Current projects

Current projects (last update: 28 March 2024)

Education for Sustainable Development – Spiritual Dimensions (13th Nuremberg Forum)

International, interdisciplinary and interreligious conference

  • Status: 30 Sept to 2 Oct, 2024
  • Funding: German Research Association (DFG)
  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Manfred Pirner and Dr. Werner Haußmann
  • Cooperation Partner: Religions for Peace International
  • Projektmitarbeiter:in: N.N.
  • More Info: nuremberg-forum.org

 

“Promoting open educational practices in faith-based OER-communities through the development of a coordinated OER ecosystem (FOERBICO) – accompanying scientific research”

  • Status: May 2024 to April 2027
  • Funding: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  • Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Manfred Pirner
  • Cooperation Partners: Comenius Institute (Dr. Jens Dechow), University of Frankfurt (Prof. Dr. Viera Pirker)
  • Network Leader: Dr. Jens Dechow
  • Staff: Phillip Angelina (75 %)
  • Concept: FOERBICO aims to strengthen and further develop OER-experienced communities such as relilab, relimentar, narrt, schule-evangelisch-digital and others, as well as religious education training institutions and university locations through coordinated cooperation, activating community management, networking public relations and scientific support. The focus is on the analysis and optimization of existing OER-related process models as well as the further development of quality standards, working methods and technical resources. The aim is to improve the quality, development intensity, availability and use of OER and thus to promote a coordinated OER ecosystem that is also effective beyond the religious education sector.The main objective of this sub-project is to provide scientific support for the overall FOERBICO project. It can be differentiated into a) Consulting: The project is optimized by linking it to scientific discussion and research. b) Monitoring: The current status of the OER work of the participating communities and the experiences, problem perceptions and development perspectives of the actors with regard to stronger networking and cooperation are surveyed and their changes over the course of the project are documented. c) Formative and summative evaluation
  • More info: coming soon

 

“Digital ethical sovereignty as goal of the education and training of Religious Education teachers and Ethics teachers”

a part of the Project Network “Digital sovereignty as goal of teacher education” (DiSo-SGW) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

 

Online Course “Education for sustainable development – theological and spiritual dimensions”

An educational development and research project

  • Status: September 2022 to February 2024
  • Funding: Virtual University of Bavaria (VHB)
  • Project Leaders: Prof. Dr. Manfred L. Pirner und Dr. Werner Haußmann
  • Collaboration Partners: Universität Augsburg (Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Naurath), Universität Bamberg (Prof. Dr. Stefanie Lorenzen), Universität Passau (Prof. Dr. Hans Mendl)
  • Staff: Corinna Ullmann
  • More Infos

 

Digital House of Learning „Jewish Life“

Didactical Development and Research Project

  • Status: 2021-2024
  • Funding: Protestant Church in Bavaria et al.
  • Project Leader: Dr. Werner Haussmann, Dr. Martina Switalski (Chair of Didactics of History), Dr. Axel Töllner (Institute for Christian-Jewish Studies and Relations, Augustana University)
  • Collaboration Partners: Jewish Communities, Jewish Museum Fürth, Religious Education Centre Heilsbronn
  • Project Staff: Corinna Ullmann
  • More Info

 

Religiosity and Digitality in informal and formal Learning Contexts (ReDiL). Emirical Studies on Correlations Between Youths‘ Religious Beliefs and their Ethical Attitude as well as their Practice Concerning Digital Media. (several sub-projects)

 

Religion as resource and risk. An empirical-longitudinal study on the significance of religiosity for the life-coping and integration of Young Refugees (ReReRi-L)

  • Status: 2021-2024
  • Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Project Leaders: Professor Manfred Pirner & Professor Ulrich Riegel (University of Siegen)
  • Collaboration Partner: Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, Bamberg
  • Project Staff: Dr. Marcus Penthin, Daniel Engel M.A.
  • More Info
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The Rights of the Child and the School Subject of Religious Education. Design Based Research on Integrating Child Rights Perspectives into RE and RE Teacher Education (2 sub-projects)