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In recent decades, TU Dresden has undergone an outstanding development in national and international comparison, culminating in its repeated award as a University of Excellence in 2019. In the "TUD 2028 - Synergy and beyond" application, measures were described that can be divided into five strategic areas of activity with 13 projects.
The measure "Disruption and Societal Change" (TUDiSC) is part of the project "Strengthening research areas with great potential" in the EXU focus PROFIL. It is intended to contribute to achieving scientific excellence and international visibility in all five Research Priority Areas of the TUD, in particular in the Emerging Field "Societal Change", and thus to develop the university as a whole to an equally high level.
In joint interdisciplinary work, the aim is to profile disruption as a basic category of research into societal change and to capture its prerequisites, logics and effects more precisely, both in terms of basic principles and exemplary subjects. Insofar as the political, economic, social and cultural challenges that societies face in dealing with disruptions come into focus, TUDiSC has a social science, humanities and cultural studies orientation, but necessarily includes the expertise of the natural, technical and life sciences in focusing on problems.
Conceptual foundations
In the conceptual foundations, Heike Greschke, Lars Koch and Susann Wagenknecht explain the initial assumptions of a theoretical approach to disruption and disruptiveness and present a heuristic description matrix of various dimensions of disruptiveness and their effects on and in society. The conceptual foundations can be found under this link.
Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Free State of Saxony as part of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State governments
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