Welcome to the Research Training Group

Researching Transnational Social Support

In view of global developments, the future challenges faced by social support systems can no longer be met by relationships and structures of support that are limited to individual nations or societies. Therefore, the Research Training Group, funded by the German Research Foundation, is geared towards empirical research on Transnational Social Support. In existing research on social support, transnational constellations have received very little scholarly attention.

The Research Training Group 1474 „Transnational Social Support” is located both at the Institute of Social- and Organizational Pedagogy at the Foundation University of Hildesheim and at the Institute of Educational Science at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.

 

News

Invitation: Lecture by Prof. Dr. Peggy Levit

Lecture: "Studying Transnationalism" by Prof. Dr. Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College, Boston, USA): Friday, 24 May 2013, 13:00. (more information)

1 Doctoral Scholarship (located in Mainz, Germany)

The DFG funded Research Training Group 1474 "Transnational Social Support" will award a Doctoral Scholarship starting June 01, 2013. Closing date for applications: May 24, 2013. (more information)

International Workshop “Translating Welfare and Migration Policies in Canada and Germany – Transatlantic and Transnational Perspectives in Social Work”

The workshop (17 to 19 Oct 2013) brings together in Germany scholars from Canada, Germany and beyond who are highly experienced in the field of migration, citizenship, welfare and social policy to gain an enhanced understanding of the interrelatedness of welfare and migration policies. (more)

DFG Research Training Group “Transnational Social Support” obtains further funding worth EUR 2.7 million

Investigation on the provision of social support across national borders at the Universities of Mainz and Hildesheim, Germany. (read more)

Professor Dr. Franz Hamburger aus Mainz erhält Bundesverdienstkreuz

Ministerpräsident Kurt Beck hat bei einer Feierstunde am 3.12.2012 im Festsaal der Staatskanzlei in Mainz vier verdienten Rheinland-Pfälzern den Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland überreicht, darunter auch Professor Dr. Franz Hamburger, der Mitglied des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs 1474 "Transnationale Soziale Unterstützung" ist. (more)

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Contact

Location Hildesheim:
Institute of Social- and Organizational Paedagogic
Lübeckerstr. 3
31141 Hildesheim, Germany

Postal address:
Universität Hildesheim
Institute of Social- and Organizational Paedagogic
Marienburger Platz 22
31141 Hildesheim, Germany

Location Mainz:
Institute of Educational Science
Kantstraße 2
55099 Main, Germany

Postal address:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft 
Colonel-Kleinmann-Weg 2
55099 Mainz, Germany

Email: info@transnationalsupport.de