Research projects

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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.
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BBNE-Hubs
Project management
Several Duration
05/2024 - 04/2026 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
1 111 000 €
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 - 12/2025 Funding
Several donors
324 100 €
‘Bewegte Kinder = Gesündere Kinder (BeKiGeKi) is a Thuringia-wide programme to support the movement-related skills of children of primary school age.
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Development of an Evidence-Based Communication Strategy to Promote Physical Activity Among Older and Very Old People in Germany
Project management
Prof. Dr. Constanze Rossmann Duration
04/2018 - 02/2019 Funding
Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA):
100 000 €
The project, funded by the Federal Centre for Health Education (Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung - BZgA), is developing an evidence-based communication strategy to promote physical activity among older and very old people in Germany as part of the "Älter werden in Balance" (Getting older in balance) programme based on qualitative guideline interviews and a representative telephone survey.
Dictatorship Experience and Transformation
Project management
Prof. Dr. Christiane Kuller Duration
01/2019 - 09/2025 Funding
Several donors
1 500 000 €
The starting point of the project is the assumption that not only individual and collective experiences during the GDR (German Democratic Republic - DDR) itself, but also the deep biographical upheavals of the post-reunification period shape the memory of the GDR. In the following decade, the political debates of 1989/90 gave rise to a conflict of memory that continues to have an impact today. This determines the time frame of the project, which takes a look at the last two decades of the GDR…
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Establishment of an oral history research centre
Duration
09/2021 - 09/2025
The research centre focuses on the "East German experience". The research centre takes up the specifics of the GDR and transformation period and discusses the methodology of oral history in this context. As a central institution of this kind in the East German Länder, the research centre is to be expanded into a supra-regional centre and, in terms of its design, be a building block of the nationwide network of oral history institutions that is currently being established.
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FBDGVisual – Development and Evaluation of Visualisations of Food-related Nutritional Recommendations
Project management
Dr. Sabine Best Duration
04/2024 - 03/2026 Funding
Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (BMEL):
400 000 €
The aim of the research work is to examine existing visualisations for food-related dietary recommendations (food based dietary guidelines, FBDG) based on specific reception criteria for different target groups. Based on qualitative studies, Sabine Best's team wants to use creative techniques to identify the challenges for the target groups (e.g. children, adults, senior citizens) and develop ideas for suitable forms of visualisation. Quantitative studies will then be used to review these…
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…
From GDR Homeland Studies to Social Studies. Primary school before and after 1989
Project management
Prof. Dr. Sandra Tänzer Duration
01/2019 - 09/2025
Subproject in the research network "Dictatorship Experience and Transformation". The average age of teachers at Thuringian schools is around 50. A large number of the primary school teachers working in Thuringia today were educated in the GDR and personally experienced the social upheaval of 1989/1990. They witnessed the change in educational policy and the transformation of the subject of local history from an ethos to a subject, which is now called local history in Thuringian primary schools.…
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HEATCOM - Behavioural data for effective heat communication
Project management
Dr. Mirjam Jenny Duration
11/2023 - 12/2026 Funding
Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (BMG):
911 000 €
The project "Behavioural data for effective heat communication – HEATCOM" investigates how citizens behave in heat situations, which factors influence their protective behaviour and which interventions could contribute to health-promoting adaptation. The aim of the project is to generate evidence that can be used by relevant organisations, authorities or the public health service to design specific communication campaigns and intervention programmes. The project will be carried out using the…
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KLIMA-Netzwerk für mehr Nachhaltigkeit in Thüringen. Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung (BNE)
Project management
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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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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Probabilistic Decisions of Children
Project management
Prof. Dr. Tilmann Betsch Duration
10/2013 - 12/2020 Funding
Several donors
592 000 €
At what age and under what conditions do children systematically use probabilistic information in decision-making? How do they use it - as criteria for orienting selective information searches and/or as weights of values in the integration of information? With regard to these questions, the empirical research findings are poor and inconsistent. Against the background of two model classes of decision making (multiple strategy approach vs. connectionist approach) competing assumptions about…
Protecting Academia At Risk: Towards a New Policy Agenda for a Thriving Culture of higher education in Europe
Project management
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Kleeberg Duration
03/2024 - 02/2026 Funding
Gerda Henkel Stiftung:
183 000 €
The current situation of academia at risk in the European landscape raises three distinct research questions. First, what is the current institutional framework that responds to academic displacement in Europe? Second, what are the normative contours of protecting academic freedom in future democratic societies? Third, how does an improved system of integrating displaced academics connect to broader values such as the protection of a thriving academic culture? This project builds on our seed…
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School supervision in times of transformation
Project management
Prof. Dr. Kathrin Dedering Duration
10/2024 - 09/2026
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.
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…
Supplementary User-Specific Information Material to Impart Relevant Knowledge for the Management of Exceptional Biological Hazards to Strengthen Crisis Management (ERIM)
Project management
Several Duration
05/2018 - 12/2020 Funding
Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (BMG):
430 000 €
ERIM is a project sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Health (Bundesministerium für Gesundheit - BMG) and led by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for the development of supplementary information materials to support physicians in private practice in exceptional biological hazard situations in order to promote good crisis management.
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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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.
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UncertainTEAM – target group oriented communication of scientific uncertainty in multiple crises
Duration
11/2023 - 10/2026
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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Vaccination 60+ (Impfen 60+)
Project management
Several Duration
10/2016 - 09/2019 Funding
:
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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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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