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Zwischenbetriebliche Kooperation I

Bokelmann, Wolfgang, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. (Economics of Horticultural Production)

Duration of project: 11/1996 - 03/2000

Zellbewegungen I

Glaser, Roland, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. i. R. (Experimental Biophysics)

Duration of project: 07/1997 - 08/1999

Your Emotional City! A transdisciplinary, citizen science investigation of urban spaces

Fingerhut, Joerg, Prof. Dr. (Department of Philosophy)

Duration of project: 07/2021 - 06/2022

Works of Egyptian and Coptic Art as a Source of Inspiration for German Expressionism

Kammerzell, Frank, Prof. Dr. (Archaeology and Cultural History of Northeastern Africa I)

Duration of project: 01/2006 - 12/2007

Wonder in Modern Times

Adamowsky, Natascha, Prof. Dr. phil. (Cultural Studies Specializing in Game Theories and Cultural History of Game)

Duration of project: 09/2010 - 05/2011

Monographie

Wheat cropping systems

Ellmer, Frank, Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. (Agriculture and Plant Cultivation)

Duration of project: 03/2015 - 04/2019

Das Projekt ist Teil des Verbundprojektes IPAS: Bewertung unterschiedlicher Weizenanbausysteme aus ökologischer, ökonomischer und gesamtgesellschaftlicher Sicht am Beispiel der Krankheitsresistenz (AWECOS). Unter den Bedingungen sandiger Böden des n ...

Westfälischer Frieden (Veranstaltung)

Gerhardt, Volker, Prof. Dr. phil. (Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy)

Duration of project: 09/1998 - 02/2000

Das Symposion, das vom 12. bis zum 15. November 1998 in Münster stattfindet, hat das 350 jährige Jubiläum des Westfälischen Friedens zum Anlass. Eingerahmt von Vorträgen des NATO-Generalsekretärs Solana und des Bundestagsvorsitzenden Schäuble diskuti ...

Web Portals on Education (FWU Support V)

Gieseke, Wiltrud, Prof. i. R. Dr. (Adult and Continuing Education)

Duration of project: 01/2004 - 12/2004

Academic progress of the pedagogical and didactical texture of the "Deutscher Bildungsserver and "Schulweb", professional assessment and textual editing of data sets on second-chance/vocational education of the Content-Management-System at the "Deut ...

Vulnerability of Urban Poor to Changes in Food Accessibility: A Study of Opportunities and Constraints for Adaptation to Climate Change and Rapid Urbanization in Hyderabad. Field Work in Hyderabad

Hagedorn, Conrad, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Resource Economics)

Duration of project: 11/2011 - 07/2012

Hyderabad, the capital city of Andhra Pradesh, is undergoing rapid urbanization and economic development. Nevertheless, the urban poor constituting 23 % of the total city population, struggle for basic amenities, including food. Although urbanization ...

Vulnerability of Urban Poor to Changes in Food Accessibility: A Study of Opportunities and Constraints for Adaptation to Climate Change and Rapid Urbanization in Hyderabad. Field Work – 2

Hagedorn, Conrad, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Resource Economics)

Duration of project: 09/2012 - 12/2012

Hyderabad, the capital city of Andhra Pradesh, is undergoing rapid urbanization and economic development. Nevertheless, the urban poor constituting 23 % of the total city population, struggle for basic amenities, including food. Although urbanization ...

Vocational Education Towards Climate-Adaptive Management of Urban Green Spaces

Aenis, Thomas, Dr. (Agricultural Consulting and Communication Studies)

Duration of project: 11/2017 - 12/2019

The objective of the project on “Vocational Education for climate-adapted green spaces” is to support educational institutions and teachers in education, training and further education in the field of landscape gardening: to integrate climate change ...

Vista! Digitizing the Historical Glass Slides of the Department of Art and Visual History

Schelbert, Georg, Dr. (other Employees)

Duration of project: 01/2016 - 12/2016

Digitization and rough cataloguing Historical Glass Slides of the media libraray of the Department of Art and Visual History, inclucding a concept for further deep cataloguing

VA: Kosovo-Konflikt

Tomuschat, Christian, Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Public Law Specializing in International Law and European Law)

Duration of project: 05/2001 - 08/2001

Die Tagung untersuchte umfassend die völkerrechtlichen Probleme des Kosovo-Konfliktes

VA: Diskriminierung

Baer, Susanne, Prof. Dr. (Public Law and Gender Studies)

Duration of project: 01/2001 - 06/2001

VA: Deliberation and Decision

Kirchner, Christian, Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Civil Law, Commercial Law and Economics)

Duration of project: 07/2001 - 08/2001

Verfassungsökonomik und Diskurstheorie stehen seit längerem unverbunden nebeneinander, obwohl beide Funktionsweise und Legitimation demokratischer und staatlicher Institutionen untersuchen (deskriptiv und normativ). Die Konferenz soll Gemeinsamkeiten ...

