The German Research Foundation (DFG) is establishing 17 new Research Training Groups (RTGs) to further strengthen early career researchers. This was decided by the Grants Committee for Research Training Groups, which met via video conference due to the coronavirus pandemic. The new RTGs will initially be funded for four and a half years from fall 2021 with a total of around 92 million euros.
The research training group "KD²School - Design of Adaptive Systems for Economic Decisions", in which experts from information systems, economics, psychology and computer science from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the University of Gießen and the University of Bremen work together, is also involved. They want to explore context-dependent economic decision-making processes and design corresponding IT-based systems to support economic decisions. The adaptive systems should adapt to the context of a decision-making situation and "improve themselves". To date, such systems have mainly been researched with profit-oriented or political objectives. The spokesperson is Professor Dr. Christof Weinhardt from KIT, co-spokesperson Prof. Dr. Tanja Schultz and PI Prof. Manfred Herrmann come from the University of Bremen and are both members of the research focus Minds, Media, Machines.
Further information: Press release of the University of Bremen
