project is to repeatedly gain insight into how the population perceives the Corona pandemic, how the "psychological situation" is emerging. This should make it easier to orient communication measures and reporting in such a way as to offer the population correct, helpful knowledge and prevent misinformation and actionism. For example, an attempt should also be made to classify behaviour that is strongly discussed in the media.
Catholic Women Writers as Products and Producers of "Catholic Femininity"?
Project management
Prof. Dr. Jörg Seiler Duration
09/2016 - 09/2023 Funding
Several donors
300 000 €
Jörg Seiler: The anti-modernist phase of Catholicism was characterized by normative Catholic ascriptions of femininity, which mostly obscured the pluralization dynamics of these decades. Persistence, change and (un)simultaneous emancipative ideas about a Catholic gender order should therefore be reconstructed in church history on the basis of biographical sources and literary works of Catholic women writers. As representatives of a liberal profession, they represented an unbound heterogeneous…
Children_Art_Spaces
Project management
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Stutz Duration
09/2014 - 12/2017 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
283 000 €
In cooperation with the Bundesverband Bildender Künstler*innen (BBK e.V. - Federal Association of Visual Artists), the University of Erfurt and the SPI Foundation are developing a qualification model for professional artists that will be scientifically monitored and evaluated. The focus of the further education is on imparting knowledge about the educational significance of artistic processes for children, especially in situations of transition.
Church Binding and Liturgical Celebration
Project management
Prof. Dr. Benedikt Kranemann Duration
01/2019 - 12/2022 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
177 000 €
Benedikt Kranemann: In the 19th century, a series of small popular liturgies appeared, which were intended to serve the liturgical education of the faithful. The books are simply structured and written in a way that is easy to understand. They were written in the context of social and ecclesiastical upheavals. Liturgy with its texts and rites is understood as the "face" of the faith of the Catholic Church. The project will bibliographically record these liturgies for the period from the middle…
CoPrax – Community of Practice zur Stärkung der Kohärenz im dualen Studienangebot Lehramt Regelschule
Project management
Several Duration
03/2026 - 02/2027 Funding
Stifterverband:
5 000 €
The “CoPrax” research and development project at the University of Erfurt is investigating how cooperation between universities, local education authorities and training schools within the dual teacher training programme can be organised, improved and firmly established for the long term. The aim of the project is to establish a cross-institutional community of practice that strengthens the coherence between theory and practice in the dual degree programme and promotes exchange and professional…
Cooperation Project "Local Politicization of Global Norms"
Project management
Several Duration
01/2014 - 12/2017 Funding
Several donors
490 000 €
André Brodocz: The project examines the conditions under which egalitarian norms with a global claim to validity (such as human rights, sustainability, rule of law) actually find acceptance.
Cooperation Project "Ordering Dynamics"
Project management
Several Duration
01/2014 - 12/2017 Funding
Landes-Exzellenzinitiative des Landes Thüringen:
1 009 998 €
Jörg Rüpke: The research programme of the research centre understands "order" and "dynamics" as basic categories of socio-cultural reality. Order and dynamics are not simply thought of as polar opposites. Rather, the starting point is the premise that social and cultural orders in particular are forced to develop themselves 'dynamically' ("dynamic stabilisation").
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Denomination - Education - Politics
Project management
Prof. Dr. Michael Gabel Duration
09/2012 - 09/2017 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
500 000 €
Michael Gabel: The BMBF-funded project is a fundamental investigation in the field of cultural education for about 40 locations of student communities (KSG and ESG) in Eastern Germany. On the basis of the research results to be published, this will open up a wide range of scientific projects for universities, colleges, social science institutions and institutions of political education: in the fields of politics, (contemporary) history, education, sociology, philosophy, theology, law, ethics and…
Development of Video-Based Teaching and Assessment Modules for Communication Skills in Medical Education (voLeA)
Project management
Prof. Dr. Johannes Bauer Duration
11/2018 - 10/2021 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
346 000 €
The voLeA project develops and tests virtual, video-based teaching-learning modules for training the communicative competence of prospective doctors and for testing the learning success. They can complement classic forms of communication training and, due to their efficiency, allow for a broad implementation. All developed components should be applicable independent of location.
