Current research projects

Research projects (2015-2025) with a connection to sustainability grouped by thematic keywords

Education for Sustainable Development (EDS)

Support for the “Schullabel” Education Indicator (U-BiSchuLa)

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hemmer
  • Duration: 2023–2024
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  • Project type: Applied research

Senatra – Service-Learning and Sustainable Transformation at Universities

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Anne-Kathrin Lindau (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), Dr. Frank Zirkl
  • Duration: 2022–2025
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
  • Project type: Research and Development

Research Seminar: Ingolstadt Platform for School-Business Communication

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. André Habisch
  • Duration: 2020–ongoing
  • Funding: Achtzig20 GmbH and others
  • Project type: Applied research

BfA-Gelingt. Shaping and sharing the conditions for successful utilization

  • Project leadership: Prof. Dr. Joachim Thomas, Prof. Dr. Martin Schneider
  • Duration: 2020–2023
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS)
  • Project type: Applied research

Development of an Action Plan for Promoting Education for Sustainable Development (HaKoFö-BNE)

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hemmer, Prof. Dr. Anne-Kathrin Lindau
  • Duration: 2019–2020
  • Funding: Initiative Regionalmanagement Region Ingolstadt e.V. (IRMA), Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs
  • Project type: Applied research

KALEI2 - Casuistic teaching practice for inclusive instruction within the framework of the Quality Initiative for Teacher Education (BMBF), subproject “Language-Sensitive Geography Instruction” (in collaboration with Assoc. -Prof. Maxi Kupetz), Member of the Steering Committee

  • Project Leadership: Prof. Dr. Martin Lindner, Prof. Dr. Anne-Kathrin Lindau, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Maxi Kupetz
  • Duration: 2019–2023
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  • Project Type: Contract Research (Research and Development)

Development of indicators for measuring ESD in school education (E-I-ESD)

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hemmer, Prof. Dr. Péter Bagoly-Simó, Prof. Dr. Armin Lude, Dr. Mark Ullrich
  • Duration: 2019–2021
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  • Project type: Basic research

Evaluation project within the framework of the joint project “Mensch in Bewegung”

  • Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Kals
  • Duration: 2018–2022
  • Funding: Joint project of the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and the TH Ingolstadt, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, secured by the University Management
  • Project type: Applied research

Professional development for university lecturers and seminar instructors in teacher education for ESD in Bavaria (FOLE-BNE_Bay)

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hemmer
  • Duration: 2018–2021
  • Funding: Bavarian State Ministry for the Environment and Consumer Protection
  • Project type: Applied research

Sustainability awareness, sustainable consumption behavior, and quality of life: the perspective of young people aged 14 to 25

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hemmer
  • Duration: 2018–2025
  • Funding: internal
  • Project type: Doctoral project

Promoting sustainable lifestyles (Project “Mensch in Bewegung”)

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hemmer
  • Duration: 2018–2023
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  • Project Type: Applied Research

Experiencing ESD inclusively—a comparative intervention study with inclusive middle school classes in school and out-of-school learning environments

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hemmer
  • Duration: since 2017–ongoing
  • Funding: Collaborative Project “Living Inclusively,” Bavarian Bishops’ Conference
  • Project Type: Doctoral Project Kerstin Sauer

Wild Neighborhood – Development, Testing, and Evaluation of a Concept for Wilderness Education for Preschool, School, and Higher Education

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Anne-Kathrin Lindau, Prof. Dr. Martin Lindner
  • Duration: 2016–2020
  • Funding: German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU)
  • Project Type: Research and Development

Sustainable Higher Education: Criteria for an Inventory (KriNaHoBay)

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hemmer
  • Duration: 2016–2018
  • Funding: Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs
  • Project type: Applied research

Education for Sustainable Development – What skills do teachers and stakeholders from extracurricular institutions possess?

  • Project lead: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hemmer
  • Duration: 2015–2017
  • Funding: Research training group on sustainability
  • Project type: Doctoral project

Education in inclusive and heterogeneous classrooms – a research perspective: Democracy education and participation

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Batosch, Prof. Dr. Joachim Thomas
  • Duration: 2014–2020
  • Funding: Freising Bishops’ Conference
  • Project type: Applied research

Living and Learning in Inclusive Schools

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Waltraud Schreiber, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Batosch, Prof. Dr. Joachim Thomas
  • Duration: 2014–2019
  • Funding: Bavarian Bishops’ Conference
  • Project type: Basic research

Building peace. Education for peace: On the influence of education on conflict perception and transformation. A contribution from the perspective of geographical conflict research.

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Zademach
  • Duration: 2012–2018
  • Funding: Internal/Research Interests
  • Project Type: Basic Research

“DonauErleben App”

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hemmer
  • Duration: 2013–2015
  • Funding: Neuburg Floodplain Center (Floodplain Center, EU, Bavarian Savings Banks Foundation)
  • Project Type: Contract Research (Research and Development)

Ethical figures in sustainability discourses

Functional and Traffic Safety in Automated and Connected Driving – SAVe

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Jens Hogreve
  • Duration: 2018–2021
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI)
  • Project type: Basic research

Security and Privacy in Public Spaces

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Joost van Loon, Prof. Dr. Stefanie Eifler
  • Duration: 2016–ongoing
  • Funding: From department budget (internal)
  • Project type: Basic research

“Theology for Master Sergeants.” On the Transformation of Theological Speech in Secular Contexts of the German Armed Forces

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Uto Meier
  • Duration: 2014–2020
  • Funding: Catholic Military Bishopric of Berlin
  • Project type: Contract research (research and development)

Ethical principles, general values, and concrete norms in the context of “Ethical Education for Soldiers.” Guidelines for a framework directive

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Uto Meier
  • Duration: 2018–2019
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg)
  • Project type: Applied research and concept development

Climate impact research

Transregional Collaborative Research Center TRR 181 “Energy Transfer in Atmosphere and Ocean,” including subprojects M3 “Towards consistent subgrid momentum closures” and L2 “Quantifying dynamical regimes in the Ocean and in the Atmosphere.”

