From Theory to Practice: Projects at the FH Potsdam at a Glance

Here you will find a current overview of selected projects at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. You can filter the projects by departments and degree programs, by project type, or by content focus.

    #GesellschaftBilden in the Digital Age. Perspectives of Social Work on Technological Challenges

    The project establishes a cross-university network on digitalisation in social work as a subject of cooperative research and teaching.

    Communicative Appropriation of Digital Sports

    An exploratory analysis of chat communication in esports, using the Paris Major Blast 2023 as a case study.

    Gestures as Cultural Markers: The Importance of Tact Gestures for Social Preference and Learning in Infancy and Early Childhood in France and Germany

    SocialGestures is a joint research project between the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and the Université Grenoble Alpes. The project was developed jointly and is being carried out under joint responsibility. It is funded by Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (GR 4756/3-1).

    Prison Architecture – Use of Space and Everyday Experience in a Berlin Prison

    The research interest of the ethnographic study concerns the perception of prison architecture as well as the practices of space use and space appropriation by prisoners and staff in a Berlin correctional facility.

    Event Series "Elternwissen" with the Healthy Kids Network Potsdam

    Events for parents with infants and toddlers aged 0 to 3 years with topics about parenting and child development in the first three years of life

    Innovative Digital Media as a Learning Environment for Challenging Forms of Conversation in Social Professions

    In the "ConvoQuest" project, innovative digital media as learning environments are being investigated and tested. The project focuses on a course at the FH Potsdam from the summer term of 2023, in which students developed prototypical, innovative learning environments. In the future, these can be used as a source of knowledge for questions about conversation techniques.

    Self-help in the Context of Addiction, Penal System and Release from Prison

    The study examines addiction self-help services in prison and after release from prison.

    Me — We — Potsdam-Bornstedt: Biography of a District

    In the spirit of the question formulated in the seminar title about the "biography of a district", Potsdam-Bornstedt was to be researched by means of an interdisciplinary and intergenerational approach in order to work out the urban and socio-spatial development of the district and ultimately make it presentable.

    WIM - Women Scientists in the Media

    Opportunities and challenges for women arising from the digital expansion of traditional science communication: Research into the under-representation of female scientists in journalism and science communication, and the development of formats and a support structure to increase the visibility of female experts and create role models for the next generation of scientists. The project investigates…

    Coming to Terms with the Violent Constellation in the Martinstift (Moers)

    The research project aimed to systematically collect and evaluate the experiences of the persons involved in coming to terms with the constellation of violence in the Protestant alumnat Martinstift in the 1950s.

    Gaming for Sustainability

    In an Interflex seminar, students developed online games on the topic of sustainability.

    Psychoanalytic-Interactionally Oriented Parent-Child Groups

    The aim of this research and development project is to develop structured, group-based interventions over a period of 24 sessions, accompanied by mixed methods impact research.