National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)

The target activity of the NEPS is to collect longitudinal data on the development of competencies, educational processes, educational decisions, and returns to education in formal, nonformal, and informal contexts throughout the life span. The NEPS project is being funded by Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research and supported by the Federal States.

BiKS

BiKS stands for "Bildungsprozesse, Kompetenzentwicklung und Selektionsentscheidungen im Vor- und Grundschulalter" (educational processes, competence development and selection decisions in pre- and primary school age) and consists of a team of academics from the areas education, psychology and sociology. When do children learn what? How do kindergarten, school and the home environment influence learning? On which factors do parents base their choice of primary and secondary schools? These are the central questions that we want to answer.

Mate Choice in Online-Dating

Main subject of the project is the empirical exploration of Processes of Mate Choice in Online-Dating Services. The focus of interest is laid on gender-specific preferences and change of these preferences through the dynamics of the online mate-market, aspects of self-presentation of the users, the socialstructural composition of the dating-population and the process of the online mate choice at the timeline.

IFB - The Household Division of Domestic Labor as a Process

The project analyzed the distribution of domestic work among couples as a process, based on available longitudinal data sets.

TransEurope

Transnationalisation and Changing Life Course Inequality in Europe. This programme is directed and managed by the ESF Standing Committee for the Social Sciences (SCSS), which promotes European collaborative research, and is coordinated by the Steering Committee, which is responsible for the overall direction of the intellectual activity.

flexCAREER

Flexibility forms on the labor market - a cross national comparison of the development of social inequality. The project aims to study flexibility strategies on the labor market and the impact of these strategies on social inequality structures for eleven industrial countries.

Household Wealth Inequality in International Comparison

A cross-national comparative project taht aims to study household wealth inequality. It is supported by the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development.

GLOBALIFE

The GLOBALIFE project is a multidisciplinary and international comparative research program funded by the German Volkswagen Foundation from 1999-2005. It is centered in the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Bamberg. The project‘s goal is to study the influence of globalization on life courses in OECD-type societies.