The Chair of European Ethnology at the University of Würzburg invites you to an international conference on Environmental Humanities research at the beginning of August.
In a recent study, a team of economists, amongst others from the University of Passau, shows that the pandemic more than 100 years ago resulted in a stable shift towards left-wing parties; extremists could not benefit.
In view of a growing world population and the issue of global food security, the following number is staggering: According to the German Federal Ministry of Agriculture, 78 kilograms of food are thrown away per capita every year in Germany alone. Over 50 percent of global waste along the food value chain is generated in private households. People thus spend money on products that then end up in the garbage bin. But what is the background to this irrational behavior, which is more than a private decision in the face of resource scarcity?
Theresa Paola Stawski, a political scientist from Würzburg, has investigated how well the states of the world function. Germany just made it into the top ten.
The situation of the Uyghur population in the Chinese region of Xinjiang has been largely unclear since 2017. Researchers are now seeking an approach using remote ethnography methods as part of an EU project.
Twelve HE institutions across Europe have joined forces to enrich the European Higher Education and Research Areas with a portfolio of creative and cutting-edge joint activities working towards a responsible transformation with an innovative approach. In the future, they hope to cooperate in EURESTRA - a European University for RESponsible TRAnsformation.
Regensburg researchers appeal to the EU Parliament to implement a commission ban. The Commission is refusing to implement a commission ban within the new retail investor strategy. In doing so, the Commission is ignoring scientific findings according to which savers could achieve significantly higher returns.
The TUM Think Tank is setting up a task force to provide orientation and guidance on handling generative artificial intelligence to the policy, administration, community and business sectors. The group, representing various disciplines at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), will formulate regulatory proposals and will facilitate exchange on practical questions.
Hof University of Applied Sciences wants to recruit foreign nursing staff, strengthen their skills and integrate them. The reason: Bavaria alone is currently losing more than 1,000 nursing staff each year, while at the same time studies by the Free State of Bavaria assume a tenfold increase in the need for nursing staff by 2050 – mainly due to an aging society. One key to countering this plight will be to recruit foreign nursing professionals. To drive this forward, the master’s program “Cross Cultural Nursing Practice M.A.” – the only one of its kind in Germany – will start at Hof University of Applied Sciences in 2024.
Stefan Bauernschuster, Professor of Public Economics at the University of Passau, has received a thank-you email from the Executive Office of US President Joe Biden. The reason: In their current report, the US president's economic advisors cite findings of his study about the impact of childcare on women's participation in the labour market.
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