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Marcel Oliver, Prof. Dr. Manita Chouksey
  • Duration: 2024–2028
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Basic research

Pollen production and pollen emission for predicting pollen concentration (PECurban)

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Susanne Jochner-Oette
  • Duration: 2023–2025
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Basic research

Phenological response of beech and spruce to climate change

  • Project leader: Dr. Barbara Fussi
  • Duration: 2023–2024
  • Funding: Bavarian State Institute for Forestry and Forest Management (LWF)
  • Project type: Basic research

Research Unit SEHAG - Sensitivity of high Alpine geosystems to climate change since 1850 (SEHAG) - Phase II

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Michael Becht
  • Duration: 2022–2027
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG), FWF - Austrian Science Fund, Province of South Tyrol
  • Project type: Basic research

SEHAG Subproject 3 - Spatial and temporal changes in the geomorphic process dynamics on slopes in the Central Alps since the Little Ice Age - Phase II

  • Project leaders: Apl. Prof. Dr. Florian Haas, Prof. Dr. Michael Becht
  • Duration: 2022–2027
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Basic research

SEHAG Subproject 8 - Sediment connectivity, delivery, and the propagation of changes in high Alpine geosystems - Phase II

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Tobias Heckmann, Prof. Dr. Michael Becht
  • Duration: 2022–2027
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Basic research

FraxVir - Detection, characterization, and analysis of the occurrence of viral diseases and ash dieback in special stands of Fraxinus excelsior – Supplementary study to FraxForFuture; Subproject 1: Image-based detection of damage (collaborative project)

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Susanne Jochner-Oette
  • Duration: 2021–2024
  • Funding: Agency for Renewable Resources (FNR), Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)
  • Project Type: Applied Research

Transregio Collaborative Research Center TRR 181 “Energy Transfer in Atmosphere and Ocean,” including subprojects M3 “Towards consistent subgrid momentum closures” and L2 “Quantifying dynamical regimes in the Ocean and in the Atmosphere”

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Marcel Oliver, Dr. Janin Jäger
  • Duration: 2020–2028
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Basic research

Biotic and abiotic influences on birch pollen production and allergenicity and their effects on health

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Susanne Jochner-Oette
  • Duration: 2019–2022
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Basic research

Hidden.ice - Changing debris cover on Eastern Alpine glaciers: Quantification and hydrological impacts

  • Project leaders: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Florian Haas, Prof. Dr. Michael Becht, Prof. Dr. Tobias Heckmann
  • Project duration: 2019–2023
  • Funding: Austrian Academy of Sciences - RESEARCH PROGRAM EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES (ESS)
  • Project type: Basic research

Research Unit SEHAG - Sensitivity of high Alpine geosystems to climate change since 1850 (SEHAG)

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Michael Becht
  • Duration: 2019–2025
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG), FWF - Austrian Science Fund
  • Project type: Basic research

SEHAG subproject 3 - Spatial and temporal changes in the geomorphic process dynamics on slopes in the Central Alps since the Little Ice Age

  • Project leaders: Apl. Prof. Dr. Florian Haas, Prof. Dr. Michael Becht
  • Duration: 2019–2025
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Basic research

SEHAG Subproject 8 - Sediment connectivity, delivery, and the propagation of changes in high Alpine geosystems

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Tobias Heckmann, Prof. Dr. Michael Becht
  • Duration: 2019–2022
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Basic research

Climate-related changes in pollen load (BAYSICS collaborative project)

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Susanne Jochner-Oette
  • Duration: 2018–2023
  • Funding: Bavarian network program bayklif of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts
  • Project type: Basic research

Glaciology and geomorphology. Mass turnover and movements of glacier tongues and subglacial sediments in their current state and under conditions of ongoing glacier melt

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Michael Becht, Prof. Dr. Michael Kuhn
  • Duration: 2016–2017
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Basic research

High-resolution measurements of geomorphodynamics in rapidly changing proglacial systems of the Alps (PROSA) – Phase 3 of the package project

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Michael Becht, Prof. Dr. Tobias Heckmann, Apl. Prof. Dr. Florian Haas
  • Duration: 2016–2017
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Basic research

Near-surface geomorphological slope processes in unconsolidated sediments of proglacial systems in the Alps and their changes under conditions of rapid cryosphere transformation - Phase 3 of the subproject within PROSA

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Michael Becht, Apl. Prof. Dr. Florian Haas
  • Duration: 2016–2017
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Basic research

Analysis and modeling of proglacial geomorphodynamics at the watershed scale based on the integration of multi-temporal airborne and terrestrial laser scanning data – Phase 3 of the subproject in PROSA

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Michael Becht, Prof. Dr. Tobias Heckmann, Prof. Dr. Norbert Pfeiffer
  • Duration: 2016–2017
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Basic research

3D mapping of rockfall processes at the Cratère le Dolomieu of the Piton de la Fournaise

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Michael Becht, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Florian Haas
  • Duration: 2014–2019
  • Funding: University of Paris Diderot, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, EU
  • Project type: Basic research

