A DFG research group is examining this question from various perspectives of psychology. Professor Susanne Mayr, psychologist at the University of Passau with a focus on human-machine interaction, is participating in the research.
Local government decisions are in a process of change and challenging municipalities close to the border in particular. Students from the universities of Passau and Budweis discussed the opportunities and risks of cross-border cooperation as part of a EUREGIO project in the Bavarian municipality of Haidmühle on the border to the Czech Republic.
Sustainability is not just an ecological issue, but also a social one. The DFG-funded ‘SONA – The Sociology of Sustainability’ Academic Network brings a sociological perspective to the debate. Sustainability – where does this term come from?
This project is mainly concerned with the development of the software solution GEOcite, a monitoring tool for continuous scientific observation within geography in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. GEOcite makes a contribution to the automatic large-scale gathering, processing and evaluation of citation data both recent and historical, thus making it possible to process a wide range of questions designed to analyse the discipline.
Agricultural sociologist Martina Padmanabhan coordinates transdisciplinary German and Indian researchers, who generate knowledge to sustain agrobiodiversity in South India. Gender equality plays a major role.
Geographers at the University of Passau coordinate a project, that prepares a prevention strategy for the border between the Brazil's Atlantic Forest and the Cerrado. The research team collects data for points at which the ecosystem could tip.
FuturEN analyses constellations of power, constitutions of identity and conceptions about the future of coal mining in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, along the nexus of ethnicity, gender and class. The extraction of natural resources, and particularly of coal, forms a crucial source of export income for Indonesia.
Turning Indonesia organic: Can the agriculture of the world’s largest island country be transformed into a bioeconomy? A research team at the University of Passau explores the potential of organic farming in Indonesia - the German Federal Ministry for Research and Education (BMBF) supports the project with a budget of EUR 882.
How do Social Media, Big Data and digital tracking change the definition of privacy? The Research Training Group 1681 "Privacy" of the University of Passau - funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) - financed early career researchers working on fields related to privacy and digitalisation.
Education is seen as the key factor on the road to greater sustainability. A German-Chinese team of researchers is developing environmental education modules and using these at selected Chinese primary schools.
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