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This project focuses on the everyday language used by everyday people in the historically quintolingual region of the German-Danish border region, specifically the former Duchy of Schleswig in the 19th century. Bringing together aspects of language ideology, language policy, and language practices, this project reimagines how we think and write about language histories, focusing on a regional multilingual language history.
More information can be found on the project website: https://www.uni-flensburg.de/vinorhm

The Transnational Centre for Just Transitions in Energy, Climate and Sustainability- TRAJECTS is one of the four DAAD-funded Global Climate and Environment Centres. Its aim is to support and strengthen transcontinental exchange, research, and education on transitions towards a sustainable future. Given the complexity of these issues, TRAJECTS groups a large diversity of expertise and actors, offering local as well as transnational answers and perspectives towards just transitions.

Culminating more than a decade of crisis in Europe, the Covid-19 pandemic has opened an unprecedented window of opportunity for institutional and policy change, not only at the “reactive” level of emergency responses, but also to tackle more broadly the many socio-political challenges caused or exacerbated by Covid-19. Building on this premise, REGROUP (Rebuilding governance and resilience out of the pandemic) aims to: 1) provide the European Union with a body of actionable advice on how to rebuild post-pandemic governance and public policies in an effective and democratic way; anchored to 2) a map of the socio-political dynamics and consequences of Covid-19; and 3) an empirically-informed normative evaluation of the pandemic. REGROUP pursues this threefold objective via a multi-level (national, supranational, international) and multi-sphere (political, societal, ideational, digital) research approach, and guided by three overarching analytical themes: “reordering”; “risk”; “resilience”. We operate in nine collaborative work packages—grouped in three blocks: “diagnosis”, “evaluation”, and “prescription”—bringing together expertise and methods from a range of social sciences and humanities.

To what extent can (consciously used) humor increase a better communication and a better way to deal with daily challenges at the work life of caregivers? What (health) benefits does humor also promote for the elderly residents of nursing homes? This project analysis possible improvements of psychological well-being and social interactions (working climate) in nursing homes through humor trainings for caregivers and clown visits for elderly residents.

“Sprachenbildung in Kitas “ –
Training and Research Project for Professionalization of Preschool Educators

“Sprachenbildung in Kitas” aims to develop conceptual guidelines for a training programme focusing on qualification and evidence-based practice in the field of language education in Kitas. Simultaneously, it seeks to implement specific measures for quality development, control, and assurance, with a focus on the professionalization of educational professionals in Kitas. The project aims to design, develop, conduct, and empirically validate a scientifically grounded two-stage training programme in Schleswig-Holstein. This program is intended to enhance specific pedagogical practices related to language education in Kitas.

How can energy consumption be reduced in absolute terms? How can social change flow into energy modeling? The junior research group "EnSu - The role of energy sufficiency in energy transition and society" has been dealing with these questions since May 2020. It is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the Research for Sustainable Development (Forschung für Nachhaltige Entwicklung - FONA). Six young scientists from the Freiburg Eco-Institute, the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy and the European University of Flensburg (EUF) have given themselves the goal of researching social transformation processes in the context of the energy transition and making them representable for energy system modeling by April 2025.

Im Rahmen von TRIP werden wirksame Mechanismen für die Gestaltung und Bereitstellung von Curricula entwickelt, die einerseits integrativ sind und den Zugang zu übergreifenden Fähigkeiten bieten (z. B. interkulturelle Kompetenz und Weltbürgertum), andererseits aber auch die Verpflichtung zur Bewältigung wichtiger gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen erfüllen.

The LeiKomH2 project is investigating the role of hydrogen in municipal heating planning. The aim is to create a guideline for decision-makers to realistically categorise the relevance of hydrogen in the heat supply.

Das DFG-geförderte Projekt untersucht 1) wie kollektive Akteure in EU-Herkunftsstaaten die Effekte der Personenfreizügigkeit wahrnehmen und 2) wie die Praxis der Freizügigkeit Einstellungen zur EU-Integration beeinflusst.

As part of the OptIES Dörpum research project, cross-sectoral regional energy systems are to be examined, taking into account local and national requirements, using the example of the pilot grid in Dörpum.