UNIVERSITAET POTSDAM

Forschungsprojekte

• The Logistics of Popular Uprisings Imagine you protest the slide of your country into an autocratic regime. The weather is freezing and you rall…
• Relationships of receptive grammar acquisition with musical rhythm processing and executive functions Language is one of the hallmarks of what it means to be human and grammar is a core linguistic ability that m…
• Breeding for coffee and cocoa root resilience in low input farming systems based on improved rootstocks Fruit tree crops (FTC), represented by more than 50 species grown on over 100 M Ha, are strongly affected by…
• PROTESTING THE GLOBAL AIR TRANSPORT INDUSTRY: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS FIGHTING FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND THE PLANET PROTEST-AIRT is a multi-actor and inter-scalar research project aiming at understanding the growing global an…
• Measuring Irregular Migration and related Policies Targeted policy responses for irregular migration require better knowledge about the characteristics of the i…
• Certainty in an Uncertain World: A Philosophy of Opinion This research proposes to examine what comprises 'opinion' in today's world of instantaneous communication. H…
• Development of innovative priming technologies safeguarding yield security in soft fruit crops through a cutting-edge technological approach The development of non-toxic priming agents (PAs) is an important R&D activity, driven by European Commission…
• Studying the Earth's surface with seismic methods EnvSeis will train 12 early stage researchers (ESRs) in the emerging field of environmental seismology, in wh…
• Concerted European action on Sustainable Applications of REFractories Refractory materials are key enablers for high temperature industries such as Iron & Steelmaking (I&S). Refra…
• Social media for democracy – understanding the causal mechanisms of digital citizenship Social media for democracy – understanding the causal mechanisms of digital citizenship (SoMe4Dem) Current di…
• BirdWatch - a Copernicus-based service for the improvement of habitat suitability of farmland birds via satellite-enabled monitoring, evaluation and optimisation of CAP greening measures BirdWatch will support the restoration of spatial heterogeneity on farmland, a necessary component in the las…
• From Subatomic to Cosmic Scales: Simulating, Modelling, Analysing Binary Neutron Star Mergers What is the nature of matter at supranuclear densities? What is the expansion rate of our Universe? These ope…