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  • Writing history: Letters 1920–1934

    • Project lead: Alexandra Egger
    • Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
    • Address: Rathaus, Stiege 4, 1. Stock
    • Telephone: +43 1 4000 84970
    • Topic: History, Media, Culture, Language
    • Activity: rating, writing, transcribing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://wienbibliothek.crowdsourcing.wien/briefe-1920-1934/
    What is the project about?The crowdsourcing project "Letters 1920-1934" is about the transcription of the unique letter collection of the Vienna City Library from this period. In contrast to historical printed works, which are now subjected to automatic full-text recognition as standard, this is still not so easy to do for manuscripts - especially when the documents come from many different writers, as in this case. Since the democratization of knowledge plays a central role in the range of...

  • Writing History: Letters 1914-1919

    • Project lead: Alexandra Egger
    • Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
    • Address: Rathaus, Stiege 4, 1. Stock, 1010 Wien
    • Telephone: +43 1 4000 84970
    • Topic: History, Culture, Language
    • Activity: identifying, writing, transcribing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://wienbibliothek.crowdsourcing.wien/briefe-1914-1919/
    What is the project about?The crowdsourcing project "Letters 1914-1919" is about the transcription of the unique letter collection of the Vienna City Library from this period. In contrast to historical printed works, which are now subjected to automatic full-text recognition as standard, this is still not so easy to do for manuscripts - especially when the documents come from many different writers, as in this case. Since the democratization of knowledge plays a central role in the range of...

  • Everyday Morality

    • Project lead: Verena Aignesberger
    • University of Innsbruck
    • Address: Universitätsstraße 15, A-6020 Innsbruck
    • Telephone: +43 (0)512 507-56033
    • Topic: Politics, Media, Culture, Language
    • Activity: rating, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.uibk.ac.at/psychologie/fachbereiche/sozialpsychologie/moral-im-alltag/
    What is this project about?How can good people do bad things? How can people act contrary to their moral beliefs without having a bad conscience? White lies, rule bending, finding excuses for our own behaviour, which we would judge others for … To be honest, we have all done stuff like that. Nobody is always 100 % moral - misconduct spans from little untruths to refined fraud, from omission of some facts to crimes. All these things have one thing in common: When performing these actions, the...

  • Memories and Imaginaries

    • Project lead: Marina Gržinić
    • Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
    • Address: Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien
    • Telephone: +43 (1) 588 16-6600
    • Topic: History, Politics, Culture, Language
    • Activity: discussing
    • Participation: Closed participation
    • Project link: https://convivialityaspotentiality.akbild.ac.at/citizen-science/
    Democratic Citizenship"Memories and Imaginaries" critically explores with students in Austria what it means to be a citizen. Who can or is allowed to actively participate in the political community? Who can or is not allowed to? We address these questions with the aim of finding collective strategies to confront the state of exclusion and marginalization.The aim of the research is for researchers to explore the importance of remembering, retelling and re-imagining the past and the future...

  • Zeit.shift

    • Project lead: Silvia Gstrein
    • Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol
    • Address: Abteilung Digitale Services, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck
    • Telephone: +43 512 507 25400
    • Topic: History, Media, Culture, Language
    • Activity: identifying, locating, rating, discussing, transcribing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://all4ling.eurac.edu/de/zeitshift/
    Offers active beyond the duration of Zeit.shiftThe Zeit.shift project ended in June 2023. The central web offerings continue to be active beyond the project duration. Specifically, the results can be followed via the website. The newly generated web portal is accessible worldwide and the text material provided (several million newspaper pages) is searchable and downloadable. Geodata and content tags can be assigned via an external platform and the online game Ötzit! is freely available...

  • German in Austria (IamDiÖ)

    • Project lead: Gerhard Budin
    • Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Vienna
    • Address: Prozellangasse 4, 1090 Wien
    • Topic: Language
    • Activity: photography, counting, locating, discussing, writing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://dioe.at/
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    Project descriptionWhen it comes to language, everyone can have a say!"IamDiÖ – German in Austria" invites you to explore the diversity, change and use of all possible forms of German in Austria, from dialect and standard language to youth language and jargon.By including the knowledge, opinions, experiences and concerns of the citizens in the research process, socially relevant topics are addressed and discussed publicly. The aim of the Citizen Science project "IamDiÖ – German in...

  • Categories to come

    • Project lead: Johanna Barnbeck
    • Topic: Media, Culture, Language
    • Activity: discussing, writing, translating
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.categoriestocome.org/
    What is the project specifically about?So much hangs on just one thing - and yet words sometimes fail us. How do we talk about our bodies and the things that we need, want, and do when it comes to sex and sexual pleasure? And who do we talk to about these things? Categories to Come invites everybody to put their sexuality into words, and to discuss new words or new uses of words with other people. Goal of the project is to create a platform and gather resources, that open up so far unnamed...

