RESEARCH PROJECTS

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

Intermediary Expertise and Influencer Marketing - DAAD

Intermediary Expertise and Influencer Marketing in Newly Restructured Energy Markets / Prof. Dr. Undine Frömming together with Prof. Dr. Arthur Mason (NTNU Norway, Department of Social Anthropology) - project related exchange of researchers / Running time: 01.03.2018 - 30.11.2018

SPRING - EU Alfa III

Spring. Social responsibility through Prociality based Interventions to Generate equal opportunities.

Spring promotes an equitable access to the labor market by methods of prosocial intervention that allows reciprocal and horizontal knowledge and an esteem for the social diversity between 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

 

WRITERS - 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"  (January 2012- December 2014)

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 (December 2011-November 2013) 

 

Alpine Naturgefahren im Klimawandel. Lokales Wissen: Visualisierung und Kartierung  - BMBF

"Climate change in the Alps: Visualization and Mapping of Local Knowledge" project in the joint research group: "Alpine risks in times of Climate Change. Pattern of Impacts and Coping Strategies from 18th to 21st Century"

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

Principal Investigators:

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

Research Associates:

Dr. Josef Bordat, Christian Reichel

(Laufzeit: 2011-2014)

 

Information about PhD possibilities at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology -  at Freie Universitaet Berlin: click here

 

Running PhD Research Projects

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

• Mehmet Ercan: Belatedness of Modernity, Hastiness of Earthquake: Avcılar, An Ethnography.
• Raffaele Gallo: Images of Disasters: Photography and the Representation of Natural Disasters

• Amber Palmer: Memory, Media, and Moral Elevation: An Anthropological Approach to Media Portrayals of Arabs and Muslims who aided Jews during the Holocaust (funded by the Binah Yitzrit Foundation, Texas)
• Cyrill Lachauer: Shark Islands and Impossibles: Aneignungen und Verbildlichungen des Meeres in der transnationalen Big Wave Surfer-Community
• Dr. Kani Tuyala: Africa Online: Audio-visual emancipation or virtual westernization? (funded by DAAD Promos-Program) (completed)
• Dr. Sadaf Javdani: 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)
• Dr. Günter Marks: Okkupierte Risse im Raum. Audiovisuelle Darstellung der kulturellen Aneignung von Landschaft im ehemaligen deutsch-deutschen Grenzgebiet 20 Jahre nach Fall der Grenzen (completed)
• Dr. Christian Reichel: Climate change and local knowledge BMBF-Verbundprojekt ANIK, Teilprojektleitung: Prof. Undine Frömming: "Alpine Naturgefahren im Klimawandel" (Alpine Risks 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) (completed)