The project funding provided by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Federal Ministry of Health, and the Saxon State Ministry of Science and the Arts plays a major role in our university’s research achievements. Here you will find a list of current and recently completed projects with funding in excess of 500,000 euros.
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
NAKO: German National Cohort (GNC) – National Cohort Study Centre for Research on Widespread Diseases
Project director: Professor Markus Löffler (Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology)
Term: 2014–2023
ToSEE: Treatment of Benzodiazipine-Refractory Status Epilepticus in the Elderly Population
Project director: Professor Joseph Claßen (Department of Neurology, University Hospital)
Term: 2018–2023
Specific Inhibition of the Ribosomal 50S Subunit Assembly in Bacteria as Novel Bactericidal Mechanism Unexploited by Current Antibiotics
Project director: Professor Ralf Hoffmann (Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy, Centre for Biotechnology and Biomedicine (BBZ))
Term: 2020–2024
Faktencheck Artenvielfalt
Project director: Prof. Dr. Christian Wirth (iDiv and Faculty for Life Sciences)
Term: 2021 – 2024
ADAPT – African "One Health"-Network for Disease Prevention
Project director: Prof. Dr. Uwe Truyen (Institut for Animal Hygiene and Public Veterinary Services, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine)
Term: 2023 – 2027
ScaDS: Competence Center for Scalable Data Services and Solutions Dresden/Leipzig
Scientific Coordinator: Professor Wolfgang E. Nagel (TU Dresden)
Deputy: Professor Erhard Rahm (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Institute of Computer Science)
Term: 2014–2021
marEEshift: Marine Ecological-Economic Systems in the Western Baltic Sea and Beyond: Generic Models, Coordination and Communication
Project director: Professor Martin Quaas (Faculty of Economics and Management Science, Institute for Resource Management)
Term: 2019–2022
XEOL-ID: Identification of Defects by Element-Specific Excitation of Optical Luminescence
Project director: Professor Claudia Sarah Schnohr (Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences, Felix Bloch Institute for Solid State Physics)
Term: 2019–2022
DE4L: Data Economy 4 Advanced Logistics
Project director: Professor Erhard Rahm (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Institute of Computer Science)
Term: 2019–2022
Teaching with digital media in Saxony
Project director: Prof. Dr. Silvia Schöneburg-Lehnert (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Didactics of Mathematics)
Term: 2019–2022
High-Pressure Reactions for the Production of Hydrogen-Rich Hydrides as a Path to New Superconductors
Project director: Professor Holger Kohlmann (Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry)
Term: 2020–2024
SO-SERVE: Social Service Engineering – Using Synergies of Work and Service Science to Improve Work on and With People
Sub-project: Technical Requirements Analysis, Design and Testing of a Framework Concept for Human-Centred and Efficient Service Work
Project director: Dr Stefan Kühne (University Computing Centre)
Term: 2020–2023
UltraSPEC2 - Ultrakompact Spectrometer
Project director: Prof. Dr. Marius Grundmann (Faculty for Physics and Geo Sciences, Felix-Bloch-Institute)
Term: 2020–2023
CoGeQ – Competetive German Quantum Computer
Project director: Prof. Dr. Jan Berend Meijer (Faculty for Physics and Geo Sciences, Felix-Bloch-Institute)
Term: 2022 – 2024
MANGAN – Intelligent Metadata Extraction and Intuitive Search for Spoken Audio Content
Project director: Dr. Stephan Klingner (University Computing Center)
Term: 2022 – 2025
Research Institute for Social Cohesion (FGZ)
Project director: Professor Matthias Middell (Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics and Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Global and European Studies Institute)
Term: 2020–2024
The Controversial Legacy of 1989: Appropriations Between Politicisation, Popularisation and the Historical-Political Conveyance of History
Project director: Professor Monika Wohlrab-Sahr (Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Institute for the Study of Culture)
Term: 2018–2022
Collaborative Project: Personalised Competence Development Through Scalable Mentoring Processes (tech4comp)
Network coordination and project director: Professor Heinz-Werner Wollersheim (Faculty of Education, Institute of Educational Sciences)
Term: 2018–2022
LemaS-PEP – Sub-Project 19: Personalisierte Entwicklungspläne (PEP) als Instrument einer individuellen Begabungsförderung: Nachhaltige Gestaltung von leistungsfördernden Lehr-Lern-Settings im Regelunterricht
LemaS-PEP is a sub-project of the “Leistung macht Schule” research network (LemaS). As part of this research network, Junior Professor Johannes Mayer (children’s literature and primary-level literary learning) at Leipzig University is conducting his own sub-project.
Project director: Professor Heinz-Werner Wollersheim (Faculty of Education, Institute of Educational Sciences)
Term: 2018–2022
Meta-Project for “Cultural Education in Rural Areas” Funding Line
Project director: Professor Nina Kolleck (Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Political Education)
Term: 2019–2024
MECAM: Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb
Project director: Professor Jörg Gertel (Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences, Institute for Geography
Term: 2020–2023
PraxisdigitaliS: Shaping Digital Practice in Saxony
Project director: Professor Sonja Ganguin (Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Institute of Communication and Media Studies)
Term: 2020–2023
DISKOS – Comparing multimodal source corpora of music
Project director: Prof. Dr. Josef Focht (Fakultät for History, Arts and Regional Sciences; Music Instrument Museum of Leipzig University)
Term: 2021–2023
Re-Act – Rule of Law in Eastern Central Europe
Project director: Prof. Dr. Astrid Lorenz (Faculty for Social Sciences and Philosophy and ReCentGlobe)
Term: 2021–2024
ANCIP – African non-military conflict intervention practices
Project director: Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel (Faculty of History, Arts and Regional Studies; Institute of African Studies and ReCentGlobe).
Term: 2022 – 2026
LemaS-Transfer – Phase II. Performance makes school - transfer to the school landscape
Project director: Prof. Dr. Heinz-Werner Wollersheim (Institut for Educational Sciences, Faculty of Education)
Term: 2023 – 2027
MultiplEE: Sustainable Deployment of Renewable Energies with Multiple Environmental impacts – Policy Strategies to Address Environmental Trade-Offs of the German Energy Transition
Project director: Dr Paul Lehmann (Faculty of Economics and Management Science, Institute for Infrastructure and Resource Management)
Term: 2017–2022
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
RAKI: Rapidly Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Industrial Installations. Sub-project: Explanations for Structured Machine Learning
Project director: René Speck (University Computing Centre, Research and Development Department)
Termt: 2019–2022
DE4L: Data Economy 4 Advanced Logistics
Project director: Professor Erhard Rahm (Faculty of Mathematics and Computr Science, Databases)
Term: 2019–2022
EXIST: ISC-Leipzig: International Startup Campus
Project director: Professor Utz Dornberger (Faculty of Economics and Management Science, international SEPT programme)
Term: 2020–2024
MoLeWa – Regional Transformation Network - Development and Implementation of a Regional Transformation Strategy in the Automotive and Supplier Industry and Industry-Related Service Sectors in the Transformation Region Leipzig
Project director: Prof. Dr. Bogdan Franczyk (Faculty of Economics, Institute for Information Systems)
Term: 2022 – 2025