Research

Our research profile is interdisciplinary and future-oriented. It focuses on four key areas: Economic Behavior and Governance (EB&Go), Digital Transformation (DITRA), Skills Acquisition & Entrepreneurship (KENT) and Sustainability, Energy and Environment (NEU). They deal with the central challenges of our time and highlight topics of particular social, economic, scientific, legal, technological, environmental and educational relevance. Our economic and legal research is international and interdisciplinary. Committed to the overarching research profile of the University of Kassel, we develop innovative collaborative research initiatives and maintain strategic partnerships with leading (inter)national research institutes. Fortunately, the volume of evaluated third-party research funding has steadily increased.

News from research

04/15/2026 | Personalia | Institute of Vocational Education

Mexican visiting researcher Jesús Peralta Hernández visits the Department of Vocational and Business Education

We welcome Dr Jesús Peralta Hernández as a visiting researcher from the National Autonomous University of Mexico to the Institute of Vocational Education and Training, and in particular to the Department of Vocational and Business Education.


As a postdoctoral researcher, Dr Peralta Hernández focuses primarily on creativity in the context of informal learning processes (including transformation processes and the associated opportunities for workplace-based learning). His other research interests include topics in the fields of cultural psychology, activity theory and the theory of dynamic systems.


We look forward to an intensive exchange of ideas and collaboration in the coming weeks!

 

Major fields of research

Di­gi­­tal Tran­s­­for­­ma­­ti­on (DI­T­­RA)

Ac­qui­­ring Skills & En­­­tre­pre­­neurship (KENT)

Eco­­no­­mic Be­ha­viour & Go­­ver­­­nan­ce (EB&Go)

Sustai­na­­bi­­li­­ty, En­­er­gy and the En­­vi­ron­­ment (NEU)

Research institutions

Funding

Graduate support FB07

Research and graduate funding (centrally provided information)

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