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From July 13 to 16, 2022, doctoral and post-doctoral researchers engaged in GDR research met in Leipzig. Six panels and a social as well as cultural program provided a good terrain for an intensive exchange.

More than 30 scientists took part in the interdisciplinary conference by and for doctoral…

We live in times of global challenges. These challenges such as climate change, resource scarcity and pandemic threat have become too ubiquitous to be solved through minor innovation processes. Therefore, the call for transformation in the sense of disruptive, pathbreaking changes has become vital.…

In a cooperation project between the University of Bremen, the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and the Patent Information Center of the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena in the realm of the BMBF-funded project Mod-Block-GDR, a new dataset with comprehensive and prepared information on…

Polish entrepreneur Małgorzata Bieniaszewska visits the European University Viadrina on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 11:15 a.m., to talk about ways to achieve economic success. The talk, entitled "Innovative Strength of Young Entrepreneurs: From Business Idea to International Success" will be moderated…

The first meeting of the DFG Network "The dynamics of innovation systems: Perspectives, influences and operationalization" was held from May 9th to 10th, 2022 in the House of Science in Bremen.

The network aims at a research exchange between the different perspectives of innovation systems. After a…

Since 2018, the BMBF has been funding 14 collaborative projects across Germany that conduct DDR research. After two years of pandemic and a lot of research progress with few conferences offers, Charlotta Cordes, Ann Hipp, Jarina Kühn from the University of Bremen as well as Greta Hartmann from the…

By now, the Mod-Block-DDR Colloquium has been established for four semesters and continues to prove its benefits to this day - which will continue beyond the pandemic.

In the winter semester 2022/23, several Mod-Block subprojects presented their research results for discussion in the consortium. In…

Why did the attempts to realise the project of collectivist modernisation fail? This book, written within the framework of Mod-Block-DDR, explores this question by examining the development of economic thinking in the GDR and Poland. The authors Hans-Jürgen Wagener, Maciej Tymiński and Piotr Koryś…

For the fourth time, the Mod-Block-DDR Online-Colloquium, which was launched at the beginning of the Corona pandemic in order to keep the exchange going successfully, is starting up again. The principle is simple: researchers of the Mod-Block-DDR Colloquium present their research designs and results…

Looking back critically and thinking ahead responsibly in a historical place: from September 23-24, 2021, many social, historical, political, and economic scholars came together in Gdansk, at the birthplace of the Solidarność movement. "How did the transformations progress in Poland and East…