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    “Move Your Hood!” Co-creative development of urban spaces as a game changer for the sustainable mobility transition

    Note: On January 1st, 2021, the ongoing research projects of the Culture of Participation will be transferred to the Ruhr University Bochum. The sustainable mobility transition in Germany is not…

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    Annotated Temporalities Encyclopaedic Prose and its Networks of Reception

    Who reads long novels today — and why? In the context of the DFG Priority Programme "Times of the Aesthetic", this research project seeks to analyse forms of temporality in…

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    Application of Methods and Processes for Participatory Citizen Participation in Ecologically Relevant Investment Decisions Case Study: Road Tunnel Filter

    PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS NO ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE PROJECT AVAILABLE. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CHECK OUT THE GERMAN TRANSLATION.

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    BioDisKo Bioeconomic Utilization Paths - Discourse & Communication

    The joint project „BioDisKo” focusses for instance on the future-orientated field of “bio-based circular economy” including development, trial and reviewing of early, target group orientated, participative and communicative approaches and…

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    BioökonomieREVIER (at RUB since January 1, 2021) Establishing and testing of a participatory governance framework for the development of the model region BioökonomieREVIER Rheinland

    Note: On January 1st, 2021, the ongoing research projects of the Culture of Participation will be transferred to the Ruhr University Bochum. The coal phase-out has been politically decided: open-cast…

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    Communication and Dementia A qualitative study about loss and rebuilding of communicative power between people diagnosed with dementia and their relatives in home care settings

    Follow the links to get to know more about the research interests of the project staff members: Prof. em. Dr. Jo Reichertz Dr. Phil. Carmen Birkholz Till Hartwig About the…

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    Crisis and Civil society Civil society’s self-organisation and reform process in Greece

    The objective of the research project consists in examining the contribution civil society en-gagement can perform in the reform process Greece is currently going through. Greece has not been the…

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    DEMOENERGY The Transformation of the Energy System as the Engine for Democratic Innovations

    The exit from nuclear power and the further development of power generation from renewable resources result in the need for optimisation and expansion of electric power lines under enormous time…

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    DIALOGBRÜCKEN. (seit 1.1.2021 an der RUB) Stromnetzausbau vor Ort: Die Rolle von Kommunen als Dialogbrücken zwischen nationaler Planung und lokalem Protest

    Hinweis: Zum 01.01.2021 wechseln die laufenden Forschungsprojekte der Partizipationskultur an die Ruhr Universität Bochum. Die Kommune ist der Ort, an dem die ambitionierten Ausbauziele der Bundesregierung für das deutsche Stromnetz umgesetzt…

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    Dissertation Project Opening the toolbox... Cultural anthropological insights into current “sustainability” efforts

    Dissertation Project at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at Goethe University Frankfurt. Doctoral Canditate: Britta Acksel Supervisor: Prof. Gisela Welz (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt). Second Supervisor: Prof. Jörg Niewöhner (Humboldt-Universität Berlin) Funded…

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    Documents – Memories – Historiography The Second “Theresienstadtfilm”, its Documentation and Reconstruction from the Survivors’ Perspective.

    The project aims to analyze the only fragments that are restored of the Nazi propaganda film revolving around the Theresienstadt concentration camp. The film, produced in 1944, is a document…

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    Emotion. Escalation. Violence. Development of a Video-Based Procedure for an Early Detection of Emotion Processes in Crowd Events

    Whenever people come together in large numbers in public, be it at football matches, rock concerts or demonstrations, group emotions (positive as well as discordant) are often generated. Sometimes, conflicting…

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    EnerAct Tangible Approaches to the Energy Turn and related Societal Megatrends

    The Energy Turn involves a fundamental transformation of the energy grid. In the project EnerAct, concepts are created for the realization of the Energy Turn in the cities, regions and…

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    EnerChange Overcoming division in North-Rhine-Westphalia – Communicating the Energy Transition to everybody

    The German Energiewende is generally described in abstract and impersonal terms: emission reduction, efficiency, resilience and so on are little help to engage laypersons in goals and processes of the…

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    EnerDigit Digitalization and the German „Energiewende” (Energy Transition) inbetween Decentrality and Centrality: Regional and Business Cultural Perspectives

    Renewable energy is predominantly volatile. Wind turbines are unable to deliver energy without wind. Photo-voltaic systems depend on sunlight. In order to compensate emerging over- and under-capacities, an intelligent interconnection…

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    EnerTrend Systemic Analysis of Reciprocal Effects of the Energy Transition in NRW (North-Rhine-Westphalia) with Central Megatrends

    **SINCE 01.07.2019 THE TEAM OF DR. STEVEN ENGLER RESEARCHES AT THE FACULTY OF GEOSCIENCES OF THE RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM.**   A project of the virtual institute „Transformation – Energiewende NRW“…