05.02.2025 | 12:00 pm: Info Event on Tandem Research Training – August 2025

We are stating this summer term into another round of the Tandem Research Training and  we warmly invite you to participate.

Since 2004, students from the University of Freiburg and the Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta have continuously conducted joint research trainings in annual alternation in Germany and Indonesia. This year, for the first time, the tandem is taking place also in collaboration with the University of Cologne. Insights into previous tandem research trainings can be found here:

https://www.ethno.uni-freiburg.de/de/studium/feldforschungspraxis/tandem/aktuell

In the summer semesters of 2025 and 2026, the tandem research training will take place under the umbrella topic of ‘Alternative Food- and Agri-Cultures’. In small groups, participants will investigate alternative ways of producing, distributing, acquiring and consuming food, initially in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (August 2025) and a year later (in the summer of 2026) in Freiburg and/or Cologne.

The tandem research training in the summer term of 2025 consists of the following courses:

1. The Seminar ‘Alternative Foodways’ builds a thematic introduction (hybrid) / Wednesday 10-12

2. A Tutorial supports the methodological-practical preparation of the tandem participants (online)

3. Tandem Research Training (on site in Indonesia): carried out in small groups in the period from 1-31 August 2025 in Yogyakarta

In the winter term 2025/26 there will be the opportunity to take part in a follow-up seminar; in the summer term 2026 there will be the opportunity to conduct the tandem teaching research with partners from Indonesia in Freiburg and/or Cologne.

The tandem research training is primarily aimed at students who have already gained initial experience in the application of empirical methods and MA students. The tandem is funded by the Cologne research initiative ‘Sharing a Planet in Peril’. This means that visa costs are covered in full and flight costs are covered to a large extent. Participants are responsible for their living expenses in Indonesia.

Further information about the tandem research training (procedure, application process and recognition options, etc.) will be provided at an

online information event on 5 February 2025 at 12:00 p.m. s.t.

https://uni-freiburg.zoom-x.de/j/63629076815?pwd=7cCb8fd7zBdM6Y1aoT3bzTugwN2Cf9.1

Meeting-ID: 636 2907 6815 / Kenncode: PA2A9pBgn

We look forward to welcoming you there!