Research Projects

PhD Projects

Research Projects (internal and third party funding)

CATS4EARTH 

About the project: 

Cats4earth is a research project funded by the Reserach Area Visual and Media Anthropology of Freie Universität Berlin. Cats4earth collaborates with cat Instagram influencers from all over the world with the aim to produce and evaluate cat photography and cat video campaigns about environmental protection, climate change awareness and sustainability. 

(Running time: Nov. 2018 - Oct. 2021)

Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Undine Frömming

SPRING - EU Alfa III 

Spring. Social responsibility through Prosociality-based Interventions to Generate equal opportunities.

About the project: Spring promotes equitable access to the labor market by methods of prosocial intervention that allow reciprocal and horizontal knowledge and esteem for the social diversity amongst students, teachers, and employers.

Applicant:

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile): Gladys Jiménez Alvarado, Eugenia Riveri, Daniel Avendaño

Partner EU Countries:

Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain): Roberto Roche Olivar, Escotorin Soza, Gloria Pilar, Franco Gramegna Tota

Freie Universität Berlin (Germany): Urte Undine Frömming, Josef Bordat, Florian Walter

Partner Latin American Countries:

Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (Colombia): Flechas Chaparro, Nancy Esperanza

Universidad Las Américas (Ecuador): López Chávez, Silvia Catalina

Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (México): Ayala Velázquez, Mara de los Dolores, Lonngi Villanueva, Pablo Alejandro

Universidad Nacional San Martín (Argentina): Claudio Marcelo Prado, Cecilia Di Lascio

Universidad Privada Domingo Savio (Bolivia): Aparicio Iporre, Raúl Oscar

 (Running time: Jan. 2012-Dec. 2015)  

W.R.I.T.E.R.S.

EU LLP calls KA1, Part B Lifelong Learning Strategies

517930-LLP-1-2011-1-IT-GRUNDTVIG-GMP with the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency

Project Title: "WRITING READING INCLUSION: TOWARDS EUROPEAN REINASSANCE / WRITER"

Project coordination:

University Perugia, Italy: Tiber Umbria Comett Education Programme, Prof. PAOLO CARBONE

Project Partners:

Netherlands, Prof. J. Eussen / L. Goossens: Regional Centre of Expertise on Learning for Sustainable Development (RCE Rhine-Meuse), Open Universiteit Nederland, Hogeschool Zuyd and KidsLive! Foundation, in cooperation with United Nations University and NFTE Netherlands (National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship)

Ireland (Eddie Higgins / Nuala Keher / Eoin Dillon: EQUAL Ireland Education Research & Related Services Company Ltd (Running time: December 2011-November 2013) 

 

Alpine Risks in Times of Climate Change - BMBF

"Climate change in the Alps: Visualization and Mapping of Local Knowledge." Project in the joint research group "Alpine hazards in times of climate change. Patterns of interpretation and strategies of action from the 18th to the 21st century."

(Alpine Naturgefahren im Klimawandel)  BMBF: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Principal Investigators:

Prof. Dr. Martin Voss (Freie Universität Berlin), Prof. U Frömming (Freie Universität Berlin), Prof. Suda (TU Munic), Irmi Seidl (Swiss Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape)

Research Associates:

Dr. Josef Bordat, Christian Reichel.

(Running time: 2011-2014)

 

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PhD Projects

(under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Undine Froemming)

• Africa Online: Audio-visual emancipation or virtual westernization? (funded by DAAD Promos-Program) (completed 2015)

  PHD candidate: Kani Tuyala

• Critical theory on new media and internet and the impact of the internet on social commonality - case study of Iran (funded by DAAD STIBET-Program) (completed 2015)

   PhD candidate: Sadaf Javdani

• Das andere der Ordnung. Visuell-anthropologische Analyse über das Erleben von Sinnkonstitution.

   PhD candidate: Martin Tscholl (completed)

• Images of Disasters: Photography and the Representation of Natural Disasters

   PhD candidate: Rafaelle Gallo

• Okkupierte Risse im Raum. Audiovisuelle Darstellung der kulturellen Aneignung von Landschaft im ehemaligen deutsch-deutschen Grenzgebiet 20 Jahre nach Fall der Grenzen. (completed 2016)

   PhD candidate: Günter Marks

• Shark Islands and Impossibles: Aneignungen und Verbildlichungen des Meeres in der transnationalen Big Wave Surfer-Community

   PhD candidate: Cyrill Lachauer 

• Climate change and local knowledge BMBF-Verbundprojekt (Leitung Prof. Drombrowsky, Teilprojektleitung: Prof. Undine Frömming: "Alpine Naturgefahren im Klimawandel" ("Alpine hazards in times of climate change"): Teilprojekt: Ethnographische Bestimmung und Visualisierung von raumbezogenen Daten zum lokalen Wissen über alpine Naturgefahren (Ethnographic determination and visualization of local knowledge about alpine risks) (2011-2014).

   PhD candidate: Christian Reichel

• Belatedness of Modernity, Hastiness of Earthquake: Avcılar, An Ethnography.

   PhD candidate: Mehmet Ercan