• Since 1/2021 Research coordinator at the Disruption and Societal Change Center (TUDiSC) at TU Dresden
• Since 09/2016 Research coordinator at the Center of Integration Studies at TU Dresden
• 08/2006 – 07/2016 Lecturer of Cultural Anthropology at Universität Basel
• 01/2007 – 08/2016 Head of the Swiss Folk Song Archive Basel
• 12/2012 – 03/2016 Research assistent at the Center for Cultural Science and European Ethnology at Universität Basel (SNF-Sinergia-project: Broadcasting Swissness – Musical Practices, Institutional Contexts, and the Reception of Traditional Popular Music: The Acoustic Construction of Swissness on the Radio)
• 04/2014 – 05/2016 Head of the research communication project Communicating Music Research (together with Prof. Dr. Walter Leimgruber)
• Spring semester 2014 Guest lecturer at Riga Stradiņš University and University of Latvia
• 03/2013 Doctoral degree at Universität Basel
• 01/2009 – 01/2013 Research assistant at the Center for Cultural Science and European Ethnology at Universität Basel
• 06/2006 – 05/2009 Research assistant at the Center for Cultural Science and European Ethnology at Universität Basel (SNF-project: Culture and Politics: Volkskultur between Science, Cultural Practice and (Culture)Political Promotion)
• 09/2001 – 03/2006 Magister degree at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (subjects Ethnomusikology, Music Pedagogics, Protestant Theology)
• 07/2000 Abitur at St. Benno Gymnasium Dresden

• Science management: Design and acquisition of funded projects in the fields of integration research and transfer into the practice, disruption research, coordination of the current administration.
• Scientific communication: Connection of scientists of the interdisciplinary integration research, contact with political and practical actors, public relations of the ZfI

Duration: 1.3.2021-29.2.2024

Project management: Dr. Karoline Oehme-Jüngling

Project team: Luise Böhm, Paolo Le van, Franca de Graaf

Partners: Dachverband Migrant*innenorganisationen in Ostdeutschland Halle (Saale) (DaMOst), Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus (BTU), German Institute for Saxon History and Folklore Dresden e.V. (ISGV), German Centre for Integration and Migration Research Berlin (DEZIM)

Funding: The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the BMBF's Citizen Research funding programme. It is one of 15 projects that will advance the collaboration of citizens and scientists in terms of content and methodology and provide answers to societal challenges until the end of 2024. Further information at:
https://www.bmbf.de/de/buergerforschung-225.html https://www.buergerschaffenwissen.de/

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MigOst makes the life stories of people with migration histories in eastern Germany visible. The aim of the project is to initiate and reflect on migration and migration-related experiences in eastern Germany in a participatory way together with citizens. Although the GDR and East Germany also have a continuous history of migration, migrant perspectives on the past and present have been marginalised until now. From an everyday perspective, the knowledge and experiences of people with migration histories from the times of the GDR and reunification to the present are to be addressed in the many voices of the narrators. Questions about identity and belonging, about the practice and experience of arriving, staying and leaving, as well as about discrimination and racism can play a role.

How can citizens participate in the research?

The project plans three regular history workshops in Cottbus, Dresden and Halle, in which different methods of group discussion will be used. People with a migration history in East Germany (phase 1) and people who have had migration-related experiences as work colleagues, neighbours or friends in East Germany (phase 2) are invited to participate. The history workshops are developed and conducted jointly by migrant organisations and the project team. Participants do not need any prerequisites other than an interest in the topic. As experts of their own history, the participants themselves decide on the topics; the project team supports them with methodological and theoretical expertise.

Would you like to participate? Then write to us: migost@damost.de

What does the research contribute to?

Hegemonic memory discourses on East German history have large gaps in their perspective and social positioning: GDR society is often imagined as homogeneous and white. The biographies of contract workers or participants in international education programmes, individual migration experiences in the GDR as well as migrant knowledge of the Wende and post-reunification period receive little public attention. In addition, German migration history in research is usually told on the basis of the West German immigration society. In social science, a double differentiation and marginalisation can thus be observed. In reality, of course, East German society has an ongoing history of immigration. By looking back and sharing migration-related experiences, previous exclusions in the culture of memory as well as dominant narratives about East Germany are questioned.