Using objects from scientific collections in university teaching: praxis, experiences and perspectives

Weber, Cornelia, Dr. phil. (Scientific Collections and Science Communication)

Duration of project: 03/2015 - 05/2016

Objects and collections enable unique access to knowledge, experience and praxis. Despite the oft-cited material turn and the diversity of university collections, working with collections has not yet become common practice in the day-to-day work of u ...

Usage of Solar Energy for the Bioelectrocatalysis – Photobiohybrid Eletrodes for the Light-Driven Synthesis of Valuable Substances (II, SP B)

Zouni, Athina, PD Dr. (Honorary Chairs / Professors by Special Appointment / Part-Time Lecturers)

Duration of project: 02/2018 - 01/2021

The aims of the Tandem-project are light-triggered electrodes for efficient energy conversion. In the frame of the prolonged period of work it is planned to increase the efficiency of photobio-electrodes and also to couple them with enzymatic convers ...

Urban Tipping Points: Understanding Interaction Between Changing Land Use Patterns, Biodiversity and Economic Consequences To Enhance Liveable Cities (UTiP)

Haase, Dagmar, Prof. Dr. (Landscape Ecology and Biogeography)

Duration of project: 06/2017 - 05/2018

Urban ecosystems and related ecosystem services (e.g. climate regulation, recreation experiences, habitats for species) and biodiversity provide an important basis for the sustainable development of cities. They are an essential component for human w ...

Updating Visual Memory Content during Movements

Rolfs, Martin, Prof. Dr. (General Psychology - Active Perception and Cognition)

Duration of project: 10/2019 - 05/2023

Actions are tightly linked to human perception and cognition – both vision and memory are enhanced for stimuli at action target locations. While research on vision and memory has independently established mechanisms of action-based selection, a link ...

Update Oxford University Comparative Law Forum

Dannemann, Gerhard, Prof. Dr. MA (Oxon) (British Legal, Economic and Social Structures)

Duration of project: 01/2002 - 12/2026

Update and continuation of an electronic and interactive journal in the area of comparative law.

Understanding the Role of Material Stock Patterns for the Transformation to a Sustainable Society - MAT_STOCKS

Hostert, Patrick, Prof. Dr. (Geomatics)

Duration of project: 03/2018 - 08/2024

Material stocks such as buildings, infrastructures and machinery, in combination with biophysical resource flows (materials and energy), deliver services to society. Material stocks are of crucial importance for sustainability due to their eminent so ...

Uncovering Pathophysiological Mechanisms of Psychosis Using the Oculomotor System

Rolfs, Martin, Prof. Dr. (General Psychology - Active Perception and Cognition)

Duration of project: 09/2017 - 07/2021

Disturbances in a sense of self are a hallmark of schizophrenia. These disturbances can be characterized by a distorted sense of agency – the subjective sense that I cause the actions I produce. Agency distortions are manifest in many psychotic sympt ...

Tuna el-Gebel

Lembke, Katja, Dr. (Archaeology and Cultural History of Northeastern Africa I)

Duration of project: 09/2004 - 06/2005

Documentation of the architecture, decoration and finds of the Roman necropolis Tuna el-Gebel

Tunable optical frequency references for LISA

Peters, Achim, Prof. Ph.D. (Experimental Physics / Optical Metrology)

Duration of project: 10/2006 - 03/2012

Development and verification of tunable optical frequency references for LISA.

Triple Bonds to Heavier Group Homologues of Carbon

Filippou, Alexander Constantin, Prof. Dr. rer. nat., habil. (Inorganic Chemistry)

Duration of project: 07/2004 - 06/2006

Trees as Indicators of the Urban Heat Island

Schneider, Christoph, Prof. Dr. (Climate Geography)

Duration of project: 06/2017 - 10/2018

The project ‚Bäume als Indikatoren für die urbane Wärmeinsel (BIWi)‘ (= ‚Trees as Indicators of the Urban Heat Island') comprises a pilot study for generating and analysing chronologies of different tree ring parameters (tree-ring width, pointer year ...

Tree-like decompositions of graphs and structures and their applications

Grohe, Martin, Prof. Dr. (Theoretical Computer Science)

Duration of project: 06/2006 - 05/2008

Transmission of health and practices in families across the time

Kardorff, Ernst, von Prof. Dr. phil. (Sociology of Rehabilitation / Professional Rehabilitation / Rehabilitation Law)

Duration of project: 01/2003 - 03/2007

The diagnosis of a chronic disease changes the lives of the patients and their families. Nothing remains as before. The continuation of life with the disease requires complex individual and family processes of adaptation and capacities of reorganisat ...