High-resolution measurements of geomorphodynamics in rapidly changing proglacial systems of the Alps (PROSA) – Phase 2 of the package project

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Michael Becht, Prof. Dr. Tobias Heckmann, Adjunct Prof. Dr. Florian Haas
  • Duration: 2014–2015
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Basic research

Near-surface geomorphological slope processes in unconsolidated sediments of proglacial systems in the Alps and their changes under conditions of rapid cryosphere transformation - Phase 2 of the subproject in PROSA

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Michael Becht, Apl. Prof. Dr. Florian Haas
  • Duration: 2014–2015
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Basic research

Analysis and modeling of proglacial geomorphodynamics at the watershed scale based on the integration of multi-temporal airborne and terrestrial laser scanning data - Phase 2 of the subproject within PROSA

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Michael Becht, Prof. Dr. Tobias Heckmann, Prof. Dr. Norbert Pfeiffer
  • Duration: 2014–2015
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Basic research

Proglacial channel morphodynamics—investigations into fluvial sediment transport and channel mobility in a glacial foreland in the Alps—Phase 2 of the subproject in PROSA

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Michael Becht, Prof. Dr. Manfred Frühauf
  • Duration: 2014–2015
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Basic research

Quantification, analysis, and modeling of slope erosion on steep slopes in different climatic regions using ground-based laser data

  • Project leaders: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Florian Haas
  • Duration: 2013–2016
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Basic research

Laudato Sí

The project “Laudato Si’ – The Papal Encyclical in the Discourse on a Great Transformation”

  • Project Leaders: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Bartosch, Dr. Simone Birkel
  • Duration: 2016–2019
  • Funding: Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Ecologic Institute Berlin
  • Project type: Applied research

Human-environment-research

Sustainable Use of Soil Resources and Soil Conservation

  • Project Leader: Dr. Peter Fischer
  • Duration: Ongoing
  • Funding: Internal
  • Project Type: Applied Research

Uncertainty-aware and physics-informed machine learning for short-range atmospheric forecasts

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Tijana Janjić
  • Duration: 2025–ongoing
  • Funding: Klaus Tschira Foundation
  • Project type: Basic research

Towards the assimilation of dual-polarization radar data

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Tijana Janjić
  • Duration: 2023–2027
  • Funding: Peer-reviewed third-party funding
  • Project type: Basic research

SPP 2089. Rhizosphere Spatiotemporal Organization – a Key to Rhizosphere Functions. Subproject P25: Multiscale modeling with variable microstructure: An approach to emergence in the rhizosphere with effective soil functions

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Nadja Ray
  • Duration: 2021–2025
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Basic research

FOR 2179 “MadSoil”. Microaggregates: Formation and turnover of the structural building blocks of soils. Subproject PM: Mechanistic integrative multiscale modeling of the transformation of soil microaggregates

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Nadja Ray
  • Duration: 2019–2025
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Basic research

Understanding the gap between intrinsic and practical predictability in the tropics (Transregios)

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Tijana Janjić
  • Duration: 2019–2024
  • Funding: Peer-reviewed third-party funding
  • Project type: Basic research

CONNECTing EUopean connectivity Research (CONNECTEUR)

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Tobias Heckmann
  • Duration: 2014–2018
  • Funding: European Union – COST
  • Project type: COST network

SedAlp – “Sediment management in Alpine basins: integrating sediment continuum, risk mitigation, and hydropower”

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Michael Becht, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Florian Haas, Prof. Dr. Tobias Heckmann
  • Duration: 2012–2015
  • Funding: European Union – Alpine Spaces Program
  • Project type: Applied research

Human-environment-relations, human-animal-studies

Societal Attitudes Toward Nature and Acceptance of the Return of Beavers – A Comparative Analysis of Potential for the Further Development of Beaver Management in Bavaria and Canada

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Christian Steiner
  • Duration: 2021–2024
  • Funding: Non-peer-reviewed third-party funding
  • Project Type: Basic Research

Water Supply, Natural Resource Production, and Power Relations in Iran

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Christian Steiner
  • Duration: 2020–2025
  • Funding: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
  • Project Type: Basic Research

Human-Beaver Conflicts and Societal Concepts of Nature

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Christian Steiner
  • Duration: 2020–2023
  • Funding: Bavarian Research Alliance (BayIntAn)
  • Project type: Basic research

AKTF Annual Conference 2020: International Conference on Social Relations with Nature and Tourism

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Christian Steiner
  • Duration: Fall 2020
  • Funding: Internal/PROFOR
  • Project type: Conference, symposium, etc.

NKG XVI Eichstätt: New Cultural Geography

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Christian Steiner
  • Duration: January–February 2019
  • Funding: Departmental budget (internal)
  • Project type: Conference, symposium, etc.

