Projects, Arts/Humanities:

 

Contemporary Middle East and Islamic studies:

Project leader: Prof. Dr. Dietrich Jung (SDU)

Project partners: AU, SDU, UHH

Grant covered: Three-day seminar with exploratory workshop

The workshop aims at enhancing familiarity with researchers’ on-going and future research projects and also developing in detail the educational cooperation at the MA and PhD levels, including the exchange of students and perhaps teachers between the participating institutions. 

Arts workshop

Project leader: Rene Dybdahl (AU)

Project partners: AU, SDU, UHH

Grant covered: Seminar in Aarhus

Two-day seminar with the aim of discussing cooperation regarding research, student exchange programmes etc. within the field of Arts.

Ontology of social interaction, robotic

Project leader: Klaus Robering (SDU)

Project partners: AU, SDU, UHH

Grant covered: Set-up meeting, two workshops and five research visits of students and researchers.

The aim of the project is to establish an interdisciplinary research platform for the study of space and spatial structures in their different forms of appearance and interactive functionality, with a view to contributing to social robotics.

Mathematical modelling

Project leader: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Kaiser (UHH)

Project partners: AU, UHH

Grant covered: Two visits and costs related to identifying possible joint projects between AU and UHH with in the field of mathematical modelling in mathematical education.

Development of joint research activities within the topic of mathematical modelling and the promotion of modelling competency focusing on how teachers can successfully support students in autonomous learning environments while carrying out modelling projects.

Narrativity

Project leader: Per Krogh Hansen (SDU)

Project partners: AU, SDU, UHH

Grant covered: Workshop

Two-day workshop where on-going research was presented and discussed. Special attention is paid to interdisciplinary aspects of the theme and potential joint projects between AU (The Narrative Research Lab) and UHH (the Interdisciplinary Center for Narratology).

Teachers’ Education

Project leader: David Reimer (AU)

Project partners: AU, UHH, CAU

Grant covered: One and a half-day workshop at Aarhus University.

The workshop covers presentation of current research and discussion of future collaboration regarding research on teachers’ education and motivation.

The Peace of Kiel

Project leader: Prof. Dr. Martin Krieger (CAU)

Project partners: SDU, CAU

Grant covered: Workshop and the preparation of a project application.

The project enhances the research on the Peace of Kiel and communicates its historical relevance to the public. Furthermore, a funding application for a broader research-project is conceptualized and submitted, in order to further the cooperation between SDU and CAU.

Ancient Pilgrimage

Project leader: Troels Myrup Kristensen (AU)

Project partners: AU, UHH

Grant covered: One-day workshop at UHH.

A one-day networking seminar involving scholars from the disciplines of classical archaeology, theology, religious studies, egyptology and ancient history. The aim is to discuss possible ways of applying interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives on the phenomenon of sacred travel or pilgrimage from the Greek period to Late Antiquity.

Middle East Studies

Project leader: Prof. Dr. Lutz Berger (CAU)

Project partners: AU, SDU, UHH, CAU

Grant covered: Workshop

A two-day workshop for 10 PhD students and their respective supervisors, with the purpose of introducing junior researchers to each other and give them a possibility to present their research projects and to exchange ideas in an international environment of both junior and senior researchers.

 

Projects, Science & Technology:

 

iParticle

Project leader: Prof. Francesco Sinnino (SDU)

Project partners: AU, SDU, UHH

Grant covered: 9 weeks of student exchange for the project within high energy physics.

The project focuses on cooperation in testing relevant extensions of the standard model of particle interaction as well as new models.

 

Cold Matter Science

Project leader: Michael Drewsen (AU)

Project partners: AU, UHH

Grant covered: 2-days workshop and transportation cost for 12 researchers at Sandbjerg.

AU and UHH discusses potential collaboration within laser physics and optics. It is decided to arrange another meeting to enable further discussion among the relevant scientists on how and on which topics UHH and AU could benefit from collaboration in the future.

 

Marine Ecosystems

Project leader: Prof. Dr. Christian Möllmann (UHH)

Project partners: AU, UHH

Grant covered: Kick-off workshop, four thematic workshops and two joint research seminars.

The aim is to strengthen, extend and formalize existing collaboration between UHH and AU within research concerning the functioning of marine ecosystems in relation to climate change and anthropogenic impact such as fisheries and eutrophication.

 

Cold Matter science II

Project Leader: Dr. Henning Moritz (UHH)

Project partners: AU, UHH

Grant covered: Three-day seminar

Three-day seminar for 16 undergraduate students from UHH and AU. The program aims at a) educating and b) improving mobility of undergraduate students and c) serving as early recruitment for the masters’ exchange programs, joint programmes and PhD projects within the field of cold matter science.

Genetic Transformation of Cereals

Project leader: Per L. Gregersen (AU)

Project partners: AU, CAU

Grant covered: 1 day workshop at Sandbjerg followed by exchange visits of faculty members.

