The Center for Global Studies, established in 2014, is currently being transformed as part of the university's Fit for Future initiative. The aim is to create flexible and dynamic structures that will enable the units to increase their visibility, take up current scientific questions, identify pioneering research topics and explore development opportunities.
With greater interdisciplinary potential, a promising research focus, (inter)national cooperation and targeted support for young researchers, the new units will make a significant contribution to the university's priorities of intercultural knowledge, knowledge transfer in politics and administration, as well as society and the public, interdisciplinarity and sustainability, as well as to national and international visibility. The concept of interdisciplinary Global Studies will be maintained from an academic point of view, as the continuation of the Global Studies doctoral program demonstrates.
The potential of the individual projects will be evaluated in a phase lasting until the end of 2026 and developed further as part of the new performance mandate.
An overview of the funded pilot projects:
