Between Europe and the Orient - A Focus on Research and Higher Education in/on Central Asia and the Caucasus

International status conference of the same-named funding programme

of the Volkswagen Foundation

Tbilisi / Georgia, 19-21 May, 2010

Participating projects

Project Project leader(s) Web page(s) Poster (click for PDF)
Azerbaijan and Germany: Opportunities for Cross-Border Internet‑Based Instruction in the Field of Law. Research project since 2007 Prof. Dr. Dr. Eric Hilgendorf
Prof. Dr. Eckhard Pache 
www.uniwikitet.de
www.gsik.de
Foreign Investment Law in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Russia: Balance of interests. Research project since 2007   Prof. Dr. Alexander Trunk www.uni-kiel.de/investmentlaw
Modern Criminal Justice-Science. Research project 2006 – 2010 Prof. Dr. Heiner Alwart
Prof. Dr. Merab Turava
www.rewi.uni-jena.de/Deutsch_georgisches_Strafrechtsprojekt-path-31803,31801,70773,14628.html
The Revitalisation of Traditional Law in the Republic of Georgia Research Project 2009 – 2011   Prof. Dr. Mark Münzel
Dr. Stéphane Voell
projectgeorgia.wordpress.com
Die Straffreistellungsgründe im russischen und aserbaidschanischen Strafrecht im Vergleich zur deutschen Strafrechtsdogmatik Forschungsprojekt 2006 – 2010   Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Friedrich-Christian Schroeder
Dr. Nail Mammadov
   
Absprachen in deutschem, amerikanischem und georgischem Strafverfahren in vergleichender Sicht. Forschungsprojekt seit 2008   Prof. Dr. Edda Weßlau
Dr. Tamara Laliaschwili
   
Comparative Studies on Eurasian Law Postgraduate Scholarship Program Starting in Spring / Summer 2010   Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Basedow
Dr. Eugenia Kurzynsky-Singer  
www.mpipriv.de
www.mpipriv.de/gus
Transfer of Heavy Metals into the Food Chain from Heavily Polluted Soils of an Irrigation District in Southern Georgia – Extent, Mechanisms and Remediation. Research project 2009 – 2012   Prof. Dr. Peter Felix-Henningsen    
Development of measures for a sustainable shore management of lake Sevan (Armenia) on base oF shore vegetation as bioindicators by application of remote sensing and GIS Techniques. Research project 2006 – 2008   Prof. Dr. K. Schmieder     
Proper Utilisation of Grasslands in Azerbaijan’s Steppe and Mountains. Research project 2006 – 2010   Michael Rühs, Dr. agr.    
The Environment of Early Man in Armenia - Climate and Vegetation Reconstruction of the Early Pleistocene. Research project 2007 – 2010   Dr. Angela Bruch
Dr. Ivan Gabrielyan
   
Exploration of mud volcanoes in Azerbaijan using electromagnetic methods of applied geophysics. Research project 2009 – 2011            Prof. Dr. Bülent Tezkan    
AMIES – Analysing multiple interrelationships between environmental and societal processes in mountainous regions of Georgia – Interdisciplinary research to foster sustainable land use, land development, and quality of life. Research project 2010 – 2013   Prof. Dr. Dr. Annette Otte   www.uni-giessen.de/cms/fbz/fb09/institute/ilr/loek/projekte/currproj/amies
A) Palimpsest Manuscripts of Caucasian Provenance. Research project 2003 – 2007  
B) Georgian Palimpsest Manuscripts. Partnership project since 2009  
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jost Gippert
Prof. Dr. Manana Tandashvili
Prof. Dr. Davit Lortkipanidze 
armazi.uni-frankfurt.de/armaz3.htm  
The Sociolinguistic Situation of Present-Day Georgia. Research Project 2006 – 2009   Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jost Gippert
Prof. Dr. Manana Tandashvili
titus.uni-frankfurt.de/ssgg/index.htm
corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/imdi_browser/?openpath=MPI663243%23  
Analytical Philosophy of Music. Critical Study. Research project 2007 – 2008 Prof. Claudia Zenck
Prof. Elvira Panaiotidi
   
