The inter- and transdisciplinary Einstein Circle, run by Charité, HU Berlin, TU Berlin, FU Berlin, and the Robert Koch Institute, focuses on the mental and physical health of homeless people. Mental illness can be a major contributing factor to homelessness and, conversely, can be aggravated by the social difficulties that homeless people face. Measures to improve their health, social integration, and quality of life are still scarce. The aim of the Einstein Circle is to develop strategies and interventions to understand and improve the complex underlying systems in the Berlin metropolitan area. As well as social and data sciences, urban planning, and various medical disciplines, such as psychiatry as well as emergency and general medicine, the circle explicitly plans to include the perspectives of people affected by homelessness, and of practitioners in the field and international researchers.

Contact:

Dr. Stefanie Schreiter

Charitéplatz 1
10117 Berlin

Tel: 030 450 517176

Email: stefanie.schreiter@charite.de

The Einstein Circle "Exploring otherness on Earth and beyond: Integrating perspectives from natural sciences, social sciences and humanities" aims at understanding the "other" from natural science, social science and humanities perspectives. In its multidisciplinary approach, these different perspectives on “the Other” are to be integrated. The joint work is intended to lay the foundations for understanding and dealing with that otherness which we will encounter in the future in the form of natural disasters, the colonization of other planets, and extraterrestrial life. How will such events influence our lives and our self-image as human beings? What role does media communication play in this? The hope and well-founded expectation of Earth and planetary sciences to discover extraterrestrial life and habitats quite soon, as well as the variety of possible threats from natural disasters, pose great challenges to our human community. Long-standing research in the social sciences and humanities on the psychological, social, political, and religious challenges of encountering “the Other” offers insights for this that can help us prepare for these scenarios. 

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Steffi Pohl

Habelschwerdter Allee 45

Room KL 23/226
14195 Berlin
Tel: 030 838 62926

Email: steffi.pohl@fu-berlin.de

Website: https://exoeinstein.userpage.fu-berlin.de/

Fashioning Education is a collaborative research initiative to open, facilitate and formalise the debate on fashion education against the backdrop of global social transformations. It brings together experts and creatives from different fields of fashion related education, research and practice into critical conversation and exploration of the transformative potential of fashion.

Contact:

Prof. Valeska Schmidt-Thomsen

Prof. Franziska Schreiber

Dr. Renate Stauss

Universität der Künste Berlin

Institut für experimentelles Bekleidungs- und Textildesign

Strasse des 17. Juni 118

10623 Berlin

E-Mail: fashioningeducation@udk-berlin.de

Website: https://fashioning.education/

Advancing technological developments provide a wealth of applications and equipment in the field of imaging techniques, which can be used well beyond originally intended contexts - such as in the life sciences-medical field in robot-assisted surgery. "Life Imaging" examines the possibilities and challenges that arise from the use of modern imaging techniques in this area. The Einstein Schering Circle is a joint program of the Ernst Schering Foundation and the Einstein Foundation Berlin.

Contact:
Claudia Blümle
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Tel.: 030 / 209366208
E-Mail: claudia.bluemle@hu-berlin.de