Overview of ongoing, third-party funded research projects

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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 – 11/2024
Project lead: Ass.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Tarek El Sehity (tarek.el-sehity@sfu.ac.at)
Project team: Lola Koller, MSc.

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 – 02/2025 (3 years)
Project lead: Ass.-Prof. Dr. Anna Schor-Tschudnowskaja (anna.schor-tschudnowskaja@sfu.ac.at)

The Psychological is Participatory. Feminist critical participatory action research with women’s counseling centers and their clients

Funding body: FWF (TCS 112 Top Citizen Science)
Funding amount: € 49,987.56
Project duration: 05/2022 – 04/2024
Project lead: Ass.-Prof. Dr. Nora Ruck (nora.ruck@sfu.ac.at)
Project team: Dr. Barbara Rothmüller
More information: https://psychologie.sfu.ac.at/en/research/the-psychological-is-participatory/

Theory, Practice and Consequences of Operative Psychology

Funding body: Österreichischer Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung FWF | Austrian Science Fund
Funding amount: € 302.841,01
Duration: 1 July 2020 – 31 Dec. 2024
Project lead: Ass.-Prof. DDr. Martin Wieser (SFU Berlin, martin.wieser@sfu-berlin.de)
More information: https://psychologie.sfu.ac.at/en/research/operative-psychology

Instahelp - psychological online counselling

Since November 2015, the team of the clinical psychology department have been operating an online platform for psychological counseling (Instahelp) in cooperation with the Graz-based company Insta Communications GmbH. This cooperation creates paid internship positions as part of the postgraduate specialist training in clinical and health psychology offered at the Faculty of Psychology, and offers new research opportunities in clinical psychology and media. 

Project lead: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Birgit Stetina (birgit.u.stetina@sfu.ac.at)

Enorm in Form

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

The project is scheduled to continue until August 2024.
Funding amount (from Sept. 2019 – Feb. 2022): € 54.360
Project lead: Ass.-Prof. Dr. Stefana Holocher-Benetka (s.holocher-benetka@sfu.ac.at)