Excellent News!LT group fights climante change in new Excellence Cluster
14 November 2018, by Reinhard Zierke
Universität Hamburg was able to score 4 Clusters of Excellence in the 2018 DFG Exzellenzinitiative. The LT group is taking part in CliCCS: Climate, Climatic Change, and Society
The CliCCS research cluster aims to strengthen social and economic basic research on climate change and the interdisciplinary research cooperation of natural and social sciences. Organizational partners include Universität Hamburg, the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, the Helmholtz Center Geesthacht and the German Climate Computing Center. Collaboration with other social science research institutions will also be strengthened in the cluster, in particular with the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH).
The LT group will provide tools for manual annotation and machine learning techniques for automatic analysis of texts from various media sources on climate change in order to quantify the reflection of the topic and its facets in public discourse for social science research. How excellent!