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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 ...

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 ...

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 - 09/2022

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 ...

The typology of cumulativity

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

Duration of Project: 10/2020 - 01/2023

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 Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives: cross-linguistic and experimental perspectives

Liu, Mingya, Prof. Dr. (Empiricism of the English Language)

Duration of Project: 08/2019 - 07/2021

The concept of conditionality is central to human thought and action, which is manifested by a rich repertoire of conditional expressions in natural language. A conditional sentence of the form, for example, If p, q, is constructed by a conditional c ...

The Origins of Episodic Memory Formation

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

Duration of Project: 01/2019 - 12/2021

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 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 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 action on the maintenance of items in visual memory

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

Duration of Project: 05/2016 - 04/2019

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 Future of the Economic and Monetary Union: A Franco-German Perspective

Ruffert, Matthias, Prof. Dr. (Public Law / Public Law and European Law)

Duration of Project: 03/2017 - 02/2018

A set of political initiatives and the production of new legal documents by European institutions show that a reorganisation of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) after the financial and budgetary crisis appears underway. However, uncertainty rema ...

The Borders of the Welfare State: Migration, Social Rights and Expulsion (1850-1933)

Althammer, Beate, PD Dr. (African History)

Duration of Project: 11/2018 - 10/2021

In current academic and political debates, the tensions between European conceptions of the welfare state and transnational migration are a heatedly discussed issue. How can social promises be kept in times of globalization? Is welfare only feasible ...

The acquisition of voice alternations by bilingual children (Greek-German)

Alexiadou, Artemis, Prof. Dr. (English Linguistics)

Duration of Project: 01/2017 - 12/2019

Das Ziel dieses Projektes ist die Untersuchung des kindlichen Spracherwerbs von Voice Alternationen. Wir beabsichtigen herauszufinden, wie zweisprachige Kinder Voice Alternationen erwerben, wenn sie Sprachen ausgesetzt sind, die diese Voice Alternati ...

The acquisition of voice alternations by bilingual children (Greek-German)

Alexiadou, Artemis, Prof. Dr. (English Linguistics)

Duration of Project: 10/2015 - 12/2016

This project investigates the acquisition of Voice alternations by bilingual German-Greek speaking children living in Stuttgart, Germany, as well as by monolingual German and Greek speaking children (aged 3-6 years). Specifically, the project focuses ...

Studying social impact of migration: Food security and malnutrition of left-behind children in Kyrgyzstan (Aizada Nuralieva)

Baldauf, Ingeborg, Prof. Dr. phil. (Central Asian Languages and Cultures)

Duration of Project: 07/2018 - 12/2018

Representing and Attending to the Temporal Structure of Visual Events in Working Memory

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

Duration of Project: 01/2019 - 12/2021

Visual events can be characterized by their spatiotemporal structure, for instance by the points in space and time at which they occur, by their spatial distribution and temporal duration. The representation of temporal structure is, however, not nea ...

Mobilizing the Self

Klepper, Martin, Prof. Dr. phil. (Literature and Culture of North America)

Duration of Project: 09/2016 - 10/2019

The concept of mobility has a crucial function in the United States, both as a mythopoetic device and as central element of the national metanarratives. Its physical, social, and economic threads of meaning contribute to discourses such as the Fronti ...

"Migration background": making and social reality of a scientific category

Will, Anne-Kathrin, Dr. (European Ethnology IV)

Duration of Project: 03/2019 - 02/2022

In 2005 seventeen new questions on migration entered the microcensus, the German representative population statistics. With the new questions on migration the so called migration background is generated. Hence the descendants of immigrants became vis ...

Labor market reforms and the supply side in the short and the long run

Burda, Michael C., Prof. Ph. D. (Economic Theory II)

Duration of Project: 10/2017 - 09/2021

This project continues and extends research conducted in the first period of the DFG Priority Program, which investigated short and long-run impacts of supply-side policy on macroeconomic dynamics, with a focus on labor market reforms. It links micro ...

Jews in Weimar Gay Culture and the German-Jewish Contribution to the Emergence of Gay Culture in Palestine/Israel, 1933-1960

Kraß, Andreas, Prof. Dr. (Early German Literature / Literature of the High Middle Ages)

Duration of Project: 01/2017 - 03/2020

The Berlin sub-project focusses on the presence of Jewish protagonists in gay and lesbian Berlin before 1933. The specific Jewish contribution to Berlin as a center of homosexual culture as well as the homosexual equality movement in the Weimar Repub ...

Green Climate Oases: Integrated Urban Development in Berlin Marzahn-Hellersdorf

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

Duration of Project: 12/2017 - 12/2020

The project “Green Climate Oases: Integrated Urban Development in Berlin Marzahn-Hellersdorf” strives for a “holistic” example, which can serve as a nationwide model for an integrated urban development based on cooperation and participation and flank ...

German Centre for Mathematics Teacher Education (DZLM) - Second Funding Phase

Kramer, Jürg, Prof. Dr. phil. (Mathematics and Didactics)

Duration of Project: 10/2016 - 12/2020

Qualify – Research – Networking: Initiated in 2011, the German Centre for Mathematics Teacher Education (DZLM) is Germany’s first nationwide centre providing teacher training in mathematics. The centre is funded by the Deutsche Telekom Stiftung (www. ...

Exhibition "the weight of light"

Müller, Olaf, Prof. Dr. (Theory of Natural Sciences)

Duration of Project: 06/2019 - 07/2019

Effects of informative tutoring feedback on in-service teacher candidates professional competencies in using external representations in science education

Schwanewedel, Julia, Prof. Dr. (Department of Education Studies)

Duration of Project: 12/2017 - 11/2020

Teachers‘ knowledge and beliefs are a substantial part of teachers’ professional competence and have an influence on the realization and thus the success of instructional processes. The second phase of teacher education is presumed to be a decisive p ...

Disentangling European HIV/AIDS Policies: Activism, Citizenship and Health (EUROPACH)

Binder, Beate, Prof. Dr. (Gender Studies and European Ethnology)

Duration of Project: 09/2016 - 11/2019

Through the lens of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, EUROPACH will explore how the past is mobilised in the unfolding of activism, health policy and citizenship in Europe. As transnational health-governing bodies seek to integrate a fortified biomedical approa ...