Die Rolle der morphologischen Bewusstheit für den frühen Schriftspracherwerb – Eine experimentelle Trainingsstudie
Project management
Prof. Dr. Claudia Steinbrink Duration
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…
Doctoral programme "De-Globalisation and Global Decoupling" (DeGlobE)
Project management
Several Duration
01/2025 - 12/2029 Funding
Hans-Böckler-Stiftung:
567 000 €
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…
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Eastern Christians and the Republic of Letters between the 16th and 18th centuries
Project management
Prof. Dr. Vasilios Makrides Duration
01/2019 - 12/2021 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
45 000 €
Vasilios N. Makrides: The Republic of Letters, a wide network of intellectuals, also has an Eastern side with numerous actors communicating in Greek, Latin, Arabic or Slavic languages (especially on religious issues). Despite the existence of extensive sources, this topic has rarely been studied interdisciplinary and from an "entangled history" perspective. In order to enable a more complete cartography of this East-West exchange (16th-18th century), this project will bring together scholars of…
Ecological Conflicts
Project management
Prof. Dr. André Brodocz Duration
05/2023 - 04/2026
The Gerda Henkel Foundation is funding a new research group at Humboldt University Berlin and the University of Erfurt with around 240,000 euros until 2026, which will focus on the topic of "Ecological Conflicts".
Erfurter Forschungsstelle für Geoökonomie (EFGEo)
Project management
Several Duration
11/2024 - 10/2027 Funding
Several donors
400 000 €
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’.
European Interuniversity Graduate School on Theology in Processes of religious and societal Transformation
Project management
Several Duration
10/2021 - 09/2024 Funding
Stifterverband:
1 200 000 €
The European Interuniversity Graduate School on Theology in Processes of religious and societal Transformation thematically and structurally brings together theological research and the promotion of early-stage researchers from three European universities.
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Funeral and Commemoration Ceremonies after Major Catastrophes in Secular Society with Church Participation
Project management
Prof. Dr. Benedikt Kranemann Duration
01/2014 - 12/2017 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
145 350 €
The study aims to examine this type of disaster ritual using the example of the commemoration ceremony after the rampage in Erfurt and the annual commemoration ceremonies practiced since then.
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Generic and Subject Specific Professional Competence and Performance Measures of Teachers for General Studies
Project management
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Bernadette Gold Duration
01/2019 - 12/2022 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
196 478 €
The requested study is intended to examine the connection between professional knowledge and professional perception with regard to two important dimensions of teaching, classroom management and learning support, with the quality of classroom management and learning support, with the learning progress of pupils and with the assessment of pupils, using 60 primary school teachers and their respective classes.
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Hellenic Polytheism in Contemporary Greece: Beliefs, Practices, and the Symbolic Struggle over Hellenicity/Greekness
Project management
Several Duration
09/2024 - 08/2027 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
342 000 €
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.
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Illuminati Essays in the Context of the Late Enlightenment
Project management
Prof. Dr. Martin Mulsow Duration
05/2013 - 11/2016 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
503 000 €
Previous research on the Illuminati has concentrated mainly on their organisational structure and on the so-called 'higher knowledge'. Consequently, the documents of the order have so far been mainly printed documents, degree drafts and the correspondence of the leading members among each other. In contrast to this, the project pursued at the Gotha Research Centre focuses on a completely new corpus of sources, which has so far hardly been considered by research.
Implementation and Evaluation of a Learning Workshop at the University of Erfurt
Project management
Several Duration
01/2016 - 06/2019 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
489 000 €
The guiding question of the project is: How can the learning workshop (Lernwerkstatt) approach be integrated curricularly and didactically into the teacher training programme of the University of Erfurt, and what effects does the learning workshop didactics have on professionalisation processes in the first phase of teacher training?
Influenza Vaccine Hesitancy
Project management
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Betsch Duration
12/2015 - 08/2016 Funding
World Health Organization (WHO):
23 000 €
The aim of the research project is to identify reasons for influenza vaccine hesitancy in all WHO member states and to identify research gaps to increase vaccination rates in specific risk groups.
