Project Team
The research is managed by the following people:
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Schweitzer
Department of Protestant Theology at Tübingen University
Prof. Dr. Thomas Schlag
Practical Theology at Zürich University
With the focus of Religious Education, Church Theory
and Pastoral Theology
Kati Niemelä, ThD, MEd
Professor in Church and Social Studies (until 3/2017)
Senior Lecturer in Church and Social Studies (on leave until 3/2017)
Practical Theology, Faculty of Theology
University of Helsinki
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ilg, Pfarrer, Dipl.-Psych. (pastor, psychologist)
Project Manager
Christoph H. Maaß, Dr. rer. pol.
Research fellow at Tübingen University
Project Manager
Phone: +49 (0)7071-29-72878
Georg Hardecker, Dipl.-Theol.
Research fellow at Tübingen University
Project Manager
Phone: +49 (0)7071-29-72878
Meeting of the European researchers together with the US confirmation research team, in June 2014 in
Helsinki/Finland.
Researchers from all nine participating countries work together in the international team.
Meeting of 23 researchers from 9 European countries in Vienna/Austria (20-21 February 2014)
The startoff of the second study: a meeting in Warsaw/Poland (8-10 December 2011)
From left to right: Thomas Schlag (Switzerland), Tobias Beisswenger (Germany: United Methodist Church),
Bernd Krupka (Norway), Ida Marie Hoeg (Norway), Jonas Bromander (Sweden), Wolfgang Ilg (Germany),
Rahel Voirol-Sturzenegger (Switzerland), Jouko Porkka (Finland), Elisabeta Byrtek (Poland),
Per Pettersson (Sweden), Leise Christensen (Denmark), Friedrich Schweitzer (Germany),
Dagmar Lagger (Austria), Kati Niemelä (Finland), Tapani Innanen (Finland), Balázs Siba (Hungary)
An earlier picture shows the team starting the first international survey in July 200 in Tübingen/Germany: