PeopleProjectsPublicationsEventsEvents Archive
Energie- und Verkehrswende als Herausforderung für die sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung
Duration: 08/2017 - 07/2019
Funding: Stiftung Mercator

Project area 1: Academic careers and identities

In and Out of Academic Life: Paths and Identities
Head
Prof. Dr. Ariane Berthoin Antal
Duration: 09/2015-01/2020
Academica between form of life and career job
Staff
Dr. Jan-Christoph Rogge
Duration: ongoing since 09/2012
Funding: Technische Universität Berlin
Scientific Supervision of Doctoral Schools in Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research
Head
Prof. Dr. Andreas Knie
Staff
Vera Rabelt, Dr. Dagmar Simon
Duration: 04/2015 - 12/2018
Funding: Ministerium für Innovation, Wissenschaft und Forschung NRW

Current Projects

Interdisciplinarity and Research Creativity: New ways of generating impact
Head
Dr. Anna Froese
Staff
Silvio Suckow, Dr. Hendrik Woiwode
Duration: 05/2019 - 09/2023
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Project area 3: The production of knowledge

EUREF Forschungscampus Mobility2Grid – Coupling smart grid technology and electric mobility for sustainable development in energy supply and mobility
Head
Prof. Dr. Andreas Knie
Staff
Dr. Natalie Mevissen
Duration: 4/2013 – 4/2020
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Leibniz Research Alliance on Energy Transitions
Head
Dr. habil. Weert Canzler
Staff
Leslie Quitzow
Duration: 2013 - 2020
The transition to clean energy and transport systems as a challenge for social science research
Head
Prof. Dr. Andreas Knie, Dr. habil. Weert Canzler
Staff
Dr. Lisa Ruhrort, Dr. Christian Scherf, Dr. Robin P. G. Tech
Duration: 08/2017 - 07/2019
Funding: Stiftung Mercator
Expertise in the Nexus
Head
Prof. Dr. Andreas Knie, Prof. Dr. Holger Straßheim
Staff
Dr. Rebecca-Lea Freudl (geb. Korinek), Juliane Haus, Nastasja Rostalski
Duration: 10/2016 – 09/2019
Funding: Mercator Foundation
Kopernikus-Project: P2X - Research, Validation and Implementation of "Power-to-X" concepts. Research cluster B1: Decentralized H2-logistic: Storage and Distribution of Liquid Hydrogen Carriers
Head
Dr. habil. Weert Canzler
Staff
Anke Marie Schmidt, Julia Epp
Duration: 09/2016 - 08/2019
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Platform Mobility 4.0
Head
Dr. Martina Franzen
Coordination of partners and project management InnoZ: Dr. Helga Jonuschat
Staff
Sina Nordhoff
Duration: 06/2017 - 11/2018
Funding: Federal Ministry of Transport & Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) in the context of the mFund Program
Event Series: WZB-Mercator Forum Science and Politics
Duration: 07/2016 - 12/2018
Funding: Stiftung Mercator
Energieavantgarde Anhalt
Head
Prof. Dr. Andreas Knie
Staff
Franziska Engels
Duration: 11/2015 - 10/2018
Funding: innogy Stiftung für Energie und Gesellschaft
Open Transfer. New forms of cooperation and exchange between science and business in innovative market platforms
Head
Dr. Karin Zimmermann
Prof. Dr. Martina Schraudner, Fraunhofer CeRRI
Duration: 09/2016 - 02/2018
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Artistic interventions in organizations
Head
Prof. Dr. Ariane Berthoin Antal
Duration: 3/2008 – 12/2017
New Spaces for Collaboration between Science and Practice in the Social and Spatial Sciences - “Innovation Spaces in the Social Science”
Head
Dr. Dagmar Simon, Prof. Dr. Andreas Knie
Staff
Dr. Anna Froese, Dr. Natalie Mevissen, Julia Böttcher
Duration: 02/2014 - 03/2017
Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)