InklusiBuS - Inclusive Vocational Training and Situation Definition
Project management
Several Duration
11/2017 - 10/2020 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
390 000 €
Teaching-learning processes represent action situations that depend on the actors involved having a comparable understanding of them, in other words defining situations in a comparable way. With regard to inclusive teaching-learning settings, the particular challenge here is that the more heterogeneous the groups are, the more disparate the life worlds - against whose background situation definitions of the participants are made - are. If it is still relatively easy in homogeneous groups to…
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JITSUVAX. Jiu-jitsu with misinformation in the age of COVID: Using refutation-based learning to enhance vaccine uptake and knowledge among healthcare professionals and the public.
Project management
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Betsch Duration
04/2021 - 09/2025 Funding
Horizon 2020 (EU):
747 584 €
Vaccine hesitancy—the delay or refusal of vaccination without medical indication—has been cited as a serious threat to global health by the World Health Organization (WHO), attributing it to misinformation on the internet. The WHO has also identified Health Care Professionals (HCPs) as the most trusted influencers of vaccination decisions. JITSUVAX leverages those insights to turn toxic misinformation into a potential asset.
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KNOWPRO: Knowledge Production in German Peace and Security Policy
Project management
Karoline Färber Duration
04/2022 - 03/2028 Funding
Several donors
1 500 000 €
Using Afghanistan and Somalia as case studies, the project examines the peace and security policy knowledge production in Germany and East Africa on participation in interventions in internal wars with military or financial means.
KoProNa - Concepts for the Professionalisation of Training Personnel for Sustainable Vocational Training
Project management
Claudia Müller Duration
05/2016 - 04/2019 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
500 000 €
The aim of the "KoProNa" project is to support companies and educational institutions in developing and implementing concepts and strategies for sustainable vocational education and training on the basis of the general conditions in the company.
Kulturtechniken des Sammelns (Cooperation project Cultural Techniques of Collecting)
Project management
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Struck Duration
01/2023 - 12/2025 Funding
Several donors
335 000 €
The project serves to establish a sustainable research infrastructure that connects the research group "Kulturtechniken des Sammelns" (Cultural Techniques of Collecting) at the University of Erfurt and other researchers at the Universities of Weimar and Jena with the various collection institutions in Gotha.
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LINKED - Music Learning in Postdigital Communities
Project management
Several Duration
12/2017 - 03/2021 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
359 000 €
The collaborative project MuBiTec addresses the special educational potential that results from the mediamorphosis of artistic-musical practice in the context of digital mobile technologies.
LUMEN – Adapting to light: mosquito behaviour, human exposure and vector control in a changing climate
Project management
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Betsch Duration
07/2026 - 06/2029 Funding
Several donors
360 000 €
Inter- and transdisciplinary collaborative project; Subproject 3 UE: Under the Light, Behind the Net: Understanding and Explaining Human Behaviour Environmental changes such as climate change, urbanisation and artificial night-time lighting are altering the habitats and activity patterns of mosquitoes in Europe. This increases the risk of pathogen transmission, even in regions where these diseases were previously non-endemic. The LUMEN collaborative project is investigating these developments…
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Measures Motivated by Behavioural Economics to Ensure the Study Success
Project management
Prof. Dr. Oliver Himmler Duration
11/2016 - 06/2020 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
472 000 €
The project deals with measures motivated by behavioural economics to ensure the study success.