  • Faces of migration

    • Project lead: Erol Yildiz und Marc Hill
    • Department of Educational Sciences, University of Innsbruck
    • Topic: History, Culture, Language
    • Activity: photography, discussing, writing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.uibk.ac.at/iezw/migration-bildung/
    This project ran from 01.07.2017 to 31.12.2019. You can download a thematic booklet created in the process at the bottom of this page. In addition, print copies can now be made available to school classes free of charge (while stocks last). Please contact the project leaders if you would like to use them for teaching.Faces of migration. Youth from Tyrol collaborated to research their family histories of migrationStudies in social history have documented time and again that migration has...

  • Update Social

    Update Social
    • Project lead: Patricia Stark / Moritz König
    • Linz Institute for Transformative Change (LIFT_C) der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
    • Address: Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz
    • Topic: Health, Disasters, Politics, Economy, Media, Language
    • Activity: identifying, discussing, writing, taking care, observing, translating, experimenting
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://updatesocial.org
    With your ideas towards a innovative social sector for all Our society is facing numerous social challenges and the public administration, charities & social service providers, civil society and (social) enterprises are already working to solve them. In the face of increasingly complex challenges, there is a need for more collaboration and dialogue across sectors. Together we can achieve more! UpdateSocial is designed to provide the framework for collaboration!In all sectors of our...

  • ExploreAT!

    ExploreAT!
    • Project lead: Eveline Wandl-Vogt
    • Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities Austrian Academy of Sciences
    • Address: Austrian Centre for Digital HumanitiesÖsterreichische Akademie der WissenschaftenWohllebengasse 12-14, 2. Stock1040 Wien
    • Topic: History, Language
    • Activity: locating, discussing, writing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/acdh/projects/completed-projects/exploreat
    ExploreAT! - exploring Austrias culture through the language glassThe exploreAT! project aims to provide unique insights into the diversity of the German language (especially in Austria). With the help of innovative digital tools, a unique collection of Bavarian dialects in the region of the former Habsburg Monarchy (1911-1998) is being explored. The extensive corpus contains 200,000 main lemmas in about 4 million entries. The collection includes a 5 volume dictionary with about 50,000 main...

  • PATIO - Patient Involvement in Oncology

    • Project lead: Markus Mitterhauser
    • MedUni Vienna, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Applied Diagnostics
    • Address: AKH Wien, c/o Sekretariat Nuklearmedizin, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090 Wien
    • Telephone: +43 1 4040055340
    • Topic: Health, Language
    • Activity: identifying, rating, discussing, writing, taking care, observing, translating
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.patiospots.com/
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    Be an expert on your disease and join our research!The PATIO initiative is working hard to strengthen the voices of prostate cancer patients and their caregivers heard in medical research.Why is it important to act now? Porstate cancer affects a considerable number of people in Austria. On the one hand, around 65,000 men have suffered from this particular type of cancer by the end of 2020 (Statistics Austria, 2022), and on the other hand, there are countless partners, children...

  • Researching Discrimination with Citizen Science

    Researching Discrimination with Citizen Science
    • Project lead: Clara Holzinger, Elisabeth Scheibelhofer, Anna-Katharina Draxl
    • Department of Sociology (Faculty of Social Sciences)
    • Address: Rooseveltplatz 2, 1090 Wien
    • Telephone: +43 1 4277 49246
    • Topic: Culture, Language, Gender, Living together
    • Activity: discussing, writing
    • Project link: https://dge.univie.ac.at/
    Discrimination is often difficult to grasp, both in everyday life and in research. By involving citizen scientists, we aim to broaden knowledge about discrimination.What are the aims of the project?Racist discrimination and stigmatization are difficult to grasp both in everyday life and in research, as they are often hidden behind naturalizations or justified with different rationales and intersectional categories. By involving people with different horizons of knowledge and...

  • Reininghaus Research Group

    Six women are standing together in front of a blackboard displaying two colourful posters on the theme of multilingualism, smiling
    • Project lead: Elisabeth Schlocker
    • Europäisches Fremdsprachenzentrum in Österreich
    • Address: Nikolaiplatz 4, 8020 Graz
    • Telephone: +43 316 323554-23
    • Topic: Politics, Culture, Language, Living together
    • Activity: discussing
    • Participation: Closed participation
    • Project link: https://sprachennetzwerkgraz.at/Initiativen/Forschungsprojekt-Reininghaus
    How do we live and experience our language(s) in the neighborhood? Reininghaus is a newly developing neighborhood in southwest Graz, where linguistic diversity is a part of everyday life. 16 residents explored this together: Through in-depth discussions, interviews, and creative map-making, they gathered perspectives and ideas for fostering a respectful community.  What are the aims of the project?...