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
ICCAS: Innovation Center for Computer-Assisted Surgery
Director: Professor Andreas Melzer (Faculty of Medicine; University Hospital, Innovation Center for Computer-Assisted Surgery (ICCAS))
Term: 2005–2019
Integrated Research and Treatment Center (IFB) AdiposityDiseases
Scientific director: Professor Michael Stumvoll (Faculty of Medicine; University Hospital, Department of Endocrinology and Nephrology)
Term: 2010–2020
e:Med CAPSyS: Modelling of Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Network spokesperson: Professor Markus Löffler (Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology)
Project director: Sub-project 1: Professor Markus Scholz; sub-project 5: Professor Markus Löffler (both Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology)
Term: 2014–2019
Identification of Predictive Response and Resistance Factors to Targeted Therapy in Gastric Cancer Using a Systems Medicine Approach: SYS-Stomach
Project director: Professor Florian Lordick (Faculty of Medicine; University Hospital, University Cancer Center)
Term: 2014–2019
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
nutriCARD: Competence Cluster for Nutrition and Cardiovascular Health
Project director: Professor Peggy Braun (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Food Hygiene) and Dr Tobias Höhn (Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Institute of Communication and Media Studies)
Term: 2015–2021
HorseVetMed: Telemetric Veterinary Medical Technology
Project director: Professor Walter Brehm (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Surgical Veterinary Clinic)
Term: 2016–2019
SMITH: Smart Medical Information Technology for Healthcare
Network spokesperson: Professor Markus Löffler (Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology)
Term: 2016–2019
SONO-RAY: Tumor Therapy Combined by MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound and Radiation Therapy
Project director: Professor Andreas Melzer (Faculty of Medicine; University Hospital, Innovation Center for Computer-Assisted Surgery (ICCAS))
Term: 2016–2019
e:Med and i:DSem Collaborative Project: “LHA – Leipzig Health Atlas”
Project director: Professor Markus Löffler (Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology)
Term: 2016–2019
HI-MAG: Helmholtz Institute for Metabolic, Adiposity and Vascular Research
Scientific director: Professor Michael Stumvoll (Faculty of Medicine; University Hospital, Department of Endocrinology and Nephrology)
Term: 2016–2020
Optimising Depression Treatment in Old Age: Acceptance, Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of the Internet-Based Self-Management Programme “Trauer und Verlust”: AgE-health.de
Project director: Dr Janine Stein (Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Medicine and Public Health)
Term: 2016–2021
German Biobank Alliance: BBMRI.de
Project director: Dr Ronny Baber (Faculty of Medicine, LIFE Research Centre)
Term: 2017–2020
IMPACT: Mobile System for Emergency Diagnosis and Monitoring of Pneumothoraces
Research head: Dr Andreas Melzer (Faculty of Medicine; University Hospital, Innovation Center for Computer-Assisted Surgery (ICCAS))
Term: 2017–2020
AgeWell.de: A Multi-Centre Cluster Randomised Controlled Multi-Component Intervention Trial on the Prevention of Cognitive Decline in Elderly GP Patients
Research head: Professor Steffi G. Riedel-Heller (Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Medicine and Public Health)
Term: 2017–2021
COMPASS: Comprehensive Surgical Landscape Guidance System for Immersive Assistance in Minimally Invasive and Microscopic Interventions
Project director: Professor Thomas Neumuth (Innovation Center for Computer-Assisted Surgery (ICCAS))
Term: 2018–2021
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
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
UrbanLife+: Participation in Urban Life in Mönchengladbach Through MTI with Smart Urban Objects
Project director: Professor Bogdan Franczyk (Faculty of Economics and Management Science, Information Systems Institute)
Term: 2015–2020
CLARIN Expansion and Further Development – CLARIN-D: Centre-Based Research Infrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences – Expansion and Further Development
Project director: Professor Gerhard Heyer (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Institute of Computer Science)
Term: 2016–2020
EXPLOIDS: An Innovative, Data Protection-Preserving Attack Detection System for Computers, Servers and Cloud Systems
Project coordination: Professor Martin Bogdan (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Institute of Computer Science, Technical Computer Science)
Project director: Jörn Hoffmann (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Institute of Computer Science, Technical Computer Science)
Term: 2016–2019
Simultaneous in Situ Neutron Diffraction and Raman Spectroscopy for the Real-Time Investigation of Energy-Related Materials
