As a result of the Master's seminar "Presentation of ongoing research projects", the students proved their professional and organisational skills and their ability to work in a team on 14 July . At the self-planned symposium under the motto "Young People, Young Mainz", the students presented in-depth and relevant topics in each of ten lectures in the three sections Internationalisation, Diversity and Awareness, and Mediality. ...read more
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Master’s students prove their research talent with the conference "Young People, Young Mainz".
The Gutenberg Yearbook 2023 is here!
The Gutenberg year book 2023 has been published!
Traditionally, the Yearbook is published on St. John's Eve (24 June) - and this year is no exception. It features contributions on the history of printing, edited by Philip Ajouri, Julia Bangert, Gerhard Lauer and Nikolaus Weichselbaumer. Continue reading "The Gutenberg Yearbook 2023 is here!"
Winter term 2021/22: Project seminar groups work exploratively and with the help of advanced tools with extended metadata
As part of the regular project seminar for Master's students preparing for their Master's thesis, students dealt under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Christoph Bläsi in the winter semester 2021/22 on the one hand with issues surrounding extended metadata and on the other hand "instrumentally" with how to effectively process extensive unstructured data and present project results simply but "appetisingly" to fellow students and the public. The teaching project was gratefully supported by the Gutenberg Institute's Book & Reading Studies Department by funding research assistant Vanessa Möschner. Continue reading "Winter term 2021/22: Project seminar groups work exploratively and with the help of advanced tools with extended metadata"
No education without reading
According to a recent study by the Institute for School Development Research, only 72 percent of
of fourth graders can read well enough to have no difficulties in secondary school, to keep up in class.
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Lauer and Dr. Anke Vogel are researching the reasons and developing projects that actively promote reading skills.
Read the full article in the JGU magazine [in German].
Romanian researcher as a guest at the Mainz Book Institute
Dr. Bogdan Popa, historian at the Nicolae Iorga Institute of the Romanian Academy of Sciences, is a guest of the Gutenberg Institute in april. His research focuses on the history of publishing in modern Romania.
Continue reading "Romanian researcher as a guest at the Mainz Book Institute"