Collaborative projects

The Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences participates in (interdisciplinary) research and education through collaborative projects.

Cluster of Excellence

Several researchers from the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences take part in the Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change and Society” (CLICCS) at the University of Hamburg. This project has received funding from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) since 2019. The Cluster builds on its predecessor, the Cluster of Excellence "Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction“ (CliSAP). The funding period ends in 2025.

The following professors of the WISO Faculty are currently involved in CLICCS:

• Prof. Dr. Stefan Aykut,
• Prof. Dr. Michael Brüggemann,
• Prof. Dr. Timo Busch,
• Prof. Dr. Anita Engels (Spokesperson),
• Prof. Dr. Christine Hentschel,
• Prof. Dr. Andreas Lange,
• Prof. Dr. Grischa Perino,
• Prof. Dr. Simone Rödder,
• Prof. Dr. Ursula Schröder and
• Prof. Dr. Antje Wiener.
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In addition to the University of Hamburg, the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI), the Helmholtz—Zentrum Geesthacht, the Centre for Materials and Coastal Research (HZG), and the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) are involved in CLICCS. Within the University of Hamburg, the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, the Faculty of Humanities, the Meteorological Institute and the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) are also involved in CLICCS.

DFG—funded collaborative projects

The DFG—funded collaborative programmes support interdisciplinary collaboration within current fields of work. Central to the faculty is the DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability”. The research group started its work in September 2019. ”Futures of Sustainability” deals with the question of how modern societies change when they are guided by different notions of sustainability. It primarily serves the development of theory and analytical syntheses in the diagnosis of society. International fellows, especially from the social sciences and humanities, are regularly invited to participate in research.

The DFG Research Unit “Big Structural Change" is funded in collaboration with the Austrian Science Fund. Moreover, researchers of the faculty are part of the interdisciplinary DFG Research Group “multiple competition in higher education".

Research Training Groups

Reasearch Training Groups can provide an environment of support for young researcher. This kind of support can be found in the DFG—funded Research Training Group on “Collective Decision—Making”, the DFG—funded inter—university Research Training Group “Urban Future—Making: Professional agency across time and scale” as well as in the DFG—funded research training group at the Hamburg Center for Health Economics “Managerial and economic dimensions of health care quality”. The doctoral degree program at the School of Integrated Climate System Sciences (SICSS) was created as a part of the Hamburg Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society“ (CLICCS).