Newsletter - Social Science in Eastern Europe 1996-4
PROMOTION OF RESEARCH
In previous editions of this newsletter, very different kinds of information on
the promotion of research for social scientists concerned with Eastern Europe
was published. This newsletter will remain true to form. Because this special
edition is focused on German social science research concerned with Eastern
Europe, the intention is to give a broad overview across all research projects
dealing with Eastern Europe conducted within the scope of graduate schools or
foundations. The following compilation was made possible only through the help
and the co-operative efforts on the part of representatives from graduate
schools as well as from the Volkswagen Foundation, the Hans Böckler
Foundation and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Our thanks goes to the
above mentioned institutions. We intend to continue this list in one of the
next editions of this newsletter and request other research funding providers
to submit to us information about their social science grants for research on
Eastern Europe and the respective receivers and projects.
Main area of promotion: "Joint paths to Europe - Foundations of and
examples for co-operation with Central and Eastern Europe in the humanities
and social sciences"
This central objective shall bring about an improvement for the conditions of
scientific work and academic teaching in the humanities and social sciences
directly to the places where it is needed in countries of Central and Eastern
Europe. It shall also strengthen multilateral co-operation within the European
context. The distinctive purpose of promotion and funding is to set an example
for the nascent infrastructural assistance so crucial for the reform process.
The foundation puts special emphasis on working together with German scientists
in preparation and implementation of these goals. Part of the envisioned
promotion calls for exemplary academic teaching projects, the development of
curricula and university programs, translations of scientific literature and
learning materials, special programs aimed at the education and further
education of junior scientists and recruits, summer schools and symposia. By
means of these goals, the promotion is intended to achieve the most
far-reaching impact in terms of a stimulation and multiplicator effect.
Perspectives for a continuation play a significant role. For projects involving
a more complex and long-term set-up, it is suggested that a pilot project be
set up in advance for testing and a gradual consolidation.
The following is a selection taken from the 1995/1996 Volkswagen
Foundation project grant, that will reflect the wide palette of promotional
possibilities:
* POLITIKOM. A Russian-German Journal for Theory and Practice in Economic
Policy
Institutions: Duisberg University, Department of Economics, East Asian
Economics/China - Prof. C. Herrmann-Pillath;
Centre for Russian-German Studies of the Institute for International Economic
and Political Studies at the Academy of Sciences Russia, Moscow - Dr. L.
Cedelin
* Symposium "A New Europe: Images of the Democratic Order. Democracy as a
Precondition for a New Europe" (September 1996 in Duszniki Zdroj/ Poland)
Institutions: University of Tuebingen, International Centre - Prof. E.
Schaich;
University of Wroclaw - Prof. T. Los-Nowak; Prof. W. Bokajlo
* Promotion of Romanian-German Co-operation in Linguistics and Science of
Literature at the Lucian-Blaga-University, Hermannstadt (Sibiu), Rumania
Institutions: Academy of Sciences and Literature - Prof. C. Zintzen;
Bochum University, Germanics Institute - Prof. S. Grosse;
Mainz University, German Institute - Prof. W. Kleiber;
Lucian-Blaga-University Hermannstadt, Rumania
* Promotion of the Science of Translation (The Science of Translation and of
Interpreting) at the University of Latvia (Riga)
Institutions: Mainz University, Germanics Institute - Prof. A. F.
Kelletat;
Riga University, Foreign Language Institute
* The Development of Social Pedagogics/ Social Work as a New Teaching
Discipline at the State Pedagogical University Omsk and the Development of a
Consultation Centre in Central Siberia (Russia)
Institutions: Greifswald University, Institute for Pedagogics - Prof. F.
Prüß;
Bielefeld University, Faculty of Pedagogics - Prof. H. U. Otto;
Lueneberg University - Prof. M. E. Karsten;
State Pedagogical University Omsk, Faculty of Philosophy - Prof. S. Mawrin,
Chair for Social Pedagogics Dr. I.A. Mawrina;
* Second Generation Vocational-Training Project "Foundations of Industrial
Management Theory Formation in Russia"
Institutions: Europe-University Viadrina, Faculty of Economics, Chair
for General Business Economics - Prof. K. Richter;
University of St. Petersburg - Prof. N. Kusnezova
* Summer school "The Development of Business Education in Eastern European
Countries - Scientific Transformation Processes Between Theory and Empirics"
(Aug./Sept. 1996 in Berlin)
Institutions: Humboldt-University of Berlin, Faculty of Philosophy IV,
Institute for Business and Adult Education - Prof. J. van Buer; Prof. D.
Squarra
* Summer school "Business Administration Training and Further Education at Riga
University/ Latvia" (Sept. 1996 in Riga)
Institutions: University of the German Army, Pedagogics Department -
Prof. P. Nieder;
Riga University, Faculty of Management und Business Information
* Pilotstudy: "Teaching Research Project News Analysis at the
Charles-University/ Prague" (German-Czech Co-operation Project on the
Development and Implementation of a Curriculum)
Institutions: University Erlangen-Nuernberg, Business and Social
Sciences Faculty, Chair for Communication and Political Science - Prof. W.
