In order to find solutions for global challenges, science and technology must be organized in a more transdisciplinary way and a greater diversity of scientific and technological cultures must be achieved. In the debates on how to ensure social cohesion scientific and technological developments are perceived as co-responsible for key societal problems. Simultaneously their contribution to the analysis and solution of these problems is demanded. Transdisciplinarity and diversity enable societal challenges to be more closely interconnected with scientifically and technologically defined problems. Therefore these are the central objectives for which the group of applicants is developing a project plan.

For more Information about Social Cohesion check here.

Applicants:

• Prof. Dr. Martina Erlemann (PI, Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Physik)
• Prof. Dr. Petra Lucht (Technische Universität Berlin, ZiFG)
• Prof. Dr. Stephanie Reich (Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Physik)
• Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn (Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Informatik)
• Dr.-Ing. Stefan Hillmann (Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Softwaretechnik und Theoretische Informatik)
• Prof. Dr. Marianne Maertens (Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Technische Informatik und Mikroelektronik)

Involved Institutions:

Prof. Dr. Heike Wiesner (HWR Berlin, Fachgebiet Betriebliche Informations- und Kommunikationssysteme)

Prof. Dr. Juliane Siegeris (HTW Berlin, Fachgebiet Softwaretechnik)

FrauenComputerZentrumBerlin e.V., Geschäftsführerin: Dr. Karin Reichel

Kompetenzzentrum Technik - Diversity - Chancengleichheit, Bielefeld

The project is financed by the "Berlin University Alliance“.