Der vorliegende Beitrag entstand im Zusammenhang mit einem Projekt-Seminar zum 25. Jubiläum des deutsch-polnischen Nachbarschaftsvertrages an der Universität Bamberg. Er stellt in groben Zügen die jahrhundertealten Verbindungen zwischen Bamberg und Polen dar und berichtet über die gegenwärtigen Kooperationen auf kommunaler und wirtschaftlicher Ebene sowie über die Partnerschaften zwischen Bildungseinrichtungen und Jugendorganisationen. Mit der Projektarbeit sind auch Reflexionen über das Fach Slavistik im Zeitalter der EU und der Globalisierung verknüpft.

Die Katholische Erziehergemeinschaft KEG Bezirksverband Oberfranken wurde als Dekanatsverband und Ortsverband Bamberg Ende 1947 gegründet. Federführend waren der Oberstudienrat Kaspar Zimmermann und Domkapitular Dr. Johann Schmitt. Mit der Gründung von Dekanatsgemeinschaften war die katholische Lehrerschaft von Bamberg und Umgebung "zur zielbewussten und tatkräftigen Förderung des gesamten Erziehungs-, Bildungs- und Schulwesens nach den Grundsätzen der katholischen Kirche" aufgerufen. Heute blickt die Katholische Erziehergemeinschaft KEG Bezirksverband Oberfranken auf eine 60jährige Geschichte zurück und ist ein Zusammenschluss christlich orientierter Pädagogen aus allen Erziehungs- und Bildungsbereichen."

Across income groups and countries, the public perception of economic inequality and many other macroeconomic variables such as inflation or unemployment rates is spectacularly wrong. These misperceptions have far-reaching consequences, as it is perceived inequality, not actual inequality informing redistributive preferences. The prevalence of this phenomenon is independent of social class and welfare regime, which suggests the existence of a common mechanism behind public perceptions. We propose a network-based explanation of perceived inequality building on recent advances in random geometric graph theory. The literature has identified several stylised facts on how individual perceptions respond to actual inequality and how these biases vary systematically along the income distribution. Our generating mechanism can replicate all of them simultaneously. It also produces social networks that exhibit salient features of real-world networks; namely, they cannot be statistically distinguished from small-world networks, testifying to the robustness of our approach. Our results, therefore, suggest that homophilic segregation is a promising candidate to explain inequality perceptions with strong implications for theories of consumption behaviour.

The paper examines the relationship between the political system and the public administration modernization in the Hungarian transition. Its intention is to point out that there are various shortcuts and bottlenecks of the Hungarian modernization and the cumulative impacts of these deficiencies have caused characteristic difference of the Hungarian modernization trajectory from the typical Western trajectories.

Empathy measures that involve both cognitive and affective aspects of empathy are scarce. The aim of the work presented in this paper was to develop an instrument for the assessment of both aspects of dispositional empathy in children aged eight to fourteen, based on a variety of existing measures and results from the validation of a first preliminary version.

Ever fiercer competition has forced enterprises not only to optimize their own operations but also to cooperate with their suppliers and customers along their supply chains. Thus, competition today usually takes place between supply chains and not between individual enterprises. Business-To-Business integration (B2Bi) is a major task of supply chain management (SCM), and although it already has been researched for years, B2Bi is still an area of active research with a plethora of research questions and according approaches. Hence, management of B2Bi projects necessitates the identification of relevant requirements which is a far from trivial task. This paper identifies a core set of B2Bi challenges and deduces a comprehensive set of B2Bi requirements that are particularly useful for tackling the challenges identified. The derivation of B2Bi requirements follows an inductive approach that is based on the analysis of integration standards, reference architectures and related literature. In order to operationalize the B2Bi requirements for further analysis and concrete B2Bi projects, the requirements are classified according to the abstraction layers of a B2Bi schema. Thus, this report not only offers a requirements check list for B2Bi projects but also helps in deciding when to address which requirements during the course of a B2Bi project.

Recently, service orientation has strongly influenced the way enterprise applications are built. Service ecosystems, which provide means to trade services between companies like goods, are an evaluation of service orientation. To allow service ordering, discovering, selection, and consumption, a common way to describe services is a necessity. This paper discusses existing approaches to describe certain service aspects. Finally, a Service Description Framework for service ecosystems is proposed and exemplified.