Transient Stimulated Raman Scattering of Blue-Light Photoreceptors

Ernsting, Nikolaus, Prof. Ph. D. (Cluster Unifying Concepts in Catalysis)

Duration of project: 11/2007 - 10/2012

Transiente stimulierte Ramanstreuung von Blaulicht-Photorezeptoren.

Transformation of educational labour? The economization of labour and organization in educational institutions

Lohr, Karin, Prof. Dr. sc. oec. (Sociology of Labour and Gender Studies)

Duration of project: 09/2008 - 04/2011

Im Mittelpunkt des Projektes steht die Analyse von Veränderungen in den Organisationsstrukturen, Arbeits- und Leistungsanforderungen sowie den Beschäftigungsverhältnissen in Bildungsorganisationen. Ziel ist es zu untersuchen, welche Folgen die an Bil ...

Tranformations of Emotion

Perler, Dominik, Prof. Dr. (Cluster Languages of Emotion)

Duration of project: 10/2010 - 03/2011

Book Project; research release

Trafficability of fen lands under their protection and appropriate use

Hahn, Jürgen, Prof. Dr. agr. (Section Biological Systems Technology)

Duration of project: 07/1996 - 03/2000

Fens are organic soils that are mainly used as permanent grassland. They cover large areas, e.g. 5 million hectars in Central Europe. Fens have important ecological functions as large area stores and filters for water and nutrients and as habitats fo ...

Three-armed, Randomized Controlled Study to Assess the Effects of FASTER and SCOTT Trainings for Adults with High-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Dziobek-Ferber, Isabel, Prof. Dr. (Clinical Psychology of Social Interaction)

Duration of project: 10/2019 - 03/2025

The Freiburg Asperger Specific Therapy for Adult Patients (FASTER) is a published manualized group psychotherapy program for adults with high-functioning ASD. It aims to improve social responsiveness, social competence, and dysfunctional stress copin ...

Third German-French workshop on Russian history and culture (Event: 12.05.-13.05.06, Paris)

Baberowski, Jörg, Prof. Dr. (History of Eastern Europe)

Duration of project: 01/2006 - 08/2006

Nach dem ersten gemeinsamen Workshop französischer und deutscher Historikerinnen und Historiker, der 1990 in Paris stattfand, und dem Nachfolgetreffen 2004 in Berlin planen der Lehrstuhl Osteuropäische Geschichte der Humboldt-Universität Berlin und d ...

Thinking in Polarities: Life as a phenomenon and a problem

Greisch, Jean, Prof. Dr. (Philosophy of Religion and Catholic World View (Chair sponsored by Guardini Foundation))

Duration of project: 10/2010 - 10/2010

international conference

The Young Islam Conference

Foroutan Mahin, Naika, Prof. Dr. (Comparative Analysis of Social Structure)

Duration of project: 09/2010 - 06/2011

The project "The Young Islam Conference" is a simulation game meant to simulate the "German Islam Coference" (DIK). It is an intervention in the field of political education of young adults, currently in its pilot stage. The target population are hig ...

The Window Opening Onto the Nature and Art: A Comprehensive Historical-Critical Investigation of the Brandenburgish-Prussian Art Chamber Seen as an Observatory, a Laboratory, Communications Space, and Showroom of Knowledge

Bredekamp, Horst, Prof. Dr. (Senior Professor and Professors retired)

Duration of project: 10/2018 - 06/2022

Die Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, die Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin und das Museum für Naturkunde Berlin widmen sich gemeinsam der Erforschung der Geschichte der Berliner Kunstkammer als Nukleus der heutigen Berliner Museumslandschaft im Rahmen des ...

The Window Opening Onto the Nature and Art: A Comprehensive Historical-Critical Investigation of the Brandenburgish-Prussian Art Chamber Seen as an Observatory, a Laboratory, Communications Space, and Showroom of Knowledge

Bredekamp, Horst, Prof. Dr. (Senior Professor and Professors retired)

Duration of project: 10/2018 - 09/2021

Die Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, die Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin und das Museum für Naturkunde Berlin widmen sich gemeinsam der Erforschung der Geschichte der Berliner Kunstkammer als Nukleus der heutigen Berliner Museumslandschaft im Rahmen des ...

