Third-party funded projects

RRA-CP: Responsible Research Assessment - Community Perspective

Sonderfinanzierung RLP 
Grant Term: 2026-2027
Project Management: Dr. André Bittermann
Project Staff: Claudiu Petrule, MSc., Fabian Hindenlang, MSc., Dr. André Bittermann, Prof. Dr. Kai Sassenberg
Projectsite: Szene

Agile-RDM: Establishing an agile and needs-oriented research data management strategy in psychology

Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Grant Term: 3 years (2025-2028)
Project Management at ZPID: Dr. Katarina Blask
Project Management at LMU: Prof. Dr. Mario Gollwitzer & Prof. Dr. Felix Schönbrodt
Project Staff at ZPID: Dr. Tarini Singh

Base4NFDI - Basic Services for NFDI

Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Grant Term: until 29.02.2028
Project Management: Technische Universität Dresden (Prof. Dr. Lars Bernhard)
Project Management at ZPID: Dr. Katarina Blask
Project Partner: See Application pages 3-5
Project Staff at ZPID: Jana Tatscheck

Projektsite: Base4NFDI

Psychological implications of co-opetition

Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Grant Term: 31.03.2027
Project Management at ZPID: Dr. Johanna Falbén
Project Partner: Dr. Tali Kleiman

Project Description: Psychological implications of co-opetition

Understanding and fighting the impact of conspiracy mentality

Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Grant Term: 01.03.24 - 28.02.2026
Project Management at ZPID: Prof. Dr. Kai Sassenberg
Project Partner: Prof. Dr. Matthew Hornsey 
Project Staff at ZPID: Dr. Svenja Frenzel

Project Description: Understanding and fighting the impact of conspiracy mentality

Pioneering Project "Ethiktool - A software solution to support the ethical assessment of research projects“

Funding: VolkswagenStiftung
Grant Term: 3 years (2023-2026)
Project Manager: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Bendixen, Prof. Dr. Einhäuser-Treyer (TU Chemnitz), Dr. Katarina Blask (ZPID)
Project Staff (at ZPID): Dr. Thomas Wegner

Project Website: https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/physik/SFKS/ethiktool/index.html

Pioneering Project "Ethiktool - A software solution to support the ethical assessment of research projects“

Funding: VolkswagenStiftung
Grant Term: 3 years (2023-2026)
Project Manager at ZPID: Dr. Katarina Blask
Project Manager at TU Chemnitz: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Bendixen, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Einhäuser-Treyer
Project Staff at ZPID: Dr. Thomas Wegner

Project Website: https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/physik/SFKS/ethiktool/index.html

German Center for Mental Health

German Center for Mental Health ()

Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Grant Term: Build-up Phase (2 years; 2023 - 2025); Subsequent continued funding of up to 30 million euros per year from the federal and state governments
Project Manager: Ruhr-University Bochum (Site Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Silvia Schneider)
Project Manager at ZPID: Dr. Katarina Blask
Project Partners (Site Bochum-Marburg): Ruhr-University Bochum, Philipps-University Marburg, Leibniz Research Center for Working Environment and Human Factors at Dortmund (IfADo), Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education  (DIPF), German Youth Institute (DJI), Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA)
Project Staff (at ZPID): Ruben Brück, Jan Kustermann, Christian Omieczynski, Viktoria Weber
Description: https://www.dzpg.org/

German Center for Mental Health

Funding: Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)
Grant Term: Extension Phase (5 years; 2025 - 2030); Subsequent continued funding of up to 30 million euros per year from the federal and state governments
Project Manager: Ruhr-University Bochum (Site Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Silvia Schneider)
Project Manager at ZPID: Dr. Katarina Blask
Project Partners (Site Bochum-Marburg): Ruhr-University Bochum, Philipps-University Marburg, Leibniz Research Center for Working Environment and Human Factors at Dortmund (IfADo), Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education  (DIPF), German Youth Institute (DJI), Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA)
Project Staff (at ZPID): Dr. Tina Keil, Christian Omieczynski, Shaptarshi Roy, Viktoria Weber

Project Website: https://www.dzpg.org/

ForSynData - Guidelines for FAIR and reusable research syntheses in psychology and educational research

Funding: KonsortSWD (DFG)
Grant Term: 01/2024 – 09/2025
Project Manager at ZPID: Dr. Tanja Burgard
Project Partner: Dr. Tamara Heck, DIPF
Project Staff at ZPID: Claudiu Petrule, M. Sc.

