Goethe-Universität — Federally Funded Major Projects

* Federally funded large-scale projects are defined as individual and joint projects that are funded by a federal ministry at Goethe University with a total volume of over €0.75 million in the humanities and social sciences departments 01-10 and over €1 million in the natural and life sciences departments 11-16.

Here you will find an overview of the projects sorted by subject area.

BMFTR

Research Institute for Social Cohesion (FGZ), Project Director: Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Maria Sybilla Merian International Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences: ‘Sustainable Governance’ (MIASA), subproject: Coordination and organization of the outreach and conference program in Africa, project management: Prof. Dr. Mamadou Diawara (Faculty of Philosophy and History)
“CEDITRAA: Cultural Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation in Africa and Asia,” subproject: Transformation of cultural spaces through the production of novelty, project director: Prof. Dr. Vinzenz Hediger (Faculty of Modern Languages)
Regional Research Center “Transformations of Political Violence” (TraCe), subproject: Forms and Memory, project director: Prof. Dr. Astrid Erll (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Culturally adapted psychotherapy for refugees (ReCAP)
- Subproject: ReScript, Project management: PD Dr. Regina Steil (Department of Psychology and Sports Science)
- Subproject: ReTreat, Project management: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Stangier (Department of Psychology and Sports Science)
Making empirically based treatment accessible to children and adolescents who are victims of abuse and neglect – implementation in routine care by child and adolescent therapists (BESTFORCAN), Project management: PD Dr. Regina Steil (Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science)
Meta-project “Inclusive Education” (MQInkBi), Project Director: Prof. Dr. Dieter Katzenbach (Faculty of Educational Sciences)
Multiprofessional Cooperation and Professionalization for Subject-Specific Language Education in All-Day Schools (KoPaS), Subproject: Multilingualism, Project Director: Prof. Dr. Ilonca Hardy (Faculty of Educational Sciences)
„Leistung macht Schule“ (LemaS-Transfer), subproject: Languages and Participatory Research, Central-West Regional Center, project management: Prof. Johannes Mayer (Faculty of Modern Languages)
Implementation of AI-based feedback and assessment with Trusted Learning Analytics in universities – IMPACT, subproject: Implementation of AI for the study orientation phase, feedback, and assessment, project management: Prof. Dr. Hendrik Drachsler (Digital Studies and Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics)
AI and digital Technology in Learning and Instruction (ALI) – Development of an interdisciplinary course offering on the use of AI and digital technologies in educational processes, project management: Prof. Dr. Holger Horz (Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science)
ATHENE real-world laboratory for modern cybersecurity in research institutions – AIGIS Lab, project management: Prof. Dr. Haya Shulman (Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics)
Digitally supported networked improvement communities to strengthen digital sovereignty in language education subjects (DigiNICs), Project management: Prof. Dr. Britta Viebrock (Faculty of Modern Languages)
COMET - Consumer Empowerment and Participation in the Domain of Smart Living (funded by the BMWK), subproject: Content requirements as well as conception, implementation, and incentivization, project management: Prof. Dr. Oliver Hinz (Faculty of Economics)
Academy for Islam in Science and Society (AIWG) (partially funded by the Mercator Foundation), project director: Prof. Dr. Bekim Agai (Faculty of Linguistics and Cultural Studies)
transform-R – Shaping the energy and mobility transition as a socio-ecological transformation in the FrankfurtRhineMain region, subproject: Governance and acceptability of a mobility transition in the region, project management: Prof. Dr. Martin Lanzendorf (Faculty of Geosciences/Geography)
Aerosols, Clouds and Trace Gases Research Infrastructure - National Facilities, Phase 1 - Aerosols and Trace Gases, subproject: Expansion of the Taunus Observatory (TO) on the Kleiner Feldberg with regard to comprehensive in-situ measurements of aerosols and short-lived trace gases within the framework of ACTRIS, project management: Prof. Dr. Joachim Curtius (Faculty of Geosciences/Geography)
AGENS - Demonstration of an adaptive, multilateral reservoir opening for geothermal energy for seismicity and cost mitigation in the Upper Rhine Graben, subproject: Seismic monitoring of deep geothermal plants using high-resolution vertical fiber optic and geophone arrays, project management: Prof. Dr. Georg Rümpker (Faculty of Geosciences)
CaMPARI - Supported spatial analysis of calcium increases Hadron and nuclear physics, project management: Prof. Dr. Maik Böhmer (Faculty of Biosciences)
05P2024 - Development of CBM at FAIR (ErUM-FSP T06)
- High-precision track reconstruction in the CBM and HADES experiments, Project leader: Prof. Dr. Volker Lindenstruth, Subproject leader: Prof. Dr. Joachim Stroth
- Construction of the First-Level Event Selector (FLES) for the CBM experiment at FAIR, Project Manager: Prof. Dr. Volker Lindenstruth
- Construction of a Transition Radiation Detector for the CBM Experiment at FAIR, Project Management: Prof. Dr. Volker Lindenstruth, Subproject Leader: Prof. Dr. Christoph Blume
05P2024 - Run 3 of ALICE at the LHC (ErUM-FSP T01)
- Continued operation of the EPN farm during Run 3 and development of the digital readout of the ALICE outer tracker during the long shutdown LS3, Project Manager: Prof. Dr. Volker Lindenstruth
- Characterization of quark-gluon plasma with ALICE and prototype studies for ALICE3, Project Manager: Prof. Dr. Volker Lindenstruth, subproject manager: Prof. Dr. Harald Appelshäuser
Future cluster: Innovative therapies for human diseases: Degradation of target structures as a novel mechanism of action for drugs (PROXIDRUGS), 2nd implementation phase, project management: Prof. Dr. Ivan Dikić (Faculty of Medicine)
German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK), Project management: Prof. Dr. Hubert Serve (Faculty of Medicine)
German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) – Frankfurt site, Project management: Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeiher, Prof. Dr. Stefanie Dimmeler (Faculty of Medicine)
Establishment of a transregional research practice structure in East and West (SaxoForN), project management: Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Gerlach (Faculty of Medicine)
Innovations in Infectious Medicine – Promotion of Advanced Clinician Scientists (INITIALISE), Project Management: Prof. Dr. Maria Vehreschild (Faculty of Medicine)
Pediatric MRI for improved diagnostics and therapy (KiDiT) – Subproject: Neonatal MRI for foreign material and body diagnostics, Project leader: Prof. Dr. Thomas Vogl (faculty of medicine)