The Village: Research at the East German countryside

Kubiak, Daniel, M.A. (Department of Social Sciences)

Duration of project: 03/2018 - 10/2018

The Underground: Subversion and the Social Imaginary in the Global North

Mergel, Thomas, Prof. Dr. (European History of the 20th Century)

Duration of project: 09/2018 - 06/2019

This project concerns the intellectual and cultural history of "the underground", one of the most powerful metaphors of the modern era. By combining the methods of Hans Blumenberg's metaphorology and Reinhart Koselleck's science of historical experie ...

The typology of cumulativity

Schmitt, Viola, Dr. (General and Germanistic Linguistics: Semantics and Pragmatics)

Duration of project: 10/2020 - 01/2024

Sentences containing plural expressions can be true in a number of situations: The sentence `Two boys fed two cats', for instance, is true if boy 1 and boy 2 each fed two cats -- but also if boy 1 fed only cat 1 and boy 2 fed only cat 2. The so-calle ...

The Tax State between the Poles of Democracy and Capitalism. A History of Public Finance in West Germany (1949-1989)

Buggeln, Marc, Dr. (German History of the 20th Century)

Duration of project: 10/2016 - 09/2017

Politik ist nahezu immer auch Finanzpolitik. Erst Einnahmen ermöglichen es, den Staat zu gestalten. Die eingenommenen Mittel sinnvoll zu verteilen ist eine der Hauptaufgaben staatli-chen Handelns. Mit den Entscheidungen wird nicht nur Einfluss auf di ...

The syntax of early Thai (Sukhothai)

Bauer, Christian, Prof. M.A., DEA, PhD (Southeast Asian Studies)

Duration of project: 11/1993 - 12/2008

A corpus-based grammatical description of early epigraphic Thai texts from Sukhothai.

The Structure of Parameterized Complexity Classes IV

Grohe, Martin, Prof. Dr. (Theoretical Computer Science)

Duration of project: 10/2009 - 07/2011

The Structure of Parameterized Complexity Classes (III)

Grohe, Martin, Prof. Dr. (Theoretical Computer Science)

Duration of project: 03/2007 - 07/2011

The Structure of Parameterized Complexity Classes (II)

Grohe, Martin, Prof. Dr. (Theoretical Computer Science)

Duration of project: 10/2005 - 09/2006

Die Komplexitätstheorie macht Aussagen über die zur Lösung von algorithmischen Problemen erforderlichen Ressourcen, wie etwa Rechenzeit. Dabei wird die Komplexität eines Problems üblicherweise als Funktion der Eingabegröße gemessen. Dieses einfache M ...

The Soul in Romantic and Modern Poetry

Haekel, Ralf, Dr. (Modern English Literature)

Duration of project: 04/2007 - 01/2009

The social situation of part-time farming in Germany

Streiffeler, Friedhelm, Prof. Dr. phil. (Sociology of Agriculture)

Duration of project: 01/2001 - 12/2006

The socialist concept of a city center, Sofia (1944-1989): between political ideology and habitual social practice

Hardtwig, Wolfgang, Prof. Dr. phil. (Early Modern History Specializing in the 19th Century)

Duration of project: 03/2008 - 06/2008

The research explores the socialist conception of a city center through the case-study of Sofia. The research is focused on the urban development of Sofia and its impact upon everyday social life. The research explores how the ideologically inspired ...

The situation of illegal Polish seasonal workers in German agriculture

Streiffeler, Friedhelm, Prof. Dr. phil. (Sociology of Agriculture)

Duration of project: 01/2004 - 12/2006

The Scholar Warriors: Intellectual History, New Left, and American Intelligence

Hardtwig, Wolfgang, Prof. Dr. phil. (Early Modern History Specializing in the 19th Century)

Duration of project: 07/2007 - 03/2011

The Roman triumph in the imperial times and Late Antiquity

Winterling, Aloys, Prof. Dr. (Ancient History II)

Duration of project: 01/2011 - 12/2013

While several groundbreaking studies on the triumph in the Roman Republic have been published in the last decade, the triumphs of the imperial and late Roman period received little attention. This is surprising, because a large part of our evidence o ...

Markschies, Christoph, Prof. Dr. Dres. h. c. (Ancient History of Christianity)

Duration of project: 04/2005 - 01/2008

The Roles of Grid and Place Cells and Phase Precession in Human Episodic Memory

Kempter, Richard, Prof. Dr. (Computational Neuroscience)

Duration of project: 03/2018 - 06/2021

This research project uses direct human brain recordings to characterize the neuronal signals that represent aspects of individual episodic memories. A key question is understanding how the brain supports tasks such as “Where did I leave my keys this ...

