Current Projects

• CRC 1472 Transformation of the popular
  • Head: Prof. Dr. Niels Werber
  • Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG), since 2021

• CRC 1187 Media of Cooperation
  • Head: Prof. Dr. Tristan Thielmann (previously: Prof. Dr. Erhard Schüttpelz, Prof. Dr. Tristan Thielmann)
  • Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG), since 2016

• Dialect Atlas Central West Germany
  • Head: Prof. Dr. Petra M. Vogel
  • Funding by the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2016 – 2032
• Between professional autonomy and state utilisation: A genealogy of the relationship between democracy, governing and political education in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Heads:  Prof. Dr. Alexander Wohnig, PD Dr. Marlon Barbehön
  • Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG), April 2024 – March 2027
• On the teaching and appropriation of systemic sustainability relationships between social and natural science perspectives in childhood. Concept and cooperation development for the practice of extracurricular places of learning
  • Head:  Prof. Dr. Alexander Wohnig, Prof. Dr. Jochen Lange
  • Funding by the German Federal Environmental Foundation, April 2024 – March 2027
• Digital Kant-Center NRW
  
  • Heads: Prof. Dr. Cord Friebe and Prof. Dr. Dieter Schönecker
  • Funding by Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, June 2022 – 2026

• Coordination Funds (FOR 5183:  Transborder Mobilities and Institutional Dynamics)
  • Head: Prof. Dr. Karin Schittenhelm
  • Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

• Mobility and Institutions of Intermediary Rule in Southern Africa (FOR 5183:  Transborder Mobilities and Institutional Dynamics)
  • Head: Prof. Dr. Katharina Inhetveen / PD Dr. Mario Krämer
  • Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

• Precarious Presence: Mobilisation and Immobilisation in the Interactions between Local Immigration Authorities and Persons on Exceptional Leave to Remain (FOR 5183:  Transborder Mobilities and Institutional Dynamics)
  
  • Head: Prof. Dr. Christian Lahusen
  • Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG), January 2022 – January 2026
• The ‘Human Factor’ in civil aviation. A comparison between the European and Soviet aviation industries, 1950s – 1980s
  • Head: Dr. Sabrina Lausen
  • Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• Culture, Practice, Technique: On the Philosophical Foundation of the International Techno-Anthropology in the Durkheim School
  
  • Head: Dr. Johannes Schick
  • Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• On the cognitive and affective effects of denominational cooperative religious education. A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
  
  • Head: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Riegel, Prof. Dr. Mirjam Zimmermann
  • Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• Postnormal Science in Postnormal Times
  • Head: PD Dr. Franka Schäfer
  • Funding by the Hans Sauer Foundation
• EcoFolk. Zur Agentialität (über-)natürlicher Entitäten in deutschen Mittelgebirge.
  • Head: PD Dr. Niels Penke, Dr. Joana van de Löcht
    
  • Funding by the Volkswagen Foundation
• Creating and composing ice cream in the transition from 18th to 19th century. Cultures of knowledge and gustatory pleasure between courts and middle-class housholds
  • Head: PD Dr. Heiner Stahl
  • Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG), January 2023 – January 2026
• CultureNature Literacy (CNL): Curricular key competences for shaping the future in the Anthropocene
  
  • Head: Prof. Dr. Berbeli Wanning
  • Funding by the Erasmus+ program of the European Union, November 2022 – October 2025
• Nicholas of Cusa as a Reader of Plato and Aristotle: Critical Edition and Study of Nicholas’ Marginalia
  
  • Head: Prof. Dr. Mario Meliadò
  • Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG), November 2022 – October 2025
• Republican Memory and Female Revolutionary Icons: Remembrance of the Neapolitan Republic of 1799 in Literary and Cinematic Media
  
  • Head: Dr. Tobias Berneiser
  • Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG), November 2022 – October 2025
• BePart: Participation and Partnership in Structural Change - Understanding Social Innovations in Lusatia from a Life-World Perspective and Strengthening them in Practical Action
  • Head: Dr. Franz Erhard
  • Funding by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), October 2022 – September 2025
• Structural conditions of healthcare provision and public health at the local level. A comparison of Germany, Great Britain, and Sweden
  • Head: Prof. Dr. Claus Wendt
  • Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG), October 2022 – September 2025

• The European Literary Field: Structures, Processes and Networks of Book Production and Translation in Europe
  • Head: Prof. Dr. Christian Lahusen
  • Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG), January 2022 – December 2024
• Paso­lini: popu­lar (Subproject of the CRC 1472 Transformation of the popular)
  
  • Head: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wild
  • Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG), April 2022 – December 2024
• The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg in the Dictatorships of the 20th Century
  • Head: Prof. Dr. Veronika Albrecht-Birkner
  • Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG), September 2021 – August 2024
• Scientific network for the determination of the relationship between democratic education and citizenship education
  • Head: Prof. Dr. Alexander Wohnig
  • Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG), 2021 – July 2024

• Social trust as a prerequisite for social cohesion in Europe
  • Head: Prof. Dr. Christian Lahusen
  • Funding by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

• State history on the radio. The production process and the intermedial transfer of regional historical narratives of the WDR regional editorial office around Walter Först (1960 − early 1990s)
  
  • Head: Dr. Katrin Minner
  • Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

• Religion as resource and a risk
  
  • Head: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Riegel / Prof. Dr. Manfred L. Pirner
  • Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

• Serial Circulation: The German-American Mystery Novel and the Beginnings of Transatlantic Modernity (1850-1855)
  • Head: Prof. Dr. Daniel Stein
  • Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

• Subjective well-being of parents and nonparents in middle and old age: Well-being premiums and penalties of parenthood in Germany and Europe
  • Head: Prof. Dr. Matthias Pollmann-Schult
  • Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

• Visualizations of the invisible
  • Head: Dr. Margarete Wach
  • Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

• From the incarnation of the Logos to the incorruptibility of his body. The reception of the Gospel of John in the aphthartodocetic schism and its prehistory
  • Head: Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Weidemann
  • Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Former Projects