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The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1310 ‘Predictability in Evolution’ and the CRC/Transregio 228 ‘Future Rural Africa’ will receive funding from the German Research Foundation for a further four years / a total of 16.1 million euros for the University of Cologne
Two Collaborative Research Centres at the University of Cologne will receive funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a further funding period. Taken together, the approved CRCs will receive funds including an overhead totalling approximately 27.5 million euros, of which approximately 16.1 million euros will remain at the University of Cologne. The remaining funds go to the collaboration partners.
“The extension of these two Collaborative Research Centres means that we are sending a strong signal when it comes to researching solutions for the future – whether in relation to understanding evolutionary processes or shaping sustainable developments in the global context. The extended funding of the two Collaborative Research Centres represents a great success for our university and its partners. My special thanks go to the many scholars and scientists who are working on these joint projects with extraordinary commitment and an outstanding level of professional excellence,” says Professor Dr Joybrato Mukherjee, Rector of the University of Cologne.
CRC 1310 ‘Predictability in Evolution’
Evolutionary biology traditionally deals with the reconstruction of past processes and with relationships between species over long periods of time. The CRC 1310 ‘Predictability in Evolution’ investigates how future evolutionary processes can be predicted, at least in the short term. It researches systems that evolve very fast: microbes, viruses, immune systems, and cancer cells. The aim is to develop prediction methods for important processes within these systems, including the evolution of drug resistance, the evolution of human influenza and SARS-CoV-2 viruses, and the response of our immune systems.
The CRC 1310 will be funded by the German Research Foundation with approximately 14.4 million euros over the next four years.
Spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre is physicist Professor Dr Michael Lässig from the University of Cologne. In addition to the University of Cologne and University Hospital Cologne, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and partner institutions in Bonn, Jena, New York, Paris and Wageningen (the Netherlands) are also involved.
CRC/Transregio 228 ‘Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation
Against the backdrop of rapidly advancing globalization and the increasingly noticeable consequences of global climate change, the CRC/Transregio 228 ‘Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation’ is examining how future-oriented processes of agricultural intensification, infrastructure development (such as roads, dams, geothermal power plants) and the expansion of nature conservation zones in rural Africa are being negotiated. In the face of rapid socio-ecological change, how do the seemingly opposing but often interwoven processes of increased land use and the expansion of nature reserves affect food security, social systems and commodity chains?
Researchers from geography, ethnology, agricultural sciences and other disciplines (such as history, virology, and botany) are analysing how different conceptions of the future are impacting the transformation of land use. They are also focussing particularly on unpredictable developments such as droughts, violent conflicts, and political crises, which continue to pose critical planning problems for large parts of rural Africa. The key areas under consideration are in eastern and southern Africa.
The DFG will be funding the CRC/Transregio 228 over the next four years with a total of approximately 13.1 million euros.
The coordinating university for the CRC/Transregio 228 in the third funding period is the University of Bonn, after the University of Cologne has been functioning as the coordinating university in the current second funding period.
Also involved in this joint project are the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC), the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), the Charité at the Humboldt University in Berlin, the Museum Futurium in Berlin, the University of Potsdam and the University of the Western Cape (South Africa), as well as numerous collaboration partners in eastern and southern Africa.
Press and Communications Team:
Jan Voelkel
+49 221 470 2356
j.voelkel@verw.uni-koeln.de
Press Spokesperson: Dr Elisabeth Hoffmann – e.hoffmann@verw.uni-koeln.de
Media Contact for CRC 1310:
Professor Dr Michael Lässig
Institute for Theoretical Physics and Quantitative Biology
+49 221 470 4309
lassig@thp.uni-koeln.de
Media Contact for CRC/Transregio 228:
Professor Dr Michael Bollig
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
+49 221 470 3501
Michael.bollig@uni-koeln.de
https://Further information:
https://crc1310.uni-koeln.de/
https://crc-trr228.de/
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