Third-Party Funded Projects 2026

In the following list, you will find the third-party funded grants starting from 1 January 2026 and amounting to a funding volume of at least 10.000 euros, as well as projects with a duration of at least one year (without a special funding by the Ministry for Science, Qualification and Health of Rhineland-Palatinate). The EU-funded projects are listed in accordance to their duration, counting from 1 January 2026.

For earlier grant dates, see the Archive.

Faculty I
Educational Sciences, Philosophy, Psychology, Nursing Sciences, Research Institute for Psychobiology

Hybride Lern- und Transferwerkzeuge für effektive Resilienzgestaltung in Unternehmen (HYTEG); Analyse und Monitoring teambezogener Resilienzprozesse

Project Lead: Prof Dr Thomas Ellwart
Funding Institution: BMFTR
Term: 1 January 2026 - 31 December 2028
Contact: Prof Dr Thomas Ellwart | +49 651 201-2051 | ellwartuni-trierde

The Berlin Wednesday Society: Edition of the Möhsen Papers 

Project Lead: Prof Dr Kristina Engelhard
Funding Institution: DFG
Term: 1 June 2026 - 30 November 2027
Contact: Prof Dr Kristina Engelhard | +49 651 201- 2735 | engelharduni-trierde 

In cooperation with: Prof Dr Damien Tricoire, Faculty III

Der LUPE-Koffer im Entdeckertag: Optimierung von Vorschlag, Auswahl und Förderung von Grundschulkindern durch die Weiterbildung von Lehrpersonal mit diagnostischem Material

Project Lead: Prof Dr Franzis Preckel, Psychologie
Funding Institution: Nikolaus Koch Foundation
Term: 1 June 2026 - 31 May 2029
Contact: Prof Dr Franzis Preckel | +49 651 201-4520 | preckeluni-trierde

Faculty II
English Studies, Computational Linguistics & Digital Humanities, German Studies, Japanese Studies, Classical Philology, Media Studies, Phonetics, Romance Language Studies, Sinology, Slavic Studies

¡Partamos, musa mía! - Auctorial poetry by Spanish and Hispano-American poets from the Enlightenment to Modernismo  

Project Lead: Dr Ines Kremer 
Funding Institution: DFG
Term: 1 January 2026 - 31 December 2027
Contact: Dr Ines Kremer | +49 651 201- 1359 | kremeriuni-trierde 

kuKI. Kulturalisierungssensible KI-Assistenz für eine desinformationsresiliente multilinguale Gesellschaft

Project Lead: Prof Dr Achim Rettinger 
Funding Institution: BMFTR
Term: 1 April 2026 - 31 March 2029
Contact: Prof Dr Achim Rettinger | +49 651 201- 4051 | rettingeruni-trierde 

TAP. Taiwan als Pionier – Lokale Innovation in der Dynamik globaler Megatrends

Project Lead: Dr Josie-Marie Perkuhn
Funding Institution: BMFTR
Term: 1 February 2026 - 31 January 2027
Contact: Dr Josie-Marie Perkuhn | +49 651 201- 3206 | perkuhnuni-trierde 

EMO-SCI: Exploring the Interplay between Emotions and Distortion in Informal Science Discourse  

Project Lead: Prof Dr Achim Rettinger
Funding Institution: DFG
Term: 1 March 2026 - 28 February 2029
Contact: Prof Dr Achim Rettinger | +49 651 201- 4051 | rettingeruni-trierde 

French-German L2 Prosody: from the Lab into Practice

Project Lead: Jun-Prof Dr Katharina Zahner-Ritter
Funding Institution: DFG
Term: 1 September 2026 - 31 August 2029
Contact: Jun-Prof Dr Katharina Zahner-Ritter | +49 651 201- 3399 | k.zahner-ritteruni-trierde

Cinéfemmes - on the poetics of interventions

Project Lead: Prof Dr Irina Gradinari
Funding Institution: DFG
Term: 1 March 2026 - 28 February 2029
Contact: Prof Dr Irina Gradinari | +49 651 201- 1403 | gradinariuni-trierde 

The political language of defensibility in Germany 1871 - 1990  

Project Lead: Prof Dr Martin Wengeler 
Funding Institution: DFG
Term: 1 April 2026 - 31 May 2028
Contact: Prof Dr Martin Wengeler  | +49 651 201- 2334 |

Lucian and the Doctors. Literary and Medical Forms of Textualisation in Early Modern Spain  

Project Lead: Prof Dr Folke Gernert 
Funding Institution: DFG
Term: 1 May 2026 - 30 April 2029
Contact: Prof Dr Folke Gernert  | +49 651 201- 2216 | gernertfuni-trierde 

Faculty III
History, Political Science, Art History, Classical Archaeology, Egyptology, Papyrology

ASJA. Antisemitismus seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 in der Offenen Kinder- und Jugendarbeit - Empirische Studie zu aktuellen Bedarfslagen und Problemwahrnehmungen pädagogischer Fachkräfte und der Wirksamkeit darauf ausgerichteter Fortbildungsformate (ASJA); Teilvorhaben „Angebots-Mapping“

Project Lead: Dr Thomas Grotum 
Funding Institution: BMFTR
Term: 1 March 2026 - 30 June 2027
Contact: Dr Thomas Grotum | +49 651 201- 3331 | grotumuni-trierde 

DAYVid. Decoding Antisemitism in YouTube Videos; Subproject: Decoding Israel Debates and Progressive-Left Antisemitism on YouTube (DISPLAYt)

Project Lead: Dr Thomas Grotum 
Funding Institution: BMFTR
Term: 1 March 2026 - 28 February 2029
Contact: Dr Thomas Grotum | +49 651 201- 3331 | grotumuni-trierde 

Open Access Publication Costs / 2026 - 2028  

Project Lead: Dr Nora Larissa Kuster 
Funding Institution: DFG
Term: 1 January 2026 - 31 December 2028
Contact: Dr Nora Larissa Kuster | +49 651 201- 2427 | kusteruni-trierde  

Witchcraft politics (Hexenpolitik) across the sea. A new entangled history of early modern England and the Holy Roman Empire.

