Project Details
Projekt
hei_INSTRUMENTS - Transdisciplinary instruments for climate change adaptation
Applicant
Professor Dr. Michael Gertz
Subject Area
Data Management, Data-Intensive Systems, Computer Science Methods in Business Informatics
Term
since 2024
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 539666548
The proposed Workshop for Early Career Investigators "Transdisciplinary Instruments for Climate Change Adaptation - hei_INSTRUMENTS" offers researchers stimulation and support at an early stage of their career to prepare their own research projects and to acquire third-party funding for their first own project management. Transdisciplinary tools for climate change adaptation require an integrative research approach that also involves non-scientific and especially societal actors. The focus of the Workshop for Early Career Investigators is the topic of computer-based climate adaptation strategies - a broad research field that requires transdisciplinary exchange between science and society. The workshop provides impulses and new opportunities to substantially expand their own disciplinary research approaches. Due to the mostly monodisciplinary education, interdisciplinary networking of scientific cultures rarely occurs during studies and doctorates, which means that existing synergies are often not recognised and therefore remain unused. The Workshop for Early Career Investigators therefore also aims to make young scientists aware of the importance of inter- and transdisciplinary exchange. By Networking with young researchers from other disciplines who are at a similar stage in their careers trains them to think beyond the boundaries of their own discipline and generates ideas for novel approaches and joint research projects. Against this backdrop, the proposal to hold a thematic DFG Workshop for Early Career Investigators is logical and important as a strategic funding instrument to address the perceived shortage of young researchers at the intersections of computer science, geography, industrial and organisational psychology, and medicine. The target group of the Workshop for Early Career Investigators is therefore especially young scientists from the aforementioned subjects. The proposed Workshop for Early Career Investigators consists of three modules that build on each other: a three-day academy module, a colloquium on the topic of "Pathways to a Career in Science" and a second colloquium on the "Exchange of Experience of Grant Recipients and Networking". During the academy module, participants prepare specifically for submitting a DFG research project proposal with lectures, working groups and individual discussions. A group of experts accompanies them. In addition to subject specialists, this group may also include high-calibre guests from science and society, staff from the DFG Head Office, as well as research funding staff at Heidelberg University are involved in this Workshop for Early Career Investigators.
DFG Programme
Workshops for Early Career Investigators
