Prof. Dr. Sabine Sonnentag im Gespräch mit Prof. Dr. Britta Renner und Prof. Dr. Harald Reiterer ©Christian Hartz
Prof. Dr. Sabine Sonnentag im Gespräch mit Prof. Dr. Britta Renner und Prof. Dr. Harald Reiterer ©Christian Hartz

Let´s talk together!

This is how we live interdisciplinarity in our research projects.

Research projects such as SMARTACT or the collaboration in the Baden-Württemberg Institute for Sustainable Mobility (BWIM) combine expertise from many different disciplines. At workshops and project meetings, we work together to develop study designs, discuss research findings and effectively develop project ideas.

Example SMARTACT

An interdisciplinary team of researchers is developing a smartphone app to record nutritional behaviour in real life and provide approaches for interventions in primary prevention using mobile technology. The following images illustrate the input from the various disciplines.

[Translate to Englisch:] Diskussion beim Kick Off Meeting des Projekts SMARTACT
[Translate to Englisch:] Prof. Dr. Heiner Boeing beim Kick Off Meeting im Project SMARTACT 2015 ©Christian Hartz

Nutrition research - physiology and nutritional values

Prof Dr Heiner Boeing from the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke (DIfE) gave us at SMARTACT important impulses for the integration of the Federal Food Key (BLS) into our mobile application for nutrition recording.

[Translate to Englisch:] Tandemarbeit zwischen Mitgliedern des wissenschaftlichen Beirats und akademischen Mitarbeiter*innen im Projekt SMARTACT
[Translate to Englisch:] Pilvikki Absetz (Mitglied des wissenschaftlichen Beirats, Professorin Public Health an der Universität Tampere, Finnland) diskutiert mit Gudrun Sproesser (damals Postdoc in der AG Renner) Methodik und bereits erzielte Ergebnisse ©Christian Hartz

Health behaviour - public health perspective

Nutritional behaviour as an important building block in primary prevention - expertise from a wide range of disciplines (e.g. medicine, IT, public health) enables us to carry out the SMARTACT project effectively.

[Translate to Englisch:] Gudrun Sproesser im Gespräch mit Carol J. Boushey
[Translate to Englisch:] Gudrun Sproesser im Gespräch mit Carol J. Boushey ©Christian Hartz

Medicine - Interaction between nutrition and chronic diseases

Prof Dr Carol J. Boushey from the Cancer Centre at the University of Hawaiʻi provides impulses from her research on cancer and nutritional behaviour both at SMARTACT project meetings and during several-day guest stays at the University of Konstanz.

Example BWIM

The Baden-Württemberg Institute for Sustainable Mobility (BWIM) sees itself as the independent think and do tank for actively shaping the mobility transition in Baden-Württemberg.

Mitglieder des BWIM beim Workshop im Februar 2024 ©BWIM
Mitglieder des BWIM beim Workshop im Februar 2024 ©BWIM

With our sub-project "Why we move how we move", the BWIM team is investigating the connections between mobility motives, mobility perceptions and mobility profiles. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, the scientific findings are being further developed into concrete, practical recommendations for action to promote a sustainable mobility transition.