Doctoral and Research Colloquium
The joint doctoral and research colloquium of the four universities of applied sciences in Brandenburg invites you to exchange scientific information on current research and doctoral projects at the universities. In addition, challenges, tips and tricks during the doctorate are shared and discussed with the participants. The colloquium is aimed at all interested academics. The events take place online approximately every four weeks during the lecture period.
19/03/2026, 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Development of a sustainability assessment approach for the provision of forest ecosystem services
Gino Garcia, PhD student at the University for Sustainable Development (HNEE), presents his doctoral project. His cumulative dissertation consists of four research articles that analyse conflicts between forest stakeholders, sustainability assessments, payments for ecosystem services and transdisciplinary education. It culminates in a proposal for the implementation of sustainability assessments for the provision of multiple forest ecosystem services.
23/04/2026, 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
It's FAIR, but generic?! The art of scientific data aggregation
Research data disappears in discipline-specific infrastructures – invisible and therefore unused. The doctorate from Anna Lehmann (FH Potsdam) tackels this issue by developing an Information Science method to turn inconsistent FAIR assessment scores into interdisciplinary data pools.
Key messages:
- What does FAIR mean and why does implementation become discipline-specific?
- How does FAIR assessment work and which tools are suitable for it
- Why data silos prevent useful aggregations
Extras: Practical hacks for publication, time and project management
25-minute presentation and 25-minute discussion - from data chaos to interdisciplinary solutions!
28/05/2026, 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
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On 28th of May, Nursultan Daupayev, a PhD student at Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences, will present his doctoral research.
25/06/2026, 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
A System Dynamics-based Theory on Self-Sustaining Communities of Practice
On 25th of June, Matthias Papetsch, a prospective PhD student at TH Wildau, will present his PhD project: The need for organizations to build and develop certain capabilities has been studied extensively in Management Science. The delayed effect, when short-term operational needs leave too few resources for necessary long-term capability-building efforts, has been called the "Capability Trap". This research aims to generate insights that organizations can leverage to design effective long-term capability-building efforts. Organizations in general need individual combinations of several capabilities. These individual combinations are complicated and extensive to study. It will be shown that the set of Communities of Practice forms a certain kind of organization with properties that reduce complexity when examining acquisition, preservation, and adaptation of organizational capabilities. A general System Dynamics-based Grounded Theory is developed, allowing to anticipate the behavior of a given Community of Practice based on its properties and circumstances.
