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The research project “Runische Schriftlichkeit in den germanischen Sprachen / Runic Writing in the Germanic Languages (RuneS)” investigates the oldest writing system in the Germanic languages, the runic script. As a means of communication this script was used in different variants in large regions of Europe (with centres in what is now Germany and the Netherlands, in Great Britain and…
AGATE-ID: PR51
Papyrology, epigraphy, and numismatics frequently enrich our knowledge about the cultures of the old world by means of newly discovered materials. Therefore, the above mentioned professions may be regarded as disciplines conducting fundamental research and thus they provide the groundwork for further historical as well as literary research. The project is devoted to the editing, translation, and…
AGATE-ID: PR121
The Swiss Text Corpus project is part of an international research project which aims to provide a balanced collection of the standard German language of the 20th century and to make it accessible online by digitising German-language texts of all kinds (newspaper articles, advertising, forms, instructions, guides, popular scientific literature, youth and trivial literature, fiction, etc.). The…
AGATE-ID: PR723
The older section of the North European Bronze Age Cultures (approx. the 2nd millennium BC) is in large parts only represented by graves and deposits- settlements are insufficiently tapped. This applies especially to the southern zone (Schleswig-Holstein as well as parts of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Lower Saxony), in which only a few ground plans of houses have been uncovered yet. Primary…
AGATE-ID: PR86
There are more than 2000 surviving Jewish cemeteries in Germany, some dating from as far back as the eleventh century. Despite great losses, no other European country possesses a comparably old, rich and multi-layered Jewish tradition. These cemeteries are among the oldest testimonies to sepulchral culture in Germany, and therefore their preservation, documentation, development and dissemination…
AGATE-ID: PR798
The Job Market Monitor Switzerland (SMM) aims to systematically expand scientific knowledge about the job market and to contribute to improved labor market transparency by informing a broad public about current developments in the job market. The focus is on continuous observation and information as well as scientific research on the job market.
With regard to job market monitoring, the aim is to…
AGATE-ID: PR752
Human evolution is a story of expansions. During the last two million years the genus Homo spread from Africa into Asia and Europe in several waves of migration. New species developed and old groups became extinct (range expansions). As early as three million years ago, hominins had established new ways of dealing with their specific environment through culture. Stone tools produced with the help…
AGATE-ID: PR95
TREE (Transitions from education to employment) is a nationwide, longitudinal survey on the transition of young people from school to adult life (transition). The study focuses on the educational and employment pathways after leaving compulsory school. The first sample (TREE1) comprises more than 6,000 young people who participated in the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment)…
AGATE-ID: PR712
The database documents the Hôtel de Musique's lively theatrical activity from 1766 to 1905, with a repertoire that includes theatre, opera, ballet, concerts and extraordinary events. The inventory provides a lively and colourful picture of Bernese theatre culture in the 19th century.
The project was developed in 2008 as part of a lecture on Bernese theatre history in the Seminar of Swiss Opera…
AGATE-ID: PR697
The Buddhist cave complexes in the region of Kucha, located on the northern Silk Road (in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China), house impressive wall paintings dating approximately from the 5th to 10th century. These are now, for the first time, being documented, studied, and made digitally accessible. In a project of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, research…
AGATE-ID: PR18
The project aims at an in-depth analysis and presentation of the scientific relations between Germany and the Russian Empire in chemistry, pharmacy, and medicine in the 19th century. Such a scientific study is not yet available. The research of german-russian scientific relations for the given period will provide insights into the development of science in Germany and Russia at that time as well…
AGATE-ID: PR28