Research Projects

Inter...what? Intersectionality! A Visual Introduction

What is intersectionality? How are discrimination and privilege related? What does intersectional discrimination mean? These questions are answered in the web-based article "Inter...was? Intersektionalität! – Eine visuelle Einführung" answers them. With a combination of text, animated illustration and interactive data visualisation, it offers an introduction to the socially relevant topic of…

Discomfort with History? Dealing with Contemporary Antisemitism and Right-Wing Extremism at Memorial Sites

The qualitative study is interested in finding out how current antisemitism and right-wing extremism manifest themselves in memorials and what challenges and needs arise from this.

CoAct – Co-designing Citizen Social Science for Collective Action

The EU research project "CoAct" pursues an innovative approach to participatory citizen research. The focus is on the further development of a Citizen Social Science (CSS) and its research methods. CoAct is funded by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 program under the call "SwafS-15-2018-2019 - Exploring and supporting citizen science"

News Appropriation in Times of Social Media

Over a period of one year, the project "Nachrichtenaneignung in Zeiten Sozialer Medien" looked at the news activities of young people aged 14 - 19 years on digital platforms.

EcoDM: Ecosystem Data Management – Analyses – Recommendations – FAIRification

EcoDM is a collaborative project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and running until March 2022. The project partners are the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (FHP) and the Helmholtz Open Science Office, which is based at the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam – German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ).