The Projects
The film is rolling for research: researchers have since 2008 been reporting regularly on their projects for DFG Science TV in three-minute videos. They'll talk about their daily lives as researchers - about challenges and feelings of success, as well as about hurdles and disappointments. Footage for the videos has been recorded by the researchers themselves. Video diaries that transect all branches of science and provide personal insight into the world of research are being created on DFG Science TV. Science comes alive!
Everything about wave hunters, discrete optimisers, rain forests and human machines—here, you'll experience what lies behind the individual projects as you follow the research diaries and get to know the scientists.
- Archaeology
- Architecture
- Assyriology
- Atmospheric Research
- Atomphysics
- Behavioural Biology
- Biology
- Botany
- Cellular Neuroscience
- Chemistry
- Civil Engineering
- Climate Science
- Climatology
- Computer Science
- Conversation
- Cultural Sciences
- East Asian Art Histor...
- Ecology
- Economics
- Egyptology
- Electrical Engineerin...
- Engineering Sciences
- English Studies
- Epidemiology
- Ethnology
- Forestry
- Fundamental Genomics ...
- Genetics
- Geochemistry
- Geography
- Geology
- Geomatics
- Geosciences
- History
- Human Geography
- Hydrogeologie
- Hydrology
- Indology
- Islamic Studies
- Jewish Studies
- Life Sciences
- Limnology
- Materials Science
- Mathematics
- Medical Psychology
- Medicine
- Meteorology
- Molecular Physics
- Musicology
- Mycology
- Oceanography
- Ornithology
- Paleontology
- Physics
- Physiology
- Plant Science
- Population Genetics
- Pre- and Protohistory
- Quantum Optics
- Religious Studies
- Restoration
- Sinology
- Social Psychology
- Soil Science
- Solid State Physics
- Southasian Ethnology
- Statistics
- Systems Technology
- Theology
- Town Planning
- Urban and Regional Pl...
- Zoology
- Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus
- Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
- Cologne University of Applied Sciences
- Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald
- Frankfurt University
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- Georg-August-University Goettingen
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- LMU Munich
- Leibniz University Hannover
- Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- Philipps-Universitaet Marburg
- RWTH Aachen University
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- Technische Universitaet Dresden
- Technische Universitaet Munich
- Technische Universität Berlin
- University of Bielefeld
- University of Bonn
- University of Bremen
- University of Cologne
- University of Hamburg
- University of Heidelberg
- University of Konstanz
- University of Rostock
- Aachen
- Angkor / Cambodia
- Armenia
- Austria
- Berlin
- Bielefeld
- Bonn
- Braunschweig
- Brazil
- Bremen
- China
- Cologne
- Delhi / India
- Dhaka / Bangladesh
- Dresden
- Egypt
- England
- France
- Frankfurt
- Goettingen
- Greece
- Greifswald
- Gulf of Mexico
- Gutianshan / China
- Halle
- Hannover
- Heidelberg
- India
- Iraq (Mesopotamia)
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Jena
- Jiangxi / China
- Karlsruhe
- Kiel
- Kiel Canal
- Lake Constance
- Mallorca / Spain
- Marocco
- Muenster
- Munich
- Nepal
- North Atlantic
- Olpe
- Ostsee
- Pakistan
- Pakistan
- Pearl River Delta / C...
- Potsdam
- Rio San Francisco / E...
