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Welcome Fabienne! - Fabienne Kohle joins the Social and Health Science Group

We warmly welcome Fabienne Kohle to our department. Fabienne recently finished her Master's degree in Sport Sciene at the University of Tübingen. In her thesis she wrote about the role of sport psychologists in youth competitive sport.

In Konstanz, she is involved in the research project "Exercise and Sport in Forensic Psychiatry". With the aim of evaluating sports therapy in a forensic psychiatric setting, Fabienne will be work and cooperate closly with the Centre of Psychiatry Reichenau.

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Our first study with our new DIGI assessment is now published

"The advancement of digital tool competency assessments and rehabilitation strategies is essential when we aim at facilitating societal inclusion and participation for individuals in affected populations." Our current work introduces the “Digital Tools Test” (“DIGI”) designed to evaluate an individual’s digital tool competencies ...

www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1270437/full

www.moco.uni-konstanz.de/publikationen/assessments/

How do pūkekos communicate?

Gabriella Gall’s research is directed at understanding how individuals in groups communicate and coordinate group actions. More specifically, the biologist is interested in how the ability of an individual to coordinate effectively with others develops and what the fitness consequences of efficient communication are. She studies these questions in a range of bird species (domestic chicken and pūkeko) and is currently focusing on how experiences made within the egg affect hatching…

2023 state teaching award

Barbara Ette, Gabriele Schaub and Anton Schwärzler receive the 2023 state teaching award (Landeslehrpreis) in the category climate protection for the qualification N sustainability project initiated by students at the University of Konstanz.

Ergebnis der Tarifverhandlungen

Am 09.12.2023 haben sich die Tarifgemeinschaft der Länder uni die Gewerkschaften verdi und dbb eine Einigung in der Tarifrunde für die Beschäftigten der Länder erzielt. Die Beschäftigten erhalten höhere Entgelte sowie eine Inflationsausgleichsprämie.

Die wichtigsten Verhandlungsergebnisse in Kürze:

  1. Inflationsausgleichs-Einmalzahlung i.H.v. 1.800 €
  2. Inflationsausgleichs-Monatszahlungen von Januar 2024 bis Oktober 2024 i.H.v. jeweils 120 €
  3. ab 1. November 2024 Sockelbetragserhöhung des…

Konstanz toxicologist elected president of the ECDO

Ivano Amelio has been elected president of the European Cell Death Organization (ECDO). As president elect, in January 2024 he joined the ECDO Executive Board under the office of the current ECDO president, Professor Inna Lavrik (University of Magdeburg). His three-year term of office will begin in January of 2027.

The ECDO was founded in 1994 and now has more than 200 members from research groups in Europe and elsewhere who study cell death. This research field looks into the biochemical and…