Research projects

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Funders
Faculty / institution
Status
B C D F G I K L P R S T U
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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.
BO-LAB: Career orientation in teacher training
Project management
PD Dr. habil. Benjamin Dreer-Göthe Duration
01/2026 - 12/2027
The project focuses on the question of how prospective and current teachers can be better prepared to support pupils in their career orientation. The aim is to integrate the research findings directly into everyday school life.
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.
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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.
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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.
Digital Portal "Ungarndeutsches Zweisprachigkeits- und Sprachkontaktkorpus" (UZSK)
Project management
Prof. Dr. Dr. Csaba Földes Duration
09/2015 - 03/2019 Funding
Kulturstaatsministerin für Kultur und Medien (BKM):
89 000 €
The subject matter is a multilingual culture with specific structures of expression and patterns of use of German. In terms of content, the project is to be placed within the framework of diatopically oriented variational linguistics (keyword: Regionalsprachen- bzw. Sprachdynamikforschung - regional language or language dynamics research) on the one hand, and within that of bi- or multilingualism research and contact linguistics on the other.
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FUM – Fachfremd unterrichtende Mathematiklehrkräfte langfristig kompetenzorientiert unterstützen (supporting non-specialist maths teachers in the long term in a skills-orientated way)
Project management
(apl.) Prof. Dr. Heike Hahn Duration
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…
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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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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…
Intercultural German Studies: Impulses for Research and Teaching in Word and Text
Project management
Prof. Dr. Dr. Csaba Földes Duration
01/2014 - 12/2021 Funding
Several donors
225 000 €
The project aims to make innovative contemporary concepts from intercultural German studies productive for the partner universities by considering interculturality as an epistemological principle.
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KLIMA-Netzwerk für mehr Nachhaltigkeit in Thüringen. Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung (BNE)
Project management
apl. Prof. Dr. Bettina Hollstein Duration
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.
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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.
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Processing of noun composita: psycho- and neurolinguistic studies
Project management
Dr. Margret Seyboth Duration
01/2014 - 12/2016 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
111 000 €
Gerhard Blanken: In this project, data are collected on language behavior, i.e., on the understanding and production of language. The focus is on the question of how compound words (e.g., "Kugelschreiber" or "Autotür") are formed or understood.
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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 Campus Digital Teacher Education
Project management
Prof. Dr. Gerd Mannhaupt Duration
01/2020 - 12/2024 Funding
Several donors
1 330 400 €
With the project "Research Campus Digital Teacher Education", the University of Erfurt is helping to shape the digital change in education, because the key to the success of digitisation in education lies, among other things, in the comprehensive training of teachers.
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…
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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…
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.
Teilprojekt: DigiLernLab / eduroom
Project management
Several Duration
01/2020 - 12/2024
Subproject of the projekt "Forschungscampus digitale Lehrer*innenbildung". In the DigiLernLab project, a workspace (the eduroom) will be designed and equipped with digital devices to facilitate the acquisition of subject-specific, subject-didactic and technological-informational as well as media-didactic competences by students. At the same time, the room will also serve to promote digital higher education didactic competences among teachers. The DigiLernLab will also facilitate empirical…
The design and mechanisms of preparation-for-learning from a cognitive load perspective
Project management
Prof. Dr. Inga Glogger-Frey Duration
10/2026 - 09/2029 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
305 000 €
The aim of the project is to gain insights into how teaching methods need to be designed and why they are effective in promoting deep understanding and transfer of knowledge. A key tension arises from two competing theoretical perspectives, which the project systematically brings together. The theoretical perspective and practical approach of ‘Preparation for Future Learning’ (PFL) and ‘Productive Failure’ are supplemented here by the perspective of Cognitive Load Theory, with a view to…
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.
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.
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UncertainTEAM – target group oriented communication of scientific uncertainty in multiple crises
Duration
11/2023 - 04/2027
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…

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