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The project aims to develop a new, conflict- and interaction-based understanding of social cohesion underpinned by empirical research.  The central research question is how and under what conditions civil society actors engage in interaction dynamics that foster or break social cohesion. The research hypotesis is that civil society actors are critical agents of change in modern societies. However, their strength, structure, and strategies determine how they influence social cohesion within groups and society at large.

Despite increasing shares of women at all levels of qualification, statistics show that the share of female professors in mathematics has hardly changed in Germany over the last 25 years. Existing potentials of highly qualified female mathematicians for the subsequent academic qualification levels remains under-exploited up to now (leaky pipeline). Additionally, female mathematicians continue to be trapped by glass ceiling, which contributes to their persistent underrepresentation at the professorship level as well as in other higher-level leadership positions in academia.