Young Researchers from Heidelberg to Research Polycrises

Gordon Friedrichs and Natalie Rauscher accepted into the WIN-Kolleg of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. With their interdisciplinary research project on interconnected, global crises, Dr Gordon Friedrichs and Dr Natalie Rauscher have been accepted into the WIN-Kolleg of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The two political scientists will be analysing so-called polycrises, such as the climate crisis and the war in Ukraine, paying particular attention to crisis management and crisis communication. Dr Friedrichs works as a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, while Dr Rauscher is a research assistant at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) of Heidelberg University. The project will receive over 300,000 euros in funding over a period of three years and is set to launch on 1 April 2024. In recent years, the world has gone through various situations that can be viewed as a complex system of parallel, overlapping and interconnected crises. However, as these two researchers emphasise, there has yet to be any theory-driven discussion on this set of issues.