Schulz;
Charles-University Prague, Chair for Mass Communication - Prof. B. Koepplova
* Symposium on "The Nation State and Multi-Ethnicity: Moldavia in the Nineties"
(Oct. 1996 in Chisinau)
Institutions: Hamburg University, Seminar for German and Nordic History
of Law, Department for Research of Eastern Law Prof. O. Luchterhandt; Chisinau
University - Prof. Gh. Rusnac, Chair for Political Science - Prof. V.
Mosneaga;
University of the German Army, Hamburg - Dr. Troebst
Further Projects, Supported by the Volkswagen Foundation also in the Scope
of their Focus Point Program:
* Bedarf, H.: The New Europe. Hopes and Expectations of the Elite of Poland,
Hungary and the Czech Republic with Respect to the Integration of Their
Countries in the EU, NATO and the WEU
Institutions: The Free University of Berlin, Work Centre for
Transatlantic Foreign- and Security Politics
Promotion Beginning: 1995
Contact:
Volkswagenstiftung, Dr. Helga Junkers
Postfach 810509
30505 Hannover
Tel.: 49-0511-8381385
The following projects were funded through the German Research
Society.
1. Research Groups
* "Historical and Social Scientific Comparison of Societies. Structures
and Identities in Cognitive and Social Change"
Institutions: Humboldt-University of Berlin, Institute for the Science
of History
Prof. H. Kaelble
Promotion Begun: 1994
Kaschuba, W. (Project Leader): National and Ethnic Identity Discourse in
Central and
Eastern Europe
2. Promotion of Inaugural Dissertation
* Kümmel, G.: The Reorganization of the European State System and
the Transformation Process in the East: Between Stability and Instability,
Between Democracy and Authoritarianism
* Rüb, F.: Presidentalism in the Parliamentary System of Government. A
Comparative Analysis of The Genesis, Structure and Political Dynamic from State
Presidents in the Weimar Republic and the Democratization Process in Central
and Eastern Europe
3. Graduate Lectures
"The Reconstruction Process of the Societal System of Eastern and
Southeastern Europe since the Eighties and its Historical Antecedents"
Institutions: Free University of Berlin, Eastern Europe Institute
"Societal Comparison in Historical, Sociological and Ethnological
Perspective"
Institutions: Free University of Berlin, Institute for Sociology
"Migration in Modern Europe"
Institutions: Osnabrueck University, Institute for Migration Research
and Intercultural Studies
"Regional Identity(ies) and Political Integration"
Institutions: Regensburg University, Chair for Contemporary History
"Social History of Groups, Strata, Classes and Elites"
Institutions: Bielefeld University, Faculty for Science of History and
Philosophy
"Developmental Sociology and Social Anthropology: Market, State, Ethnicity"
Institutions: Bielefeld University, Research emphasis: Developmental
Sociology
"The New Europe. National and International Dimensions of Institutional
Changes"
Institutions: Free University of Berlin, Department of Political
Science, Work Centre for Transatlantic Foreign and Security Policy
4. Innovative Lectures
"The Transformation of Economic Systems and the Reorganization of Central and
Eastern European Societies"
Institutions: Europa-University Viadrina, Frankfurt Institute for
Transformation Studies - Prof. H.-J. Wagener
Graduate Lectures
"Conflict and Consensus in the Transformation Process of Central and
Eastern European Societies"
Institutions: Friedrich Schiller-University Jena, Institute for
Sociology - Prof. R. Schmidt
Promotion Begun: 1995
* Weber, U.: Der Polenmarkt in Berlin. Versuch einer Beschreibung eines
kulturellen Kontakts im Prozeß der politischen Transformation Mittel- und
Osteuropas
* Kiselew, E.: Entwicklung sowjetischer Juden als eine Gruppe zu Gorbatschows
Zeiten: Faktoren, Gestaltung und Ausmaß des Umwandlungsprozesses
(1985-1991)
The following is a listing of Eastern European guest scientists funded
by the Humboldt Endowment in the areas of sociology, political science,
pedagogics and psychology. The scientists are working at German research
institutions and are involved in research projects through 1996/1997:
* Dzuka, J. (Safarik University, Faculty of Psychology, Kosice - Slovak
Republic)
Theme: An Investigation of the Determinants of Well-being
* Körösenyi, A.: (Eötvös Lorand University, Dept. of
Political Science, Budapest - Hungary)
Theme: Patterns of Political
Linkages - Parties in Post-War Germany, Austria, and Post-Communist Hungary
* Pokol, B. (Eötvös Lorand University, Faculty of Law and Political
Science, Budapest - Hungary)
Theme: The Autonomous Organization of
Societal Subsystems in Modern Western Societies
* Sokolov, A.N. (Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Psychology, Moscow
- Russia)
Theme: Perceptions und Extrapolation of Visual Motion
* Tuulmets, T. (Tartu-University, Dept. of Psychology, Tartu -
Estonia)
Theme: Event-Related Potential (ERP) Studies of Perceptual
Object-Forming Mechanisms
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