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
Neue Publikation
Garbe, Sebastian 2026
Im Rahmen des Projekts Protest sind drei Publiationen erschienen.
Neue Publikation
Chakma, Bablu 2026
Im Rahmen des Projekts Indigenität ist ein Reflexionsbeitrag erschienen.
27
Oct
SAFE-LECTURE ,,Gemeinschaft als Einfallstor für rechts?''
Carla Wember, M. Sc. | Institut für Ländliche Strukturforschung e.V., Frankfurt
30
Oct
Workshop Series „Approaches of Interpretative Research and their Techniques“
Empirically Grounded Theories
29
Jan
Workshop Series „Approaches of Interpretative Research and their Techniques“
Qualitative Network Analysis
Fulda Methods Academy 2026
"Perspektiven in der empirischen Sozialforschung"
Eine Veranstaltung des Methods Lab Social Sciences
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.
Funded by the German Research Foundation
SaFe is the first of two research initiatives funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) at Fulda University of Applied Sciences.
Since 2026, the university has been further expanding its position as a distinguished, research-intensive institution through the research initiative “E-Partizipation für Transformationen nutzbar machen: Erkundung von Anwendungsfeldern, Einflussfaktoren und Wirkungen (eParT)”.