The role of mathematical and scientific student clubs and corporations in knowledge production and scientific culture, 1850-1935

Schirrmacher, Arne, PD Dr. (History of Science Specializing in History of Education and Organisation of Knowledge in the 19th and 20th Century)

Duration of project: 12/2010 - 11/2014

While students and socialization in student institutions have been considered by social, political, gender and cultural history since long, in the history of science the questions about scientific socialization and learning of epistemic forms of acti ...

The role of mathematical and scientific student clubs and corporations for knowledge production and scientific culture in Germany, 1850-1935 / II

Schirrmacher, Arne, PD Dr. (History of Science Specializing in History of Education and Organisation of Knowledge in the 19th and 20th Century)

Duration of project: 12/2012 - 11/2015

While students and socialization within student institutions is part of the discourse of social, political, gender and cultural history since long, history of science has neglected the question of scientific socialization and learning of epistemic pr ...

The role of local level institutions towards enhancing sustainable rural livelihoods in rural ethiopia II

Hagedorn, Conrad, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Resource Economics)

Duration of project: 01/2003 - 12/2004

This research project aims at investigating households livelihood strategies in marginal areas of Ethiopia. The basic hypothesis of this research is based on the assumption that the problems of natural resource degradation and poverty in rural Ethio ...

The role of local level institutions towards enhancing sustainable rural livelihoods in rural ethiopia I

Hagedorn, Conrad, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Resource Economics)

Duration of project: 01/2003 - 12/2004

This research project aims at investigating households livelihood strategies in marginal areas of Ethiopia. The basic hypothesis of this research is based on the assumption that the problems of natural resource degradation and poverty in rural Ethio ...

The role of immigrants' first and second language proficiency for social integration, particularly in education: Analyses of NEPS data (NEPS-SPP)

Stanat, Petra, Prof. Dr. (Educational Psychology (Learning, Instruction and Evaluation))

Duration of project: 04/2012 - 02/2016

The interdisciplinary project investigates the role of immigrants’ language proficiency for their social integration in the receiving country. Emanating from a general resource perspective, language proficiency is seen as a crucial resource for socia ...

The Role of Hiding Places on the Behaviour of Lobsters

Hetz, Stefan, Dr. rer. nat. (Animal Physiology/Systems Neurobiology and Neural Computation)

Duration of project: 06/2012 - 09/2013

Hummer werden im Handel in unstrukturieten Aquarien gehalten. In diesem Projekt werden, aufbauend auf den Ergebnissen eines vorhergehenden Projekts, die Auswirkungen von Beschattung und Verstecken auf Bewegungsmuster und Aufenthaltspräferenz von Humm ...

The role of consumer cooperatives in food processing and energy delivery sectors in Hyderabad

Hanisch, Markus, Prof. Dr. (Cooperative Sciences (S))

Duration of project: 07/2008 - 06/2013

Konsumentenvereinigungen dienen der Organisation der Nachfrageseite auf anderenfalls durch Marktmacht geprägten Anbietermärkten für Verbrauchs- und Konsumgüter. Konsumgenossenschaften bergen deshalb, über ihr Potential Preise zu senken, Chancen für d ...

The Role of Affective Flexibility in Human Development and Its Contribution to Long-Term Developmental Adaptation

Völkle, Manuel, Prof. Dr. (Psychological Methods)

Duration of project: 01/2017 - 11/2019

In the proposed project, we plan to investigate the interplay between short-term variability and long-term change in affective functioning from adolescence to old age. We propose that affective flexibility, the capacity of the affective system to adj ...

The role of ABC proteins for the transverse dynamics of cholesterol in membranes I

Müller, Peter, Dr. rer. nat. (Molecular Biophysics)

Duration of project: 10/2004 - 01/2008

Cholesterol is an essential component of biological membranes. Besides its role to stabilize membrane structure, cholesterol plays also a functional role in various membrane processes. The transbilayer movement of cholesterol between both halves of t ...

The role of ABC proteins for the transbilayer dynamics of cholesterol in membranes II

Müller, Peter, Dr. rer. nat. (Molecular Biophysics)

Duration of project: 04/2007 - 04/2010

Cholesterol is an essential component of biological membranes. Besides its role in supporting membrane structure, this lipid is also functionally involved in various membrane-based physiological processes. An important step of the cellular cholestero ...

The Ritual Reproduction of Khmerness in Thailand

Houben, Vincentius, Prof. Dr. phil. (History of Southeast Asia)

Duration of project: 10/2010 - 09/2013

Gegenstand des Forschungsvorhabens ist die Frage nach der Bedeutung ritueller Praxis für die Reproduktion ethnischer Kategorien in der thailändischen Provinz Buriram. Im Rahmen eines interdisziplinären Ansatzes, der ethnologische und historische Frag ...

