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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…

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.

Documentation and Description of the Kanakanavu Language, an Endangered Language of Formosa (Taiwan R.O.C. - Republic of China)

Project management
Prof. Dr. Christian Lehmann Duration
06/2012 - 07/2015 Funding
Several donors
50 000 €

The project is dedicated to the language documentation of Kanakanavu, an endangered indigenous language in Taiwan. Recorded texts will be written down and the language system will be analyzed linguistically. In addition, the situation of the language will be examined.

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.

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.

Religion and Politics in Protestant Sermons of the 16th and 17th Century in the Thuringian-Saxon Region

Project management
Dr. Kathrin Paasch Duration
10/2008 - 03/2015 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
101 000 €

Due to its denominational anchoring, the Gotha Research Library has a reference collection for the history of Central German Protestantism in the 16th and 17th centuries. An extremely extensive collection of sermons is part of this outstanding tradition. The aim of the project is to make the collection of political sermons accessible to the interested public online.

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.…

The Mission of the English Philadelphians in Germany, Building Networks and the Spoken Transmission of their Ideology

Project management
Dr. Lucinda Martin Duration
07/2014 - 07/2017 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
261 998 €

In the Gotha Research Library, there is a geographically arranged 'Catalogus amicorum in Germania', which served the Philadelphians as a starting point for their German mission, together with a volume of letters from this group. In addition, there are important holdings in other archives which have also received little attention from scientists. Based on these sources, the project will reconstruct the early network of the Philadelphians between England and Germany as well as the social and…

What is Western about the West?

Project management
Prof. Dr. Holt Meyer Duration
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.

Writing weak syllables

Project management
Prof. Dr. Frank Domahs Duration
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…

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