Project manager: Prof. Dr. Klaus Dörre
Researchers: PD Dr. Raj Kollmorgen
Funded by: EU (7. Rahmenprogramm)
Duration: Juni 2011-Mai 2015
Partners: 16 Universities and Research Instituts, Co-ordination: University of Warwick (GB)
MYPLACE explores how young people's social participation is shaped by the shadows (past, present and future) of totalitarianism and populism in Europe.
Conceptually, it goes beyond the comparison of discrete national 'political cultures' or reified classifications of political heritage ('postcommunist'/'liberal democratic'); it is premised rather on the pan-European nature of a range of radical and populist political and philosophical traditions and the cyclical rather than novel nature of the popularity they currently enjoy.
Empirically, MYPLACE employs a combination of survey, interview and ethnographic research instruments to provide new, pan-European data that not only measure levels of participation but capture the meanings young people attach to it.
Analytically, through its specific focus on 'youth' and the historical and cultural contextualization of young people's social participation, MYPLACE replaces the routine, and often abstract, iteration of the reasons for young people's 'disengagement' from politics with an empirically rich mapping of young people's understandings of the civic and political space that they inhabit.
In policy terms, MYPLACE identifies the obstacles to, and facilitators of, young people'sreclamation of the European political arena as 'my place'.
MYPLACE is a collaboration of sixteen partners across Europe from the western and northern part - like GB, Finland, Denmark, Baltic states - over central Europe (Germany, Hungaria) up the eastern and southern edge - like Russia, Greek, Georgia.
For further information: http://www.fp7-myplace.eu/index.php
Project manager: Dr. Hajo Holst
Researcher: Dipl. Soz. Ingo Singe
funded by: Europäische Kommission, DG Employment, social affairs and equal opportunities
Duration: Dezember 2010 - November 2011
Co-ordination: FORBA (Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt, Wien)
Project Manager: Prof. Dr. Klaus Dörre, Dr. Hajo Holst
Researcher: Dr. Ingo Matuschek, Margrit Elsner, M.A., Dipl. Soz. Ingo Singe
funded by: BMBF
Duration: September 2009 - April 2013
Faced with volatile environments, achieving flexibility has become a matter of survival for an increasing number of enterprises. When it comes to sustainability however, many strategies striving for external flexibility are found wanting. In the long run, these strategies can negatively impact firms' innovative capacities, the stability of processes and employee's work aspirations. Sustainable flexibility is grounded in a linkup of flexibility and stability. It is not biased towards enterprises' short term financial stability and forestalls the wearing out of enterprises' resources. EFIS, as a joint research project funded by the BMBF, investigates the supply chain in the automotive industries in order to detect scope for sustainable flexibility. The project also aims at interesting practitioners in implementing sustainable flexibility. We strive to use participatory means of strategy development in order to come up with instruments that help to design sustainable flexibility. These instruments are also set to further employee representatives' capacity to evaluate the long term impact of any given flexibility scheme.
This joint project is being carried out by a consortium, made up of practitioners and scientific institutions. The Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena signs responsible for coordinating the
project; jointly with the Humboldt University, Berlin it will provide scientific research capacity. Two enterprises (VW in Wolfsburg and Mercedes Benz in Gaggenau) are part to the project and will add practical expertise. They will work on specific issues and develop appropriate instruments for the design of sustainable flexibility. The ffw in Nuremberg supports participating firms in the development and implementation of instruments. Beyond those mentioned, other firms and institutions will join in the
projects' activities.
Project manager: Prof. Dr. Klaus Dörre, Dr. Michael Behr
Researchers: Melanie Booth, Hajo Holst, Karen Schierhorn
Funded by: DFG
Duration: 01.06.2008-31.06.2012
The project researches the changes in the subjective labour market orientations of members of the lower segments of society in response to an activating labour market policy. The project analyses the interrelation between unemployed persons' labour market orientations as well as their strategies for coping/dealing with their position in the labour market, and the "rights and responsibilities" which they are given due to the new labour market regulations.
The focus in this phase of the project is on the following questions:
Unlike most research carried out to evaluate the efficiency of such employment policy, we will approach the topic from the perspective of the job seekers.
The research will be carried out as a regional comparison, with a special focus on the possible differences between the former East Germany and the former West Germany. The starting point of the empirical study is the analysis of specific labour market policies in Bremen/Bremerhaven and the Jena/ Saale-Orla region. To this end we conducted approximately 53 interviews with regional actors of labour market policy in 2006. Using these regional case studies as a starting point, we did a qualitative survey of the group targeted by the most recent labour market reforms in the regions of Bremerhaven and Jena. In all we interviewed 99 long-term unemployed people, "activated" unemployed and low-wage earners in the winter of 2006/2007.
It is planned to re-survey the target group and to expand the inter-regional comparison in this second phase of the project.
Researchers: PD Dr. Katharina Bluhm, PD Dr. Bernd Martens, Vera Trappmann
Duration: 2008 - 2012
Funded by: DFG
Project manager: Dr. Michael Behr, Prof. Dr. Rudi Schmidt
Researchers: Thomas Engel, Christoph Thieme (until 2006)
Funded by: BMBF, VDI, OptoNet
Duration: since 2001
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