External Funding
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
- Head: PD Dr. Niels Penke, Dr. Joana van de Löcht
- 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
- Enlightened trust: An examination of trust and distrust in governance – conditions, effects and remedies (EnTrust)
- Head: Prof. Dr. Christian Lahusen
- Funding by the EU, February 2020 - January 2024
- Digital Germany - Monitoring the population's digital literacy
- Head: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Hoffmann
- Funding by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) and Institute for Media Education (JFF), July 2020 - December 2023
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- Funding by the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), October 2021 – September 2023
- Head: Dr. Olaf Jann
- Funding by Volkswagen Foundation, October 2022 – September 2023
- Right-wing discourse strategies against left-wing politics in social media
- Head: Prof. Dr. Friedemann Vogel, Dr. Fabian Deus
- Funding by Hans-Böckler Foundation, September 2021 – August 2023
- Analytic Theology vs. Ordinary Theology. Characteristic Similarities and Differences between Analytical-Theological Rationality and the Narrative Rationality of Lay Believers
- Head: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Riegel
- Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG), September 2020 – August 2023
- The Forms and Functions of authorial Epitexts within the contemporary Literary Field
- Head: Prof. Dr. Jörg Döring
- Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG), January 2020 - January 2023
- Postgraduate Certificate Program: Roads to Democracies - Digital: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Politics, Society and Culture
- Head: Prof. Dr. Raphaela Averkorn
- Funding by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), December 2020 - December 2022
- Doing Europe - Cohesion and Integration in the European Union
- Head: Dr. Tetiana Havlin
- Förderung im Rahmen des Erasmus+ Programms, September 2019 – August 2022
- True Hate. Emotion Disciplining and Political Learning
- Head: Dr. Olaf Jann
- Funding by Volkswagen Foundation, April 2021 – September 2022
- A Democratic Culture of Conflict for the Energy Transition (DemoKon)
- Head of Subproject at Siegen University: Prof. Dr. Sigrid Baringhorst
- Funding by Foundation Mercator, August 2019 - July 2022
- Evaluation of Cooperative Religious Education in NRW
- Head: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Riegel, Prof. Dr. Mirjam Zimmermann
- Funding by the Protestant Office NRW and the Catholic Office NRW, July 2019 - January 2022
- IVAC: International Virtual Academic Collaboration 2020-2021
- Projekt: Migration and collective identities - Chile, Georgia and Germany
- Head: Prof. Dr. Raphaela Averkorn
- Funding by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), until September 2021
- Dealing with Religious Heterogeneity in Denominational Religious Education
- Head: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Riegel
- Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG), September 2018 – August 2021
- European Network for Junior Reserachers in the Field of Plurilingualism and Education (ENROPE)
- Head: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Abendroth-Timmer, September 2018 - August 2021
- Funding by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)