Central Projects

Project INF || Silke Schwandt / Johanna Vompras
Data infrastructure and digital humanities

The INF subproject is responsible for supervising all data- and information-related activities by providing a collaborative digital work and research environment for the whole CRC. By bringing together expertise in the fields of information infrastructure, research data management, and digital humanities, it contributes to establishing new research methods in the field of the humanities that will support research on practices of comparison. At the same time, INF is creating a sustainable basis for ensuring the long-term availability of the research data collected and used in the CRC. This will guarantee the transparency and traceability of research findings, theses, and publications.

Project Ö || Johannes Grave / Jürgen Büschenfeld
Making of: Humanities

By choosing the title ‘Making of: Humanities’, subproject Ö is emphasizing its focus on the reflection and communication of research processes in the humanities. One premise of the CRC 1288 is that practices of comparing play an important role in public life and social communication. Bearing this in mind, one relevant goal in subproject Ö is to develop cutting-edge and promising modes of communication that will make research in the humanities in general and that of the CRC in particular accessible and productive to a broader interested general public. Thus, the main work fields are: (1) public relations on a local and regional level; (2) collaborations with schools, and (3) reflections on the 'making of public science'.

Project Z || Angelika Epple
Central coordination of the Collaborative Research Centre

Project Z is responsible for coordinating the CRC. Its tasks include planning, organizing, and running international conferences, workshops, and congresses; managing finances and personnel; organizing CRC-internal measures to ensure equal opportunity and the promotion of young researchers. The executive board functions as an interface to ensure a smooth flow of information between the different projects, faculties, and dean’s offices along with good communication with national and international cooperation partners, the DFG and further non-university bodies.