Outstanding research
Projects and alliances
DFG Collaborative Research Centers and Transregios
SFB 1319: "ExtremeLight for sensing and driving molecular CHirality(ELCH)".
- Duration: 2022-2025 (second funding phase)
- Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Thomas Baumert
- GEPRIS project description
SFB 1053: "MAKI - Multi-Mechanism-Adaptation for the Future Internet"
- Duration: 2013-2024 (third funding phase)
- Participation of the University of Kassel:: Prof. Dr. Oliver Hohlfeld
- GEPRIS project description
SFB 1114: "Scale cascades in complex systems".
- Duration: 2022-2026 (third funding phase)
- Participation of the University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Dorothee Knees and Prof. Dr. Claudia Backes
- GEPRIS project description
SFB 1249: "N-Heteropolycycles as functional materials".
- Duration: 2021-2025 (first funding phase)
- Participation of the University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Claudia Backes
- GEPRIS project description
DFG Research Groups
FOR 5234: "Multiple Competition in the Higher Education System: Actor Constitution, Coordination of Actions, and Consequential Effects"
- Duration: 2021-2027 (first and second funding phase)
- Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Guido Bünstorf
- GEPRIS project description
FOR 5425: "Urban Expansion in Times of Reurbanization - New (Sub-)Urbanity"
- Duration: 2023-2027 (first funding phase)
- Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Uwe Altrock
- GEPRIS project description
FOR 2724: "Thermal machines in the quantum world".
- Duration: 2022-2026 (second funding phase)
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Kilian Singer
- GEPRIS project description
FOR 2432: "Social-Ecolocial Systems in the Indian Rural-Urban Interface: Functions, Scales, and Dynamics of Transition"
- Duration: 2020-2024 (second funding phase)
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Eva Schlecht, Prof. Dr. Andreas Bürkert, Prof. Dr. Tobias Plieninger, Prof. Dr. Andreas Thiel
- GEPRIS project description
FOR 2816: "The Autotrophy-Heterotrophy Switch in Cyanobacteria: Coherent Decision-Making at Multiple Regulatory Layers".
- Duration: 2021-2025 (second funding phase)
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Kristin Gutekunst
- GEPRIS project description
- Link to the external project website
FOR 5064: "The role of nature for human well-being in the social-ecological system of Kilimanjaro (Kili-SES)"
- Duration: 2020-2025 (first funding phase, extension)
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Andreas Thiel
- GEPRIS project description
FOR 5254: "Sustainable learning: cognitive mechanisms and effective implementation in the classroom".
- Duration: 2022-2026 (first funding phase)
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Mirjam Ebersbach, Prof. Dr. Ralf Rummer, Prof. Dr. Rita Borromeo Ferri , Prof. Dr. Frank Lipowsky, Prof. Dr. Martin Hänze
- GEPRIS project description
FOR 5573: "Dynamic Regulation of the Proton Motive Force in Photosynthesis"
- Duration: 2023-2027 (first funding phase)
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Kirstin Gutekunst
- GEPRIS project description
DFG Priority Programs
SPP 1984: Hybrid and multimodal energy systems: systems-theoretical methods for the transformation and operation of complex networks
- Duration: 2020-2023 (second funding phase)
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Braun
- GEPRIS project description
SPP 1914: "Cyber-Physical Networking (CPN)".
- Duration: 2019-2023 (second funding phase)
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Olaf Stursberg
- GEPRIS project description
SPP 2041: "Computational Connectomics".
- Duration: 2021-2024 (second funding phase)
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Monika Stengl
- GEPRIS project description
SPP 2086: "Surface Conditioning in Machining Processes".
- Duration: 2021-2024 (second funding phase)
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Kroll, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Niendorf, Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Zinn
- GEPRIS project description
SPP 2255: "Cultural Heritage Construction - Foundations of an engineering-based and networked preservation of historical monuments for the architectural heritage of high modernity".
- Duration: 2024-2026 (second funding phase)
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Bernhard Middendorf, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Werner Seim
- GEPRIS project description
SPP 2256: "Variational methods for the prediction of complex phenomena in engineering structures and materials".
