CIVIS offers for the general public

The CIVIS Open Lab is an interface and meeting place between research and teaching and local society. In the lab, we plan and carry out transdisciplinary research projects – this is where citizens work together with researchers and students to develop possible solutions for the major global challenges of the 21st century.

The Open Lab Tübingen is looking for ideas for new participatory research projects. In your opinion, what are the most pressing challenges that we should tackle in Tübingen? What topic should definitely be investigated? How could we overcome local problems or even crises in a resilient way? You can give us your ideas or even  suggest entire research projects.

Anyone and everyone from the University and society is welcome to get involved. Individuals, schools, companies, associations, local and regional authorities as well as university students and researchers can participate. Some projects in the Open Lab take place via the Transdisciplinary Course Program.

No, there are not.

The projects in the Open Lab are closely linked to the research fields of CIVIS:

• climate, environment, energy
• health
• society, culture, heritage
• digital and technolgical transformation
• cities, spaces, mobilities
   

The best way is to take part in the ideas raffle and fill out a postcard. We will then draw winners at the Science & Innovation Days on 9 November 2023. Afterwards, we will also select one or more top winners whose project ideas we will implement together with them.

If you do not want to take part in the raffle, but still have a research idea: Just come up and talk to us or write to mareike.kardinalspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de.

The Open Lab is currently coordinated from the city center of Tübingen (Rümelinstraße 32). However, we are looking for a suitable meeting place for the future that will be easily accessible for all those involved.

Over the past two years, a range of projects have been realized in Tübingen with the help of the Open Lab:

• „Small business management and the emotional implications of the pandemic“
• „The ageing society – Inclusion, aging and care as a social challenge“
• „Lost places, lost memories? The legacy of Nazi terror along the Swabian Alb“
• „Inside - Out - Outside - In: Science meets Society at the Swabian Sea“
• „Transnational project on migration“
• „NaturaShare - Finding nature in the CIVIS cities“

Further details on some individual projects