Interdisciplinary Collaborative Projects

The funding programme aims to promote research collaborations between researchers (non-tenured). Collaborative projects involving doctoral researchers will be also considered. An interdisciplinary research project gives grant holders the opportunity to identify and explore new, innovative and/or risky research perspectives with neighbouring disciplines and across disciplines. The grant should facilitate expert-intensive and inspiring research and offer recipients the chance to work together with colleagues from different disciplines, as well as to develop cross-cutting methods and topics.

The grant may cover consumables, staff (student assistants), the costs for a retreat, a research meeting or a workshop.

Who may apply?

In line with the multidisciplinary character of the Zukunftskolleg, the programme is open to fellows of the Zukunftskolleg in collaboration with non-tenured researchers (postdoctoral researchers, junior professors, research group leaders etc.) at the University of Konstanz. Projects involving non-tenured researchers from other universities are also welcome.

Application

Applications must contain:

Abstract of the research proposal. In case of a positive decision, the abstract will be published on the homepage of the Zukunftskolleg
A description of the scientific objectives that clearly states the interdisciplinary nature of the scientific project. The description should be written for an interdisciplinary decision-making committee. (max. 4 pages)
A work plan
An expenditure plan for the year 2023
CVs of the principal investigators involved in the research project (maximum length 3 pages per principal investigator)
Proof of the employment or of the scholarship at the University of Konstanz. From the doctoral researchers we expect a confirmation from the supervisors acknowledging the involvement in the interdisciplinary project.

At the end of the project, we expect a final report on how the project goals were or were not achieved (1 page). The winners will be invited to present the project within the Jour fixe meetings of the Zukunftskolleg.

Results of previous calls

2022

The following projects are funded:

"The evolving role of search engines as information intermediaries during the COVID-19 pandemic. A cross-platform longitudinal study of information quality of web search" - cooperation between Juhi Kulshrestha (Politics and Public Administration), Myhola Makhortykh (University of Bern), Roberto Ulloa (GESIS-Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences) and Aleksandra Urman (Univ. of Zürich)
"Corpus Exploration at Scale Using Contextual Implicit Entity Networks" - cooperation between Andreas Spitz (Computer and Information Science), Maud Ehrmann (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) and Matteo Romanello (University of Lausanne)
"Disclosing unperceived memory: Chilean posephemeric Muralism in European exile. Actor networks, transnational politics, untold testimonies – The documentary" - cooperation between Sandra Rudman (Literature) and filmmaker Daniel Oblitas Baca (CLACSO, the Latin American Council of Social Sciences)

2021

The following project is funded:

"Towards assisted contect analysis" - cooperation between Franziska Weeber (Dept. of History and Sociology) and Felix Hamborg (Dept. of Computer and Information Science)

2020/2021

The following project is funded:

"Stratification, ways of life and socio-political orientations in Kenya and Cote d´Ivoire. A comparative mixed-methods study in Sociology and Political Science" - cooperation between Anja Osei (Politics and Public Administration) and Florian Stoll (Cultural Studies, University of Bayreuth)

2019_2nd call

The following project was funded:

Open Lab: an open-science platform for online data collection - application by Yury Shevchenko (Psychology)