Project Lead: Prof Dr Rita Voltmer 
Funding Institution: DFG
Term: 1 March 2026 - 28 February 2029
Contact: Prof Dr Rita Voltmer | +49 651 201- 3337 | voltmeruni-trierde 

The Berlin Wednesday Society: Edition of the Möhsen Papers

Project Lead: Prof Dr Damien Tricoire
Funding Institution: DFG
Term: 1 June 2026 - 30 November 2027
Contact: Prof Dr Damien Tricoire | +49 651 201- 2219 | tricoire@uni-trier.de 

In cooperation with: Prof Dr Kristina Engelhard, Faculty I

Faculty  IV
Business Administration, Ethnology, Computer Sciences, Mathematics, Sociology, Economics

Unified Nondestructive Evaluation of Historical Artifacts (MSCA Doctoral Network, Koordination: IRL 2958 Georgia Tech CNRS Laboratory)

Project Lead: Prof Dr Benjamin Weyers
Funding Institution: EU
Term: 1 March 2026 - 28 February 2030
Contact: Prof Dr Benjamin Weyers | +49 651 201-2852 | weyersuni-trierde 

Modellierung der nächsten Generation: Adaptives System zur Unterstützung der Entscheidungsfindung im Bereich der öffentlichen Gesundheit bei Pandemien von Atemwegsinfektionen

Project Lead: Dr Jan Pablo Burgard
Funding Institution: BMFTR
Term: 1 January 2026 - 29 February 2028
Contact: Dr Jan Pablo Burgard | +49 651 201- 2660| burgardjuni-trierde 

Froh. Fehlerkontrolle robotergestützter Chirurgiesysteme, Subproject 2: Hierarchische Modellierung

Project Lead: Prof Dr Nicole Marheineke
Funding Institution: BMFTR
Term: 1 February 2026 - 31 January 2028
Contact: Prof Dr Nicole Marheineke | +49 651 201- 3470 | marheinekeuni-trierde 

NWO-DFG Exploiting Symmetries for Faster Bilevel Optimization Algorithms 

Project Lead: Prof Dr Martin Schmidt
Funding Institution: DFG
Term: 1 March 2026 - 28 February 2029
Contact: Prof Dr Martin Schmidt | +49 651 201- 3481 | martin.schmidtuni-trierde 

Faculty V
Law

TruQALIA: Trustworthy Question Answering to Enable Legal Information Access for Laypeople 

Project Lead: Jun-Prof Dr Lea Katharina Kumkar
Funding Institution: DFG
Term: 1 April 2026 - 31 March 2029
Contact: Jun-Prof Dr Lea Katharina Kumkar | +49 651 201-2547 | professur-kumkaruni-trierde 

Faculty  VI
Regional and Environmental Sciences 

Wirksamkeit von Lernwerkstätten für MINT-Kompetenzen und Sprachentwicklung (WiLMS)

Project Lead: Prof Dr Martin Remmele
Funding Institution: Nikolaus Koch Foundation
Term: 1 June 2026 - 31 March 2029
Contact: Prof Dr Martin Remmele | +49 651 201-4798 | remmeleuni-trierde

Sustainable Soil Management Decision Support System in Viticulture (SOSVITI) (MSCA Staff Exchanges, Coordination Universidat de Granada)

Project Lead: Dr Manuel Seeger
Funding Institution: EU
Term: 1 January 2026 - 30 June 2029 
Contact: Dr Manuel Seeger | +49 651 201-4557 | seegeruni-trierde 

Perspectives on Higher Education Student Populations in Cities (PHESPiC) (COST – European Cooperation in Science & Technology)

Project Lead: Dr José Prada Trigo (Universität Valladolid, Spanien); secondary proposer: Jun-Prof Dr Michael Mießner
Funding Institution: EU
Term: 1 September 2026 - 31 August 2031
Contact: Jun-Prof Dr Michael Mießner ǀ + 49 651 201-4583 ǀ miessneruni-trierde 

Coordinating Institution: Universität Valladolid, Spain

Internal University Institutions, University Management, Administration

femaleSPIRIT 3

Project Lead: Dr Viviana Wiegleb, Department V - Transfer and Innovation
Funding Institution: BMWK
Term: 1 January 2026 - 31 Dezember 2026
Contact: Sabrina Rohles | +49 651 201-3122 | rohlesuni-trierde

Co-financing of 25 Deutschlandstipendium (German public-private scholarship)

Project Lead: Prof Dr Eva Martha Eckkrammer, University President
Funding Institution: Nikolaus Koch Foundation
Term: 1 October 2026 - 30 September 2027
Contact: Dr Agnes Schindler | +49 651 201-1826 | deustipuni-trierde