GRK 1575: The Christian Churches and the European Challenge (c. 1890 to the Present Time)

研究培训小组的首要研究问题是，从威廉时代到现在，面对欧洲的挑战，基督教社会模式如何变化和发展。从狭义上讲，研究培训小组首先研究欧洲各国的基督教会、其组织和代表对欧洲统一理念和实际一体化进程的反应。其次，研究培训小组关注的问题是，欧洲的挑战是否以及如何引发或促进了教会本身在自我认知和观念、机构以及职责的制定和履行方面的变化。最后，另一个令人感兴趣的焦点是教会如何试图将其道德和社会理想纳入欧洲机构的政策，以及采用何种手段和策略。研究设计的特点是广泛的跨学科方法，对研究员的监督、研究员的国际性以及国际专家对资格认证计划的参与也将受益。该研究计划附带一个资格认证计划，该资格计划通过一个共同的分析框架将各个项目相互联系起来。资格和监督概念由四个主要要素组成：研究生中心特定课程计划、国际交流、个人监督和协作。与美因茨大学普通研究生院和吉森国际文化研究研究生中心（GCSC）的合作将显着提高学术和非学术关键资格的培训质量。

The primary research question of the Research Training Group is how the Christian model of society changed and developed in the face of the challenge Europe from the Wilhelminian era to the present. In a narrower sense, the Research Training Group firstly deals with the reactions of the Christian churches, their organisations and representatives in the European states to the idea of European unification and the actual process of integration. Secondly, the Research Training Group focusses on the question whether and how the challenge Europe evoked or fostered changes in the churches themselves regarding their self-perceptions and -conceptions, their institutions and the formulation and carrying out of their duties. Finally, another focus of interest is on the question how the churches tried to bring in their ethical and social ideals into the policies of the European institutions, and by employing which means and strategies. The research design is characterised by a broad interdisciplinary approach, from which the supervision of the research fellows will benefit as well, the internationality of the fellows, and the involvement of international experts in the qualification programme. The research programme is accompanied by a qualification programme that interlinks the individual projects by a common analytical framework. The qualification and supervisory concept consists of four main elements: a graduate centre-specific course programme, international exchange, individual monitoring and collaboration. The cooperation with the Mainz Universitys General Graduate School and the Giessen International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) will add significantly to the quality of training with respect to academic and non-academic key qualifications.