The Right to Be Heard in Criminal Proceedings

Pohlreich, Erol, Dr. (Criminal Law / Criminal Procedural Law / European Criminal Law and Modern Law History)

Duration of project: 11/2014 - 05/2017

The project head plans to examine the constitutional requirements that result from the right to be heard in criminal proceedings on the basis of three problems that each cover one aspect of this fundamental right. Starting from these problems, he aim ...

The relatives of cancer patients in inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation

Kardorff, Ernst, von Prof. Dr. phil. (Sociology of Rehabilitation / Professional Rehabilitation / Rehabilitation Law)

Duration of project: 07/1998 - 10/2000

The relation between joke appreciation and homonym comprehension

Spalek, Katharina, Prof. Dr. (Cluster Languages of Emotion)

Duration of project: 12/2009 - 05/2011

The Reich Research Council - History, Structure, Impact

Bruch, Rüdiger, vom Prof. Dr. phil. (History of Science Specializing in History of Education and Organisation of Knowledge in the 19th and 20th Century)

Duration of project: 09/2004 - 11/2004

As part of a sturctural history of the Reich Research Council it is planed to analyse: 1. its role as monitoring system in regard to the politics of science, 2. its function as part of the military research and 3. its importance within the national s ...

The Reich Research Council - History, Structure, Impact

Bruch, Rüdiger, vom Prof. Dr. phil. (History of Science Specializing in History of Education and Organisation of Knowledge in the 19th and 20th Century)

Duration of project: 09/2003 - 08/2004

As part of a sturctural history of the Reich Research Council it is planed to analyse: 1. its role as monitoring system in regard to the politics of science, 2. its function as part of the military research and 3. its importance within the national s ...

The reader as spectator. On the relationship between narration and (animated) imagination in medieval literature.

Wenzel, Horst, Prof. Dr. phil. (Early German Literature / Literature of the High Middle Ages)

Duration of project: 10/2004 - 03/2005

Medieval historiography requires the eyewitness (cf. Isidore of Seville: audire et videre), and for the early vernacular the eye witness is also guarantee and assurance of an authentic or fabricated historical narrative (Troy novels, Nibelungenlied). ...

The promotion of membership in housing co-operatives as a challenge for a sustainable development of enterprises

Hagedorn, Conrad, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Resource Economics)

Duration of project: 12/2001 - 07/2005

The housing market is - primarily in Eastern Germany currently in radical change connected to environmental factors e.g. the loss of economical and social function in many towns and deficits of regional labour markets. The problems of housing co-op ...

The production of chronicity in mental health care and research in Berlin

Niewöhner, Jörg, Prof. Dr. (European Ethnology of Urban Areas and Cultures)

Duration of project: 06/2010 - 04/2016

The focus of the project is on detailed ethnographic observation of medical classificatory practices in order to track their impact on the understanding of illness in medical institutions as well as on patients’ experiences of illness. The aim is to ...

The processing of bacterial lipopolysaccharides by Bdellovibrio in the framework of its microbiological and genetic uniqueness

Linscheid, Michael, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. (Analytical Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry)

Duration of project: 11/2001 - 12/2004

Der enzymatische Abbau bakterieller Lipoploysaccharide von verschiedenen E. coli Spezies durch Vertreter des Genus Bdellovibrio soll untersucht werden. Um die speziellen Abbauwege der LPS zu beschreiben, setzen wir zur Strukturaufklärung der Metaboli ...

The Possibilities of a Political-Historical Interpretation of the Find Distribution of Greek Bronze Tripods of the Geometric Type (1100-700 B.C.)

Kiderlen, Moritz, Dr. (Classical Archaeology)

Duration of project: 01/2011 - 12/2013

Bronze tripods were particularly suitable as a means of formulating social status since they were one of the most prestigious types of movable items. Offerings of bronze tripods occur by no means in all (Proto-)Geometric sanctuaries but only in a few ...

The popularisation of history. Historians, publishers and the German reading public (1850-1900)

Hardtwig, Wolfgang, Prof. Dr. phil. (Early Modern History Specializing in the 19th Century)

Duration of project: 06/2005 - 06/2008

The project investigates the interaction between professional historians, amateurs and a broader reading public in the second half of the 19th century in Germany. It asks to what extent the development of the German historical science was influenced ...