- Duration: 2024-2026 (second funding phase)
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Dorothee Knees
- GEPRIS project description
SPP 2322: "System ecology of soils - the microbiome and boundary conditions modulate energy discharge"
- Duration: 2021-2024 (first funding phase)
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Rainer Georg Jörgensen
- GEPRIS project description
SPP 2378: "Resilience in Networked Worlds - Managing Failures, Overload, Attacks and the Unknown".
- Duration: 2022-2025 (first funding phase)
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Oliver Hohlfeld
- GEPRIS project description
DFG Research Training Groups and other doctoral programs
GRK 2731: "INTERFACH - Professionalism and interaction practice in elementary school teaching".
- Duration: 2022-2026 (first funding phase)
- Co-sponsor University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Friederike Heinzel
- GEPRIS project description
GRK 2749: "multiscale clock s - Biological clocks on multiple time scales".
- Duration: 2022-2026 (first funding phase)
- Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Monika Stengl
- GEPRIS project description
PK 056: JUST "Just and sustainable transformation
- Duration: 2023-2026
- Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Felix Welti
GRK:Architekturen organisieren
- Duration:
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Alla Vronskaya
- GEPRIS project description
GRK 2050: "Privacy and Trust for Mobile Users"
- Duration: 2020-2024 (second funding phase)
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Gerrit Hornung, Prof. Dr. Jörn Lamla
- GEPRIS project description
GRK 2686: Contradiction Studies: Constellations, Heuristics and Concepts of the Contradictory
- Duration: 2022-2026 (first funding phase)
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Andreas Fischer-Lescano
- GEPRIS project description
National Research Data Infrastructure
NFDI 5: "NFDI4BioDiversity - Biodiversity, Ecology and Environmental Data".
- Duration: 2020-2030
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Birgit Gemeinholzer
- Funding: DFG
- GEPRIS project description
- Link to the external project website
Third-party funded junior research groups
AI junior research group: GAIN "Graphs in Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks
- Duration: 2020-2024
- Project Leader University of Kassel: Dr. Josephine Thomas
- Link to the external project website
AI junior research group: HyMeKI "Hybridization of Human and Artificial Intelligence in Knowledge Work
- Duration: 2020-2024
- Project Leader University of Kassel: Dr. Sarah Oeste-Reiß
- Article about the project on the BMBF website
- Link to the external project website
AI junior research group: RL4CES "Reinforcement Learning for Cognitive Energy Systems"
- Duration: 2022-2025
- Project Leader University of Kassel: Dr. Christoph Scholz
BMBF junior research group: "Bio4Act - Biogenic activated carbons and platform chemicals from residual biomass for the implementation of a sustainable circular bioeconomy"
- Duration: 2023-2028
- Project Leader University of Kassel: Dr.-Ing. Korbinian Kaetzl
- Link to the external project website
Inorganic 2D nanomaterials as potential building blocks for supramolecular chemistry
- Duration: 2016-2023
- Project Leader University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Claudia Backes
- GEPRIS project description
Academy Projects
Burchard's Decree Digital: Working platform on text indexing and the history of impact of early and high medieval legal cultures
- Duration: 2020-2037
- Project Leader University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Baumgärtner
International programs
International Research Center: CALAS "Centro Maria Sibylla Merian de Estudios Latinoamericanas Avanzados / Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies"
- Duration: 2017-2025
- Project Management University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Angela Schrott and Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt
- Funding: BMBF
International Research Network: ICDD "International Center for Development and Decent Work"
- Duration: 2019-2022
- Project Leader University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherrer
- Funding: BMZ
International Research Network: GPN "Global Partnership Network"
- Duration: 2020-2024
- Project Leader University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Aram Ziai
- Funding: MBZ and DAAD
ERC - Starting Grant: Prof. Dr. Andra Milcu
- LEVER. Our sustainable future, the values that drive it, and how to get there
- Duration: 2024-2029
- Cordis projekt description
ERC - Starting Grant: Prof. Dr. Benoit Merle
- NanoHighSpeed. High-speed Deformation and Failure of Materials at the Nanometer Scale
- Duration: 2021-2026
- Cordis project description
