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INCITE-DEM – Inclusive Citizenship in a World in Transformation

Responding to current challenges such as ecological crises, digital divides and a decline in political trust, this international consortium of researchers aims to enhance participation and civic engagement in democracies across Europe.
Participants: D. Fuchs, O. Treib (together with O. Schlipphak)
Period: 2023-2027
More Information: https://incite-dem.eu/

Scripts for Postindustrial Urban Futures: American Models, Transatlantic Interventions

Together with the Universities of Bochum and Dortmund, researchers at the University of Duisburg-Essen investigated strategies and narrative scenarios deployed by cities influenced by old industries to forge successful paths into the future. Among the prominent concepts of city planning put to the test were sustainability and inclusion – concepts which address core challenges of current societies.
Participants: B. Buchenau (lead), J.M. Gurr (co-lead)
Period: 2018-2023
More Information: https://www.uni-due.de/cityscripts/

ICCS2022 – International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2022

This international study assesses the factors in adolescents which are necessary to develop democratic attitudes and behaviors. Conversely, it also investigates risks to the developing ‘democratic mindset’. Focussing on 8^th grade students, their teachers and principals, the study sheds light on one of the institutions at the very heart of intergenerational education and socialization.
Participants: H.J. Abs (Coordinator)
Period: 2019-2024
More Information: https://www.uni-due.de/edu-research/iccs2022_en.php

Just Futures: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Cultural Climate Models

In this interdisciplinary project, representatives of literary studies, linguistics, science and technology studies and literature pedagogy work on the development of cultural models of climate futures. The focus lies on the exploration of intergenerational justice – a core area in which questions of agonal plurality are negotiated.
Participants: J.M. Gurr (Co-I)
Period: 2023-2026
More information: https://www.cultural-climate-models.org/

1.5°Lifestyles: Policies and Tools for Mainstreaming 1.5° Lifestyles

The project explores how lifestyle choices affect carbon footprints and factors that constrain and enable sustainable living, helping to generate hard evidence on the impact of lifestyles on climate change.
Participants: D. Fuchs (Coordinator)
Period: 2021-2025
More information: https://onepointfivelifestyles.eu/

CLEAR – ‘Constructing Learning Outcomes in Europe. A multi-level analysis of (under)achievement in the life course’

The project investigates the factors that influence the quality of learning processes and learning outcomes. The interdisciplinary and international consortium is coordinated by the working group International and Comparative Educational Science at the Institute for Educational Science at the UoM.
Participants: M. Parreira do Amaral (PI/Coordinator)
Period: 2022-2026
More information: https://clear-horizon.eu/

Research Training Group GRK 1919: “Precaution, Prevision, Prediction: Managing Contingency”

Between 2013 and 2022, the Research Training Group based at UDE investigated dimensions of contingency management in a historical perspective. The handling of the uncertain future, a topic that can hardly be overestimated today, was researched from a comparative cultural and cross-epochal perspective.
Participants: U. Schneider (PI)
Period: 2013-2022
More information: https://www.uni-due.de/graduiertenkolleg_1919/grako1919-start.php

Comeln – Communities of Practice for Innovative Teacher Education NRW

Between 2020 and 2023, researchers from twelve universities in North Rhine-Westphalia dedicated themselves to the question of how digitization-related competencies of teachers can be strengthened. In innovative Communities of Practice (CoP), which formed interfaces to decision-makers and practitioners, they developed resources along school needs and a prototype for the collaboration of science and (further) training practice.
Participants: I. van Ackeren-Mindl (lead applicant/project lead as vice-rector for teaching and learning)
Period: 2020-2023
More information: https://comein.nrw/portal/

Regulating Religious Plurality in the Region (RePliR) and Regional Regulation of Religious Plurality in Comparison (RePliV)

The peaceful coexistence of different religious groups and non-religious people is a challenge that is becoming increasingly urgent due to the growing pluralization of societies. The graduate schools RePliR (2016-2020) and RePliV (2021-2024) address(ed) this challenge from different perspectives: RePliR focused on the Münsterland and the Ruhr area, RePliV pays special attention to different religious communities, regions and countries.
Participants: U. Willems (lead, together with V. Krech (RUB))
Period: 2016-2020, 2021-2024
More information: http://www.forschungskolleg-repliv.de/about-us.html