The Popular German-Language Non-Fiction Book in the 20th Century

Schütz, Erhard, Prof. Dr. phil. (Modern German Literature / Literature of the 18th to 20th Century)

Duration of project: 11/2004 - 01/2008

The Politics of Restitution in Germany, 1945-2000

Goschler, Constantin, Dr. (Contemporary History)

Duration of project: 04/2002 - 11/2003

Die Wiedergutmachung nationalsozialistischen Unrechts rückte in den vergangenen Jahren verstärkt in die Aufmerksamkeit der Öffentlichkeit wie der Zeitgeschichte. Dafür waren vor allem die in den neunziger Jahren vorgebrachten Entschädigungsforderunge ...

The Polish Dative as a test case for linguistic theory

Meyer, Roland, Prof. Dr. (West Slavic Languages)

Duration of project: 01/2016 - 02/2022

The project investigates the synchronic and short-term diachronic syntax of Datives (DAT) in Pol[ish] as compared to Ice[landic] and Ru[ssian], and its implications for general linguistic theory. DAT Case is a particularly revealing phenomenon at the ...

The phasing out process of development projects : Concepts and methods of a participatory approach

Nagel, Uwe Jens, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Agricultural Consulting and Communication Studies)

Duration of project: 01/2001 - 12/2003

Entwicklung eines theoretischen Konzeptes für den Phase out (früher: Übergabe) Prozess, Identifikation und Test von partizipativen Instrumenten (Fallstudien in Afrika), Klärung ob und unter welchen Umständen eine partizipative Methodik für den Phase ...

The Perception of Social Groups through the Prism of Sexual Violence in St. Petersburg 1864-1914

Baberowski, Jörg, Prof. Dr. (History of Eastern Europe)

Duration of project: 10/2003 - 09/2006

Der Stellenwert und die Bedeutungen sexueller Gewalt wandelten sich seit Mitte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Zum einen trugen die seit den 1860er Jahren entstehenden, ausgesprochen populären Boulevardzeitungen durch ihre ausführliche Berichterstattun ...

The partnership between farmers, reserchers, extensionists, and their organisations: reflections about the agricultural knowledge system in the State of Para/Brazil

Nagel, Uwe Jens, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Agricultural Consulting and Communication Studies)

Duration of project: 01/1995 - 10/2002

Die Zusammenarbeit von Bauern, Beratern, Forschern und ihren Organisationen zur Entwicklung des ländlichen Raumes befindet sich in Brasilien in einer Krise. Es fehlen Entscheidungen und überzeugende Vorschläge seitens der Regierung für die Zukunft de ...

The Ostia Forum Project OFP: geophysics, excavation and digital (2-D/3-D) documentation of the plazas and buildings in the city-center of Ostia antica from the 1st-6th century AD

Schmid, Stephan G., Prof. Dr. phil. (Classical Archaeology)

Duration of project: 08/2015 - 06/2022

Ostia is the first colony and the main harbour of Rome, approximately 30 km west of the capital of the Roman Empire. Ostia was an antique ‘metropolis’ with four- and five-storey high multiple dwellings. Thanks to large-scale excavations until 1941, O ...

The Origins of Episodic Memory Formation

Friedrich, Manuela, Dr. rer. nat. (Cognitive Psychology)

Duration of project: 01/2019 - 12/2022

In diesem Projekt werden die frühesten Formen episodischer Gedächtnisbildung bei Säuglingen und Kleinkindern untersucht. Insbesondere geht es um den initialen Erwerb (das Enkodieren) der Komponenten episodischen Wissens (das Was, Wann und Wo eines Er ...

The Organization of Diversity in the Ecclesiastical Space of Antiquity

Markschies, Christoph, Prof. Dr. Dres. h. c. (Cluster Topoi - The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Anvient Civilization)

Duration of project: 11/2007 - 10/2012

Public space, such as temples, forums, and village squares, played a vital role in ancient civilizations, and mirrored the structures of social and political organization. Within this context, the early history of the expansion of Christianity can be ...

Theoretical Analysis of Hippocampal Memory Formation

Kempter, Richard, Prof. Dr. (Computational Neuroscience)

Duration of project: 06/2010 - 06/2017

The hippocampus is engaged in remembering information that can be described in a declarative manner, and work on the function of the hippocampus has led to the development of current concepts about the organization of memory systems in the brain. Bec ...

The Nature of the Cold War: GDR Nature Conservation Policy during the East-West Conflict from 1945 to 1990

Kirchhof, Astrid Mignon, Dr. (Modern and Contemporary History)

Duration of project: 08/2014 - 07/2015

As well as establishing government nature conservation organizations in support of civic nature conservation efforts, the GDR took its first legislative, political and scientific measures in the nature conservation area much earlier than the Federal ...

