Freie Universität Promotes Interdisciplinary e-Research Projects

Initial Funding for Expansion of Research Supported by Information and Communication Technologies. Freie Universität Berlin is promoting interdisciplinary projects, in which ICT-based research methods are employed or developed. A total of ten e-research projects were selected for initial funding. As so-called "bridge projects" they all include researchers from various disciplines. For example, mathematicians and psychologists are designing a smartphone application that through targeted data collection would facilitate the development of more accurate models for recognizing the origin of depressive episodes. Computer scientists and communication scholars are creating an instrument for measuring media use in the Internet. In addition to testing and implementing e-research, the projects serve to facilitate interdisciplinary networking at Freie Universität.