Dr. Jessica Schwittek - Project Activity & International Cooperations

2025:

Erasmus Mobility at the University of Groningen.

PI in the DFG project "Self-Positioning in transnational spaces – Children's narrations and narrations about children living in transnational families (TraNa)," together with Alexandra König, Univeristy of Duisburg-Essen and Dorota Michułka, University of Wrocław, running time 01/2025-12/2026, GEPRIS: 465048370, homepage: https://www.uni-due.de/biwi/trana 

2022:

Erasmus Teaching Mobility at the University of Wrocław.

Erasmus Staff Mobility at the University of Wrocław.

DFG project "Growing up in transnational families. Children’s perspectives on 'good childhood,’“ cooperation between the University of Duisburg-Essen and the University of Wrocław, running time: 2022-2024, homepage: https://www.uni-due.de/biwi/koenig/dodzi/

2021:

Developed and implemented a virtual teaching cooperation with colleagues at the Ton Duc Thang University in Ho-Chi-Minh City (in the disciplines Social Work, Education, and Sociology) over two semesters.

2017:                   

Awarded a scholarship from the Martha Muchow Foundation to develop a research proposal on the topic of refugee childhood in Germany.

2016:                       

German-Pakistani research cooperation "Becoming adult between the local and the global – Educational and private biographies of young Pakistani at home and abroad," DAAD-funded cooperation between the University of Wuppertal and the Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad (in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Doris Bühler-Niederberger and Dr. Muhammad Zaman), running time 2015-2016.

2015              

Conception, preparation, and evaluation of pilot data collection for the „Children’s Worlds“ research cooperation in Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan (in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Doris Bühler-Niederberger and Ekaterina Chicherina).

Project management of the German-Pakistani research cooperation “Becoming adult between the local and the global – Educational and private biographies of young Pakistani at home and abroad,” DAAD-funded cooperation between the University of Wuppertal and the Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad (in collaboration with Doris Bühler-Niederberger and Muhammad Zaman), running time 2015-2016.

Content management and formal coordination of an ERASMUS PLUS cooperation with three Kyrgyz universities on themes of growing up, in collaboration with the International Office of the University of Wuppertal (together with Doris Bühler-Niederberger), running time 2015-2016.

2014:                       

Erasmus Lecturer Mobility, three-month stray at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre in Rome, organized the seminar "Childhood and Youth in International Comparison."    

2010:              

Content management and coordination of the project "Empowering Little Children," cooperation between the University of Wuppertal, UNICEF, and the Aga Khan Foundation (in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Doris Bühler-Niederberger), running time 2010-2012.