Overview of ongoing, third-party funded research projects

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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS): Toward an Effective Integrated Approach for the Treatment of Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder

Funding body: EMDR Europe
Funding amount: 10.000€
Project start: 1st Dec. 2024
Project duration: 24 months
Project lead: Mattia Ferro (m.ferro@milano-sfu.it)

Visions of quality of life with a rare disease. A transdisciplinary approach to identify, measure and improve quality of life with epidermolysis bullosa

Funding body: ÖAW-DOCFund
Funding amount: 441.000€ (partly SFU, partly project partners)
Project duration: 01.09.2024 – 30.04.2028
Project lead: Univ.-Lekt.in MMag. DDr. Gudrun Salamon (gudrun.salamon@sfu.ac.at)

The Limbus of the Third Family Business Generation from a Family Psychology Perspective: A Qualitative Comparison of intergenerational Family Functioning in Business and Non-Business Families

Funding body: EQUA Stiftung (EigentümerQUalifizierungsAkademie)
Funding amount: 36.000€
Project duration: July 2024 – July 2026
Project lead: Ass.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Tarek el Sehity (tarek.el-sehity@sfu.ac.at)
Project team: Lola Koller, MSc. (lola.koller@mail.sfu.ac.at)

The Historical Geography of Central Asia

Funding body: The Higher Scientific and Technical Commission under the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Funding amount – SFU share: 10.131,81 €
Project duration: 01.10.2024 – 30.09.2025
Project lead: Francesca Fiaschetti (francesca.fiaschetti@sfu.ac.at)

Abstract: As a Chief Researcher within the project, Dr. Fiaschetti’s work aims at collecting and analysing necessary historical data from international archives and libraries. This includes, among others, historical maps, travelogues, and diplomatic documents compiled by intellectual and religious elites (e.g., Jesuit missionaries) of various provenance, and currently preserved in several libraries and archives in Vienna. Further, Dr. Fiaschetti’s research within the project aims at examining these data by looking and their historical context, as well as the cultural and religious background of the communities and individuals that produced these representations and mental maps.

AmigaAI Legal LLM

Funding body: FFG
Funding amount: total: 1.062.169€ / SFU sub-project: 154.217€
Project duration: 24 months (starting August 2024) 
Project partners: Gesetzefinden.at, Frauenhofer Institut and Cerha Hempel
Project lead: Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Birgit U. Stetina (birgit.u.stetina@sfu.ac.at) & Armin Klaps, MSc. 

Twin study on metacognition and its related symptoms

Funding body: FWF
Funding amount: 259.564,56€
Project start: 15th Sept. 2024
Project duration: 36 months
Project lead: Prof. Simona Scaini PhD (simona.scaini@mail.sfu.ac.at)
Project team: Stefano De Francesco, MSc

BUR-EB. Changing socio-economic burden of epidermolysis bullosa in Europe

Funding body: DEBRA Austria
Funding amount: 80.000€ 
Project duration: 09/2023 – 08/2025
Project team: DDr. Gudrun Salamon (gudrun.salamon@sfu.ac.at) & Sophie Strobl

The Power Within. A transnational history of Alfred Adler’s clinical and social ideas about power and psychological development in France, United States of America, and Argentina, 1929-1967

Funding body: FWF
Funding amount: 238.009,65€
Project start: July 2024
Project duration: 24 months
Project lead: Dr. Luciano Nicolás García (luciano.garcia@mail.sfu.ac.at)

A psychological investigation into the meaning of UHNWI-collectionism

Funding and Cooperation: IESE-Business School
Funding amount: 43.000€
Project duration: 12/2023 – 12/2025
Project lead: Ass.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Tarek El Sehity (tarek.el-sehity@sfu.ac.at)
Project team: Prof. Heinrich Liechtenstein (IESE-Project-leader), Renata Semmel (IESE-Projekt Coordination)

THERE! ... AND THEN? Reports on arriving in West Berlin

Funding body: Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt – Förderung zeitgeschichtlicher und erinnerungskultureller Projekte
Funding amount: 24.894,94€
Project duration: 01.02.2024 – 31.10.2024
Project lead: Caroline Jacobi, M.A. (caroline.jacobi@sfu-berlin.de)

