Third-party funded projects

Third-party funded projects

Here you will find all externally funded projects associated with our junior research group.

 

Harnessing Emotion: Enhancing Deliberative Engagement with Science on Social Media and through GenAI

The EngageAI project investigates how emotions can influence how deeply people engage with scientific information. The collaboration between TU Braunschweig, Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is funded by the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony and the Volkswagen Foundation as part of the Israel-Lower Saxony cooperation (part of zukunft.niedersachsen) (2025-2029).

Trust in Citizen Science (TiCS)

Photo: Bianca Loschinsky/TU Braunschweig

Funded by the BMFTR and in cooperation with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, we are researching trust potentials and reservations arising from citizen participation in science in the joint project "Trust in Citizen Science (TiCS)". (2023-2026) 

 

DFG Network Evidence-Based Science Outreach

Zwei weiblich gelesene Personen, welche vor einem Tisch stehen auf welchem sich ein Laptop und Technik befindet.

In the DFG network "Evidence-Based Science Outreach", we want to develop a framework model for the motivation for and impact of science outreach. Involved are 13 researchers from science education and science communication research (2024-2027; information coming soon!)