Research platforms and research networks

Research platforms

Research platforms are a successful tool for interdisciplinary research cooperation projects. The establishment of research platforms is initiated by academics and research groups of various disciplines and faculties that can submit their applications in the course of calls for proposals. The applications are evaluated by international experts.
Applications from all subject areas are taken into consideration. Research platforms address academic questions that can only be studied from an interdisciplinary perspective. Thus, the underlying goal is the promotion of especially innovative, interdisciplinary research projects. Research platforms are established for a duration of three years, which may be extended.

The Faculty participates in the following research platforms:

• Environment and Climate Research Hub
  (Members: The Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science; Center for Molecular Biology; Faculty of Psychology; Faculty of Life Sciences; Faculty of Earth Sciences; Faculty of Social Sciences)
  Principal Investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thilo Hofmann, Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Psych. Sabine Pahl, MSc PhD

• Cognitive Science Hub
  (Members: Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies; Faculty of Psychology; Faculty of Life Sciences; Centre for Translation Studies)
  Principal Investigator: ao. Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Franz-Markus Peschl

• Department of Islamic-Theological Studies
  (Members: Faculty of Catholic Theology; Faculty of Protestant Theology; Faculty of Law; Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies)
  Principal Investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ednan Aslan, M.A.

• Religion and Transformation in Contemporary European Society
  (research platform from 2010 to 2018; since 1 April 2018 it is continued as an official Research Centre)
  (Members: Faculty of Catholic Theology; Faculty of Protestant Theology; Faculty of Law; Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies; Faculty of Social Sciences)
  Principal Investigator: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Mag. Mag. Dr. Dr. Kurt Appel

• Mediatised Lifeworlds: Young people's narrative constructions, connections and appropriations
  (Members: Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies; Faculty of Social Sciences; Faculty of Psychology)
  Principal Investigator: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Susanne Reichl, ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Ute Smit

Completed research platforms:

• April 2015 to September 2019: Nano‐Norms‐Nature
  (Members: Faculty of Law; Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy)
  Principal Investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Angela Kallhoff

Research networks

Research networks as an instrument should be increasingly used to bring together researchers at the University of Vienna, in particular in subject areas that are relevant for society, and create a critical mass, which can be the starting point for applications for research platforms and Horizon 2020 (in line with the "major societal challenges" programme section).

The Faculty participates in the Research network:

• Geschlecht und Handlungsmacht / Gender and Agency
  (Members: Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies; Faculty of Life Sciences; Centre for Teacher Education; Centre for Molecular Biology; Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies; Faculty of Law; Faculty of Social Sciences)
  Head: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Birgit Sauer