Human-Wolf Relationships in the Alpine Cultural Landscape. Pragmatic-Transactional Analysis, Empathetic Approaches, and Comics as a Form of Science Communication

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Christian Steiner, Dr. Verena Schröder
  • Duration: 2017–2018
  • Funding: Internal/PROFOR
  • Project Type: Basic Research

Migration and integration

BUILD - Building ecosystems of person-centered integrated care through co-creation

  • Project Leaders: Prof. Dr. Dr. med. habil. Dr. phil. Dr. theol. h. c. Eckhard Nagel, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zerth
  • Duration: 2024–2027
  • Funding: European Research Executive Agency
  • Project type: Applied research

EZRA - Remembering racism and antisemitism. Subproject 1: An empirical study on local remembrance work by civil society initiatives in the fields of Nazism, colonialism, and post-Nazi violence

  • Project lead: Prof. Dr. Karin Scherschel
  • Duration: 2023–2026
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  • Project type: Basic research

"Telefon-Engel" - Conversations to combat loneliness for older adults aged 60 and up who feel lonely

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Kals
  • Duration: 2022–2024
  • Funding: Bavarian State Ministry of Health and Care
  • Project type: Applied research

Participation despite tolerated status?! Municipal opportunities for young people and young adults with tolerated status

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Karin Scherschel
  • Duration: 2021–2024
  • Funding: Mercator Foundation
  • Project type: Basic research

BESTFORCAN – Bringing empirically supported treatments to children and adolescents after child abuse and neglect

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Rita Rosner, PD Dr. Antonia Barke
  • Duration: 2019–2023
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  • Project type: Applied research

BETTER CARE - Improving psychotherapeutic care for unaccompanied refugees through tiered treatment options - Evaluation of the care approach, implementation of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, and training for interpreters

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Rita Rosner
  • Duration: 2019–2023
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  • Project type: Applied research

Outpatient monitoring and outpatient coaching as elements of sustainable vocational integration strategies in vocational rehabilitation centers

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Joachim Thomas
  • Duration: 2018–2021
  • Funding: German Pension Insurance Baden-Württemberg
  • Project type: Contract research (research and development)

Social Diversity - International Social Work from an Intercultural and Decolonial Perspective. Implications for Social Work with Refugees and Migrants.

  • Project Leader: Dr. Monika Pfaller-Rott
  • Duration: 2016–ongoing
  • Funding: Peer-reviewed third-party funding
  • Project Type: Symposium, conference, etc.

Solidarity in Open Societies (SOLIOS)

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Jörg Althammer
  • Duration: 2015–ongoing
  • Funding: Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, non-peer-reviewed third-party funding from a foundation, City of Ingolstadt, Porticus Foundation
  • Project Type: Basic Research

IMKi – Effects of the Active Integration of Multilingualism in Childcare Facilities

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Jens Kaiser-Kratzmann, Prof. Dr. Martin Schneider
  • Duration: 2014–2021
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  • Project Type: Basic Research

Refugee Interactive Skills for Employment (R.I.S.E.)

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Rainer Greca
  • Duration: 2014–2016
  • Funding: European Union (EU)
  • Project type: Applied research

EQUAL – Intercultural Center for Professional Adaptation

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Janusz Surzykiewicz
  • Duration: 2008–2016
  • Funding: EU
  • Project type: Applied research

Sustainable consumer behavior

How is patience in adolescence linked to lifestyle in adulthood?

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Alexander M. Danzer
  • Duration: 2022–ongoing
  • Funding: Internal/Research Interests
  • Project Type: Basic Research

Time Preferences and Sustainable Consumption Decisions

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Alexander M. Danzer
  • Duration: 2016–2023
  • Funding: Internal/PROFOR
  • Project type: Applied research

Global production chains and local labor markets in developing countries

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Alexander M. Danzer
  • Duration: 2015–2020
  • Funding: Volkswagen Foundation/University Society of Munich
  • Project type: Applied research

Sustainable land and water management

Field Test of the Biocoenotic Floodplain Condition Assessment as a Basis for Evaluating Restoration Measures (BioAu Field Test)

  • Project Leader: Dr. Barbara Stammel
  • Duration: 2023–2027
  • Funding: Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
  • Project Type: Contract Research (Research and Development)

Restoration of wetland complexes as life-supporting systems in the Danube Basin - Restore4Life

  • Project Leader: Dr. Barbara Stammel
  • Duration: 2023–2027
  • Funding: EU Horizon Europe Climate
  • Project Type: Applied Research

Restoring wetlands for a sustainable future - Restore4Life

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Bern Cyffka
  • Duration: 2023–2027
  • Funding: Peer-reviewed third-party funding
  • Project type: Applied research

Field test of the biocenotic floodplain condition assessment as a basis for evaluating restoration measures (BioAu Field Test)

  • Project lead: Dr. Barbara Stammel
  • Duration: 2023–2027
  • Funding: Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
  • Project type: Contract research (research and development)

Danube River Basin Lighthouse – Restoration of Fresh and Transitional Water Ecosystems (DALIA)

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Bern Cyffka
  • Duration: 2023–2026
  • Funding: Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON)
  • Project type: Applied research

Controlling Temperature and Oxygen in rivers with diversion plants (ConTempO2)

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Bern Cyffka
  • Duration: 2022–2027
  • Funding: EU Life+
  • Project type: Applied research

Analysis and evaluation of the potential for a biotope network (open land) in floodplains along the Danube and the Günz

  • Project leaders: Dr. Barbara Stammel, Prof. Dr. Bernd Cyffka
  • Duration: 2022–2024
  • Funding: Bavarian State Office for the Environment
  • Project type: Applied research

MONDAU II - Monitoring of floodplain ecological processes and management of dynamization measures, follow-up study to ensure medium- and long-term monitoring

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Bern Cyffka
  • Duration: 2022–2023
  • Funding: Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
  • Project type: Contract research (research and development)

IDES - Improving water quality in the Danube River and its tributaries through integrative floodplain management based on ecosystem services

  • Project leader: Dr. Barbara Stammel
  • Duration: 2020–2022
  • Funding: EU Interreg, Danube Transnational Program
  • Project type: Applied research