Tax / transfer reform and fiscal responsibility: Pathways to a sustainable fiscal and social policy in Georgia Research project 2005 – 2008       Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Petersen
Dr. Elguja Khokrishvili
lsfiwi.wiso.uni-potsdam.de/projekte/georgien/index.htm
Energy Policy in the Caspian Region Research Project 2005 – 2008   PD Dr. Lutz Mez www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/polwiss/forschung/systeme/ffu/projekte/abgeschlossene/05_kaspische_region/index.html
The Energy Sector and the Political Stability of Regimes in the Caspian Area. A Comparison of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. Research project 2009 – 2011   Dr. Heiko Pleines www.forschungsstelle.uni-bremen.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=252&Itemid=35&lang=de
Comparing Out-Migration from Armenia and Georgia (ArGeMi). Research project 2008 – 2010   Prof. Dr. sc. Nikolai Genov 
Prof. Dr. Gevorg Poghosyan
Dr. Irina Badurashvili
Prof. Dr. Galina I. Osadchaya
www.oei.fu-berlin.de/soziologie/forschung/ArGeMi/index.html
www.asa.am/researches.php  
The Meskhetian Turks at a Crossroads: Integration, Repatriation or Resettlement? Research project 2004-2006   Tom Trier  
Secularisation and Desecularisation in Post-socialist Societies Conference held at the Ilia Chavchavadze University of Tbilisi 7 – 10 October 2009 Johannes Weiss    
The Stalinist Mass Repression in Georgia 1937-1938. The perspective of the Caucasian periphery. Research project 2010 – 2011   Prof. Dr. Bernd Bonwetsch
PD Dr. Marc Junge 
 
Gold in Georgia. Scientific transfer and research – A project in mining-archaeology and archaeometallurgy 2007 – 2010   Dr. Irina Gambashidze
Prof. Dr. Andreas Hauptmann
Prof. Dr. Thomas Stöllner  
   
Why is Visual Information Processing prolonged in Elderly and Schizophrenic Patients? Research project 2008-2010   Dr. Andreas Brand
Dr. Eka Chkonia  
 
Energy and Information Flow at Nano-Scale. Research project and symposium 2007 – 2011 Dr. Armen Allahverdyan  
Embedded System Education in Georgia. Infrastructural Support for Higher Education 2007 – 2009 Prof. Wolfgang Kunz
Prof. Sergo Dadunashvili
 
Increased tool life time and reliability for small size spiral drills due to adapted geometry. Research project 2008 – 2010   Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Bernhard Karpuschewski 
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Raul Turmanidze    
 
Charge-Transfer vs. Stability Patterns of Globular Proteins: Focus on the Bilateral Role of Conformational Flexibility. Research project 2008 – 2010   Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Rudi van Eldik
Prof. Dr. Dimitri E. Khoshtariya
 
The Modern Physics of Compact Stars. Symposium 17-23 September 2008   Prof.Dr. Edward Chubaryan    www.ysu.am/  
Analysis of Electrical Characteristics of Integrated Active Electronic Devices under Localized Infrared Optical Beam Exposure with Respect to Failure Analysis Applications. Research project 2009 – 2011 Prof. Dr. Ruben Vardanyan
Prof.Dr. Christian Boit

 
Establishment of a Bachelor Degree Course Project Management (Construction and Real Estate) at the Telavi State University in Georgia. Teaching cooperation project 2009 – 2014   Prof. Dr. iur. Gotthold Balensiefen
LL.M Dipl. Ing. Daniel Birkenmayer, M.Eng.  
 
Georgian-German Noncommutative Partnership. Research project 2009 – 2011   Prof. Dr. Ralf Meyer Hvedri Inassaridze      
Looking Back at Mount Ararat: Diversity & Cross Fertilization among Approaches to Memory. Symposium (Open format school and Workshop) April 5-10, 2010   Prof. Avetis Abel Sadoyan
Prof. Onur Güntürkün
Prof. Alessandro Treves
fens.mdc-berlin.de/pens/2010/schools/read.php?id=749
people.sissa.it/%7Eale/ararat/index.html
Algebraic and Geometric Properties of (Conformal) Mechanics with Extended Supersymmetry. Research project 2009 – 2012   Prof. Dr. Olaf Lechtenfeld
Prof. Dr. Armen Nersessian
Prof. Dr. Sergey Krivonos
 
A) Integrable Models of Statistical Systems and Quantum Field Theories and Their Applications. Research project 2003 – 2004  
B) Non-perturbative aspects of quantum field theory in various space-time dimensions. Research project 2005 – 2007  
Prof. Dr. Rainald Flume  
Cytosolic Partner of Calcineurin – Regulators of Activation, Differentiation and Carcinogenesis of Lymphocytes. Research project 2006 – 2008   Prof. Dr. Edgar Serfling
Dr. Nina Barkhudaryan  
 
Improvement of Education and Research Conditions at GTU Tbilisi – Georgia in The Fields of Architecture and Spatial Planning. Research project 2001 – 2009   Prof.h.c. Dr.-Ing. Karl Ziegler
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Dennhardt    
 
Black Sea Link. Research fellowship program at the New Europe College, Bucharest 2010 – 2012         Dr. Valentina Sandu-Dediu Dr. Katharina Biegger  www.nec.ro  




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