Wissenschaftliche Literatur Development

Robert Celec (Ed.)

Development of Ecological Responsibility

EUB. Erziehung – Unterricht – Bildung

Sustainable development is defined as development that satisfies the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to satisfy theirs. The book starts from the aim of sustainable development which is to define viable schemes combining the economic, social, and environmental aspects of human activity. These three areas must therefore be taken into consideration by communities, companies, and individuals. [...]

Antti Kapanen

Employability of Foreign Higher Education Graduates in Germany

A Grounded Theory Study of Factors, Processes and Action Strategies

Studien zur Berufs- und Professionsforschung

The number of foreign students enrolled in German higher education has grown for decades – reaching 128,500 new enrolments and a total number of 440,500 students in 2022. Up to 80% of new enrolments consider staying in Germany to work after graduation, promising a welcome relief to the much-discussed labour shortage resulting from demographic and educational trends.

However, the real employment outcomes continue to fall short of the promising expectations. As…

Tahar Benmaghnia

EU External Action and the CFSP – Well-Equipped for the Fast-Pacing Geo-Economic World?

Schriften zum Internationalen Wirtschaftsrecht

Across all continents, the EU operates in a wide range of fields. As a unique player on the global stage, the EU, as a supranational organisation, acts in many respects on a par with other states. Particularly in the area of international trade, the EU has developed a strong and recognisable profile. Within the framework of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), the EU is striving to make its voice heard at the international level beyond economic and development…

Urška Štremfel

A Decade After the Lisbon Strategy: Decisive for the Development of the EU and National Educational Space

Schriften zur Europapolitik

For a long time, education had been a more or less neglected policy field in European integration. The Lisbon Strategy (2000) marked the turning point, when education was first recognised as important for the social and economic development of the European Union (EU). Since then, EU cooperation in the field has significantly widened and deepened. Following the implementation of two strategic frameworks for European cooperation in education and training (2000–2010,…

Frank Steiner

Solution Space Development for Mass Customization

Impact of Continuous Product Change on Production Ramp-Up

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Die kundenindividuelle Massenproduktion – oder auch Mass Customization – ist ein strategischer Ansatz, der darauf abzielt, durch die Schaffung variantenreicher Produktangebote, Märkte mit heterogenen Kundenbedürfnissen zu erschließen. Durch die daraus resultierende Angebotsvielfalt wird es den Kunden ermöglicht, mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit eine Produktkonfiguration zu finden, die den jeweiligen individuellen Präferenzen der Kunden entspricht. Die Umsetzung eines solchen…

Sonja Čotar Konrad / Darjo Felda / Tina Štemberger

Contemporary Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Care

Studien zur Schulpädagogik

The monograph »Contemporary perspectives on early childhood education and care« consists of ten chapters that theoretically and empirically address some of the key areas of quality of ECEC.

In the first chapter »The preschool teacher: an important factor in promoting child development« we present how the education of preschool teacher profession has been developed and influenced in Slovenia.

In the second chapter »Models for professional development…

Eva Stranovská / Anikó Ficzere

The Application of Intervention Programmes and the Development of Reading Comprehension Predictors

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

Die Fertigkeit Leseverstehen hat nicht nur im Bildungssystem, sondern auch auf dem Arbeitsmarkt, national und weltweit, an Bedeutung gewonnen. Die Fähigkeit, nach relevanten Informationen zu suchen, geeignete Informationen auszuwählen, die Aufmerksamkeit auf wesentliche Aspekte zu lenken, die Informationen im Gedächtnis zu behalten, sie als Ganzes wahrzunehmen, Schlussfolgerungen zu ziehen, Assoziationen zu machen, den Text kritisch zu bewerten usw. sind entscheidende…

Reinhard Nachtigal

Ruses and Perfidy – Submarine Warfare and the Sinking of Hospital Ships During World War I

Rechtsgeschichtliche Studien

In March 1916, a submarine under Turkish colors torpedoed without warning a Russian hospital ship in the Black Sea. It sank within a few minutes with a loss of over 100 lives. Whereas public mood in Russia ran high, the submarine commander argued that the ship was neither marked with prescribed signs of a hospital ship, nor that it conducted itself as such a one. For Russia the incident offered the pretext to withdraw from humanitarian projects involving POWs that had…

Anna Thaler

Values and Ethical Principles for AI and Robotics

A Qualitative Content Analysis of EU Soft Law Initiatives

Schriften zur Rechts- und Staatsphilosophie

The fast-paced developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics not only tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges, but also evoke a number of urgent and complex moral difficulties such as opaque decision-making, gender bias or other kinds of discrimination.

Against this background, the European Union (EU) advocates to rely upon values and principles, enshrined in EU primary law, to approach moral and ethical encounters. [...]

Chika Ubaldus Ogbonna

Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries

Institutional Challenges and Opportunities for Nigeria‘s Niger Delta Region

Studien zur Umweltpolitik

Climate variability and change has become a major environmental challenge facing developing countries in the 21st century. The natural resource-rich Niger Delta of Nigeria is highly vulnerable to climate change and variability. The research elicited data from multiple stakeholders within relevant agencies and organizations, with a focus on the stakeholders’ views on legal and institutional challenges to adaptation in Bayelsa, Delta, Imo and Rivers States. Assessment of…