DynAu - Strengthening the dynamic development of water bodies and floodplains in the Natura 2000 network

  • Project lead: Dr. Barbara Stammel
  • Duration: 2021–2024
  • Funding: Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
  • Project type: Contract research (research and development)

LIFE CityRiver - CityRiver reconnecting town and river

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Bernd Cyffka
  • Duration: 2019–2025
  • Funding: EU Life+, LIFE18 ENV/DE/000332
  • Project type: Applied research

ÖkoFlussPlan - Preservation of selected ecosystem services in the floodplains of the Naryn River in Kyrgyzstan through renewable energy and short-rotation plantations, incorporating sustainable land and water management and capacity building

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Bernd Cyffka
  • Duration: 2019–2022
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  • Project type: Applied research

RESI Lahn - River Ecosystem Service Index, practical implementation on the Lahn

  • Project leader: Dr. Barbara Stammel
  • Duration: 2019–2020
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  • Project type: Applied research

BioAu - Biocoenotic floodplain condition assessment

  • Project lead: Dr. Barbara Stammel
  • Duration: 2018–2021
  • Funding: Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
  • Project type: Contract research (Research and Development)

Danube Floodplain - Reducing the flood risk through floodplain restoration along the Danube River and tributaries

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Bernd Cyffka
  • Duration: 2018–2020
  • Funding: EU, Interreg, Danube Transnational Programme
  • Project Type: Applied Research

LIFE+ Isobel - Integrated Solutions for Bed Load Management

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Bernd Cyffka
  • Duration: 2016–2019
  • Funding: EU Life+, LIFE15 ENV/DE/000162
  • Project Type: Contract Research (Research and Development)

INADAR - Innovative approach for dam restoration

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Bernd Cyffka
  • Duration: 2016–2019
  • Funding: EU Life+
  • Project type: Contract research (research and development)

River Ecosystem Service Index (RESI)

  • Project leaders: Dr. Barbara Stammel, Prof. Dr. Bernd Cyffka
  • Duration: 2015–2018
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  • Project type: Applied research

EcoCAR – Ecosystem Assessment and Capacity Building for Sustainable Management of Floodplains along the Central Asian Rivers Tarim (Xinjiang/China) and Naryn (Kyrgyzstan)

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Halik Ümüt, Prof. Dr. Bernd Cyffka
  • Duration: 2014–2017
  • Funding: Volkswagen Foundation
  • Project type: Applied research

Biodiversity development in river floodplains

  • Project leaders: Dr. Barbara Stammel, Prof. Dr. Bernd Cyffka
  • Duration: 2013–2015
  • Funding: Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
  • Project type: Contract research (research and development)

Sustainable Management of River Oases along the Tarim River China (SuMaRiO)

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Markus Disse, Prof. Dr. Bernd Cyffka
  • Duration: 2011–2016
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  • Project type: Applied research

Sustainable Management of River Oases along the Tarim River China (SuMaRiO): WP 1.3.1 - Management of stakeholder dialogues

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Bernd Cyffka
  • Duration: 2011–2016
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  • Project Type: Applied Research

Sustainable Management of River Oases along the Tarim River China (SuMaRiO): WP 4.1.4 - Protective functions and sustainable use of riparian forests

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Bernd Cyffka, Dr. Benno Kügel
  • Duration: 2011–2016
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  • Project Type: Applied Research

Sustainable Management of River Oases along the Tarim River China (SuMaRiO): WP 4.1.5 - Aquatic Biodiversity of the Tarim Ecosystem as Reflected by Fish Diversity and Macroinvertebrates in Relation to Ecosystem Function (ESF) and Ecosystem Services (ESS)

  • Project Leaders: Prof. Dr. Bernd Cyffka, Dr. Benno Kügel
  • Duration: 2011–2016
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  • Project type: Applied research

Floodplain Institute Neuburg a. d. Donau

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Bernd Cyffka
  • Duration: 2006–ongoing
  • Funding: Neuburg-Schrobenhausen District
  • Project type: Applied research

Scientific support and hydroecological monitoring for the large-scale nature conservation project “Revitalization of the Danube floodplains between Neuburg and Ingolstadt”

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Bernd Cyffka
  • Duration: 2005–2020
  • Funding: Internal/Research interests
  • Project type: Applied research

Sustainable ecosystem development

Scientific Coordination of the International Phenological Gardens of Europe

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Susanne Jochner-Oette
  • Duration: 2022–2024
  • Funding: Internal/PROFOR
  • Project Type: Basic Research

Sustainable Place-Making: Practicing the Future for Climate-Fit Forests

  • Project Leader: PhD Jutta Kister
  • Duration: 2022–2023
  • Funding: Internal/PROFOR
  • Project type: Basic research

Demonstration project for the conservation of the common ash (FraxForFuture); Collaborative project 2: Monitoring (FraxMon); Subproject 8: Investigation of resistance indicators to assess the susceptibility of ash trees to ash dieback

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Susanne Jochner-Oette
  • Duration: 2020–2024
  • Funding: Agency for Renewable Resources (FNR), Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMUV)
  • Project type: Applied research

Investigation of pollen concentration along an altitudinal gradient on the tropical island of La Réunion

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Susanne Jochner-Oette
  • Duration: 2020–2021
  • Funding: Internal/PROFOR
  • Project type: Applied research

Studies on pollen production, concentration, and dispersion of Central European tree species

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Susanne Jochner-Oette
  • Duration: 2020–2021
  • Funding: Internal/PROFOR
  • Project type: Contract research (research and development)

