Funding of research projects

At the 2nd workshop to identify potential for cooperation along the Berlin - Berlin-Adlershof - Cottbus innovation corridor on November 27, 2024, a total of four joint research projects were awarded prizes.

The aim of the workshop was to present new and established research topics and formats in order to further strengthen scientific exchange between the two universities. To this end, a call for proposals for joint research projects was published in April 2024. Eleven BTU-HU teams applied for funding of 16,000 euros each and presented their project proposals. Four of them were selected and chosen by BTU Vice President Hübner and Christoph Schneider, Vice President for Research at HU Berlin.

The acoustic dimension of Lusatia is to be researched in the funded project “Lusatian Rhythms”. How a particular place is experienced, individually or collectively, is significantly influenced by its sonic-acoustic soundscape and the rhythm of its socio-technical environment. In heavily industrialized regions such as Lusatia, the rhythms of technical-environmental structures are structure-forming, for better or for worse. They are identity-forming and relevant for bonding, more or less ambivalent and present in perception - it's all about acoustic ecology.

On the one hand, the region's soundscapes will be investigated and an audio archive accessible to research community and civil society will be created; on the other hand, the research potential of energy, rhythms and soundscapes will be explored at a conference in Berlin. Questions arise, for example, about the methodology of historical, artistic-creative research in the field, and approaches to participatory research (including commoning) will also be examined. A further topic area is research into the sensitive handling of rhythms of various origins and meanings for socio-cultural assemblages, and finally, concrete social appropriation processes of transformative processes are to be examined and tested through active listening, acoustic production and performance.

More information here​​​​​​​.