One-day workshop for 10-15 persons with the aim of presenting and discussing the tools for genetic transformation of barley and wheat and the use of the heat-inducible promoter system in barley and wheat. Furthermore the aim is to plan further collaboration on the use and development of the heat-inducible promoter system.

 

Seismic Data

Project leader: Katrine Juul Andersen (AU)

Project partners: AU, CAU

Grant covering: 8-days workshop

The purpose of the workshop is to investigate possibilities for future cooperation between AU and CAU concerning joint seismic acquisition projects offshore and onshore, sharing of facilities, joint teaching and training of students, strengthened student and short term faculty member exchange and joint proposal for research funding.

Ecosystem Services

Project leader: Dr. Kirsten Rücker (CAU)

Project partners: AU, CAU

Grant covered: Two-day workshop

A two-day workshop with the aim of seeking more effective cooperation, joint projects and an enhanced Danish-German exchange of ideas, methods and results. The workshop fosters identification of mutual interests in the other groups, exchange of experiences and comparison of data and results and explorations of possibilities of future cooperation.

Nanowires

Project leader: Ass. Prof. Jakob Kjelstrup Hansen (SDU)

Project partners: SDU, UHH, CAU

Grant covered: Two workshops and a number of project meetings.

The aim of the project is to strengthen the links across the German-Danish border involving three research groups each focusing on complementary materials and techniques. The project is launched with a common workshop to establish personal contact. During the project period, project meetings will be held in order to coordinate the effort.

 

 

Projects, Business & Social Sciences:

 

Health Economics

Project leader: Michael Bech (SDU)

Project partners: SDU, UHH

Grant covered: costs of the two-day seminar in Odense.

The aims of the seminar is to provide opportunity for personal contact between UHH and SDU and to inform each other of current research projects and identify common research interests. An additional aim is to discuss PhD courses, PhD exchange etc.

 

Welfare State Reform

Project leader: Prof. Dr. Birgit Pfau-Effinger (UHH)

Project partners: SDU, UHH

Grant covered: Two-day symposium

The aim of the symposium is to present current research within the topic ‘Welfare state reform and consequences’ and discuss common research interests which might lead to collaborations in the future.

 

Mehrsprachigheit

Project leader: Carmen Heine (AU)

Project partners: AU, UHH

Grant covered: Eight activities in the period from August 2012 to February 2013.

The objectives of the project are a) to carry out and further develop individual writing training in the area of multilingual text production and b) to test a new research method and c) to build a research base for the new methodological approach. 

 

Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan

Project leader: Prof. Dr. Joachim Krause (CAU)

Project partners: SDU, CAU

Grant covering: Workshop

Two day conference as part of a Danish-German joint project aiming at reviewing and comparing Danish and Germen civil and military actors’ operational experience and lessons learned within several interacting topics of counterinsurgency in Afghanistan. The two-day conference brings together academics and practitioners from Denmark and Germany to create a hybrid structure to exchange different perceptions, experiences and lessons learned and review the subject from different angles.

 

Financial markets

Project leader: Prof. Stefan Reitz (CAU)

Project partners: SDU, CAU

Grant covered: Two workshops

The objective of this initiative is to identify the opportunities of a research collaboration and joint application for research funding between CAU and SDU within the field of determinants and behaviour of financial market forecasters. At the first workshop researchers will present current research and possible research ideas within the framework. On the second workshop elaborated projects are presented and an application for research grant may be finalized.

 

Organizational design

Project leader: Prof. Lars Fredriksen (AU)

Project partners: AU, SDU, CAU, UHH

Grant covered: Workshops and group meetings

The objective of this project is to identify how and what extent the organizational design of firms affect the integration of externally generated knowledge and vice versa. 

 

Projects, Health:

 

Inflammation

Project leader: Gregers Rom Andersen (AU)

Project partners: AU, SDU, UHH

Grant covered: Two-day symposium for 70 participants at Sandbjerg

The aim of the symposium is to promote and establish international cooperation between German and Danish researchers and to foster joint funding programmes to be initiated by UHH, SDU and AU within the field of  ’Inflammation, Infection and Immunity’.

 

Parkinson Disease

Project leader: Prof. Dr. Poul Henning Jensen (AU)

Project partners: AU, SDU, UHH

Grant covered: Two-day workshop, transport cost and hotel rooms

The workshop presents on-going and future research projects with the aim of identifying future collaboration regarding Parkinson disease.

 

Transepithalial assessment

Project leader: Markus Bleich (CAU)

Project partners: AU, CAU

Grant covered: Two-day workshop at Sandbjerg

The workshop will bring together researchers from CAU and AU to work on theoretical and practical questions of transepithalial assessment of permeability properties. Generation of joint projects, standardisation and quality control as well as technology and knowledge transfer is also discussed at the workshop.