Members of the research focus TWG

Professor at the Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences

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Projects:

• ITN-STRIKE (2013-2017)

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Professor of Childhood Education at the Faculty of Social Sciences

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Expertise:

• Quantitative and qualitative expansion of child daycare
• Quality in day care centers
• Education and development in childhood
• Professionalization of educational specialists
• Health of children and educational staff in daycare centers

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Research assistant at the TRAWOS Institute

Expertise:

• Sociology of the (small) city and rural society
• political theories of civil society
• public sociology
• Creativity and gender

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Professor of Accounting/Controlling at the Faculty of Management and Cultural Sciences

Employee for Research funding and transfer at the Center for Knowledge and Technology Transfer (ZWT)

Professor of General and Experimental Ecology at the Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences

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Expertise:

• Nature conservation studies in connection with landscape structural change
• Effects on endangered animal and plant species
• environmental education
• Long-term cooperation with Czech partners

Employee in the transfer network "Saxony5" - Co-Creation Lab Supply Infrastructure

As an energy engineer, I work on topics related to the transformation of the energy system from a systemic perspective - both from a technical point of view, e.g. with the cellular approach as a basis - but also from a socio-economic perspective, with the research subject of neighborhoods.

I conduct research at the IPM and am responsible for the specialist work in the energy transfer field.

 
Phone: +49 3583 612-4696 Email:
 Martin.Herling(at)hszg.de

Professor of Social Gerontology at the Faculty of Social Sciences;

Head of the Institute for Health, Ageing and Technology (GAT)

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Projects

Expertise:
Research services and policy advice in

• Intergenerational relationships in family, community and society
• Compatibility of care and work
• Technical aids to make everyday life easier and adapt living space
• Population ageing in Eastern/Central Europe
• Regional ageing

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Professor of Cultural Studies, in particular Cultural and Social Ecology, at the Faculty of Management and Cultural Studies

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Projects:

• The development of metamodernism in theory and practice and its relevance for regional transformation processes in Lusatia
• Slow Life - Creation of a German-Polish region of pleasure. Interreg project with Polish and German partners (2025-2027)
• Experience-Economy - Innovation networks in cultural and health tourism in Upper Lusatia
• publications

Professor of Real Estate and Construction Management at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Industrial Engineering

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Expertise:

• Profitability of real estate investments
• Real estate portfolio management
• Strategy development for local authorities and housing companies

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Professor of Sociology and Management of Social Change at the Faculty of Social Sciences

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Expertise:

• Management/governance of social change processes at European, national, regional and local level
• Social development processes in Central and Eastern Europe; relations between Germany and this region and its EU integration
• Innovation processes in the economy and society at regional/local level with particular reference to socio-political and socio-economic issues/sustainability
• Social inequalities/social problems and how they are dealt with by the welfare state
• Political radicalisms and the political confrontation with them at local/regional level

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Professor of Enterprise Application Development in the Department of Computer Science at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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Projects:

• Junior Research Group Sustainable IT Services
• NXTM - Development of a connector for live integration into database management systems
• VATI - Trust in assistance technologies for the inclusion of older people

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Assistant in the Master's program "Management of Social Change"

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Expertise:

• Network to (European) actors on the topic of children's rights and participation
• (Educational) history of Saxony and Upper Lusatia
• Application (also preparation of cost and financing plans)
• Coordination of larger working groups
• Coordination of the publication of multilingual publications

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em. Professor of Tourism Economics, in particular Destination Management at the Faculty of Management and Cultural Studies

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Projects:

• Slow Life - Creation of a German-Polish region of pleasure. Interreg project with Polish and German partners (2025-2027)
• REFUGIUM (Refugees in urban area for migration) - Effects of migration on rural areas in the Free State of Saxony and the scope for action of the civilian population, especially the tourism industry (2016-2017)

Expertise:

• Expert opinion on life cycles of tourist destinations
• Assessment of existing resources

Professor of Business Administration, in particular Finance and Financial Institutions at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Engineering

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Expertise:

• Finance
• financial services

Vice Dean of the Faculty of Management and Cultural Sciences; 
Professor of Health Sciences at the Faculty of Management and Cultural Sciences

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Research assistant at the Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences

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Projects:

• Sustainability and Cooperation Research Network (2012)
• Master's program in Integrated Sustainability Management (QUAR) (2009-2012)