EU FP7 Era.NET RUS: Social Media as a Catalyser for Cross National Learning (SoMeCat)
At a glance
- Project leader : Dr. Christian Rapp
- Project team : Jennifer Erlemann, Dr. Maren Lübcke, Jakob Ott, Anna Sitnikova
- Project budget : CHF 176'401
- Project status : completed
- Funding partner : EU and other international programmes
- Project partner : TU Berlin, University of Perm, University of Ankara
Description
EU FP7 Era.NET RUS: Social Media as a Catalyser for Cross
National Learning (SoMeCat)
Social Media is currently one of the hot research areas. The EU FP7
Era.NET RUS (http://www.eranet-rus.eu/en/175.php) project SoMeCat
(www.somecat.org), a joint project with partners in Russia, Turkey
and Germany focuses on two major areas:
1. In how far can social media be utilised in teaching, learning
and research in Higher Education? To which extent are the social
media already used in the afore mentioned areas?
2. Do Diaspora groups use social media? If so, which groups use
social media for which purposes?
By synthesising these two strands of research new perspectives for
utilising social media at higher education institutes should be
unravelled. Recommendations targeting decision makers in HE
institutions are one outcome of the project.
Project Manager and Coordinator of the project
Christian Rapp
+41 58 934 66 56
rapp@zhaw.ch