MusCoDA – Musical Communities in the (Post)Digital Age
Project management
Several Duration
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…
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Optimization with In-process Evaluation of the MMR Decision Support in the Online Service "impfen-info.de" of the Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA)
Project management
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Betsch Duration
09/2015 - 04/2016 Funding
Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA):
41 000 €
In this project, the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella vaccination) decision aid is revised according to the scientific standards of the International Patient Decision Aid Collaboration and tested experimentally in laboratory studies. A special focus of the revision is on providing accurate risk information and reducing reactance, i.e. the feeling of being restricted in one's freedom of choice. The aim is to enable users to make a neutral decision process that reflects their individual…
Orthodox Christianity and Human Rights
Project management
Prof. Dr. Vasilios Makrides Duration
01/2019 - 12/2022 Funding
Henry T. Luce Foundation / Leadership 100:
5 000 €
Vasilios N. Makrides: This project brings together scholars of Orthodox Christianity to provide comprehensive analyses of the contemporary relationship between Orthodox Christianity and human rights in all of its variation and complexity. Participants will investigate Orthodox Christian approaches to human rights in Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and the Middle East from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
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Pattern-Based Expectations in Macroeconomics
Project management
Prof. Dr. Tobias Rötheli Duration
11/2012 - 11/2015
Tobias Rötheli: This project deals with the collection and modelling of expectations with regard to macroeconomic studies.
Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict
Project management
Several Duration
04/2022 - 03/2028 Funding
Several donors
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…
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite’s Reception among Key Thinkers of the 20th Century Orthodox World (Vl. Lossky, Fr. Sophrony, Chr. Yannaras, J. Zizioulas)
Project management
Prof. Dr. Vasilios Makrides Duration
02/2022 - 01/2025 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
301 000 €
The research project will examine the multifaceted reception of the 6th century scriptural corpus attributed to Dionysius Areopagita by four pioneering Orthodox theologians in the 20th century: on the Russian side (but active in Western Europe), Vladimir Lossky and Old Father Sofronij (Sakharov); and on the Greek side, Christos Yannaras and Metropolitan John Zizioulas.
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Reducing Negative Effects of Communicating Vaccine Safety Events - Knowledge Transfer Project SAFECOMM
Project management
Several Duration
02/2017 - 01/2020 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
215 000 €
This knowledge transfer project builds on the results of our two DFG-projects, which have shown that narrative reports of vaccine-adverse events have a strong distorting effect on the perception of vaccination risks and the vaccination intention.
Religious Communities (RC) and Civil Society (CS) in Europe
Project management
Prof. Dr. Vasilios Makrides Duration
01/2015 - 12/2018
Vasilios N. Makrides: Religious Communities in European Civil Society is a large-scale exploratory research project aimed at assessing the position of religious communities as potential or active civil society actors in Europe, and at looking into differences in their positioning on legal, historical, cultural, and behavioural grounds. The seemingly vitalizing impact of religion and religiosity on civil society is a research topic that has been extensively looked into, not only in the USA, but…
Religious Diversity and Peace Ethics
Project management
Prof. Dr. Jamal Malik Duration
01/2016 - 12/2017 Funding
Auswärtiges Amt (Berlin):
387 000 €
Jamal Malik: As part of the research and dialogue project funded by the Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt), the Professorship for Islamic Studies sought cooperation with Pakistani theological schools, thus building a bridge between traditional Islamic teaching there and local Islamic Studies that is unique in this country.
Research Centre for Contemporary Church History
Project management
Prof. Dr. Jörg Seiler Duration
01/1970
Jörg Seiler: The Research Centre for Contemporary Church History investigates the specific form of Catholicism in the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ)/ German Democratic Republic (DDR). It deals with the "double diaspora situation" of Central and East German Catholics.
Research Laboratory MasterMind
Project management
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Bernadette Gold Duration
07/2016 - 07/2019 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
500 000 €
The professionalisation of teachers requires a self-critical and evaluative attitude towards their own patterns of action and professional work routines. This is the only way that teachers can repeatedly review their own actions and weigh up improvements during their many years in the profession. The objectives of the "MasterMind Research Laboratory" are therefore to provide research-methodological support for the Master's thesis in teaching and to promote a research-oriented attitude among…
Research Network External Democracy Promotion (EDP)
Project management
Prof. Dr. Solveig Richter Duration
07/2015 - 06/2018 Funding
Leibniz-Gemeinschaft:
24 000 €
Solveig Richter: The research network 'External Democracy Promotion' (EDP) brings together political scientists from Germany who work at the interface between international relations and comparative political science. Our common interest lies in the area of cross-border activities of states, non-state actors and international organisations working to establish, improve or defend democracy in third countries. The EDP Network is a collaborative project of six partner institutions: the two Leibniz…
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School supervision in times of transformation
Project management
Prof. Dr. Kathrin Dedering Duration
10/2024 - 12/2026
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.
