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LIBERTY Connect Fund

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The LIBERTY Connect Fund enables the development of scientific research projects that have the potential for successful application for third-party funding. Collaborations among researchers from different institutes and disciplines shall be established to stimulate top-level research.

  • Applicants: early-career researchers (doctoral students to postdocs)
  • Deadline: 15.11.2024
  • Funding: up to 20.000€ for up to 12 months

For more information, see LIBERTY Connectpdf, 315 kb · de

Previous (in some cases pro rata) funding from the LIBERTY Connect Fund

  • Summer term 2024: 14 applications submitted, 3 grants

    Funded research projects (in alphabetical order):

    Prof. Dr. Michaela Riediger (Developmental Psychology): Empathic abilities as risk and resilience factors for stress and health in the elderly, in cooperation with: Prof. Dr. Veronika Engert (Jena University Hospital, UKJ)

    Prof. Dr. Caroline Rosenthal, Andrin Albrecht (American Studies): Romantic Currents: Water Narratives between American Romanticism and a Transnational Present, in cooperation with: pertinent universities in the field of Blue Humanities

    Prof. Dr. Eva Winter (Klassische Archäologie): Der Jenaer Maler revisited. Untersuchungen zur attischen Keramik zwischen Klassik und Hellenismus, in cooperation with: Dr. rer. nat. Tina Block, Dr. rer. nat. habil. Mathias Herrmann (Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS)

  • Winter term 2023: 5 applications submitted, 2 grants

    Funded research projects (in alphabetical order):

    Prof. Dr. Volker Gast (English and American Studies), PD Dr. Holger Graf (Microeconomics): Wissenschaftskommunikation und Wissenstransfer. Zur strategischen Bedeutung von Pressemitteilungen in der Drittmittelakquise

    Julian Kauk, Dr. Helene Kreysa, Prof. Dr. Stefan Schweinberger (General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience): Dynamics of online climate (mis)information: Risks and potentials for climate change mitigatio

  • Summer term 2023: 9 applications submitted, 5 grants

    Funded research projects (in alphabetical order):

    Prof. Dr. Stefanie Middendorf (Contemporary history): Emergency Mindsets: On the Transnational History of States of Exception after the First World War, in cooperation with pertinent international researchers

    Prof. Dr. Michaela Riediger (Developmental Psychology): The Role of Parents in Preschoolers’ Development of Negative Attitudes towards Older Adults. Direct and Indirect Pathways and Malleability of Parental Influence, in cooperation with: Prof. Dr. Anna Kornadt (University of Luxembourg)

    Dr. Mariana Schütt, Marlen van den Ecker (Sociology of Knowledge and Social Theory): Epistemology of Artificial Intelligence and Social Change, in cooperation with: Dr. Felipe Figueroa Zimmermann (Max-Planck-Institute for Innovation and Competition, München)

    Prof. Dr. Ruprecht von Waldenfels (Slavic Linguistics), Prof. Dr. Adrian Simpson, Prof. Dr. Melanie Weirich (Speech science and phonetics): Variation in speech in Ukraine: dialectology meets sociolinguistics in a digital age

    Dr. Thomas Zingelmann, Michael Jenewein (Philosophy with a focus on image theory and phenomenology): Philosophie des Fahrens

  • Winter term 2022: 12 applications submitted, 6 grants

    Funded research projects (in alphabetical order):

    Dr. Judith Hack (Classical Studies): Antike Homosexualität und ihre Rezeption um 1900

    Prof. Dr. Thomas Kleinlein, Luise Seidel (Public law, international law, European law and comparative law), Prof. Dr. Andrea Meyer-Fraatz (Slavic Literary Studies): Translationales globales Recht

    Dr. Cynthia Möller (KomRex), Jun.-Prof. Dr. Sarah Jäger (Systematic theology), Prof. Dr. Michael Wermke (Religious pedagogy): „Antigenderismus“ – Diskursverflechtungen zwischen Akteur*innen der Neuen Rechten und dem konservativen Protestantismus in Sozialen Medien 

    PD Dr. Katja Müller (Environmental Sociology): Climate Advocacy, in Kooperation mit: Prof. Dr. James Goodman (University of Technology Sydney) und Prof. Pradik Swarnakar (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)

    Stefan van der Hoek (Research Center for Religion and Education): Religiöse Vielfalt am Amazonas, in Kooperation mit: Prof. Dr. Erika Helgen (Yale University)

    Prof. Dr. Lambert Wiesing (Philosophy with a focus on image theory and phenomenology): Bild und Soziale Imagination, in cooperation with: „Picture Theory Group“