Projektbereich 3: Wissensproduktion

Gemeinschaftlich elektrisch mobil: Umsetzung eines elektromobilen Mitfahrangebots auf Basis digitaler Plattformen in der Wartburgregion als Beitrag zu Klimaschutz und Daseinsvorsorge (EMG 2)
Head
Prof. Dr. Andreas Knie
Staff
Anke Borcherding, Dr. Lisa Ruhrort
Duration: 09/2018 – 08/2019
Funding: Thüringer Ministerium für Umwelt, Energie und Naturschutz

Project area 2: Evaluation of academic achievements

COST-Aktion "European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities"
Head
Dr. Dagmar Simon
Duration: 2015-2018

Abgeschlossene Projekte

Erneuerbares Mobilitätsgesetz: Konzeption und Projektierung für den Einsatz von E-Mitfahrangeboten in Kombination mit dem ÖPNV in der Wartburgregion (EMG 1)
Head
Prof. Dr. Andreas Knie
Staff
Dr. Lisa Ruhrort
Dr. Melanie Herget (Innovationszentrum für Mobilität und gesellschaftlichen Wandel – InnoZ)
Duration: 08/2017 – 07/2018
Funding: Thüringer Ministerium für Umwelt, Energie und Naturschutz

Completed Projects

Science and (Religio-)Culture. Investigating identity constructions in stem-cell research in Germany and the United States
Dr. Silke Gülker
Duration: 4/2013 - 4/2016
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Cooling out as a transformation of occupational motivation
Head
Dr. Hildegard Matthies
Duration: 4/2014 - 03/2017
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Science and society: societal impacts of research under review
Head
Dr. Martina Franzen
Stefan Priester
Duration: 10/2015 - 02/2017
Funding: Stiftung Mercator
Guideline for “Sustainable Management in non-university Research Institutions”
Head
Dr. Dagmar Simon, Vera Rabelt
Duration: 02/2014 - 11/2015
Funding: BMBF
Event Series "Situation and perspectives of social science based mobility- and transport research"
Head
Dr. Dagmar Simon, Dr. habil. Weert Canzler
Duration: 04/2016 - 11/2016
Funding: Mercator Stiftung
The Use of Expertise in Germany – a comparative analysis
Head
Prof. Dr. Holger Straßheim, Dr. Dagmar Simon
Prof. Friedbert Rüb
Staff
Dr. Rebecca-Lea Freudl (geb. Korinek)
David Meiering
Duration: 07/2015 - 09/2016
Funding: Mercator-Stiftung
Future Mobility
Head
Dr. Dagmar Simon, Dr. habil. Weert Canzler
Duration: 03/2015 - 07/2016
Funding: Stiftung Mercator GmbH
Changing Categories: Migrants in epidemiological, preventive and legal discourses on HIV and tuberculosis - a comparison of Germany and Great Britain
Duration: 9/2012 – 9/2015. Since April 2013 the project is hosted by LMU München
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Innovative Forms of Cooperation between Science and Industry – A Study of an Application Lab
Head
Dr. Dagmar Simon
Staff
Dr. Nina Fabjančič, Dr. Natalie Mevissen
Duration: 3/2013 – 5/2014
Funding: Impulsfonds der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
Unknown Terrain? Knowledge Transfer in the Social and Spatial Sciences
Head
Dr. Dagmar Simon, Prof. Dr. Andreas Knie
Staff
Dr. Anna Froese, Dr. Natalie Mevissen
Duration: 12 2011 - 01 2014
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Scientization or socialization? The transformation of knowledge orders in Germany, Great Britain and the US
Head
Prof. Dr. Michael Hutter, Dr. Dagmar Simon, Prof. Dr. Holger Straßheim
Staff
Dr. Rebecca-Lea Freudl (geb. Korinek), Dr. Arlena Jung
Duration: 2011 - 2014
Funding: Volkswagen Stiftung
Measuring, Assessing, Rewarding. Evaluating an output performance recording system for research and teaching.
Head
Dr. Dagmar Simon
Staff
Dr. Christoph Biester, Dr. Tim Flink
Duration: 2012 - 2013
Institutional Effects of Evaluations