The Nag Hammadi Writings within the History of Literature and Theology of Early Christianity

Schröter, Jens, Prof. Dr. (New Testament Exegesis and Theology and Ancient Christian Apocrypha)

Duration of project: 02/2015 - 05/2016

Nag Hammadi Writings

The myth of German Culture within the German and Austrian Jewry 1918-1938

Hardtwig, Wolfgang, Prof. Dr. phil. (Early Modern History Specializing in the 19th Century)

Duration of project: 10/2001 - 09/2004

This dissertation examines the identification of German and Austrian Jews with German Culture in the inter-war time. The study explores the shaping influence of a classical enlightened cultural ideal on the identity-debates of German and Austrian Jew ...

Thematic expansion of harvested resources in EIGE's RDC

Jähnert, Gabriele, Dr. (Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies)

Duration of project: 06/2013 - 10/2013

The life cycles of parasitic worms - from macro-evolutionary patterns to the genetics of adaptation

Benesh, Daniel, Dr. (Molecular Parasitology)

Duration of project: 05/2019 - 12/2022

Many parasites have complex life cycles in which they infect multiple hosts in succession before reproducing. These life cycles are perplexing, because they seem risky. As the number of consecutive hosts in a life cycle increases, so does the risk of ...

The Kaokoveld in Namibia - unique region or part of the Western Escarpment Mts. (WEM)?

Mey, Wolfram, Dr. (Entomology)

Duration of project: 04/2008 - 03/2009

Das Kaokoveld im Nordwesten Namibias ist geographisch der nördlichste Ausläufer der Western Escarpment Mountains, die sich von Kapstadt über Namibia bis nach Süd-Angola erstrecken. Die Gegend ist abgelegen und nur mit 4 x 4 Geländewagen zu erkunden. ...

The Interplay of Collective Memory, Narratives, Emotions and Attitudes in the Ethnopolitical Conflicts: The South Caucasus

Duration of project: 08/2014 - 07/2017

Narrative intervention in conflict resolution is rarely an object of social psychological studies. Only recently have scholars of conflict resolution turned to analyse the role of narratives for conflict resolution thus giving birth to narrative appr ...

The integration of highly skilled migrant women into the German labour market. Effects of migration on highly skilled women's professional careers in science and technology

Nickel, Hildegard-Maria, Prof. Dr. sc. phil. (Sociology of Labour and Gender Studies)

Duration of project: 02/2009 - 02/2012

Basic research on professional careers of highly skilled migrant women in science and technology, focussing on migrant women who immigrated without prior work permit.

The Influence of Mechanical Forces in Neuro-degenerative Diseases

Klotzsch, Enrico, Prof. Dr. (Experimental Biophysics)

Duration of project: 01/2019 - 02/2023

We will use live-cell and super-resolution microscopy combined with automated image processing to determine the impact of large numbers of FUS variants on the sub-cellular distribution, nuclear re-localisation and aggregate formation at a single cell ...

The influence of constitutional courts on the process of transformation. A comparative perspective on Turkey and Germany

Steinsdorff, Silvia, von Prof. Dr. (Ernst Fraenkel Professorship in Comparative Studies of Democracy)

Duration of project: 06/2011 - 08/2014

Even though one can speak of a recent boom of scientific work on Constitutional Courts in established democracies as well as in democratizing countries, comparative research on the institutional setting, the political impact and especially on the int ...

The Index of Linguistic Justice

Frensch, Peter Alex, Prof. Ph.D. (General Psychology)

Duration of project: 01/2017 - 12/2018

This research project involves the design of an index of linguistic justice that can be applied to comparing and evaluationg language policy regimes among states.

The Importance of Reformed Education in Early Modern Europe

Schilling, Heinz, Prof. i. R. Dr. Dr. hc. (European History of the Early Modern History)

Duration of project: 01/2001 - 12/2006

Investigation of Reformed educational thought and schools in Early Modern Europe; comparative analysis of Reformed education and schools with their Catholic and Lutheran equivalents

The impact of movement on the maintenance of items in visual memory

Ohl, Sven, Dr. (Junior Research Groups)

Duration of project: 05/2016 - 09/2019

The versatility of human behaviour depends on coordinated, goal-directed movements. They are the basis for our interaction with dynamic environments, and the mechanisms that control them are entwined with perceptual and cognitive functions. While the ...

The Impact of Insurer's Insolvency Risk on the Demand for Insurance Policies

Gründl, Helmut, Prof. Dr. (Business Administration)

Duration of project: 05/2005 - 01/2008

According to theoretical models and a few empirical analyses, the insurer's insolvency risk has a great impact on the willingness to pay for insurance contracts and consequently on the premium income and the return of insurance companies. Hence, it s ...