Science and Orthodox Christianity around the World (SOW)
Project management
Prof. Dr. Vasilios Makrides Duration
01/2016 - 12/2019
Vasilios N. Makrides: The Project SOW - Science & Orthodoxy around the World focuses on the dialogue between science and religion in the Orthodox Christian world. More than 50 specialists from 15 countries participate from various academic fields such as Science, Philosophy, History, Theology and Education.
Sentiment analysis between gaining insight and distortion? A case study on personal accounts of the Holocaust and its aftermath
Project management
Prof. Dr. Anna Neovesky Duration
03/2026 - 11/2026
A research project led by the Institute for the History of German Jews and the inter-university professorship for digital humanities at the University of Erfurt and the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt is investigating how artificial intelligence (AI) is used to analyse personal accounts of the Holocaust and its aftermath, and where the opportunities and risks lie. A further aim of the project is to develop a typology or ontology for emotional expressions in historical biographical sources.…
Situated learning in social virtual reality in teacher training
Project management
Professor Ulf Sauerbrey Duration
06/2024 - 05/2025 Funding
eTeach-Netzwerk Thüringen:
62 000 €
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…
Social Justice under the Condition of Scarcity- social-ethical research on the future of social security in Germany on the condition of controlled and uncontrolled migration
Project management
Prof. Dr. Elke Mack Duration
01/2016 - 12/2019 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
344 000 €
Elke Mack: With reference to the newer philosophical and Christian-ethical debate on immigration, a set of ethical criteria will be developed, which spell out when, to what extent and in which form the admission of immigrants in western welfare states like Germany is a universal obligation, normatively just and ethical, while at the same time considering the limited capacities of national social institutions.
Sound - Language - Writing
Project management
Several Duration
05/2016 - 10/2018 Funding
Freistaat Thüringen:
320 000 €
The interdisciplinary collaborative project aims to make fundamental cognitive science findings available for practical application in the field of diagnostics and the promotion of language and written language acquisition as well as for the creation of instructional designs. This is done by taking into account perspectives from cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, special education, music education and German didactics.
SvStud - Scalable behavioural economic measures to ensure study success
Project management
Prof. Dr. Oliver Himmler Duration
02/2021 - 01/2024 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
440 000 €
The SvStud project follows on from the predecessor project VStud and deals with behavioural economic approaches to ensure the success of studies and to avoid dropouts.
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TAM - Tablets and Apps in Mathematics Education
Project management
(apl.) Prof. Dr. Heike Hahn Duration
01/2019 - 12/2019 Funding
Several donors
40 000 €
The aim of the teaching innovation is to further develop the content and concept of a compulsory module in the teaching-focused master's programme in such a way that students are enabled to use tablets and apps in mathematics lessons in a targeted and comprehension-supporting way.
TRANS-SUSTAIN - Transversal Competence Management for More Sustainability in Occupational Profiles Using the Example of the Butcher's Trade and the Meat Products Industry
Project management
(apl.) Prof. Dr. Matthias Vonken Duration
06/2019 - 04/2021 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
171 000 €
The project "TRANS-SUSTAIN" stands for the research and development of a holistic and transversal competence framework as well as the correspondingly associated competence-promoting environment and instruments in the field of application of small and medium-sized butcher's businesses that practice slaughtering or meat processing as well as the sale of meat and sausage products.
Teacher assessments and feedback for learners with a migrant background
Project management
Dr. Helene Zeeb Duration
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.
The Challenge of Worldliness to Contemporary Christianity: Orthodox Christian Perspectives in Dialogue with Western Christianity
Project management
Prof. Dr. Vasilios Makrides Duration
03/2021 - 02/2023
The main aim of the project is to examine the relationships with the world that have been articulated in the major Christian traditions (Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Protestantism), both historically and in the present, through selected case studies.
