Research network: Success factors of mutual knowledge transfer in Chinese-German cooperation projects: Joint competence development in the research and innovation phase Transcultural learning and competence approach (TraKuLa).
| Led by: | Prof. Dr. Steffi Robak |
| E-Mail: | steffi.robak@ifbe.uni-hannover.de |
| Team: | Dr. Xing Liu-Schuppener, Marina Rieckhoff |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Funding: | Ministry of Science and Culture Lower Saxony |
| Duration: | 03/2020 bis 02/2023 |
| Further information | https://www.iwkg.uni-hannover.de/de/forschung/trakula/ |
Participating departments, institutes and facilities:
Department | Institute | Untereinheit / Professur |
Fakultät für Bauingenieurwesen und Geodäsie | Inst. f. Risiko u. Zuverlässigkeit | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Beer |
Inst. f. Kartographie und Geoinformatik | Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Monika Sester | |
Philosophische Fakultät | Inst. f. Berufspädagogik und Erwachsenenbildung | Abteilung Erwachsenenbildung / Prof. Dr. Steffi Robak |
Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät | Inst. f. Wirtschafts- u. Kulturgeographie | Wirtschaftsgeographie / Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner |
Cooperation between Chinese and German partners will also become increasingly important for the economies of China and Germany. Currently, however, cultural communication problems occur in many cooperation projects. Cooperation therefore often has difficulties in shaping learning processes jointly and efficiently. In order to better understand these challenges, but also hidden potentials in Sino-German cooperation, this research project analyses mutual knowledge transfer in Sino-German research and innovation projects.
The Chinese-German engineering research projects led by the project partners Prof. Michael Beer and Prof. Monika Sester will serve as the empirical basis. The teams led by Prof. Steffi Robak and Prof. Ingo Liefner will use different theoretical perspectives and methodological tools to analyse the joint learning and innovation processes within these engineering projects.
The subject of the research in Prof. Steffi Robak's team is cooperation in culturally mixed teams (German-Chinese), assuming that different cultural practices prevail which must relate to each other in cooperation and which generate hybridisations in the project as a "third space". The empirical basis for this part of the project are focused expert interviews with the Chinese and German staff in the projects as well as observations of joint team meetings in which the current status of the work and the development of the project are discussed.
The subject of the research in Prof. Steffi Robak's team is cooperation in culturally mixed teams (German-Chinese), assuming that different cultural practices prevail which must relate to each other in cooperation and which generate hybridisations in the project as a "third space". The empirical basis for this part of the project are focused expert interviews with the Chinese and German staff in the projects as well as observations of joint team meetings in which the current status of the work and the development of the project are discussed.
The research network thus contributes to the current social challenge of making cooperation with China as an economic partner more successful.