Pioneering Project „Opening pandora's box - An Inventory of 'Open data' in the research field of fear conditioning and its transfer into a dynamically growing cooperative database (FEAR BASE) and scalable infrastructure“

Funding: VolkswagenStiftung
Grant Term: 2 years (2023-2025)
Project Manager: Prof. Dr. Tina Lonsdorf (Universität Bielefeld), Dr. Mana Ehlers (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf), Dr. Katarina Blask (ZPID)
Project Staff (at ZPID): Joel Beckmann

Project Website: https://rdc-psychology.org/fearbase

Pioneering Project „Opening pandora's box - An Inventory of 'Open data' in the research field of fear conditioning and its transfer into a dynamically growing cooperative database (FEAR BASE) and scalable infrastructure“

Funding: VolkswagenStiftung
Grant Term: 2 years (2023-2025)
Project Manager: Prof. Dr. Tina Lonsdorf (Universität Bielefeld), Dr. Mana Ehlers (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf), Dr. Katarina Blask (ZPID)
Project Staff at ZPID: Joel Beckmann

Consortium for the Social, Educational, Behavioural, and Economic Sciences (KonsortSWD - nfdi4society); "RDM Compas - Competence Platform for Professional RDM"

Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Grant Term: 3 years (2025-2028)
Management of the Consortium: GESIS (Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Christof Wolf)
Subproject Management at ZPID: Dr. Katarina Blask
Subproject Management at GESIS: Dr. Dr. Olivier Rouquette
Project Staff at ZPID: Dr. Lisa Spitzer; former employees during the first funding phase of KonsortSWD: Maria Ricci, Tatiana Kvetnaya, Ruben Brück

Project-Website: Projectsite KonsortSWD

Joint Project: Mechanisms of Panel Conditioning in Longitudinal Studies: Reflection, Satisficing, and Social Desirability

Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Grant Term: 3 years (2019-2022)
Project Manager: Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert
Project Partner: GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
Project Staff: Joanna Koßmann

PsyCuraDat - Development of User Oriented Curation Criteria for Psychological Research Data

Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Grant Term: 3 years (2019-2022), awarded to Erich Weichselgartner
Project Manager: Dr. Katarina Blask
Project Staff: N.N.
Project Description: project webpage PsyCuraDat

DataWiz II - Optimization and professionalization of the automated assistant for the management of psychological research data

Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Grant term: 2 years (2020-2021)
Project Manager: PD Dr. Erich Weichselgartner
Project description: project webpage

MEPIC - Mechanisms of epistemic change in higher education

Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Grant Term: 2 years (2018-2020)
Project Manager: Dr. Tom Rosman
Project Staff: Martin Kerwer, M. Sc.
Project Description: project webpage MEPIC

Evidence-based data collection methodology

Funding: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Grant Term: 2 years (2017-2019)
Project Manager: Prof. Dr. Michael Bosnjak
Project Partners: Prof. Dr. Katja Lozar Manfreda, Prof. Dr. Valentina Hlebec (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Project Staff: Veronika Batzdorfer, Tanja Burgard
Project Description: project webpage Evidence-based data collection methodology

PODMAN - The process-oriented development of management instruments for research data in their life cycle

Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Grant Term: 2 years (2017-2019)
Project Manager: Prof. Dr. Müller-Fürstenberger; PD Dr. Erich Weichselgartner
Project Staff: Marina Lemaire, Dr. Gisela Minn, André Förster, Dr. Katarina Blask
Project Description: project webpage PODMAN

Overcoming language barriers - Cross-lingual search of bibliographic metadata

Funding: Leibniz Association
Grant Term: 3 years (2016-2018)
Project Manager: PD Dr. Erich Weichselgartner
Project Partners: Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-University Berlin,
Lehrstuhl für Translationsorientierte Sprachtechnologie, Universität des Saarlandes
Project Staff: Roland Ramthun
Project Description: project webpage Cross-lingual Search
Project Web Page: clubs-project.eu