Quo vadis Pollen? Investigations into (effective) pollen dispersal and pollen and seed quality as a contribution to gene conservation in ash trees

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Susanne Jochner-Oette
  • Duration: 2018–2021
  • Funding: LWF, Bavarian State Institute for Forestry and Forestry Economics
  • Project type: Basic research

Sustainable urban and regional development

Small Municipalities, Big Impact: Municipal Maintenance Depots as Pioneers of Sustainability

  • Project Leaders: Dr. Thomas Metten, Dr. Patricia Zieris
  • Duration: 2024–2027
  • Funding: Volkswagen Foundation
  • Project Type: Applied Research

Resource and Cost Allocation for City Logistics (ROCOCO)

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Pirmin Fontaine
  • Duration: 2022–2025
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Basic research

The design of debt relief measures for financially weak, small municipalities in Germany: A comparative analysis with special consideration of federal structures

  • Project leaders: Dr. Simon Dudek, Dr. Andreas Kallert
  • Duration: 2022–2025
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Basic research

newMIND (Ingolstadt Public Transport)

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Pirmin Fontaine
  • Duration: 2022–2024
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI)
  • Project type: Applied research

Making the Great Transformation and sustainable spatial development a reality: Impulses for implementing a complex concept in regional and municipal practice

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Zademach, Dr. Barbara Malburg-Graf
  • Duration: 2022–2024
  • Funding: Academy for Spatial Development within the Leibniz Association
  • Project type: Basic research

Participation despite tolerated status?! Municipal scope for action for tolerated adolescents and young adults

  • Project lead: Prof. Dr. Karin Scherschel
  • Duration: 2021–2024
  • Funding: Mercator Foundation
  • Project type: Basic research

Alternatives to Prosperity and Regional Development

  • Prof. Dr. phil. Christian Schulz
  • Duration: 2021–2024
  • Funding: Academy for Spatial Development within the Leibniz Association
  • Project type: Basic research

SAVeNoW – Functional and Traffic Safety for Automated and Connected Mobility – Benefits for Society and Ecological Impact

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Jens Hogreve
  • Duration: 2021–2023
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI)
  • Project Type: Basic Research

Sustainable Tourism and Regional Development in Garmisch-Partenkirchen: Balancing Tourism, Leisure-Driven Migration, and the Real Estate Market

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Christian Steiner
  • Duration: 2021–2022
  • Funding: Bavarian Center for Tourism
  • Project Type: Basic Research
     

Sustainable Regional Development through Tourism (Brazil)

  • Project Leader: Dr. Frank Zirkl
  • Duration: 2020–2022
  • Funding: Internal
  • Project type: Basic research

Hops and (Craft) Beer – Sustainable Development Impulses for Region 10?

  • Project leader: Dr. Frank Zirkl
  • Duration: 2020–2021
  • Funding: Internal
  • Project type: Applied research

Resilience Study for the Ingolstadt Region

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Harald Pechlaner, Elina Störmann
  • Duration: 2019–2020
  • Funding: Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development, and Energy; Initiative Regionalmanagement Region Ingolstadt e. V. (IRMA)
  • Project Type: Research and Development

Cross-Stakeholder Urban and Destination Development (Eichstätt Tourism Convention)

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Harald Pechlaner, City of Eichstätt
  • Duration: 2019–2020
  • Funding: Internal, KU, City of Eichstätt
  • Project Type: Research and Development

Working Group: New Perspectives on Sustainable Spatial Planning in Bavaria

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Manfred Miosga
  • Duration: 2017–2020
  • Funding: Academy for Spatial Development within the Leibniz Association
  • Project type: Basic research

Working Group: New Perspectives on Sustainable Spatial Planning in Bavaria

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Manfred Miosga
  • Duration: 2017–2020
  • Funding: Academy for Spatial Development within the Leibniz Association
  • Project type: Basic research

Empirical analysis of increased regional integration of FC Ingolstadt 04

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Harald Pechlaner, Christian Eckert, Natalie Olbrich
  • Duration: 2017–2018
  • Funding: Internal
  • Project type: Research and development

Potential of new forms of mobility and technologies for sustainable spatial development

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Christian Jakoby, Dr. Ing. Sandra Wappelhorst
  • Duration: 2013–2016
  • Funding: Academy for Spatial Science and Planning (ARL)
  • Project type: Doctoral project

Sustainable tax policy and tax justice

Tax Avoidance by Multinational Corporations at the Subsidiary Level

  • Project Leaders: Prof. Dr. Dominika Langenmayr, Prof. Dr. Reinald Koch
  • Duration: 2023–2026
  • Funding: Fritz Thyssen Foundation for the Promotion of Science
  • Project type: Basic research

Taxation and Corporate Productivity. Part of the research group “Understanding the Behavior of Multinational Corporations in the Context of International Tax Institutions”

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Dominika Langenmayr
  • Duration: 2019–2027
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Applied research

Escaping the Exchange of Information: Tax Evasion via Citizenship-by-Investment

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Dominika Langenmayr
  • Duration: 2018–2021
  • Funding: Internal/Research Focus
  • Project Type: Doctoral Project

Tax Havens: Small States with a Major Influence on Tax and Economic Policy

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Dominika Langenmayr
  • Duration: 2014–2015
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project Type: Basic Research

Sustainable Tourism

Touristification of Residential Real Estate Markets in Rural Areas

  • Project Leaders: Prof. Dr. Christian Steiner, Dr. Gerhard Rainer
  • Duration: 2025–2028
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Basic research

