The digital final conference of the SFB included a scientific part as well as a part open to the public: Within the framework of three talks, interested parties had the opportunity to get to know our work. There was also a digital quiz with a prize draw. Further information can be found here.

The final conference even made it into the Schwäbische Tagblatt with two articles:

• "Mit den Augen hört man besser" (Feburary 27, 2021)
• "Geht gar nicht: Zeit ohne Raum" (March 11, 2021)

As a kick-off event for the 'Doktorandentage', PhD students from the University of Tübingen presented their research projects in a science slam format.
Julia Braun represented the SFB 833 and talked about the topic "So what can you do with linguistics?".

At the TÜFFF (‘Tübinger Fenster für Forschung’) Tübingen researchers from different areas present their findings through a range of formats, i.e. talks, posters, games and information desks. Multiple SFB projects have participated each time since the beginning of the TÜFFF in 2014.

Further Information on the TÜFFF

The Studium Generale is a series of evening lectures in which scholars give talks on interdisciplinary topics to a broader public.

Further information on the Studium Generale

Talks by SFB members:

In October 2015, Prof. Dr. Sam Featherston (C6) presented our work at the Science Pub Tübingen, an initiative organized by the Deutsches Jungforschernetzwerk (juFORUM e.V, a German network of young researchers) in collaboration with the University’s Forum Scientiarum. The Science Pub events provide an unconventional environment in which a diverse audience of students, researchers and interested members of the public can be reached.

The Children’s University was initiated in 2002 by the University of Tübingen. Today it is a Europe-wide format.

Further Information on the Children's University

Several members of the SFB 833 presented at the Children's University:

Tübingen Summer University is a short-term program that is held during the summer holidays by the University of Tübingen. It offers a great range of talks and events to students as well as other interested parties.

In cooperation with the Regional Council Tübingen (Regierungspräsidium Tübingen: Section School and Education) as well as colleagues from the departments of Modern German Literature and Medieval Studies, the chair of psycholinguistics together with project B8 of the SFB 833 organized and hosted the Schülerlabor various times.

The Schülerlabor provides an established extra-curricular learning environment to school pupils. They can partake in scientific work for one day or one week to gain a first insight into the university world and the scientific process in particular.

The Schülerlabor in psycholinguistics was held five times (2012 and 2016 - 2019) by employees of Project B8: Prof. Britta Stolterfoht, Holger Gauza & Melanie Störzer, Feyza Nalbant & Larissa Sprecht.

Further Information on the Schülerlabor 2017

At the Graduiertentage, hosted by the university’s Graduate Academy, Prof. Dr. Andrea Weber (B9), presented the work of the local ethics commission and Dr. Birgit Umbreit (Z1) explained the responsibilities of an SFB coordinator as part of the session on science management.

The SFB 833 had an in-house newsletter, ‘Nauklerstraße 35’, through which subscribers were informed about SFB news and events multiple times per semester.

The SFB 833 was repeatedly represented in the Tübingen University’s magazine Attempto to present the SFB’s work and research to the public:

The online issue from January 4, 2021 includes an article about the current research of project B9 on how face masks affect our communication in everyday life.

Link to the article from January 4, 2021

The cover story of issue 42 (2016) informed about the work of developmental psychologists at the Baby and Child Lab at the University of Tübingen and how researchers are exploring language acquisition in infants and children. In the article, Prof. Dr. Claudia Friedrich, one Project B9’s principal investigators, explains “how words enter the mind” and which findings she can gain from the results of EEG studies on language acquisition in children.

Link to Issue 42/2016

In August 2011, the renowned German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published an article on "Embodied and Situated Language Processing" and the accompanying workshop which took place in Bielefeld, Germany. In the article, they also referred to the work of Martin Lachmaier, linguist and psychologist from Project B4.

Link to the Article

The computational linguistic methods established in Project A4 were applied in the Knowledge Transfer Project T1 (October 2016 - September 2019) to develop an interactive workbook for English as a second language at high school level (“Entwicklung eines interaktiven Workbooks für den englischen Fremdsprachenunterricht für das Gymnasium”). Project T1 was supervised by Prof. Dr. Detmar Meurers and the workbook was developed in collaboration with the schoolbook publisher Diesterweg. Pupils, teachers, publishers, authors and researchers worked closely together on this exciting collaborative project.

Further Information on Project T1