Staff
Dr. Silke Gülker, Simon Roßmann, Dr. Dagmar Simon, Dr. Marc Torka
Duration: 2010 - 2012
Funding: BMBF - Joint Initiative for Research and Innovation
Gender and Excellence in Leading Positions of the Scientific and Economic Fields
Head
Dr. Hildegard Matthies
Staff
Dr. Denis Hänzi
Elke Hagemann, Jan-Christoph Rogge
Duration: 12 2008 - 03 2012
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
ProfiTech: A Pilot Study toward the Professionalisation of Knowledge-Technology Transfer in the Leibniz Association
Head
Dr. Dagmar Simon, Prof. Dr. Andreas Knie
Staff
Dr. Natalie Mevissen
Duration: 01 2010 - 12 2011
Funding: Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi)
Status and Development Prospects of Research at German Universities
Head
Dr. Dagmar Simon
Staff
Dr. Tim Flink, Simon Roßmann
Jan-Christoph Rogge
Duration: 5 2011 - 12 2011
Funding: Expertenkommission für Forschung und Innovation (EFI)
Competing Cultures? Economic and Scientific Mindsets and Practices in Biotechnology
Head
Dr. Dagmar Simon, Prof. Dr. Andreas Knie
Staff
Alexander Wentland, Dr. Lisa Ruhrort
Duration: 10 2009 - 07 2011
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Constructing Judgements within Peer Review Processes. International Case Studies on Evaluation of Scientific Institutions
Staff
Dr. Dagmar Simon, Dr. Silke Gülker, Dr. Hildegard Matthies
Marc Torka
Duration: 2007 - 2009
Funding: BMBF (Joint Initiative for Research and Innovation)
Interdisciplinary work group "Excellence Initiative" of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science, project "Rejected Clusters"
Staff
Dr. Dagmar Simon, Patricia Schulz
Duration: 03 2008 - 12 2009
Funding: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science (BBAW)
Conditions for success in organised research: Collaborative structures and steering of non-university research institutes
Head
Dr. Dagmar Simon
Clemens Kraetsch, Martina Röbbecke
Duration: 02 2008 -10 2008
Funding: Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (EFI)
Consultancy EUREF-Institut Berlin (European Energyforum)
Staff
Prof. Dr. Andreas Knie, Dr. habil. Weert Canzler
Duration: 11 2008 - 04 2009
Funding: KONZEPTplus AG
Production of Knowledge Revisited: The Impact of Academic Spin-Offs on Public Research Performance in Europe (PROKNOW)
Staff
Dr. Dagmar Simon, Prof. Dr. Andreas Knie
Anke Borcherding, Jörg Potthast
Duration: 03 2006 - 02 2009
Funding: EU's sixth framework programme, PRIORITY 7: Citizens and Governance in a knowledge based society
Academic Spin-Offs as Boundary Spanning Organisations and Epitomising a New Mode of Generating Knowledge: Opportunities for Innovation, Threatening Scientific Quality?
Staff
Dr. Dagmar Simon, Prof. Dr. Andreas Knie
Jörg Potthast
Duration: 06/2004 - 12/2008
Funding: BMBF as part of the initiative “Knowledge for Decision-making Processes—Research on the Relation between Science, Politics, and Society”
The Entrepreneurial Culture of Universities - Evaluation of the support programme EXIST III
Staff
Prof. Dr. Andreas Knie, Dr. Dagmar Simon
Romy Hilbrich
Duration: 08/2007- 11/2008
Funding: BMWI
What Makes Academic Careers Attractive? Towards an International Comparison and an Assessment of Recent Science Policy Initiatives in Germany
Head
Dr. Dagmar Simon, Prof. Dr. Andreas Knie, Dr. Silke Gülker
Kai Buchholz
Duration: 02/2008 - 10/2008
Funding: Expert Commission for Research and Innovation
Typing and Characterising Academic Entrepreneurs: What Makes Them Succeed?
Staff
Dr. Dagmar Simon, Prof. Dr. Andreas Knie
Anke Borcherding, Marc Torka
Duration: 2007 - 2008
Funding: BMBF