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Welcome to the Press and Public Relations area of the PLATO Research Program at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Here you can find the latest news, publications, press releases and information about upcoming events concerning our network and activities.

Upcoming Events and Planned Activities

Contact

Prof. Dr. Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia
Chair of Business and Economics Education
Gutenberg School of Management & Economics
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
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Jennifer Fischer
Research Assistant at the Chair of Business and Economics Education
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
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News

Doctoral scholarships awarded

We are pleased to announce that we were able to offer all five DIAPASON doctoral scholarships and thus support our scholarship holders in their doctoral project for three years.

Further information will follow here soon.

New Project Funding: BRIDGE (Performance Assessment of Domain-specific and Generic Use of Online Media by Young Professionals)

We are pleased to announce that the new collaborative project BRIDGE is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for a period of three years (2020 to 2023). BRIDGE is a collaborative effort between GU Frankfurt (Principal Investigators: Alexander Mehler, Jochen Roeper) and JGU Mainz (Principal Investigator Matthias Cornils) and is headed by Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia (JGU). The aim of BRIDGE is to assess the influence of online media used in job-specific educational processes. In a longitudinal design, the general critical online reasoning (GEN-COR) and domain-specific critical online reasoning (DOM-COR) of young professionals from three different domains – medicine, law, and teacher training – are measured using performance assessments and analyzed using innovative approaches such as educational data mining and text mining based on approaches from computer linguistics and learning analytics. The core of the project is an online training program that teaches participants how to critically deal with online information by fostering self-learning strategies.