Collaborative Research

EXC 3112 - Center for Chiral Electronics (external link, opens in a new window)

Spokespersons: Georg Woltersdorf (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), Katharina Franke (Freie Universität Berlin), Christoph Strunk (external link, opens in a new window) (University of Regensburg)

Starting 2026

Press Release, 22/05/25

Collaborative Research Centres and Transregios with UR as Applicant Institution

TRR 305 - Striking a moving target: From mechanisms of metastatic organ colonisation to novel systemic therapies (external link, opens in a new window)

Spokesperson: Christoph Klein (external link, opens in a new window)

Since 2021

Press release, 11/27/2020 (external link, opens in a new window) (German version only)

TRR 374 - Tubular system and interstitium of the kidney: (Patho-) physiology and crosstalk (external link, opens in a new window)

Spokesperson: Mario Schiffer (FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg), since 1/2025; Richard Warth until 12/2024

Since 2019

TRR 221 - Modulation of graft-versus-host and graft-versus-leukemia immune responses after allogeneic stem cell transplantation (external link, opens in a new window)

Spokesperson: Wolfgang Herr (external link, opens in a new window), Video (external link, opens in a new window)

Since 2018
Press release, 11/26/2021 (external link, opens in a new window) (German version only)

CRC 1277 - Emergent Relativistic Effects in Condensed Matter: From Fundamental Aspects to Electronic Functionality (external link, opens in a new window)

Spokesperson: Jaroslav Fabian (external link, opens in a new window), Video (external link, opens in a new window)

Since 2017

Press release, 05/26/2017 (external link, opens in a new window) (German version only)

CRC 1085 - Higher Invariants – Interactions between Arithmetic Geometry and Global Analysis (external link, opens in a new window)

Spokesperson: Guido Kings (external link, opens in a new window)

Since 2014

Press release, 11/25/2021 (external link, opens in a new window) (German version only)

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Transregio with UR as Co-Applicant Institution

TRR 325 - Assembly Controlled Chemical Photocatalysis (external link, opens in a new window)

Spokesperson: Thorsten Bach (Technical University of Munich)

Since 2021

Press release (external link, opens in a new window), 05/25/2021 (German version only) | Video Burkhard König (external link, opens in a new window) (University of Regensburg)

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Collaborative Research Centres with UR Participation

CRC 1371 - Microbiome Signatures - Functional Relevance in the Digestive Tract (external link, opens in a new window)

Spokesperson: Dirk Haller (Technical University of Munich)

Since 2019

CRC 1119 - CROSSING - Cryptography-Based Security Solutions: Enabling Trust in New and Next Generation Computing Environments (external link, opens in a new window)

Spokesperson: Marc Fischlin (Technichal University of Darmstadt)    

Since 2014

Research Training Groups with UR as Applicant Institution

RTG 2905 - Ultrafast Nanoscopy - From Single Particle Dynamics to Cooperative Processes (external link, opens in a new window)

Spokesperson: Rupert Huber (external link, opens in a new window)

Since 2024

Press release, 8/11/2023

RTG 2620 - Ion Pair Effects in Molecular Reactivity (external link, opens in a new window)

Spokesperson: Ruth Gschwind (external link, opens in a new window)  

Since 2021

RTG 2337 - Pre-modern Metropolitansim (external link, opens in a new window)

Spokesperson: Jörg Oberste (external link, opens in a new window)

Since 2017

RTG 2174 - Neurobiology of Social and Emotional Dysfunctions (external link, opens in a new window)

Spokesperson: Inga Neumann

Since 2017

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DFG Research Training Groups with UR as Co-Applicant Institution

RTG 2339 - IntComSin: Interfaces, Complex Structures, and Singular Limits in Continuum Mechanics - Analysis and Numerics (external link, opens in a new window)

Spokesperson: Günther Grün (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Since 2018

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Priority Program with UR Spokesperson

SPP 2256 - Variational Methods for Predicting Complex Phenomena in Engineering Structures and Materials (external link, opens in a new window)

Spokesperson: Georg Dolzmann (external link, opens in a new window)

Since 2020

Research Units with UR Spokesperson

FOR 5424 - Modulation of olfaction: how recurrent circuits govern state-dependent behaviour (external link, opens in a new window)

Spokesperson: Veronica Egger (external link, opens in a new window) (German version only)

Since 2021

Press release, 07/04/2022 (external link, opens in a new window) (German version only)

FOR 5235 - Cereal Stem Cell Systems (CSCS): Establishment, Maintenance and Termination (external link, opens in a new window)

Spokesperson: Thomas Dresselhaus (external link, opens in a new window)

Since 2021

Press release, 09/30/2021 (external link, opens in a new window) (German version only)

FOR 2926 - Next generation Perturbative QCD for Hadron Structure: Preparing for Electron-Ion Collider (external link, opens in a new window)

