Research projects and publications

The Department of Social and Cultural Sciences is characterised by committed professors and employees who work on many and, above all, diverse projects. Here you will find an overview of current research and projects at the department.

Current research projects

Realising Indigenous Development Visions. Fund for Community Projects in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh 2020-2025

Development Policy Consequences of the Migration of International Students from the Global South to the Global North 2023-2024

Teaching research project: Growing up with different languages 2019-2024

Jean Monnet Network "Debating Europe" 2020-2024

Practising Transnational Politics (PATRAPO) 2021-2024

Transnational Governance and Human Rights 2021-2024

Design Thinking - creative problem solving in virtual teams 2021-2022

Jean Monnet Chair "Bridging the Gap between the EU and its citizens" (BridgE) 2019-2022

Integration of international nursing staff in regional facilities for nursing and care of the elderly (IntiP) 2018-2022

Transnational Single Men

(Un)typically utopian - young people's visions of the future at Islamic schools in Bangladesh and Italy 2018-2022

Youth movements and the transformation of the political 2018-2022

Ecovillages as lived utopias 2000-2021

Media communication project 2020-2022

ECPR Summer School "Political Concepts" (2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016)

Integration of international nursing staff in regional nursing and geriatric care facilities (IntIP) 2018-2022

Honorary offices for refugees - teaching research project (2016 - 2019)

Basics of refugee research 2015 - 2018

Interculturality in the TV series "Lindenstraße" - teaching research project (2012 - 2016)

Sociological cultures of knowledge 2012-2014

Students with a migration background and international students in comparison - teaching research project (2010 - 2012)

Integration perceptions of local experts (2008 - 2011)

Orientation courses (2006 - 2009)

European social law

Constellation work as an interactive construction

European and global labour relations

Teaching Intercultural Communication 2010

Foreign peculiarities and own foreignness

Migrant women with limited German skills

The extreme law in Europe

Region and sustainability