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Funded projects in the Department for Comparative Research on Democracies

Here you can find a selection of currently conducted research projects in the Department for Comparative Research on Democracies, which are funded by various funding institutions.

Funded projects

  • Project members:

    Dr. des. Maria Ullrich, Forum Internationale Wissenschaft (FIW)
    Dr. Lena Laube, Forum Internationale Wissenschaft (FIW)
    Bahia Amellal, Forum Internationale Wissenschaft (FIW)
    Prof. Dr. Conrad Schetter, Bonn Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC)
    Maarit Thiem, Bonn Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC)
    Dr. Sandra Gilgan, Bonn Research Alliance (BORA)
    Jure Leko, Bonner Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelles Lernen e.V. (BIM)

  • Project duration: 2024-2025 (12 Months)
  • Project funding: Transdisciplinary Research Area 'Individuals, Institutions and Societies' (TRA4) of the University of Bonn
  • Link to the project page
  • TEGA (Transforming Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene) is a transdisciplinary action research project aiming to contribute transformative change in global biodiversity governance, with a focus on Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) internationally and in South Africa and Namibia. Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation’s Pioneer program ‘Societal Transformations’, the project is implemented by a consortium including the Universities of Bonn, Namibia, Western Cape, and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research. TEGA follows a pluriversal approach that combines critical and decolonial perspectives with collaborative research practices to address systemic – including epistemic – shortcomings and dysfunctions of current ABS frameworks. While doing so, TEGA addresses fundamental issues of the exhausted mainstream paradigm of “sustainable development”. The action research is conducted by a Community of Purpose (CoP) which includes TEGA’s scientific team, development actors, policymakers, Indigenous and local community leaders, biotrade business actors, and representatives of scientific users of genetic resources. Activities include field research, three thematic Working Groups, as well as stakeholder workshops and various collaborative sub-projects with members of the CoP.
  • Project Core team:  
    • Dr. Damien Krichewsky, Forum Internationale Wissenschaft (FIW)
    • Prof. Ahmad Cheikhyoussef, University of Namibia
    • Prof. William Ellis, University of the Western Cape
    • Dr. Michael Shirungu, University of Namibia
    • Ulrike Tröger, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
    • Tobias Dierks, Non-academic advisor
    • Matthew Wingfield, University of the Western Cape
  • Project duration: 07/2024 – 6/2027
  • Project funding: The project is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation as part of its Pioneer Program on Social Transformations.
  • Link to the project page

Completed projects

  • Project management and editing: Eric Hendriks
  • Project duration: April 2018-April 2020
  • The project was funded by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.