Tourism and Residential Real Estate Development in the Bavarian Alps: Innovative Approaches for More Sustainable Tourism and Regional Development

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Christian Steiner
  • Duration: 2022–2023
  • Funding: Bavarian Center for Tourism
  • Project type: Basic research

Innovative business models and new value chains within the framework of resilient destination development

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Harald Pechlaner
  • Duration: 2020–2021
  • Funding: Bavarian Center for Tourism e. V.
  • Project type: Basic research

Future-oriented destination development on Tenerife

  • Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Harald Pechlaner, Christian Eckert
  • Duration: 2019–2020
  • Funding: Internal
  • Project Type: Research and Development, Research Excursion

Smart Tourism and Sustainability on Gran Canaria

  • Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Harald Pechlaner, Christian Eckert
  • Duration: 2018–2019
  • Funding: Internal
  • Project type: Research and Development, Research Excursion

Perspectives on Future-Oriented Destination Development in Lanzarote

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Harald Pechlaner, Christian Eckert
  • Duration: 2018
  • Funding: Internal
  • Project type: Research and Development, Research Excursion

Sustainable business practices

EUBIS: Fiscal Equalization via a European Basic Income Scheme

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Jörg Althammer
  • Duration: 2022–2026
  • Funding: Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies (FRIBIS)
  • Project Type: Basic Research

Christian Investment Funds – Logic and Motives of God’s Stewards

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. André Habisch
  • Duration: 2022–2023
  • Funding: Internal/PROFOR
  • Project Type: Other

eco3 – Sustainability Management and Green Controlling in the Social Economy

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Bernd Halfar
  • Duration: 2020–2023
  • Funding: Peer-reviewed third-party funding
  • Project type: Other

Finance in Displacement – Exploring and Strengthening Financial Lives of Refugees

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Zademach, Prof. Kim Wilson
  • Duration: 2019–2021
  • Funding: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
  • Project type: Contract research (Research and Development)

Sustainability transitions from a co-evolutionary perspective: The example of organizational and technological innovations in the energy storage market

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Zademach
  • Duration: 2017–2018
  • Funding: Internal/PROFOR
  • Project Type: Doctoral project

Sustainability in China

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Andre Habisch
  • Duration: 2017–ongoing
  • Funding: Audi Confucius Institute
  • Project Type: Applied Research

Return Policies of Multinational Online Retailers

  • Project Leader: Dr. Jana Gäthke
  • Duration: 2016–ongoing
  • Funding: Research project funded by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
  • Project type: Basic research

Financial System and Finance in the Context of Sustainable Development

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Zademach, Johanna Dichtl
  • Duration: 2010–2017
  • Funding: Special funds from the KU Foundation
  • Project type: Basic research

Sustainability Reporting and Assurance, Corporate Social Responsibility

Challenges in the Implementation of Responsible Business Conduct

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Max Göttsche
  • Duration: 2017–2021
  • Funding: Internal/Research Interests, ProFOR, BayFOR
  • Project Type: Doctoral project

Theological transformation research

Religion as a Force for Social Change: Christianity’s Contribution to General Education and the Promotion of Democratic Cohesion in Germany and Poland

  • Project Director: Dr. Dr. Mariusz Chrostowski
  • Duration: 2025–ongoing
  • Funding: German-Polish Science Foundation (DPWS)
  • Project Type: Symposium, conference, etc.

“Minding the Gap”: Religious Education in the Face of Artificial Intelligence

  • Project Leader: Dr. Dr. Mariusz Chrostowski
  • Duration: 2024–ongoing
  • Funding: Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Cologne
  • Project Type: Conference, symposium, etc.

Pastoral Care of Empowerment: Women’s Experiences of Participation in Major Argentine Cities

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Katharina Karl
  • Duration: 2023–2024
  • Funding: Bavarian Research Alliance GmbH (BayFOR), proFOR+
  • Project Type: Basic Research

Digital and Relational: Transformation of Church Youth Education

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Katharina Karl
  • Duration: 2023–2025
  • Funding: Other
  • Project type: Basic research

Skills and potential of students of religious education and parish assistants for church-pastoral transformations and innovations

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Katharina Karl
  • Duration: 2020–2022
  • Funding: Other
  • Project type: Applied research

Theology as a “cultural laboratory” (Veritatis gaudium)

  • Project lead: Collaborative network (Prof. Dr. Martin Kirschner, Prof. Dr. Margit Eckholt, Prof. Dr. Roman Siebenrock, Dr. Verena Wodtke-Werner, Magdalena Kopf)
  • Duration: June 2019 – ongoing
  • Funding: Internal, in cooperation with the Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart
  • Project type: Network development, conference

Theology in Contemporary Transformative Processes

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Martin Kirschner
  • Duration: June 2016 – ongoing
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project type: Heisenberg Professorship

Religiosity and Religion. On the Intersection of Normatively Defined Religion and Individually Constructed Religiosity

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Uto Meier
  • Duration: 2009–2018
  • Funding: Non-peer-reviewed third-party funding
  • Project type: Symposium, conference, etc.

