Study by communication scientist Volker Gehrau: EU requirements for accessible online services rarely implemented Directive (EU) 2016/2102, adopted by the European Union in 2016, is unequivocal: all public sector bodies are required to make their websites and mobile applications accessible.

Material grievances - especially high youth unemployment - are a far greater breeding ground for extremism than religious or political beliefs.

Material grievances - in particular high youth unemployment - are a far greater breeding ground for extremism than religious or political beliefs.

Study shows that economic need and past actions affect whether there is cooperation or antagonism between groups Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have

An international research team led by Christoph Randler , Professor of Biology Education at the University of , has found that during the Covid-19 pandemic, people from collectivist societies such as

DFG funding for studies in legal and migration research, and adapting therapies for tumours The German Research Foundation (DFG) has funded the establishment of two new Research Training Groups (RTGs) at the University of Göttingen.

Having children makes people happy, especially women - this is a common societal belief. But how do mental health, well-being and feelings of loneliness change in parents compared to women and men without children over the life course?

Under a grant from the Humboldt Foundation, Professor Robert Braun of the University of California Berkeley is conducting research on scare stories for children How were anti-Semitism, fear and children's scare stories connected in late 19th and early 20th-century Europe?

Academic surveys of groups can become less reliable if participants stop responding in the course the survey.

Official opening of the Ihnestraße Memorial - a new permanent exhibition at Freie Universität Berlin - to commemorate historical site of eugenics institute Freie Universität Berlin has installed a pe

The project team intends to gain a better understanding of loneliness in Europe and develop recommendations for effective measures against loneliness.

Liberal societies are under pressure worldwide: internally eroded by right-wing populist electoral victories and growing economic inequality, externally challenged by the power play of autocratic governments.

Societies around the world are becoming increasingly diverse - in many different ways. One of the engines driving this diversification is global migration.

As societies around the globe become increasingly diverse, the dynamics of migration demand a more nuanced understanding. Superdiversity , a concept created by Steven Vertovec , encapsulates the complex interplay of factors surrounding contemporary human movement and its outcomes. Here, he considers how migration is a multifaceted phenomenon shaped by economic, social, political, demographic and environmental forces.

This recent study by Silvia Loi and colleagues examines how life events like job loss and divorce affect the health of immigrants using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel.

Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Published: Drugs will not solve any problems - as simple as this realization sounds, many people find it difficult to embrace.

Most students in German schools rate their health as good. However, almost all'of them get too little physical activity and their health situation is heavily dependent on wealth, age and gender. These are some of the findings of the current HBSC study (Health Behavior in School-aged Children). This nationwide survey involved 6,500 students.

How an anthropologist and a lawyer assess research on colonial provenance Handing back cultural artefacts which have a colonial provenance has long been an object of public debate.

How did local people get organized in the ancient world? This is the subject of a new research project at the University of Würzburg involving Theology, Philology and History. Did the citizens of Rome know associations? Did inhabitants of Jerusalem set up grassroots movements? Did the regular patrons of an Athenian pub discuss the latest political decision-making? The question how neighborhood people formed groups in order to assert themselves and to pursue shared interests is difficult to answer two thousand years later.