Excellence Strategy

Exploration Funds - Projects

Exploration Funds unlock research frontiers!

Exploration Funds support the identification and development of innovative research fields and are specifically aimed at the humanities and social sciences at the University of Tübingen. The focus is on questions related to topics with the potential to significantly shape current or future societal debates. Interdisciplinary collaboration with other disciplines and research areas at the university is explicitly encouraged. The long-term goal of this funding is to facilitate the development of substantial collaborative research projects, such as Collaborative Research Centers (CRCs) or Research Training Groups (RTGs). 

Funded Projects 2025

Narrative Skills and Cross-Domain Word Problem Solving
Global Urbanities in Times of Multi-Crises

Funded Projects 2024

Ambivalent educational advancement
GENONESIA
ICAWaR - Improving climate adaptation policies for water resilience in Germany
Right-Wing Immersion and Engaged Publics

Funded Project 2023

Hybrid Epistemic Practices
Island of Transformation
Intimacy-Mobility-State Nexus

Funded Projects 2022

Infrastructures and Global Ordering

Funded Projects 2021

Reintroducing religion into society – after the “death” of God and humanity in Auschwitz
The world and law in Judaism and Islam