How do market integration and climate change affect social cohesion? Dr Gianluca Grimalda, known as the scientist who refuses to fly, is investigating this question through field experiments in Papua New Guinea. He has been awarded a fellowship at the Passau International Centre for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies (PICAIS), where he will analyse the data collected during his fieldwork.
How effective is interoperability between messenger services? Does it really foster competition and innovation? These are some of the questions being examined by a team from the University of Passau, led by Professor Jan Krämer, Chair of Information Systems, as part of a new bidt project.
The establishment of a new Center - Think Space Ukraine (TSU) or Denkraum Ukraine (DU) – aims to consolidate and advance Regensburg’s diverse expertise on Ukraine's culture, economy, politics, and law. The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has pledged substantial support, injecting about 2.5 million euros from April 2024 to March 2028. This underscores the commitment to fostering the expansion of the numerous connections and collaborations with Ukrainian scholars that are already in place at the University of Regensburg (UR) in the realms of research, teaching, and knowledge transfer.
A study has been carried out at the University of Bayreuth that shows a way to measure the CO2 footprint of companies more accurately. The results of this research can help commercial enterprises to drive forward CO2 savings in the right places. A white paper has now been published in collaboration with the DFGE - Institute for Energy and Ecology.
Researchers at the University of Regensburg, led by Professor Dr. Burkhard König, Institute of Organic Chemistry, have developed a new synthesis method: Light reaction on a water surface allows chemical syntheses without the use of organic solvents or other reaction additives. This makes the production of chemical products more efficient and environmentally friendly. The results of years of research have now been published in the internationally renowned journal Science.
Inflation is not just a number. Bayreuth philosopher Prof Dr Johanna Thoma argues that research in the social sciences should be based on different value orientations at the same time - also because this is important for democracy.
Better alignment with the market is one of the goals pursued by the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in recent decades. One of the measures used to achieve this was to decouple direct payments from production. Agricultural economists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now found that this form of direct payments makes farms more productive. Despite higher productivity, the environmental impact remains at a comparable level.
Prof. Dr Jens Strüker, Professor of Information Systems and Digital Energy Management, and his team have investigated the market integration of decentralised consumption and generation units for the German Energy Agency (dena). The study shows: If customers with PV systems, e-cars, heat pumps or battery storage units participate in peer-to-peer (P2P) electricity markets, the matching of electricity supply and demand improves, leading to falling electricity costs as well as CO2 emissions.
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded one of its most prestigious research awards, an ERC Synergy Grant, to Professor Dr. Christine Ziegler, biophysicist at the University of Regensburg, and biologists Professor Dr. Malcolm Bennet (University of Nottingham), Professor Dr. Eilon Shani (Tel Aviv University), and Professor Dr. Thorsten Hamann (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) for their research on plant water stress perception. The ERC is providing €10 million for their six-year HYDROSENSING project.
A study conducted by economists from the Universities of Passau and Potsdam has revealed that, while public childcare allows mothers to return to work soon after childbirth, a quick return is no ticket to career advancement.
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