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Education, Sustainability and Diversity

UA Ruhr Establishes Three Research Communities on Key Future Topics

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The University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr) is further expanding its inter-university cooperation in key future fields: With the new Research Communities on Education, Sustainability and Diversity, the three partner universities Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), TU Dortmund University and the University of Duisburg-Essen have established platforms for intensive exchange and strategic development of joint research priorities. The communities are financially supported by MERCUR structural funding.

The aim of the three research communities Education, Sustainability and Diversity of the UA Ruhr is to pool scientific expertise and strategically develop cooperation, expand joint activities, particularly in research, increase international visibility and jointly acquire third-party funding. This is linked to strengthening the promotion of scientists in early career phases.

The Research Community Future of Education—initiated by Professor Nele McElvany (TU Dortmund University), Professor Nikol Rummel (Ruhr University Bochum) and Professor Isabell van Ackeren-Mindl (University of Duisburg-Essen)—brings together 18 founding members from educational science, psychology, didactics, teaching-learning research, and sociology with the aim of systematically networking the diverse competencies of educational research in the UA Ruhr. The focus is on education-related issues in order to better address them in the future in an interdisciplinary manner and across different levels of analysis: from data collection on the micro scale to social frameworks, for example with regard to learning in a digitalized world. A particular focus is on the transfer of scientific findings into educational practice, for example in teacher training.

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