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2025
12/01/2025
AWIEW project presents results at the 8th Community Health Conference 2025
Four presentations in a dedicated session on the project "Working – the way I want to!" at CHK 2025 in Bochum
11/19/2025
Appointment to the Strategy and Research Council of TU Dortmund University for the period 2026-2028
Prof. Jürgen Howaldt and Prof. Martina Brandt are part of TU Dortmund University's Strategy and Research Council until 2028
11/16/2025
Start of the BMFTR-funded joint project “PETRA”
The project is developing an AI-supported app to accompany menopause therapy.
11/04/2025
Getting to the bottom of everyday actions
Prof. Johannes Weyer models behavioral patterns in order to understand obstacles on the path to sustainable mobility.
10/28/2025
Unskilled labour and co-determination
A new project is investigating the challenges of co-determination in a healthcare service provider.
10/28/2025
SIGU platform Zukunftsfabrik: Fostering the Social Innovation Ecosystem
How research, practice, and funding systems jointly shape perspectives for social innovation—with active participation from sfs
10/14/2025
KonCheck: Encouraging young people to take a critical look at news articles
TU Dortmund University's KonCheck research project represented at the City of Dortmund's Market of Opportunities
10/13/2025
Invitation to information event: Support for student mental health – an e-training for teaching staff at higher education institutions
An information event on 5 December 2025 will present a training for teaching staff on the topic of mental health concerns among students.
10/10/2025
Article on the transformation potential of transport services and mobility behavior in the Ruhr region published in international TRIP magazine
Article published in the international journal "Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives", issue 33 (2025) and available online
10/02/2025
Focus session on the project “Working – the way I want to!” in Berlin
On September 18, 2025, SFS researchers and colleagues from Franz-Sales-Haus presented insights into the project's participatory approach.
09/10/2025
Sfs was well represented at the 17th ISIRC in Calgary
Jürgen Howaldt gave the opening keynote, Katrin Bauer, Karina Maldonado-Mariscal, and Marthe Zirngiebl presented their work and organised streams.
09/03/2025
Challenges of a Sustainable Steel Industry
The Social Research Center is participating in a new EU project that examines the relationship between humans and technology.
08/21/2025
The sfs and TUDO were well represented at the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology in Morocco
sfs @the ISA Forum of Sociology in Rabat
08/14/2025
Your opinion counts: Improving mobility in NRW together!
Take part in an interesting, anonymous survey of the ATMo² research project and help shape the future!
07/22/2025
Joint session of the AWIEW project at the ALTER conference in Innsbruck
On 9 July 2025, members of the "Working - the way I want to!" project met in Innsbruck for a joint session as part of the ALTER conference.
07/10/2025
Robo cabs soon in NRW too?
The NeMo.bil project presents itself at the summer party of the NRW state representation in Brussels
06/16/2025
Shaping Societal Futures through Innovation Policy: Eu-SPRI 2025 at TU Dortmund University
340 global experts met at TU Dortmund to discuss the future of innovation policy.
06/15/2025
Session on technology for inclusion and participation at the HCI International Conference with a contribution from the Social Research Center
On 25 June, PD Dr Christoph Kaletka co-organised a focus session at the HCI International Conference, in which Daniel Krüger also presented.
06/15/2025
New EU project investigates the role and potential of social innovations for EU-Missions
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Howaldt and Marthe Zirngiebl presented their first ideas of a Community of Practice at the kick off.
06/04/2025
Karina Maldonado-Mariscal took part in the Summer School on Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation in Bavaria
Karina Maldonado-Mariscal was invited to held a lecture at the Summer School TH Rosenheim
05/23/2025
SmartVille project meeting in Dortmund, sfs
SmartVille project partners from Finland, Namibia and Zambia spent a week visiting Dortmund. The focus was on current and future project activities.
04/30/2025
Karina Maldonado-Mariscal organised a panel on Exnovation together with Jessica Mesman
Karina Maldonado-Mariscal represented the sfs at the STS Hub 2025 in Berlin at the conference "Diffracting the critical".
04/23/2025
Jürgen Howaldt opens the 7th CRISES Conference in Montreal
Jürgen Howaldt opens the 7th International CRISES Conference with his presentation on the role of social innovation in overcoming multiple crises
04/10/2025
Dialogues on the role of social innovation in Brazil's regional innovation strategies
Rethinking innovation: Christoph Kaletka gives two keynote speeches at Brazilian universities
03/03/2025
Kerstin Guhlemann as a guest on Free Radio LORA Munich
Kerstin Guhlemann presents the DepriBuddy project in a radio programme on the subject of loneliness
02/13/2025
EU-SPRI 2025: registrations are open
This years EU-SPRI conference is now open for registration.
01/15/2025
Report about unskilled work (simple work) in the Dortmund region
The report shows the extent and facets of unskilled work in the Dortmund region and develops perspectives for this form of employment.
