How will the future labor market look and are European education systems endowing the next generation with the skills they will need to succeed? These questions are at the heart of a new research project at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
What are the links between migrant career prospects and their working abroad in the EU? This was a guiding question of a research project coordinated by the University of Bamberg. The project aimed to develop a long-term approach to supporting migrant worker integration and combating labor shortages in the EU.
At the Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Prof. Dr. Diane Ahrens and her team are conducting research that focuses on application-oriented and holistic digitalization in rural Bavaria.
At the HM, Professor Pohlmann and his team are using innovative technologies and approaches to bring back memories to dementia suffers and provide support to their families and caregivers.
LMU anthropologist Sahana Udupa studies the sociopolitical impact of digital media, with a focus on the dynamics of extreme rhetoric on online platforms. Global collaborations are vital to understanding this global phenomenon.
Carsten Schwemmer completed his doctoral degree in Computational Social Science at the University of Bamberg.
The Cluster of Excellence TransforM aims to find new ways of conducting research into how transformative technologies shape societal change. In this interview, TransforM spokesperson Prof. Sebastian Pfotenhauer explains why it is essential for social and engineering sciences to face highly speculative questions, discusses how the public can be involved, and how a cluster of this kind could have enabled a different response to the covid pandemic.
The new research network, "Margins of Memory: Cultures and Politics of Non-Hegemonic Remembrance," at the Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus Regensburg — a joint platform of the University of Regensburg and the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) — invited scholars to a kickoff meeting at the university's Department of Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies (DIMAS). Over the course of two years, 12 scholars will develop new concepts and terminology to enrich Memory Studies. The scholars will focus on topics such as hegemony, agency, silence, trauma, memory activism, and memories of (dis)location and migration.
From smoking bans to new speed limits – many people soon stop resisting policy changes that restrict their personal freedom once the new rules come into force. This conclusion was reached in a study conducted by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Vienna. The researchers also identified the underlying psychological mechanism to gain important insights for possible communication strategies when introducing such measures.
How do we deal with the translation and adaptation of concepts of knowledge, culture and law across different languages, societies, or systems? The international conference "Navigating Epistemic, Cultural, and Legal Translations: Processes, Hierarchies, Spaces" of the Leibniz ScienceCampus (LSC) "Europe and America in the Modern World" addresses this topic at the University of Regensburg. The conference, with high-profile researchers from around the world, marks the end of the first funding phase (2019-2025) and the beginning of the second phase (2024-2028) of the LSC.