Topic collection and topic grouping have been completed. The Berlin University Alliance would like to thank all committed researchers, students, and young people for their participation in the participatory process of the Next Grand Challenge so far. We are pleased to present the topics here and are looking forward to the Next Grand Challenge Forum in February 2023, where the next step will be the topic evaluation.

Result of (Topic) Grouping

Of the topics submitted by researchers and students in the course of the topic collection, 28 topics were chosen for grouping. In the youth workshops and in the idea camp, a further 15 topics were proposed by young people. We were able to divide the total of 43 topics into the following 5 categories.

Note: The topics are presented in the form and language in which they were submitted. Detailed information on the categories and topics can be found by clicking on the respective titles.

Green urban spaces:
Creating and Researching Sustainable and Climate-neutral Cities

• Zentrales Energiesystem als Teil nachhaltigen Wohnens
• Klimaneutrale Städte, Energie und nachhaltiges Wohnen
• Veränderung urbaner Mobilität
• Water security in urban areas – Wassersicherheit in urbanen Gebieten
• Campuskultur als Motor nachhaltiger Entwicklung
• Cities, Climate Change and Quality of Life
• Living DiverCity
• Nachhaltige urbane Räume
  
  

Resources & Sustainability:
Developing Alternative Materials – Exploring Sustainable Cycles

• Auffangen, Wiederverwenden und Speichern von schädlichen Emissionen
• Effizienz und neue Methoden von erneuerbaren Energien 
• Plastik Ersatzstoffe
• Naturschutz in Berlin
• Nachhaltige Baumaterialien
• Müllsystem, Mülltrennung
• resources security
• Reinventing Plastic- Barriers to Innovation
  

Innovation in Times of Crisis:
Shaping Transfer Cooperatively

• Smart and agile governance
• Erforschung der Ursachen von Schulden
• Lohngerechtigkeit
• Evidenzbasierte Risiko- und Unsicherheitskommunikation
• Ich digital - individuelle digitale Realitäten und Zukünfte
• Innovation for Sustainability
• Diverse Environments
• Transformationskonflikte und Nachhaltigkeit
• Intersektionale Dekolonialitätsforschung: Perspektiven und Praktiken als zukünftige Paradigmen der inter- und transdisziplinären Forschung
• Reproduktive Gerechtigkeit
• Multimyzel  - neues, nachhaltiges Dämmmaterial -
  
  

Human-Life-Environment:
Balances in the Anthropocene

• Slums in Indien und der Ganges Fluss
• Klimarelevante Renaturierung der Ökosystemdienstleistungen von Mooren
• Genetic Engineering in Modern and Future Societies
• Atypische Zellen im Urin-Sediment – Überprüfung eines neuen Tumormarkers in der Vor- und Nachsorge des Urothelkarzinoms (AG ACU)
• Nachhaltiges Anthropozän – Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen in sich ändernden Lebensräumen
• Overcoming antibiotic resistance - an urgent global challenge Identification of highly effective alternative target specific biological and chemical approaches
• Nachhaltige Lebensstile und ihre Wechselwirkung mit transregionalen Konsum- und Produktionsmustern im Bereich Ernährung
• It's complicated: exploring One Health approaches for the Anthropocene through human-animal-relationships
• Transdisziplinäre Behandlungsmethoden von Parodontitis
• Biodiversitätskrise als gesellschaftliche Herausforderung: Wie können Daten und Wissen zu einer Wende beitragen?
• Internet of Life
  
  

Education & Individual Development:
Strengthening Competencies – Improving Opportunities

• Schul- und Bildungssystem
• Kombination von Ausflügen/Lernerfahrungen und digitaler Recherche/Lernen/Lehren
• Wie können mehr gute Lehrkräfte ausgebildet werden?
• Posttraumatische Belastungsstörung bei Flüchtlingskindern im Nahen Osten und ihre Auswirkung auf ihre Entwicklung
• Natural Language Processing digitaler Kommunikation: Die linguistischen Marker schizo-bipolarer Erkrankungen
  
  

Method

The submitted topic proposals were grouped into topic areas using an inductive approach. For this purpose, all proposals were reviewed, analyzed, and related to each other. This made it possible to identify similarities and overlaps between the proposals and to integrate knowledge. Five topic areas emerged.

The method of qualitative content analysis was used for grouping (Mayring 2002). This topic analysis allows the identification of topics that emerge from the proposals. It is a frequently used method of qualitative data analysis, especially in the social sciences. Topic grouping involves the following steps: An overall intersubjective impression of content and meaning is obtained by repeatedly reading the topic proposals. The data are tagged with keywords (so-called "codes") that represent the main topic. In the synopsis, commonalities in the codes are identified and grouped into topics. The topic areas identified are then reviewed, refined, and, if necessary, merged or split. Finally, the topic areas are assigned a name that reflects their content and meaning and the respective topic area is described in a short text.

Literature:

Mayring, Philipp (2002): Einführung in die qualitative Sozialforschung. Eine Anleitung zu qualitativem Denken. 5. Aufl., Weinheim, Basel: Beltz Verlag.