Environmental justice, environmental action and environemental experience

GreenCare: Nature and Health. Evaluation of a Mindfulness-Based, Nature-Based Intervention

  • Project Leaders: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Kals, PD Dr. Markus Müller
  • Duration: 2019–2023
  • Funding: Government of Lower Franconia and Government of Upper Bavaria of the UNESCO Biosphere Reserves Berchtesgadener Land and Rhön, Bavarian section
  • Project type: Applied research

Sustainable Consumption, Fair Trade, and Justice: A Multimethodological Psychological Study of Justice- and Responsibility-Related Motives

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Kals
  • Duration: 2016–2019
  • Funding: Internal
  • Project Type: Doctoral Project

Nature Observation, Well-being, and Engagement in Long-Term Care Facilities: Evaluation of a Prevention Project

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Kals
  • Duration: 2017–2020
  • Funding: Bavarian Society for the Protection of Birds (LBV), long-term care insurance funds of AOK Bavaria, BKK, the Bavarian Regional Association, IKK classic, KNAPPSCHAFT, and the Social Insurance for Agriculture, Forestry, and Horticulture (SVLFG)
  • Project type: Applied research

Environmental justice and sustainability: Judgments of fairness and their influence on private and political willingness to act, using the example of energy issues

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Kals
  • Duration: 2012–2015
  • Funding: Internal
  • Project type: Doctoral project

Long-term consequences of technological disasters on mental health and well-being: The example of Chernobyl

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Alexander M. Danzer
  • Duration: 2011–2016
  • Funding: EU 7th Framework Program
  • Project type: Applied research

Communication of responsibility

Innovative Communication Strategies for Intervention and Prevention in Digital Disinformation Campaigns: A Conceptualization Based on Latent Narratives and Frames

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Friederike Herrmann
  • Duration: 2023–2026
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  • Project type: Basic research

Media for Peace (M4P) – Peace-Promoting Journalism: Peace-Promoting Journalism in the (Post-)Conflict Regions of Lebanon and Afghanistan

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Annika Sehl
  • Duration: 2023–2026
  • Funding: dtec.bw – Center for Digitalization and Technology Research of the German Armed Forces, European Union – NextGenerationEU
  • Project type: Basic research

Decency Online. An Ethical Perspective on Digital Communication

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dietrich Altmeppen, Prof. Johanna Haberer, Prof. Dr. Alexander Filipovic
  • Duration: June–November 2020
  • Funding: Bavarian Virtual University
  • Project type: Contract research (research and development)

Opinion-forming processes regarding migration and digitalization in digital public spheres

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dietrich Altmeppen, Dr. Simon Goebel
  • Duration: 2019–2022
  • Funding: Mensch in Bewegung
  • Project type: Applied research

Magical seducers. Advertising from an ethical perspective

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen, Prof. Dr. Johanna Haberer, Prof. Dr. Alexander Filipovic
  • Duration: 2019–2020
  • Funding: Bavarian Virtual University
  • Project type: Contract research (research and development)

Media Ethics. Topics and Discourses - Adaptation open vhb

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dietrich Altmeppen, Prof. Dr. Johanna Haberer, Prof. Dr. Alexander Filipovic
  • Duration: 2018–2019
  • Funding: Bavarian Virtual University
  • Project type: Contract research (research and development)

Key social concepts and digital publics: On the communicative construction of cohesion, the common good, and responsibility in a society of immigration

  • Project leadership: Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen
  • Duration: 2017–ongoing
  • Funding: From the department budget (internal)
  • Project type: Applied research

Ethics of digital communication

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen, Prof. Dr. Johanna Haberer, Prof. Dr. Alexander Filipovic
  • Duration: 2017–2018
  • Funding: Bavarian Virtual University
  • Project type: Contract research (research and development)

Media Ethics. Topics & Discourses. An Interactive Introductory Course

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen, Prof. Dr. Johanna Haberer, Prof. Dr. Alexander Filipovic
  • Duration: 2016–2017
  • Funding: Bavarian Virtual University
  • Project type: Contract research (research and development)

Refugee Migration and Social Transformation Processes (Collaborative Project/Edited Volume)

  • Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Friedrich Kießling
  • Duration: 2015–2016
  • Funding: Non-peer-reviewed third-party funding
  • Project Type: Basic Research

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Citizenship (CC): Self-image and External Perception in Public Communication. Prerequisites, Structures, and Forms of Sustainability-Oriented Responsibility Communication Using Media Management as an Example

  • Project Leaders: Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen, Prof. Dr. André Habisch
  • Duration: 2011–2016
  • Funding: Internal/Research Interests
  • Project Type: Doctoral Project

Sustainable labor markets and pension systems

Distributional and Fiscal Effects of Mandatory Pension Splitting

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Jörg Althammer
  • Duration: 2025–2026
  • Funding: German Federal Pension Insurance
  • Project Type: Applied Research

Pathways to Inclusive Labor Markets (PILLARS)

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Simon Wiederhold
  • Duration: 2021–2023
  • Funding: European Commission
  • Project type: Applied research

Labor supply and automation innovations

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Alexander M. Danzer, Dr. Fabian Gaessler
  • Duration: 2018–2021
  • Funding: Internal/Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
  • Project type: Applied research

The long-term demographic effects of pension reforms

  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Alexander M. Danzer
  • Duration: 2017–2020
  • Funding: Internal
  • Project type: Applied research

Can workers insure themselves through side jobs?

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Alexander M. Danzer
  • Duration: 2012–2018
  • Funding: EU 7th Framework Program
  • Project Type: Applied Research

A Dynamic Microsimulation Model for Evaluating the Sustainability of Social Security Systems

  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Jörg Althammer
  • Duration: 2012–2017
  • Funding: Research Training Group on Sustainability
  • Project type: Doctoral project

The Future of Public Pension Systems: Reform Evaluation UK

  • Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Alexander M. Danzer, Prof. Dr. Peter Dolton
  • Duration: 2012–2016
  • Funding: ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council), UK
  • Project type: Applied research