The Research Training Group focuses its activities on researching practices and dynamics of social imagination (shared social concepts, narratives and images). With its interdisciplinary approach, the Research Training Group provides a high contribution to a better understanding of social debates on topics such as??? climate change, political crises and the coronavirus pandemic.

Funded by the Thuringian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, the Research Training Group has six scholarships holders whose research topics are of high socio-political relevance. The scholarship holders are supervised by teams of Principal Investigators (participating scientists) from the Cluster of Excellence initiative “Imaginamics”. In addition, the scholarship holders will have access to the non-university cooperation facilities of the planned Cluster of Excellence and the LIBERTY profile of the University of Jena.