Spokesperson: Vladimir Braun (external link, opens in a new window)

Since 2019

FOR 2858 - Role of translocator protein (18 kDa) (TSPO) as a diagnostic and therapeutic target in the nervous system (external link, opens in a new window)

Spokesperson: Rainer Rupprecht (external link, opens in a new window)

Since 2019

Press release, 07/10/2019 (external link, opens in a new window) (German version only)

FOR 2770 - Beyond Canon_: Heterotopias of Religious Authority in Ancient Christianity (external link, opens in a new window)

Spokesperson: Tobias Nicklas (external link, opens in a new window)

Since 2018

UK - German Funding Initiative in the Humanities (DFG und Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC))

Transitions: Examining Changing Regimes of Sexuality in Post-Soviet Muslim Republics (external link, opens in a new window)

Timothy Nunan

Since 2024

Project StoryMachine: Exploring implications of recommender based spatial hypertext systems for folklore and the humanities (external link, opens in a new window)

Astrid Ensslin

Since 2024

International Doctorate Program with UR Spokesperson

Photo-Electro Catalysis (PEC) (external link, opens in a new window)

Spokesperson: Oliver Reiser (external link, opens in a new window)

Since 2022

Project description on the website of the Elite Network of Bavaria (external link, opens in a new window)

International Doctorate Program with UR participation

RNA med - Future Leaders in RNA-based Medicine (external link, opens in a new window)

Spokesperson: Jörg Vogel (JMU Würzburg)

Since 2022

Project description on the website of the Elite Network of Bavaria (external link, opens in a new window)

EU Projects and State Funding

Center for Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Think Space Ukraine (external link, opens in a new window)

financed by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (external link, opens in a new window) through funds from the German Federal Foreign Office 

Guido Hausmann (external link, opens in a new window) and Mirja Lecke (external link, opens in a new window)

Funding amount: approx. 2.5 Mio €

Since 2024

Press release, 02/24/2024 (external link, opens in a new window)

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Project Fairville

funded by HORIZON EUROPE (external link, opens in a new window), Europe's largest research funding program| Project website Fairville (external link, opens in a new window)

Anna Steigemann

Funding amount: 2.6 Mio Euro €

Since 2023

Press release, 02/27/2023 (external link, opens in a new window) (German version only)

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Trial PRISMA

"A pilot randomized phase II trial on social prescriptions and micro learning to improve care for patients with various cancer entities and their support persons", funded by the NCT Investigator-Initiated Trial (IIT) Portfolio (external link, opens in a new window)

Anne Herrmann-Johns (external link, opens in a new window)

Funding amount: 2 Mio €

Since 2024

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Long-term study NAKO - German National Cohort 

Project website NAKO (external link, opens in a new window)

Michael Leitzmann (external link, opens in a new window)

Funding amount: 3.4 Mio €

Third Funding Period since 2023

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Research unit “Kultur und Erinnerung. Heimatvertriebene und Aussiedler in Bayern”

of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) and UR's Chair of History of Southeast and Eastern Europe, funded by the Free State of Bavaria | Webseite of the research unit on the IOS homepage (external link, opens in a new window) (German version only) 

Since 2022

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Project "Poetics of Industrial Landscapes: The Donbas and Upper Silesia in Comparative Perspective“

funded by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) within the framework of a joint project | Project website "Poetics of Industrial Landscapes" (external link, opens in a new window)

Oleksandr Zabirko (external link, opens in a new window) and Alina Strzempa (external link, opens in a new window)

Since 2022

Press release, 01/19/2022 (external link, opens in a new window) (German version only)

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Project FALKO

"FALKO-PV – Fachspezifische Lehrkraftkompetenzen – Prädiktive Validierung von Professionswissenstests für Lehrkräfte in sechs Unterrichtsfächern", funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth under the framework program “Empirische Bildungsforschung” | Project website FALKO (German only) (external link, opens in a new window)

Alfred Lindl (external link, opens in a new window)

Since 2021

Press release, 06/29/2021 (external link, opens in a new window) (German version only)

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Project Metabodefense

funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts | Project website Metabodefense (external link, opens in a new window) | Bavarian Research Network “New strategies against multi-resistant pathogens using digital networking” bayresq.net (external link, opens in a new window)

Jonathan Jantsch (external link, opens in a new window), Katja Dettmer-Wilde (external link, opens in a new window) & Rainer Spang (external link, opens in a new window)

Since 2000

Southeast European Studies

funded by the Volkswagen Foundation within the framework of the program World Knowledge – Structural Support for "Rare Subjects" 

Ger Duijzings (external link, opens in a new window)

Duration: 01.05.2022 - 30.04.2029

Press release, 02/03/2022 (external link, opens in a new window) (German version only)