Digital Research Magazine

Cyber<>Spaces

Received wisdom states that business founders should withdraw from their company once it achieves a certain size. A study conducted by researchers from the University of Passau, from Frankfurt and Heilbronn comes to a different conclusion.

Knowledge transfer

The online platform ‘Regiothek’ and the collaboration of the University of Passau and the Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture highlight potential synergies and added value that can be generated through collaborations.

We were delighted to welcome researchers from all over the world to Passau to discuss the following question: How do we develop executives who are able to manage in an increasingly unstable world? By Prof. Dr. Andreas König and Dr. Lorenz Graf-Vlachy

International Guests

In May 2019 Dr Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho took part in the international programme for guests scholars, by invitation from Professor Dr Malte Steinbrink. In interview, he explains the reasons for Bolsonaro's electoral success.

‘I think Passau is a very family-friendly town’: Mindy Nunez Duffourc lived in Passau from October 2016 to March 2019 to conduct comparative research on medical malpractice law at the Chair of Common Law, which is held by Professor Jörg Fedtke.

Phil Bednarczyk, political advisor on Europe for the US Congress, has spent the last months as Robert Bosch Fellow in Passau and Dresden. His impressions. By Phil Bednarczyk

Projects related to the guiding theme 'Europe and global Transformation'

A team from the University of Passau is working with lawyers from six EU countries to develop training materials on European procedural law.

LAWtrain – legal expertise from Passau for lawyers across Europe

Die grenzüberschreitende Förderung mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlich begabter Schülerinnen und Schüler der zweiten Jahrgangsstufe von Gymnasien ist Ziel eines gemeinsamen Projektes der Universität Passau und der Johannes-Kepler-Universität (JKU) Linz.

Cross-border promotion of talented student mathematicians in lower secondary school

Bild: Prof. Dr. Horst-Alfred Heinrich (von rechts) und Projektmitarbeiter Lorenz Klumpp; Foto: Christl Metzenrath, Forschungsverbund ForDemocracy.

‘ViDe(m)o’ research project examines (rule-based) images of democracy

ViSIT - virtual museum for Passau and Kufstein

Universities of Passau and Ceske Budejovice explore the linguistic and literary heritage of eastern Bavaria and southern Bohemia

INTERREG-Project - Starting in Tradition

‘Reconsidering Constitutional Formation’ EU project – Europe’s constitution needs communication

LIB(e)RO: Bibliotheken geben geflüchteten Jugendlichen europaweit Starthilfe

LIB(e)RO: Libraries in Europe provide starting aid for minor and young refugees

SKILL

Computer Science Educationalist Andreas Dengel from the University of Passau let students test virtual worlds. The result: All virtual environments contributed to the teenagers' knowledge.

For the SKILL teaching project ‘Information and Media Literacy’, trainee teachers have worked with lecturers to develop ideas on how to critically engage with media in the digital era.

Projects related to guiding theme 'Digitalisation, Networked Society and (Internet) Cultures'

Just Order

Our case study in Burkina Faso suggests that glasses costing a couple of dollars are still too expensive and need to be subsidised to reach high levels of coverage. By Prof. Dr. Michael Grimm and Renate Hartwig, PhD

Tunisia is regarded as a trailblazer when it comes to women's rights in the Islamic world. However, a weak economy exacerbates traditional gender role thinking, finds a Passau study conducted for the International Labour Organization.