GRK 785:  Global Challenges: Transnational and Transcultural Solutions

• Subject Area: Jurisprudence ; Ancient Cultures ; Educational Research ; Philosophy ; Social Sciences ; Theology ; Economics
• Term: from 2002 to 2008
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 273447

Global challenges cross over capacities for solutions to problems that are available to national states and to connections between states. They have raised the international regulations in fields that are linked together in politics, economics, law, and education. The research training group at the university of Tübingen intends to bring in connection the question of values, prinicples and rules for the handling of potential solutions which are available in philosophy, ethics and the world-religions, especially with the drafts of global ethics ("Weltethos") and with universal philosophical and ethical drafts. The main emphasis of common research is laid on a nations, cultures, and religion comprehensive analysis of integrational structures and problems as well as on the research of effective possibilities of an intercultural and interreligious dialogue.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Participating Researchers: Professor Dr. Heinz-Dieter Assmann; Professor Dr. Dieter Cansier; Professor Dr. Karl-Josef Kuschel; Professor Dr. Ludwig Liegle; Professor Dr. Dietmar Mieth; Professor Dr. Martin Nettesheim; Professor Dr. Karl Ernst Nipkow (†); Professor Dr. Volker Rittberger (†); Professor Dr. Gunter Schubert; Professor Dr. Hans Ulrich Vogel; Professor Dr. Reiner Wimmer
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Lutz Richter-Bernburg, since 8/2007