G-Versity: Achieving Gender Diversity

Carola Richter, Margreth Lünenborg

Oct 01, 2020 — Sep 30, 2024

The European Union is funding the network "G-VERSITY - Achieving Gender Diversity" with a total of 4.1 million euros from 2020-2024. In the network, 15 doctoral students analyze how which factors influence the educational and career path of women, men as well as sexual and gender-specific ...

Higher Education Dialogue „Digital Transformation and Societal Consequences“

Carola Richter, Katharina Nötzold

Jan 01, 2023 — Dec 31, 2024

In this network, research and mobility project we cooperate with 10 Arab univerisities to foster media literacy education. The project builds on the AREACORE network that was founded in 2013 at Freie Universität. In the project, several subprojects take place such as summer schools, joint ...

Participatory and Hybrid Media in West Africa: A Case Study on Call-In Radio Shows in Benin

Tilo Grätz

Oct 01, 2021 — Sep 30, 2026

The research project examines current changes in communication practices and the political culture in West Africa, illustrated by case studies analysing interactive-participatory radio shows on social problems in the Republic of Benin. The project focusses on frequent participants to these ...

Global Media Journal – German Edition

Carola Richter, Katharina Nötzold

Feb 01, 2020 — Mar 10, 2023

The Global Media Journal is an open-access academic refereed publication in various national or regional editions around the globe. GMJ-German Edition is affiliated with the Freie University Berlin/Germany and the University of Erfurt/Germany and hosted by Carola Richter and Christine Horz. ...

Public Diplomacy in Authoritarian Regimes – The Case of Turkey

Vedat Demir

Dec 21, 2021 — Dec 20, 2023

The project aims to understand the use of public diplomacy by authoritarian regimes with a particular focus on Turkey. Public diplomacy defined as the strategies of communicating with publics abroad to form opinions in the peoples' of other countries that inform the implementing country's ideas ...

‘Lessons to Learn from a Conflict Region’: Comparing Inclusion Policies related to Abaza – Adyghe (Circassian) Refugees from Syria in Istanbul and Repatriates in Sukhum.

Aug 01, 2020 — Mar 31, 2023

This research project aims to discuss the proactive decision-making process of the government in Abkhazia (2013), a partially recognized, less developed and conflict region, and Turkey’s welcoming of Abaza-Adyghe (Circassian) refugees or repatriates from Syria—together with their resettlement ...