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Announcement of the International Conference Series: 3 - Braga (Ptgl) by UBIEXP

We want to draw your attention to the event "International Conference on the Political Philosophy, Social Sciences and Policy Analysis of Basic Income Experiments" organized by UBIEXP. CALL FOR PAPERS and FINAL PROGRAM WILL BE LAUNCHED SOON. The conference is scheduled for July 1-3, 2022. ​University of Minho, Braga, Portugal Organizer: UBIEXP Research Project, Centre for Ethics, Politics & Society (University of Minho) For further informations and updates please visit the event website: https://ubiexperiments.weebly.com/conference-3--political-theory-and-social-policy-analysis.html

New CEN-Paper 01-2015

Wolf/Dron (2015): Intergenerational Sharing of Non-Renewable Resources: An Experimental Study Using Rawls’s Veil of Ignorance.

SusLight Project

Since 2015, Prof. Neumärker participates as a Co-Principal Investigator in the SusLight project, one of six pilot projects of the Sustainability Center of the University of Freiburg and five Fraunhofer institutes based in Freiburg (Leistungszentrum Nachhaltigkeit).

New Publication of the Land Research Group ICP-L

Bujko, M., Fischer, C., Krieger, T., Meierrieks, D. (2015): How Institutions Shape Land Deals: The Role of Corruption. CESifo Working Paper No. 5178 (January 2015).

New Publication of the Land Research Group ICP-L

Kamski, B. (2015): Wasser- & Landressourcen: Implikationen von Landtransaktionen auf Wasserkonflikte, in: Jäger, T. (ed.) Sicherheitsgefahren. Globale Gesellschaft und internationale Beziehungen (p. 83-92). Berlin, Heidelberg, Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

New Publication: Explaining and overcoming barriers to climate change adaptation

Eisenack, K., S. Moser, E. Hoffmann, R. Klein, C. Oberlack, A. Pechan, M. Rotter, and C. Termeer, 2014: Explaining and overcoming barriers to climate change adaptation. Nature Climate Change 4, 867-872.

Workshop "Europe's crisis: The conflict theoretic perspective"

Interdisciplinary Workshop at the University of Freiburg, Germany, September 25-26, 2014

New Publication: Alleviating barriers to urban climate change adaptation through international cooperation

New Publication: Alleviating barriers to urban climate change adaptation through international cooperation.

Teaching Project "Large Mobile Lab" funded by the Innovation Fund (Teaching)

The teaching project "Interactive economic experiments in large lectures: Mobile Lab XXL" of the SoCoLab is funded by the Innovation Fund (Teaching) of the University of Freiburg.

Egon Matzner Award for Socio-Economics 2013

Dr. Alexander Lenger received the Egon-Matzner-Award for Socio-Economics 2013 for his Ph.D. Thesis "Gerechtigkeitsvorstellungen, Ordnungspolitik und Inklusion: Beiträge aus konflikttheoretischer und kulturökonomischer Perspektive" (Justice Beliefs, Ordnungspolitik and Inclusion: Contributions from a conflict theoretical and cultural-economic perspective) supervised by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Neumärker.

University Teaching Award 2012

The seminar "Social Contract Laboratory" (Prof. Dr. Bernhard Neumärker) received the University Teaching Award 2012.

Karl Brandt Award

The Master Thesis "The Tolerance Premium as a Constitutional Element of the Protective and Welfare State" by Reto Wyss, written at our chair received the Karl-Brandt-Award.