The research training group is centred on the landscape of the TriRhena region (the plain of the Upper Rhine and the surrounding uplands). Man's influence on the formation and development of this landscape has been very much greater than was previously thought - that, at least, is the hypothesis motivating the College's work. The natural and anthropogenic changes to the environment that occurred in the TriRhena region over the period of time from Neolithic times to the present-day can only be analysed effectively when specialists from different disciplines work closely together';' research methods from both the natural and the cultural sciences (for instance, history and archaeology) need to be used. The staff are drawn from four of Freiburg University's faculties: the Philosophy Faculty IV, and the Faculties of Biology, Geosciences and Forestry. The collaboration of these staff in the College's programme is facilitated by grouping the programme's topics according to generalised spheres of study.
DFG Programme
Research Training Groups
