Research projects (third-party funding)
Major projects financed from third-party and special funds:
Project: Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer (applicant, together with Christine Lang and Andreas Pott)
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Duration: 2025-2029
Funding amount for IMIS: € 788,938
Project "›Refugees‹ and Others: The Production of Refugee-Related Figures since the 1970s", project A5 of the DFG funded Collaborative Research Center "Production of Migration" at IMIS (applicant, together with Isabella Löhr)
Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Duration: 2024-2027
Funding amount: € 225,000
Project "The Production of Urban Spaces of Migration by Local Administrations and Science", project C1 of the DFG funded Collaborative Research Center "Production of Migration" IMIS (applicant, together with Andreas Pott)
Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Duration: 2024-2027
Funding amount: € 560,000
Project: "Collaborative Research Center 1604 'Production of Migration'" (co-applicant)
Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Duration: 2024-2027
Funding amount: €8.3 million
Project: Flight and refugee research - networking and transfer (applicant, together with Ulrike Krause and Andreas Pott as well as Petra Bendel, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Jörg Grävingholt, German Development Institute/Bonn and Conrad Schetter, Bonn International Center for Conversion)
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Duration: 2020-2024
Funding amount: € 3,718,893 (IMIS share: € 1,335,485)
Project: Establishment of the junior research group 'The scientific production of knowledge on migration' (applicant, together with Thomas Groß, Andreas Pott, Christoph Rass and Helen Schwenken)
Funding: Niedersächsischer Vorab of the Volkswagen Foundation
Duration: 2018-2025
Funding amount: €1,496,500
"Networking Centers" project as part of the joint application for project funding from the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) for IMIS
Funding: Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMBFSJ)
Duration: 2021-2024
Funding amount: €110,000
Project: Cultural production in the migration society (KultMIX) (applicant, together with Andreas Pott, Antonie Schmiz and Jens Schneider)
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Duration: 2018-2022
Funding amount: € 993,000
Project: Funding for the second phase of a junior professorship (W 1) for the culture and history of Russian-Germans with the denomination 'Migration and Integration of Russian-Germans' (applicant, together with Andreas Pott)
Funding: Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
Duration: 2018-2022 (second funding period)
Funding amount: €300,000
Project: Funding of a junior professorship (W 1) with the denomination 'Flight and Refugee Research' (applicant, together with Andreas Pott)
Funding: Osnabrück University
Duration: 2018-2024
Funding amount: € 370,000
Project: Cooperation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Multimedia Department, Berlin to create country profiles and short dossiers on migration for the Federal Agency's website (applicant)
Funding: Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn/BerlinTerm: since 2011 (long-term)
Funding amount: between €65,000 and €100,000 per year, total amount to date around €1 million
Project: Development of a concept for 'Networking as an instrument of structural development in refugee and displacement research' (applicant, together with Andreas Pott)
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Duration: 2018-2019
Funding amount: € 50,000
Project: Establishment of the research training group 'Migrationsgesellschaftliche Grenzformationen' of the Universities of Oldenburg, Göttingen and Osnabrück (co-applicant)
Funding: Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony
Duration: 2017-2021
Funding amount: € 860,000 (IMIS share: € 216,000)
Project: Exile in the Federal Republic of Germany: Conditions and challenges for artists (applicant)
Funding: Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
Duration: 2018-2020
Funding amount: € 52,000
Projects "Networking Centers", "Pilot Project 'Research College Migration'" and "Exit - Transit - Transformation" as part of the joint application for project funding from the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) for IMIS (together with Andreas Pott and Helen Schwenken)
Funding: Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMBFSJ)
Duration: 2017-2020
Funding amount: € 430,000
Project: Situation of the German diaspora with regard to perceptions, understanding and practice of 'Germanness' and patterns of interpretation of collective memory in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan (applicant together with Jannis Panagiotids, IMIS and Ruth Wittlinger, Durham University/UK)
Funding: Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
Duration: 2017-2020
Funding amount: € 144,000
Project: Flight - Research and Transfer. Refugee research in Germany (applicant, together with Andreas Pott, IMIS, and Conrad Schetter, BICC, Bonn)
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: 2016-2019
Funding amount: € 989,000 (IMIS share: € 680,162)
Project: Establishment of a Research Training Group 'Production of Migration' (applicant, together with Andreas Pott)
Funding: Osnabrück University
Duration: 2015-2019
Funding amount: € 300,000
Project: Funding for two post-doctoral fellowships as part of the Research Training Group 'Production of Migration' (applicant, together with Andreas Pott)
Funding: Sievert Foundation for Science and Culture
Duration: 2015-2019
Funding amount: € 144,600
Project: Establishment of a junior professorship (W 1) for the culture and history of Russian-Germans with the denomination 'Migration and Integration of Russian-Germans' (applicant, together with Andreas Pott)
Funding: Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM)
Duration: 2013-2018 (first funding period)
Funding amount: € 310,000
Printing cost subsidy for 'IMIS-Beiträge', the academic journal of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University (applicant)
Funding: Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart
Duration: 2012-2015
Funding amount: € 35,000
Project: Handbook State and Migration in Germany since the 17th Century (author of the applications)
Funding: Lower Saxony Advance of the Volkswagen Foundation, Hanover and Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, Hanover
Duration: 2006-2015
Funding amount: €563,000
Project: National Socialist 'Volksgemeinschaft'? Construction, social power and memory on site (co-applicant in the cooperation project of the Universities of Hanover, Oldenburg, Göttingen and Osnabrück)
Funding: Niedersächsischer Vorab of the Volkswagen Foundation, Hanover
Duration: 2009-2015
Funding amount: €1.13 million
Project: 'Encyclopaedia of Migration in Europe from the 17th Century to the Present' (co-applicant)
Funding: Fritz Thyssen Foundation for the Promotion of Science, Cologne; Population - Migration - Environment Foundation, Stäfa (Switzerland)
Duration: 2001-2011
Funding amount: € 270,000
Project: Osnabrück Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in European Studies (co-applicant)
Funding: European Commission
Duration: 2007-2010
Funding amount: €75,000
DFG Research Training Group 'Migration in Modern Europe', first and second renewal proposal (co-applicant)
Funding: DFG
Duration: 1999-2002 and 2002-2005
Funding amount: €1.45 million
Project 'Migration and Politics in the Weimar Republic' (author of the proposal)
Funding: Fritz Thyssen Foundation for the Advancement of Science, Cologne
Duration: 1998-2001
Funding amount: DM 237,000