Team and Project Partners

EPINetz consists of an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Universities of Heidelberg and Hildesheim. While the research group at the Heidelberg University is primarily composed of computer scientists, the research group at the University of Hildesheim mainly includes social and political scientists. This allows us to combine theoretical approaches and research methods from political science, policy and discourse research with innovative techniques of collecting and analyzing large amounts of digital communication data. In doing so we apply the latest methods from the fields of Data Science and Computational Social Science to answer our research questions. Our project partners help us to continuously evaluate our methods and engage in the exchange with new users.