The testing effect and the complexity of the learning material: The adequacy of the knowledge base as a moderator?
Project management
Prof.in. Dr. Judith Schweppe Duration
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.
Theological Research Centre at the University of Erfurt
Project management
Several Duration
01/2009 Funding
Stifterverband:
735 000 €
Benedikt Kranemann: The Theological Research Centre at the University of Erfurt is concerned with faith and church, the religious individual and church community in diaspora and minority situations. The history and present of the social and religious changes that have taken place in the background are dealt with and the future perspectives of faith and church in particular are examined.
TraNaxis – Transfer von Nachhaltigkeit in die berufliche Aus- und Weiterbildungspraxis durch Multiplikatorenqualifizierung
Project management
(apl.) Prof. Dr. Matthias Vonken Duration
11/2020 - 10/2022 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
550 000 €
In the transfer project "TraNaxis", the results and products of the two pilot projects Pro-DEENLA (FKZ 21BBNE1401) and KoProNa (FKZ 21BBNE16) are being transferred into VET practice in the form of a multiplier qualification. Specifically, these products and results will be handed over to institutions of initial and continuing vocational education and training with the aim that they can be used independently after the project and adapted to the respective target groups.
Transfer und Individualisierung videobasierter Assessmentmodule zur Gesprächskompetenz im Medizinstudium – voLeA TraIn
Project management
Prof. Dr. Johannes Bauer Duration
11/2021 - 04/2024 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
260 297 €
voLeA-TraIn (follow-up funding to voLeA) is a joint project funded by the BMBF between medical didactics (TU Munich) and empirical educational research (University of Erfurt). In the Erfurt subproject, the video-based Situational Judgment Test for medical interviewing developed in the first funding phase is being transferred to other medical faculties and expanded to include feedback features.
Triggering Democratic Frustration: Understanding and Countering Strategic Polarisation on Digital Platforms
Project management
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Thiel Duration
09/2026 - 08/2031 Funding
VolkswagenStiftung:
192 225 €
Digitale Plattformen wie TikTok und YouTube prägen zunehmend die politische Meinungsbildung und öffentliche Debatten. Gleichzeitig können strategisch verbreitete, algorithmisch verstärkte polarisierende Inhalte demokratische Frustration fördern und das Vertrauen in demokratische Institutionen beeinträchtigen. Das Projekt „Triggering Democratic Frustration“ untersucht, wie strategische Polarisisierung auf digitalen Plattformen entsteht, welche Rolle Plattformalgorithmen bei der Verbreitung…
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VAXCOMM
Project management
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Betsch Duration
01/2015 - 12/2015 Funding
Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization (WHO):
21 400 €
This collaborative project between the Regional Office fpr Europe of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the University of Erfurt is developing a theory-based and evidence-based reference document on communication in vaccine-related emergencies. This document will form a component of the WHO training programme for the 53 member states to strengthen countries' communication capacity in this area.
Vaccination 60+ (Impfen 60+)
Project management
Several Duration
10/2016 - 09/2019 Funding
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2 136 000 €
Vaccination 60+ (Impfen 60+) is a pharma-independent, scientific cooperative project of the research initiative InfectControl 2020 within the framework of the funding measure "Zwanzig20 - Partnerschaft für Innovation" (2020 Partnership for Innovation) of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Together, psychologists and communication scientists from the University of Erfurt, designers from the Lindgrün GmbH agency and medical doctors and health economists from the University…
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Western Traditionalism/Perennialism and its Influence on Orthodox Christianity
Project management
Prof. Dr. Vasilios Makrides Duration
05/2017 - 04/2020 Funding
Several donors
211 400 €
Vasilios N. Makrides: The research project aims to undertake a comparative analysis of the reflection on the position of Orthodox Christianity in modernity and with regard to religious pluralism, which is called "Orthodox Perennialism". The latter represents an orthodox reception of certain Western esoteric approaches to an "eternal philosophy" ("philosophia perennis") in various religions and is an attempt to rethink and articulate the spiritual and religious contours of the Orthodox presence…