ElevateHer

Funding body: SPORT DI TUTTI – INCLUSIONE” SPORT E SALUTE S.P.A
Funding amount: 28.506€
Project duration: 09/2023 – 08/2025
Project team: Prof. Walter Sapuppo (w.sapuppo@milano-sfu.it), Daniele Saccenti, Alice Savoia 

Psychological aspects of the quality of life of pets and their owners - Conceptual and clinical studies

Funding body: Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica
Project duration: 2022 – 06/2025
Project lead: Birgit U. Stetina (birgit.u.stetina@sfu.ac.at)
Project coordination: Christine Krouzecky (christine.krouzecky@sfu.ac.at)

Viennese Mobility Climate. On the everyday mobility practice of Viennese citizens and their experience of climate-related control measures

Funding body: City of Vienna
Funding amount: 33.000€
Project start: March 2024 – March 2025
Project duration: 12 months
Project lead: Ass.Prof.in Dr.in Katharina Hametner (katharina.hametner@sfu.ac.at), Prof. Dr. Konrad Lachmayer (konrad.lachmayer@jus.sfu.ac.at) & Dr. Markus Wrbouschek (markus.wrbouschek@sfu.ac.at)

Creative 'conversations' with materials

Funding body: FWF
Funding amount: 449.730 € (thereof 86% at SFU) 
Project start / duration: March 2024; 36 months
Project lead: Dr. Michael Kimmel

'(...) suitable for admission to an idiot asylum'. Psychology and psychiatry in the NS euthanasia programme at Klagenfurt State Hospital.

Funding body: The Future Fund of the Republic of Austria
Funding amount: 10.000€ 
Project duration: 1st Jan. 2024 – 31st Dec. 2025
Project team: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Benetka (gerhard.benetka@sfu.ac.at) & Lisa-Teresa Woller-Mensshengen

Digital Holocaust Memorial – Interdisciplinary Research Project on Remembrance Cultures in Austria

Funding body: The Future Fund of the Republic of Austria, The National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism, City of Vienna, Otto Mauer Fonds, Federal Chancellery of Austria
Project start: March 2023, ongoing
Project lead: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Benetka, Ass.-Prof. MMag. Dr. Stefan Hampl, Mag. Dr. Peter Daniel, Mag. Dr. Nicole Horn (nicole.horn@sfu.ac.at)

Connecting the Dots: Reconstructing the Social Production of Suspicious Knowledge

Funding body: DFG – Weave Lead Agency
Funding amount (total): 1,411,479.60 €
Funding amount (sub-project AT): 338.381,70 €
Project duration: March 2024 – February 2027 
Project lead: Dr. Markus Brunner (SFU Vienna, markus.brunner@sfu.ac.at), Dr. Nils C. Kumkar (Socium, University of Bremen), Prof. Dr. Oliver Nachtwey (University of Basel) and Prof. Dr. Sarah Speck (Institute for Social Research; Goethe University Frankfurt)
Project members: Dustin Henze, MA., Florian Knasmüller, MSc. & Joëlle Lewitan, BSc. 

Changes in the perception of Soviet history (using the example of family history and/or local history) among young people in Russia in the years 2000 - 2020

Funding body: Robert-Bosch-Foundation
Funding amount: 35.000€
Project duration: 03/2022 – 07/2025
Project lead: Ass.-Prof. Dr. Anna Schor-Tschudnowskaja (anna.schor-tschudnowskaja@sfu.ac.at)

Instahelp - Psychological Online Counselling

Since November 2015, the staff of the Clinical Psychology department have been operating an online platform for psychological counselling (Instahelp) in collaboration with the Graz-based company Insta Communications GmbH. This cooperation opens up new research opportunities in the research area of clinical psychology and media.

Enorm in Form

Impact of an interdisciplinary treatment of childhood obesity on inflammatory and immunological processes

Funding amount (from Sept. 2019 – Feb. 2022): € 54.360
Project lead: Ass.-Prof. Dr. Stefana Holocher-Benetka (s.holocher-benetka@sfu.ac.at)

The project is scheduled to continue until January 2026.