Research Alliances

Scientists of the Department 02 cooperate within the framework of interdisciplinary and inter-institutional research programs. The intensification of these interdisciplinary networks within and outside the TU Darmstadt characterize the research activities of the Department of History and Social Sciences and have sustainably shaped and strengthened them in recent years.

Research Training Group KRITIS

KRITIS is an interdisciplinary research training group dedicated to the study of critical infrastructures in cities. Here, historians, infrastructure and spatial planners, civil engineers, sociologists, electrical engineers, philosophers, political scientists, architects and computer scientists conduct research together. At the moment, the second cohort is working on their PhD theses…

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Research Training Group “Standards of Governance”

In addition to the use of standards as an instrument of governance, the research focus "Standards of Governance" also deals with the transnational and cross-level standardization of governance itself…

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emergenCITY – The Resilient Digital City

Our research aims to protect smart cities from disasters. For this we are developing resilient infrastructures that save human lives…

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Italy Forum

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Centre Responsible Digitality

Centre Responsible Digitality (ZEVEDI) investigates ethical and legal aspects of digital transformation, transfers knowledge into the business community and communicates with politics and society…

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Clean Circles – Iron as energy carrier in a carbon-free circular energy economy

Iron as a reactive metal has enormous potential to boost the energy transition. The project Clean Circles teams up scientists from multiple disciplines to explore how the metal and its oxides can be used in a cycle as carbon-free chemical energy carrier to store wind and solar power.

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Biodiversity cultures in urban and rural areas (BioDivKultur)

The BioDivKultur project is funded within the framework of the FEdA “BMBF Research Initiative on Biodiversity Conservation” on the topic of valuing and safeguarding biodiversity in politics, business and society…

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Kopernikus Project Ariadne2

The Paris Climate Agreement objectives can only be met if policymakers take action. Ariadne explores which policy instruments are most suitable…

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Transformation of Political Violence (TraCe)

In order to understand, explain and criti­cally examine the trans­formation of political violence, TraCe focuses on different discipli­nary perspectives, levels of anal­ysis, methods and forms of violence in three thematic res­earch areas as well as a synergy area…

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On the way to the Fluvial Anthroposphere

The Priority Programme focus on the “fluvial anthroposphere” along rivers. Floodplains represent a global hotspot of sensitive socio-environmental changes and early human forcing mechanisms…

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