- Schwerin
- Siberia
- South Africa
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Turkey
- Welzow
- Wilhelmshaven
| Project | Status / Timeframe | Field of Research | University | |
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An Animal InvasionThe "killer shrimp" & Co.: Is globalisation a threat to Lake Constance? |
1. Season/ 2008 Finished |
Biology, Botany, Ecology, Geosciences, Limnology, Ornithology |
Uni Konstanz |
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Blue WonderGetting to the bottom of the deep blue sea: The role of the oceans. |
1. Season/ 2008 Finished |
Atmospheric Research, Biology, Oceanography |
Uni Bremen |
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Bonded Concrete |
2. Season/ 2009 Finished |
Architecture, Civil Engineering, Engineering Sciences |
RWTH Aachen |
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Discrete OptimisersMany roads lead to the destination. How math simplifies our daily life |
2. Season/ 2009 Finished |
Mathematics |
TU Berlin |
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Duck Stop |
2. Season/ 2009 Finished |
Biology, Botany, Ecology, Geosciences, Limnology, Ornithology |
Uni Konstanz |
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Function through DiversityPioneering work in China: The largest ever forest experiment on biodiversity |
2. Season/ 2009 Finished |
Biology, Botany, Ecology, Forestry, Life Sciences, Mycology, Population Genetics, Soil Science, Statistics |
Uni Halle |
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Giant DinosaursWhy did the sauropods grow to be the largest land-dwelling creatures that ever lived? |
1. Season/ 2008 Finished |
Chemistry, Geosciences, Materials Science, Paleontology, Physics, Physiology, Zoology |
Uni Bonn |
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Love à la DarwinDo inner values matter? Mate choice from the perspective of evolution |
2. Season/ 2009 Finished |
Behavioural Biology, Biology, Social Psychology |
Uni Goettingen |
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Polar Archive |
2. Season/ 2009 Finished |
Climate Science, Fundamental Genomics Research, Geochemistry, Geosciences, Hydrogeologie |
Uni Cologne |
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RainforestBetween Nature and exploi- tation: Is it possible to re- concile the needs of man- kind with those of nature? |
1. Season/ 2008 Finished |
Biology, Climate Science, Ecology, Ethnology, Forestry, Genetics, Geography, Geology |
LMU Munich Uni Marburg |
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Run, Lola, Run |
1. Season/ 2008 Finished |
Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Systems Technology |
Uni Jena TU Munich Uni Bielefeld |
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Search for a CureThe fight against forgetting: zebra fish help understand Alzheimer's |
2. Season/ 2009 Finished |
Biology, Cellular Neuroscience, Medicine |
LMU Munich |
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Sinking CoastsAround 10,000 years ago, people lived where now there are crashing waves. |
1. Season/ 2008 Finished |
Archaeology, Biology, Climatology, Geosciences, Zoology |
CAU Kiel Uni Greifswald Uni Frankfurt Uni Hannover TU Dresden Uni Hamburg Uni Rostock |
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Stone-Age GiantsThe trail of rocks: from portal tombs to graves and their builders |
2. Season/ 2009 Finished |
Archaeology, Pre- and Protohistory |
CAU Kiel Uni Cologne |
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Temple RestorationStone doesn't last forever. Can the temple complex of Angkor still be rescued? |
1. Season/ 2008 Finished |
Conversation, Cultural Sciences, Restoration |
FH Koeln |
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Textile ConcreteHow can you make something heavy light? Textile concrete opens up new prospects. |
1. Season/ 2008 Finished |
Architecture, Civil Engineering, Engineering Sciences |
TU Dresden |
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The City of 5 MillionAre megacities mankind's future? How do people live and survive in them? |
1. Season/ 2008 Finished |
Architecture, Economics, Epidemiology, Ethnology, Geography, Geomatics, Geosciences, Human Geography, Hydrology, Meteorology, Physics, Sinology, Town Planning, Urban and Regional Planning |
Uni Cologne |
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The Human Machine |
1. Season/ 2008 Finished |
Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Systems Technology |
Uni Karlsruhe |
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The Start of NatureLife in an open-pit mine: from a lunar landscape to an ecosystem |
2. Season/ 2009 Finished |
Biology, Ecology, Plant Science |
BTU Cottbus ETH Zurich TU Munich |
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The Wave Hunters |
2. Season/ 2009 Finished |
Atomphysics, Molecular Physics, Physics, Quantum Optics, Solid State Physics |
Uni Hannover |
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The World of RitualsLandmarks, pivots for meanings, sources of consolation, organisers of time and space - why do we need rituals and ceremonies? |
2011 Running |
Assyriology , East Asian Art History, Egyptology, English Studies, History, Indology, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, Medical Psychology, Musicology, Religious Studies, Southasian Ethnology, Theology |
University of Heidelberg |






















