The Joint Science Conference of the German federal government and the German states has announced that the University of Münster will be involved in two research projects within the new Academies Programme. One of them is the project “The Vatican and the Persecution of Jews in Europe”, led by church historian Prof. Dr. Hubert Wolf, theologian Prof. Dr. Michael Seewald, and information systems scholar Prof. Dr. Jan vom Brocke.

A total of 15.4 million euros—distributed over a 25-year funding period—will be provided by the Federal Government, the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The Vatican research team plans to analyze around 10,000 petitions written by Jewish people to the Vatican during the Nazi era with the help of artificial intelligence.

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Read more about the project “The Vatican and the Persecution of Jews in Europe” in the University of Münster’s press release and on the project page.

Learn more about Prof. Jan vom Brocke here.