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Forgotten Bauhaus Women. Fates of life in the 1930s and 1940s
Project management
Prof. Dr. Dr. Patrick Rössler
Duration
10/2021 - 01/2022
Patrick Rössler: The exhibition project "Forgotten Bauhaus Women" by the University of Erfurt and the Klassik Stiftung Weimar is dedicated to researching these fates, of which more than thirty will be presented at the Bauhaus Museum Weimar from October 2021.
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How collective contexts influence creative action on different cultural fields
Duration
09/2016 - 08/2017
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1 416 000 €
Bjorn Schiermer-Andersen: My project focusses on how collective contexts influence creative action on different cultural fields: 1) It investigates the guidance provided by the 'object' in creative action; 2) It investigates the effect of the collective context upon this relation (to the object); 3) It investigates and compares this interplay on three different cultural fields: music, religion and academia.
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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 - 03/2025
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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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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People Pictures Universal
Project management
Prof. Dr. Dr. Patrick Rössler
Duration
04/2016 - 10/2017
Funding
Kulturstiftung des Bundes:
150 000 €
Patrick Rössler: At the turn of the 20th century, a globalized world view is establishing itself, creating the new images and new information paths that are the focus of this project. Whether the world language Esperanto or the pictogram as a building block of a global language: the complexity of social processes is countered by a search for simple orders and orientation, which also creates a new world of pictures in design and composition.
Politics and the Future of Work in Middle-Income Countries (PolDigWork). How Hopes and Fears about Digitalization Shape Opinions on Social and Labour Policies
Project management
Prof. Dr. Achim Kemmerling
Duration
10/2022 - 10/2025
Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
716 027 €
The project looks at the social and political impact of digitalization and automation for labour markets in selected middle-income countries. For three years, a team will employ a mixed methods approach with an original survey component combined with social network analysis as well as case studies from Mexico, South Africa and Indonesia.
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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.
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.
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Spaces and Objects
Project management
Prof. Dr. Susanne Rau
Duration
07/2013 - 12/2016
Funding
Stiftung Mercator:
145 000 €
The research project serves as a preparation for teaching and research in the field of collections-based history of knowledge and culture. The funding will benefit the initiation and further development of the new M.A. programme in "Collections-Based History of Knowledge and Culture", which the university has been offering since the winter semester 2014/15.
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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.
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…
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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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