Current research projects

Quick Overview

  • Transitions from Education to Employment (TREE)
  • Parental Investment in Children's Education (PICE)
  • Mobility in Switzerland: Potentials of the Digitalization of the Labour Market for Environment and Economy
  • The neighborhood in the cloud: How on- and offline location-based social networks shape individual life chances
  • Improving the quality of education in developing countries: An experimental evaluation of teacher training programs in El Salvador
  • Improving Teacher Quality in Developing Countries: Experimental Evaluations in El Salvador and Tanzania
  • Inequality, poverty risks and the welfare state. Potentials of Data Linking of Administrative and Survey Data for Inequality Research
  • Digitalisierung in Schweizer Schulen und deren Auswirkungen auf Bildungsverläufe: Ausmass, Chancen und Risiken
  • Projects of the Interfaculty Centre for Educational Research (ICER)
  • Die Rolle von Zielunterstützung bei nachhaltigen Entscheidungen: Implikationen für politische Entscheidungsträger und digitale Unternehmen
  • International Collaboration to Understand Climate Action

Transitions from Education to Employment (TREE)

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). Project launch 01.01.2000. Leitung: Dr. Sandra Hupka-Brunner, Dr. Thomas Meyer.
Antragsteller: Prof. Dr. Ben Jann (Institut für Soziologie), Prof. Dr. Rolf Becker (Abt. Bildungsoziologie des Institutes für Erziehungswissenschaften).

Link: https://www.tree.unibe.ch/

 

Parental Investment in Children's Education (PICE)

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Project duration: 01.08.2019 - 31.07.2022. Applicant: Dr. Sandra Hupka-Brunner

Link: https://www.pice.unibe.ch/

 

Mobility in Switzerland: Potentials of the Digitalization of the Labour Market for Environment and Economy

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Project number: 188866. Project duration: 01.01.2020 - 31.12.2022. Applicant: Prof. Dr. Axel Franzen. PhD student: Fabienne Wöhner.

Link: https://p3.snf.ch/project-188866

 

The neighborhood in the cloud: How on- and offline location-based social networks shape individual life chances

SNSF Ambizione Grant. Project duration: 01.02.2022 - 31.01.2026. Applicant: Dr. Christoph Zangger

Link: https://www.neighborhoods.unibe.ch/

 

Improving the quality of education in developing countries: An experimental evaluation of teacher training programs in El Salvador

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Project duration: 01.01.2021 - 31.12.2024. Applicant: Prof. Dr. Aymo Brunetti (Department of Economics). Co-Applicant: Prof. Dr. Ben Jann

Link: https://p3.snf.ch/project-197576

 

Improving Teacher Quality in Developing Countries: Experimental Evaluations in El Salvador and Tanzania

SNSF Doc.CH Grant. Duration 01.09.2020 - 28.02.2023. PhD student: for Martina Jakob. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ben Jann

Link: https://p3.snf.ch/project-195406

 

Inequality, poverty risks and the welfare state. Potentials of Data Linking of Administrative and Survey Data for Inequality Research

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Project duration: 01.09.2018 - 30.04.2022. Applicant: Prof. Dr. Ben Jann. Co-applicant: Prof. Dr. Robert Fluder (BFH)

Link: http://inequalities.ch/

 

Digitalisierung in Schweizer Schulen und deren Auswirkungen auf Bildungsverläufe: Ausmass, Chancen und Risiken

Projekt im Rahmen der BeLEARN-Initiative. Laufzeit: 1.1.2022 - 31.12.2024. Projektverantwortliche Personen: Dr. Andrea Erzinger (ICER), Dr. Jessica Herzing (ICER), Dr. Sandra Hupka-Brunner, Prof. Ben Jann, Dr. Thomas Meyer

Link: https://belearn.swiss/

 

Projects of the Interfaculty Centre for Educational Research (ICER)

The institute is closely involved in various projects of the ICER. See the ICER website for more information.

Link: https://www.icer.unibe.ch/

 

Die Rolle von Zielunterstützung bei nachhaltigen Entscheidungen: Implikationen für politische Entscheidungsträger und digitale Unternehmen

Swiss Federal Office of Energy, "Energy, Economy, and Society" Program, PI: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Berger, Prof. Dr. Andreas Löschel (Ruhr-University Bochum).

Link: https://www.bfe.admin.ch/bfe/en/home/research-and-cleantech/research-programmes/energy-economy-society-ees.html

 

International Collaboration to Understand Climate Action

Global Initiative targeting collective action against climate change. Swiss data collection: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Berger, Daniel Bregulla, MA, Project Lead: Dr. Madalina Vlasceanu, Dr. Kimberly Doell, Prof. Jay J. van Bavel (New York University)

Link: https://manylabsclimate.wordpress.com/