The Projects

The film is rolling for research: researchers have since 2008 been reporting regularly on their projects for DFG Science TV in three-minute videos. They'll talk about their daily lives as researchers - about challenges and feelings of success, as well as about hurdles and disappointments. Footage for the videos has been recorded by the researchers themselves. Video diaries that transect all branches of science and provide personal insight into the world of research are being created on DFG Science TV. Science comes alive!

Everything about wave hunters, discrete optimisers, rain forests and human machines—here, you'll experience what lies behind the individual projects as you follow the research diaries and get to know the scientists.

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Project		Status / Timeframe	Field of Research	University/Institution
	Active Micro-Optics Within the framework of the Priority Program Active Micro-Optics of the German Research Foundation (DFG) 15 research groups in eight locations forge to build microscopically small optics for industrial and research-based applications.	2013 Running	Engineering Sciences, Microoptics, Microsystems engineering	Freiburg University IOF IAP IAF IKTS Uni Jena Ilmenau University FH Jena Mainz University Kaiserslautern University Potsdam University Stuttgart University
	An Animal Invasion The "killer shrimp" & Co.: Is globalisation a threat to Lake Constance?	1. Season/ 2008 Finished	Biology, Botany, Ecology, Geosciences, Limnology, Ornithology	Uni Konstanz
	Blue Wonder Getting to the bottom of the deep blue sea: The role of the oceans.	1. Season/ 2008 Finished	Atmospheric Research, Biology, Oceanography	Uni Bremen
	Bonded Concrete Breaking tests: how strong is ultra-strong?	2. Season/ 2009 until 2010 Finished	Architecture, Civil Engineering, Engineering Sciences	RWTH Aachen
	Discrete Optimisers Many roads lead to the destination. How math simplifies our daily life	2. Season/ 2009 until 2010 Finished	Mathematics	TU Berlin
	Duck Stop 260,000 water birds in search of food	2. Season/ 2009 until 2010 Finished	Biology, Botany, Ecology, Geosciences, Limnology, Ornithology	Uni Konstanz
	Function through Diversity Pioneering work in China: The largest ever forest experiment on biodiversity	2. Season/ 2009 until 2010 Finished	Biology, Botany, Ecology, Forestry, Life Sciences, Mycology, Population Genetics, Soil Science, Statistics	Uni Halle
	Giant Dinosaurs Why did the sauropods grow to be the largest land-dwelling creatures that ever lived?	1. Season/ 2008 Finished	Chemistry, Geosciences, Materials Science, Paleontology, Physics, Physiology, Zoology	Uni Bonn
	Love à la Darwin Do inner values matter? Mate choice from the perspective of evolution	2. Season/ 2009 until 2010 Finished	Behavioural Biology, Biology, Social Psychology	Uni Goettingen
	Polar Archive Drilling in the arctic: climate research for the future	2. Season/ 2009 until 2010 Finished	Climate Science, Fundamental Genomics Research, Geochemistry, Geosciences, Hydrogeologie	Uni Cologne
	Rainforest Between Nature and exploi- tation: Is it possible to re- concile the needs of man- kind with those of nature?	1. Season/ 2008 Finished	Biology, Climate Science, Ecology, Ethnology, Forestry, Genetics, Geography, Geology	LMU Munich Uni Marburg
	Run, Lola, Run Seeking the perfect two-legged robot.	1. Season/ 2008 Finished	Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Systems Technology	Uni Jena TU Munich Uni Bielefeld
	Search for a Cure The fight against forgetting: zebra fish help understand Alzheimer's	2. Season/ 2009 Finished	Biology, Cellular Neuroscience, Medicine	LMU Munich
	Sinking Coasts Around 10,000 years ago, people lived where now there are crashing waves.	1. Season/ 2008 Finished	Archaeology, Biology, Climatology, Geosciences, Zoology	CAU Kiel Uni Greifswald Uni Frankfurt Uni Hannover TU Dresden Uni Hamburg Uni Rostock
	Stone-Age Giants The trail of rocks: from portal tombs to graves and their builders	2. Season/ 2009 until 2010 Finished	Archaeology, Pre- and Protohistory	CAU Kiel Uni Cologne
	Temple Restoration Stone doesn't last forever. Can the temple complex of Angkor still be rescued?	1. Season/ 2008 Finished	Conversation, Cultural Sciences, Restoration	FH Koeln
	Textile Concrete How can you make something heavy light? Textile concrete opens up new prospects.	1. Season/ 2008 Finished	Architecture, Civil Engineering, Engineering Sciences	TU Dresden
	The City of 5 Million Are megacities mankind's future? How do people live and survive in them?	1. Season/ 2008 Finished	Architecture, Economics, Epidemiology, Ethnology, Geography, Geomatics, Geosciences, Human Geography, Hydrology, Meteorology, Physics, Sinology, Town Planning, Urban and Regional Planning	Uni Cologne
	The Human Machine Can a robot learn how to see, hear or feel from humans?	1. Season/ 2008 Finished	Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Systems Technology	Uni Karlsruhe
	The Start of Nature Life in an open-pit mine: from a lunar landscape to an ecosystem	2. Season/ 2009 until 2010 Finished	Biology, Ecology, Plant Science	BTU Cottbus ETH Zurich TU Munich
	The Wave Hunters Do Einstein’s gravitational waves rock the universe?	2. Season/ 2009 until 2010 Finished	Atomphysics, Molecular Physics, Physics, Quantum Optics, Solid State Physics	Uni Hannover
	The World of Rituals Landmarks, pivots for meanings, sources of consolation, organisers of time and space - why do we need rituals and ceremonies?	2011 Finished	Assyriology , East Asian Art History, Egyptology, English Studies, History, Indology, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, Medical Psychology, Musicology, Religious Studies, Southasian Ethnology, Theology	University of Heidelberg

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