The Generation Contract
Summer term 2020„In the first few semesters, my understanding of recruiting participants for surveys was relatively poor, to be honest. But when I started working on my own Bachelor's project, I realised the importance of this approach. I personally enjoyed the empirical work. Recruiting participants is enormously important so that students will also have the opportunity to work empirically in the future.“
Our research projects are always joint projects. This means that we want to give students the opportunity to become actively involved in the research process and gain their first experience of academic work as part of their degree programme.
This is how our intergenerational contract has become established over the past few semesters: Students of each year take part in experiments or recruit participants for a field study, and other students can then use this data for their seminar papers and final theses. Those students who have contributed to the collection of the data set then benefit in subsequent semesters from the recruitment and experimental participation of their fellow students, who in turn receive data from the following semesters.