Center for Applied Developmental Science
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The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) approved funding for the data archiving of the interdisciplinary German-Israeli Research Consortium "Migration and Societal Integration" (PI: Prof. Dr. R. K. Silbereisen, Dr. P. F. Titzmann, Dr. E. Schröder; Funding Period: 12 months) in cooperation with the Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS).
PATHWAYS published the first issue of the newsletter of the postdoctoral fellowship program (PDF).
The new web-portal of the research consortium on "Migration and Societal Integration" is now online. Here you can find more information on the various research endeavours of the consortium as well as selected results from all projects conducted.
Dr. Peter F. Titzmann was awarded funding from the Jacobs-Foundation for conducting the project Culture-brokering as Opportunity and Risk for Adolescent Immigrants. The aim of the project is to investigate relations in immigrant families.
Rainer K. Silbereisen was elected President of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS), for the years 2008-2012. IUPsyS represents over 70 national associations of scientific psychology to international organizations. It is engaged in disseminating insights of psychology for science and application, helps in developing organizational capacities for the representation of psychology, is engaged in training seminars for young scientists, and is the sponsor of the quadrennial International Congress of Psychology (the 2008 congress in Berlin had about 9000 attendees).
CADS is part of PATHWAYS: An International Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme for the Comparative Study of Productive Youth Development funded by the Jacobs Foundation with 1 Mio GBP (1.26 Mio. €). Primary investigators are Ingrid Schoon, Lars Bergman, Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Katariina Salmela-Aro, Rainer K. Silbereisen, Ulrich Trautwein. Congratulations and all the best.
CADS is member of the Jena Graduate School Human Behaviour in Social & Economic Change . The Jena Graduate School is a pilot school within the Jena Graduate Academy and one of three Jena University initiatives that has handed in a proposal at the Excellence Initiative by the German Federal and State Governments to promote science and research at German universities.