Project director: Professor Holger Kohlmann (Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry)
Term: 2016–2019
Investments in the Further Development of the Logistics Living Lab
Project director: Professor Bogdan Franczyk (Faculty of Economics and Management Science, Information Systems Institute)
Term: 2017–2018
SURTRADE: Development of a Smart Retail Service Platform and its Embedding in a Transformation Strategy for Urban and Retail Spaces
Project director: Dr Tanja Korzer (Faculty of Economics and Management Science, Institute of Urban Development and Construction Management)
Term: 2017–2020
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
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
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
SPRASTU: Language and Academic Success with Foreign Students. An Empirical Longitudinal Study for the Subjects Chemistry, Economics and Management Science, and German as a Foreign and Second Language / German Language and Literature at the Universities of Leipzig and Würzburg
Project director: Dr Katrin Wisniewski (Faculty of Philology, Herder Institute)
Term: 2017–2020
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
PoliLab: Strangers in Your Own Country? A Study on the Changeability of National Narratives Using Political Laboratories
Project director: Professor Rebecca Pates (Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Institute of Political Science)
Term: 2018–2021
TASTEN: Digitisation of Musical Instruments and Recording Media
Project director: Professor Josef Focht (Faculty of History, Arts and Oriental Studies, Institute of Musicology – Museum of Musical Instruments at Leipzig University)
Term: 2018–2020
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
NWG INDRA: A Model of the Intestinal Stem Cell Niche: Development, Regeneration and Ageing
Project director: Dr Jörg Galle (Faculty of Medicine, Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioinformatics)
Term: 2014–2019
SysMedOS: Integration of Oxidative Stress into Systems Medicine View for Obesity and Obesity-Related Complications
Project director: Dr Maria Fedorova (Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy, Institute of Bioanalytical Chemistry)
Term: 2016–2019
LiSyM Junior Research Group: JGMMS – Hedgehog Signalling Pathway – A New Regulator of Metabolism in the Liver
Project director: Dr Madlen Matz-Soya (Faculty of Medicine, Rudolf Schönheimer Institute of Biochemistry)
Term: 2016–2020
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 Energy
GEISER: From Sensor Data to Internet-Based Geo-Services
Project director: Professor Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo (Institute of Computer Science)
Term: 2016–2019
WindNODE: The Showcase for Intelligent Energy from Northeastern Germany. Analysis, Design and Simulation of Market-Based Instruments for the Integration of Network-Appropriate Flexibilities into Intelligent Energy Supply Systems with a High Share of Renewable Energies
Project director: Professor Thomas Bruckner (Faculty of Economics and Management Science, Institute for Infrastructure and Resource Management)
Term: 2016–2020
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
Federal Joint Committee (G-BA)
HELP@APP: Development and Evaluation of a Self-Help App for Traumatised Refugees
Project director: Professor Steffi Riedel-Heller (Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Medicine and Public Health (ISAP))
Term: 2017–2020
HITS - Heart failure - Individual Training, Telemonitoring and Selfmanagement
Project director: Professor Martin Busse (Faculty of Sport Science, Institute of Sport Medicine and Prevention)
Term: 2019–2022
Saxon State Ministry of Science and the Arts
LIFE-LIFT: Infrastructure for the Research Location Leipzig
Project director: Dr Matthias Nüchter (LIFE Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases)
Term: 2018–2020
GeoEtiology: How Does the Built and Social Environment Affect the Development of Civilization Diseases, Especially Childhood Obesity?
Project director: Professor Antje Körner (Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital)
Term: 2018–2020
MUDIplex: Development of a Multiwell Ultra-High Dense Microelectrode Oscillator Array Multiplexer Platform for Spatio-Temporal Monitoring of Cellular Biomechanics in Live Mode
Project director: Professor Andrea Robitzki (Faculty of Life Sciences, Institute of Biochemistry)
Term: 2018–2020
Innovative Strategies for BIoactive/Antibacterial AdvanceD ProsthEses
Project director: Professor Anette Beck-Sickinger (Faculty of Life Sciences, Institute of Biochemistry)
Term: 2020–2023
Evaluation of a Home-Based Training and Care Programme for Physical and Mental Stabilisation in Colorectal, Breast and Prostate Cancer. Remote Patient Care and Self-Management
Project director: Professor Martin Busse (Faculty of Sport Science, Institute of Sport Medicine and Prevention)
Term: 2020–2021