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Third-party funded projects

 

ReSET - Reconfiguring Energy for Social Equity

 
Prokect leads: PD Dr. Philipp Späth

Project staff: Dr. Bleta Arifi

Period: 08/2020 - 07/2024
Funding: Volkswagenstiftung

Cooperation partners: Utrecht University (NL, consortium lead), Indian Institute for Human Settlement (IN), Stellenbosch University (RSA)

 

UrbanA - Arenas for sustainable and just cities

 
Project lead: PD Dr. Philipp Späth

Project staff: Sophia Silverton, Jakob Kramer, Romane Joly, Nadia Ali, Sophia McRae, Kassia Rudd

Period: 01/2019 - 12/2021
Funding: EU Horizon 2020

Cooperation partners: ICLEI Europe (consortium lead), ECOLISE, DRIFT Rotterdam (NL), UAB Barcelona (ES,) CEU Budapest (HU), FC.ID (PT)

 

Sub-project: “Professional epistemologies and integration of biodiversity-related knowledge into socio-political decision-making”

DFG research training group "ConFoBi – Conservation of Forest Biodiversity in Multiple-Use Landscapes of Central Europe"
 
Project lead: Prof. Dr. Michael Pregernig

Project staff: Ronja Mikoleit; Manuel John

Period: 07/2016 - 06/2025
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

 


Scientific qualification projects

 

The increasing decentralization of the German electricity supply system: implications for the technological infrastructure and resonance in political discourse coalitions

 

Ph.D. project - Simon Funke

Supervisor: PD Dr. Philipp Späth

Period: 02/2020 -

 

Territorialisation dynamics in post-conflict extractive resources governance: analyzing formalization processes of artisanal and small-scale mining zones in Colombia

 

Ph.D. project - Zabrina Welter

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Pregernig

Period: 01/2020 -
Funding: Heinrich Böll Stiftung

 

Exploring professional epistemologies in the context of forest biodiversity research

Associated with DFG Research training group ConFoBi

Ph.D. project - Manuel John

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Pregernig

Period: 07/2019 -

Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

 

Professional epistemologies and integration of biodiversity-related knowledge into socio-political decision-making

Associated with DFG Research training group ConFoBi

Ph.D. project - Ronja Mikoleit

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Pregernig

Period: 07/2016 -
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

 

Science-policy-society interactions in environmental risk and adaptation policymaking: evidence from Latin America and Europe

Associated with the projectFlood Adapt - Flood protection policies and climate change adaptation in Austria, Germany and Switzerland”

Ph.D project - Melani Pelaez Jara

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Pregernig

Period: 04/2016 -
Fundign: Heinrich Böll Stiftung

 

Food circulation shaping the hinterland: dairy supply chains in the Upper Rhine region

 

Ph.D project - Romane Joly

First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Philipp Späth
Second supervisor:

Period: 10/2020 - 12/2024
Funding: University of Strasbourg, Deutsch-Französische Hochschule