An overview of all projects carried out by Zeppelin University researchers can be found in our research database ZUdoc. In this context, third-party funded projects, which are listetd below, are of particular importance. In case of questions concerning research projects, please contact the specified project director.
Autocratization, Policy
Preferences, and the Performance of International Organizations (APPIO)
Funding Organisation: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Maria Debre
Cooperation Partner: Universität Potsdam
Duration: tba
Identitätszielsysteme - Angestrebte Identitäten in
Interaktion und Kontext
Funding Organisation: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Peter Gollwitzer
Duration: 03/2025 - 06/2026
Übergänge zwischen Innovationsprojekten: Zentrale Elemente und Teamprozesse
Funding Organisation: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Weave Lead Agency-Verfahren mit FNRS
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Matthias Weiss
Cooperation Partner: Université Libre Brüssel
Duration: 05/2025 - 04/2028
Ruthless People: Motivation and Socially-Harmful Selfishness (RUTHLESS)
Funding Organisation: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Internationale Zusammenarbeit
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Anja Achtziger
Cooperation Partner: Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spanien
Duration: 04/2025 - 03/2028
Mental Contrasting and Behavior Change in Romantic Relationships
Funding Organisation: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Sachbeihilfe| Refraiming Colonial Legacies
Funding Organisation: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
Project Lead: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Meike Lettau
Duration: 01/2025 - 12/2026
Funding Organisation: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Weave Lead-Agency with the SNF
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Carmen Tanner
Cooperation Partner: Universität Zürich
Duration: 02/2022 - 05/2025
Funding Organisation: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Sachbeihilfe
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Richard Münch
Duration: 10/2021 - 02/2025
Funding Organisation: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Sachbeihilfe
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Richard Münch
Duration: 10/2020 – 07/2024
Funding Organisation: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Sachbeihilfe
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Steffen Eckhard
Duration: 05/2022 - 04/2024
Funding Organisation: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Heisenberg program
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Simon Koschut
Duration: 04/2022 - 03/2024
Funding Organisation: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Sachbeihilfe
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Andrea Schneiker
Cooperation Partners: Universität Siegen, Universität zu Köln
Duration: 01/2022-12/2025
Funding Organisation: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Sachbeihilfe
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Franziska Peter
Duration: 04/2021 – 10/2022
Funding Organisation: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Sachbeihilfe
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Klaus Mühlhahn
Duration: 06/2020-11/2021
Funding Organisation: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Sachbeihilfe
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Franz Schultheis
Duration: 12/2019 – 11/2022
Funding Organisation: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Sachbeihilfe
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Lisbeth Zimmermann
Duration: 07/2019 – 08/2022
Innovations in Local Crisis Management: The Moderating Effect of Administrative Action on Social Cohesion in the Corona Pandemic (InnoLok)
Funding Organisation: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)On empirics of illicit capital flows networks
Funding Organisation: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Jarko Fidrmuc
Duration: 01/2024-12/2025
[Tawasol] Arab-German Cultural Production and Policy Network تواصل
Funding Organisation: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
Project Lead: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Meike Lettau
Duration: 04/2023 - 12/2025
Funding Organisation: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
Project Lead: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Meike Lettau
Cooperation Partners: University of Hildesheim, University of Cape Coast,
University of Maiduguri
Duration: 07/2022 - 12/2023
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Steffen Eckhard
Cooperation Partners: University Readings, University of British Columbia,
University Ottawa
Duration: 2020 - 2023
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