Duration: 1.1.2021-31.12.2022

Project Management: Dr Karoline Oehme-Jüngling (Scientific Coordinator, Center for Integration Studies), Dr Julia Schulze Wessel (Managing Director, anDemos - Institute for Applied Democracy and Social Research e.V.), Dr Oliviero Angeli (Scientific Coordinator, MIDEM), Prof Dr Michael Kobel (Professor of Particle Physics, Honorary Head of the AG Arbeit und Ausbildung für Geflüchtete im Netzwerk Willkommen in Löbtau e.V. and Board Member Sächsischer Flüchtlingsrat e.V.) 

Project Collaboration: Steve Bittner (M.A.)

Cooperation: Kulturbüro Sachsen e.V. (Grit Hanneforth), Richters Buchhandlung (Christine Polak)

Funding: Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Free State of Saxony within the framework of the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal and State Governments

Society in Dialogue is the continuation of the event series"Vielfalt im Dialog" ("Diversity in Dialogue") from 2020 as part of TU Dresden im Dialog (TU Dresden in Dialogue) - Transfer Activities within the Excellence Strategy of TU Dresden.

Under the title , "Vielfalt im Dialog" ("Diversity in Dialogue") a series of events started at TU Dresden in the fall of 2020, which, together with various civil society cooperation partners*, entered into conversation with a broad Saxon public about topics of migration, integration and racism. In different formats such as an art workshop, readings and panel discussions, new perspectives on topics of the migration society were jointly developed and discussed against the background of current research findings and practical experiences. This series of events will be continued this year under the title "Society in Dialog".

Program & further information can be found on our project website.

Duration: 11.1.2020-12.31.2021 (funding phase 1).
From 1.1.20222 (funding phase 2)

Project Management: Dr Karoline Oehme-Jüngling (Center for Integration Studies), Anke Börsel and Julia Welchering (both extension subject DaZ)

Funding: Donors' Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany

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digiDaz:Pro is a development project of the TU Dresden, which meets the challenges of a changed everyday teaching and learning life in Corona times with digital tools in the course of the expansion of the quite young course German as a Second Language (DaZ). Digital teaching-learning tools are being developed to improve the participation of all students, especially those with DaZ, even under pandemic conditions and with greatly reduced access to interactive language learning offerings. They are conceptually and systematically integrated into the using target group (teachers, students, pupils) in the field of DaZ and thus effective across subjects and phases.

As a cooperative project with local and national partners, it works at the interface of education and science by combining the expertise of actors in the school system with scientifically based findings using the university scientific infrastructure.

Duration: 01.01.2016-31.03.2023

Project coordinator: Dr. Karoline Oehme-Jüngling (Center for Integration Studies, TU Dresden)

Funding: Deutscher Akademischer Auslandsdienst (German Academic Exchange Service) (Programme: Welcome - Students Helping Refugees)

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IDA aim's to mediate and coordinate voluntary offers of help from students for refugees as well as the development of structures that contribute to the integration of refugees and to the intercultural exchange between refugees and students in particular and between refugees and all Dresdeners in general. In order to fulfill its tasks, IDA cooperates with other organizations that are also involved in its fields of activity.

Originating from a student group that organized language courses and ABC tables for refugees in the initial reception facilities on the grounds of the TUD from September 2015 to April 2016, IDA today works in four central fields of activity.

1. organization of German language courses with volunteer teachers

2. language courses by refugees for students

3. sponsorship program for refugee students and interested parties

4. political education and sensitization of students

The initiative "IDA - Ankommen in Dresden" is part of the DAAD program "Welcome - Students get involved with refugees", which supports student initiatives that work for the integration of refugees at German universities.

Duration: 01.01.2016-31.03.2023

Projekt coordinator: Elena Bogdanzaliew (Center for Integration Studies, TU Dresden)

Funding: Deutscher Akademischer Auslandsdienst (German Academic Exchange Service) (Programme: Welcome - Students Helping Refugees)

Sponsored by

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The Refugee Law Clinic Dresden trains students to become volunteer student legal advisors and runs a counseling center for refugees at three locations in Dresden.

The Refugee Law Clinic Dresden is part of the DAAD program "Welcome - Students Committed to Refugees", which supports student initiatives that work for the integration of refugees at German universities.