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Transnational-European, interdisciplinary, publicly committed, application-oriented and focussed on the promotion of young researchers - this is the common denominator of joint calls for proposals from European research funding bodies.

Transformations: Social and Cultural Dynamics in the Digital Age (CHANSE: "Transformations")

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Since November 2022, 11 projects from Germany have been conducting research together with European partners on the topic: "Transformations: Social and Cultural Dynamics in the Digital Age".

Research funding organisations from 23 EU countries published a joint call for proposals in 2020 to open up the opportunity to comprehensively explore the foundations and consequences of digitalisation in culture and society in multinational research consortia. Since November 2022, 11 German projects have been working within European research networks on digitalisation and the social challenges it poses.

Sponsors

25 national and regional sponsors are involved in the transnational funding programme in the humanities and social sciences entitled "Transformations: Social and cultural dynamics in the digital age". The Society, Innovation, Technology division of the DLR Project Management Agency is in charge of the BMBF's participation for Germany.

Research funding on the topic of "Transformations" is organised under the umbrella of the ERA-Net Cofund CHANSE, "Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe". CHANSE is an initiative of HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) and NORFACE (New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Cooperation in Europe), the two EU networks for the promotion of cooperative research in the humanities and social sciences.  Further information can be found here.