Shaping Future Society (SaFe)
: The Mutual Constitution of Future Oriented Practices and CommunityResearch impulse for the Fulda University of Applied Sciences
'Shaping Future Society - The Mutual Constitution of Future Oriented Practices and Communtiy' (SaFe) is part of a new DFG scholarship programme for research-strong UASs that supports the expansion of excellent research and enables the further development of the research profile. As an association of research-strong researchers from four departments, SaFe contributes to the research profile "Health and Quality of Life" of the Fulda University of Applied Sciences by investigating the mutual production of communitisation and forward-looking practices. In SaFe, empirical studies are carried out in six subprojects.
SaFe thus contributes to reflecting on and realigning the relationship between foundational research and applied research. The establishment of a social sciences methods laboratory and a research hub that networks the research activities of the university contribute to consolidating the strong research profile of Fulda University of Applied Sciences.
Specialisation in the social sciences
SaFe is a transdisciplinary research impulse in the social sciences. In the face of diverse experiences of crisis, we ask on the one hand how everyday practices in communities are orientated towards alternative visions of the future. On the other hand, we want to understand how forward-looking practices produce new forms of communitisation.
Empirical research is conducted in six subprojects: Housing, Health, Nutrition, Indigeneity, Protest, and Biography. In these, we combine the expertise of the departments of Social and Cultural Sciences, Nutritional, Food and Consumer Sciences, Health Sciences and Social Work.
People
The impulse is led by eight professors and one postdoc from the Fulda University of Applied Sciences and enables doctoral degrees, research funding and associations.
Project managers involved: Prof. Dr Monika Alisch; Dr Sebastian Garbe; Prof. Dr Eva Gerharz; Prof. Dr Simone Kreher; Prof. Dr Nadine Reibling; Prof. Dr Martina Ritter; Prof. Dr Jana Rückert-John; Prof. Dr Tonia Ruppenthal; Prof. Dr Rixta Wundrak
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Jun
Fulda Methods Academy 2026 "Perspectives in empirical social research"
A course of the Methods Lab Social Sciences
30
Jun
10
Jul
Ansätze interpretativen Forschens und ihre Techniken - Teil 5 ,,Typenbildung''
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Rixta Wundrak & Dr. Felix Roßmeißl
Shaping Future Society Conference
Der SaFe Forschungsimpuls hat vom 27.-29.05.2026 zur Konferenz „Shaping Future Society. Future-oriented Communitization in Times of Crises“ an die Hochschule Fulda eingeladen.
Just Transition and Re-Existence
Latin American Perspectives on Future Making and Knowledge Production in the Socio-Ecological Crisis
January 20, from 4:30 to 6:30 PM in room 22.301
We are delighted to invite you to a panel…