ERC - Consolidator Grant: Prof. Dr. Jochen Mikosch
- c-TSD-p. Time-Resolved Structural Imaging of Chemical Transition State Dynamics
- Duration: 2021-2026
- Cordis project description
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions: Dr. Prathiwi Widyatmi Putri
- CO-Water: From Conflict to Co-production. A Grassroots-Led Model of Polycentric Water Governance in the Postcolonial South
- Duration: 2021-2024
- Cordis Project Description
AGISTIN - Advanced Grid Interfaces for innovative STorage INtegration
- Duration: 2023-2026
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Martin Braun
- Cordis project description
IntercropValuES - Developing Intercropping for agrifood Value chains and Ecosystem Services delivery in Europe and Southern countries
- Duration: 2023-2026
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Maria Finckh
- Cordis project description
SENERGY NETS - Increase the Synergy among different ENERGY NETworkS
- Duration: 2022-2026
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Martin Braun
- Cordis project description
INTAQT - INnovative Tools for Assessment and Authentication of chicken meat, beef and dairy products' QualiTies
- Duration: 2021-2026
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr.Fenja Klevenhusen
- Cordis project description
InterConnect - Interoperable Solutions Connecting Smart Homes, Buildings, and Grids
- Duration: 2019-2024
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Braun
- Cordis project description
SustainSAHEL - Synergistic use and protection of natural resources for rural livelihoods through systematic integration of crops, shrubs and livestock in the Sahel
- Duration: 2020-2025
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Eva Schlecht
- Cordis project description
- Link to the external project website
LANDMARC - LAND-use based MitigAtion for Resilient Climate pathways
- Duration: 2019-2024
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Eva Schlecht
- Cordis project description
- Link to the external project website
BISON - Biodiversity and Infrastructure Synergies and Opportunities for European Transport Networks
- Duration: 2021-2027
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Gert Rosenthal
- Cordis project description
- Link to the external project website
DecoIDEV - Decolonising Development: Research, Teaching and Practice
- Duration: 2020-2024
- Project Leader University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Aram Ziai
BONEX - Boosting Nexus Framework Implementation in the Mediterranean - Subproject: Development of the theoretical framework for the water, energy, food and ecosystems nexus
- Duration: 2022-2025
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Andreas Thiel
Other alliances
BeBio2 - Resistance of bioplastics and biocomposites
- Duration: 2022-2024
- Project Leader University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Heim
- Funding: BMEL
- Link to external project website
CoAct - Integrated urban-rural concept for the production of activated carbon and energy carriers from residual biomasses
- Duration: 2018-2023
- Project Leader University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Michael Wachendorf
- Funding: BMBF
Extractivism - Investigation of Raw Material Extractivism in Latin America and the Maghreb
- Duration: 2021-2024
- Project Leader University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt
- Funding: BMBF
- Link to external project website
Fields and Actors of Arts Education in Rural Areas" (FAkuBi)
- Duration: 2019-2023
- Project Leader University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Werner Thole
- Funding: BMBF
- Link to the external project website
U-high-3- Unbeschwert Urban Unterwegs
- Duration: 2019-2023
- Project Leader University of Kassel: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ludger Schmidt
- Funding: BMBF
- Link to external project website
TRIO - Transformative Mixed Crop Systems for One Health
- Duration: 2024-2027
- Project Leader University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Miriam Athmann
- Funding: State program LOEWE (priority)
- Press release
SMoLBits – Scalable Molecular Quantum Bits
- Laufzeit: 2019-2023 (term extension)
- Project Leader University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Johann Peter Reithmaier
- Funding: State program LOEWE (priority)
- LOEWE project description
LOEWE focus areas:
GreenDairy - Integrated animal-plant-agricultural ecosystems.
- Duration: 2022-2025
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Maria Finckh, Prof. Dr. Michael Wachendorf
- LOEWE project description
LOEWE Center:
EmergenCity - The Emergency Responsive Digital City
- Duration: 2024-2026
- Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Gerrit Hornung, Prof. Dr. Oliver Hohlfeld
- LOEWE project description