Humanities
The social sciences and humanities shed light on cultural, economic and social developments as well as on social structures. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) supports the humanities and social sciences and introduces various fields of research into these areas.
At the Zfl culture is considered in its double origin in cult and techné, literature as a medium for the transmission of historically and culturally differentiated knowledge and as an archive of cultural memonry.
The Centre for Contemporary History (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung – ZZF) is an interdisciplinary research institute based in Potsdam, Germany. The Centre’s focus is contemporary German and European history. The ZZF was founded in 1992 in the wake of the German unification process and has been an institute of the Leibniz Association since 2009.
The ZAS is a university-independent research centre located in the federal state of Berlin. Its objective is the investigation of natural language and its manifestation in individual languages. The central research program Embedding, linkage and constituent boundaries in speech, grammar and discourse is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
The DGIA is one of the largest foundations under public law in Germany with ten humanities research institutes abroad and a yearly budget of about 30 Million Euro.
"Germanistenverzeichnis" of the DAAD and DGV. The database permits a comfortable search for more than 6000 scholars in the field of German studies. A search for fields of research and publications is also possible."
Until the seventies the Institute's research dealt primarily with National Socialist dictatorship and its origins, the Weimar Republic, as well as the Allied period of occupation. Since then, new lines of study in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany and former East Germany have been found.
This funding priority encourages researchers from the humanities and the natural sciences to collaborate in interdisciplinary research associations and mutually enrich each other's work. The aim of the funding priority is not least to facilitate equitable discussion between various disciplinary cultures and enable the use of humanistic methods to interpret data and results in the natural sciences. Questions from archaeology and classical studies, language and literature have been chosen as starting points.
The International Research Center (IGK) conducts fundamental research on the subject of work with a dual focus on the concept and the performance of work. It investigates from a comparative, interdisciplinary perspective how at different times different societies throughout the world have filled the term “work” with meaning, and how different concepts of work have each been connected with respective expressions of the actual performance of work.
The call for proposals regarding funding for “Käte Hamburger Collegia” (International Research Collegia in the Humanities) represents a funding format developed on the initiative of the German Council of Science and Humanities which combines the benefits of individual and project research in a unique fashion.
This priority includes funding to improve information infrastructure in the empirical social sciences as well as funding for "enhanced humanities". In this context, it is particularly important to link the development of infrastructures for the humanities, social sciences and economics with the relevant EU initiatives in the European Strategic Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), to embed them in the national roadmap for the development of innovative research infrastructures, to establish viable financing rules for investment and operation costs, to link different investments, and to achieve a consensus between different funding providers regarding objectives.
PRIF´s work is directed towards identifying the causes of violent international and internal conflicts, carrying out research into the conditions necessary for peace, understood as a process of decreasing violence and increasing justice, and spreading the concepts of peace. Within the framework of its political consulting, research results are converted into practically orientated options for action that find their way into the public debate.
In promoting junior research groups, the call for proposals Europe seen from the outside has two main objectives: on the one hand to further expand the internationalisation of the humanities in Germany, on the other hand to widely support the qualification of young researchers within an interdisciplinary research context.
The Research Explorer is a joint project of the DFG (German Research Foundation) and the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). The database contains over 17,000 institutes at German universities plus non-university research institutions, searchable by name, geographic location, subject and other criteria.
The Social Science Research Center Berlin conducts basic research with a focus on problems of modern societies in a globalized world. The research is theory-based, problem-oriented, often long-term and mostly based on international comparisons.
The University of Freiburg pursues an interdisciplinary concept of research on Southeast Asia. The disciplines involved include Political Science, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Economics and Asian History.
The aim of the funding priority "Strengthening and advancing area studies" is to better pool, develop and test specialist competences in the field of area studies. At the same time, steps are to be taken to advance subject-specific and interdisciplinary issues and promote collaboration with the systematic disciplines in order to establish networked, interdisciplinary sites of expertise in Germany that will provide a stimulus in this humanities-based area of knowledge, not least by closely collaborating with researchers from other countries.
'Translative abilities' represent a basic human competence that manifests itself in varying intensity and form throughout a lengthy process of anthropotechnical evolution for example in skills and abilities of speech, modelling, ordering, comparing, counting or recollection. They also constitute a core scholarly competence.
The Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) is the only German research institute devoted to an interdisciplinary and comparative study of the Middle East, Africa, South and Southeast Asia from a historical perspective. Current research focuses on the interaction between predominantly Muslim societies and their relations with non-Muslim neighbours.
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