| Leibniz Collaborative Excellence |
Learning Progression Analytics - Analyzing Learning for Individualized Competence development in mathematics and science Education
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Prof. Dr. Knut Neumann |
2021
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2024
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DIPF,
IPN,
IWM
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Section A - Humanities and Educational Research
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The Covid-19 pandemic has made online teaching necessary in many places. But irrespective of the pandemic, digital formats offer new possibilities for teaching and learning. The project will investigate how data produced through the use of digital tools in mathematics and science instruction can be used obtain information about individual students’ learning trajectories and its relevance for their competence development. Such information would allow for individualizing instruction and hence an optimised competence development. The project combines basic with applied research. External cooperation partners: Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Carnegie Mellon University; University College London
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| Leibniz Collaborative Excellence |
China in Africa: Exploring the Economic and Social Consequences
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Prof. Dr. Rainer Thiele |
2021
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2025
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IfW Kiel
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Section B - Economics, Social Sciences, Spatial Research
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The project investigates the economic and social impacts of China’s many different activities in Africa in the areas of bilateral trade and investment relations, development aid and Chinese migrant workers. It combines statistical analyses of large volumes of data at the level of subnational regions and individual citizens with experimental and survey-based methods. On-site field studies are used to investigate how China’s engagement is perceived and appraised by African citizens. The resulting data will be publicly accessible. The idea is for the results to help European decision-makers adapt their policies to China’s increasing presence in Africa. External cooperation partners: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; University of Hong Kong; Addis Ababa University; University of Ghana; Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (ZIPAR); Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
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| Leibniz Collaborative Excellence |
Digitale Kartenwerkstatt Altes Reich: historische Räume neu modellieren und visualisieren
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Prof. Dr. Johannes Paulmann |
2021
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2025
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IEG,
IOS,
IfL
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Section A - Humanities and Educational Research,
Section B - Economics, Social Sciences, Spatial Research
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Maps depicting historic regions of the Holy Roman Empire are usually based on clearly defined borders and do not sufficiently address territorial interconnections and fragmentation. This collaborative project involving historical research, information science and geography therefore develops new concepts of data collection, data modelling and linked data to experimentally visualise fluid borders. Especially the investigation of the mobility of actors and objects opens up new perspectives on early modern territoriality. The interdisciplinary project makes processed data, sample visualisations, workflow documentation and tutorials accessible to researchers, memory institutions and the more general public. External cooperation partners: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; École des hautes études en sciences sociales
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| Leibniz Transfer funding programme |
Economic Insights: Transfer and Capacity Building (BSE Insights)
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Prof. Dr. Dorothea Kübler |
2021
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2025
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DIW,
WZB
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Section B - Economics, Social Sciences, Spatial Research
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There is a major deficit in Germany in the communication of cutting-edge research findings to policymakers and the general public. Using innovative formats, such as involving policymakers in joint research projects and offering them fellowships, the project aims to help ensure that research results from the field of economics inform political decision-making processes and are made available to the general public. Among other things, the team is developing training sessions for communicating complex subjects in a transparent and effective manner. All the major economic research institutions in Berlin are involved in the project. External cooperation partners: European School of Management and Technology (ESMT), Berlin; Freie Universität Berlin; Hertie School, Berlin; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Technische Universität Berlin; Universität Potsdam; University College London
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| Leibniz Transfer funding programme |
Selective depletion of plasma cells secreting pathogenic autoantibodies in chronic autoimmune diseases - a potentially curative therapeutic approach
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Prof. Dr. Falk Hiepe |
2021
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2025
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DRFZ,
FMP
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Section C - Life Sciences
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Using B-cell-depleting antibodies has led to promising results in the past in the treatment of autoimmune diseases. However, a drawback of these therapies is the depletion of plasma cells that secrete autoantigen-specific antibodies. The leader of the transfer project will continue to work on an affinity matrix he developed that can isolate antigen-specific plasma cells and deplete them. If this method, thought by experts to be almost impossible, succeeds, it would represent a key breakthrough in the treatment of B-cell-mediated autoimmune disease. External cooperation partner: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
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| Leibniz Collaborative Excellence |
Urban Authenticity: Creating, contesting, and visualizing the built heritage in European cities since the 1970s
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Prof. Dr. Christoph Bernhardt |
2020
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2024
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HI,
IRS,
IfZ,
ZZF
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Section B - Economics, Social Sciences, Spatial Research,
Section A - Humanities and Educational Research
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The project will investigate how certain parts of the built heritage in European urban societies have been leveraged and labelled ‘authentic’ in public debate, media presentations and urban planning practices. It will make a contribution to the broad debate in the historical and cultural sciences that questions the increasing importance of authenticity as the apparently ‘true’ character of individuals, objects and practices, and looks into the mechanisms of the social construction and function of authenticity. The focus is on public debates and practices regarding construction policy, tourism and migration since the 1970s in cities in West and East Germany, Poland and France. External cooperation partners: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, München; Brandenburgischer Museumsverband
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| Leibniz Collaborative Excellence |
Contested Waterway. Governance and Ecology on the Lower Danube, 1800-2018
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Dr. Luminita Gatejel |
2020
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2025
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GWZO,
IOS
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Section A - Humanities and Educational Research
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The project will focus on the impact of two centuries of human intervention in the Lower Danube area. It will analyse various aspects of the multi-layered, often contested histories of this region from 1800 to the present day under the influence of various empires, nation states, state socialism and the European Union. The aim is to make a contribution to various ongoing debates surrounding e.g. environmental degradation, Europeanisation and economic development. There will also be a practical impact, with the research results being shared with the local communities and government agencies. External cooperation partners: Center for Advanced Study Sofia; New Europe College Bukarest; Central European History Budapest; Slovenian Academy of Sciences; Romanian Academy of Science
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| Leibniz Transfer funding programme |
Heritage Conservation Center Ruhr - Transferring knowledge about historic material’s complexity for a sustainable future
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Prof. Dr. Stefan Brüggerhoff |
2020
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2025
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DBM
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Section A - Humanities and Educational Research
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The project will develop a modular communications and networking toolset for the preservation of industrial heritage objects. Internet-based knowledge transfer will be used alongside analogue formats like conferences, workshops and a citizens advice bureau. The idea is to bring together specialists, provide facts, identify unresolved conservation issues relating to technology and ethics, and enable interaction between different expert communities and relevant institutions. There is a deliberate focus on developing an exchange of ideas with the general public.
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| Leibniz Transfer funding programme |
Transferring the Nuremberg topographical and temporal model into the public
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Matthias Razum |
2020
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2023
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FIZ KA
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Section D - Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Engineering
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The project will combine computer science and the humanities to produce a 3D digital model of the Nuremberg urban area in four time layers, from the baroque period to the present day. The aim is to allow a wider lay public to take a virtual tour of the city, which was largely destroyed in the Second World War. At the same time, the project will develop a model-making template that can be applied to any other geographic area. There are also plans to allow the participation of citizens in the project (citizen science).
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