Honours/Awards
Prof. Dr. Christoph Schäfer
Prof. Schäfer has been a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg (Europäische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste) since 2007, Chairman of the Varus-Gesellschaft in Osnabrück since 2010 and a Fellow of the Max-Weber-Kolleg für Kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien (Max Weber Institute for cultural and social studies) in Erfurt since 2012. For the DVD production "Römer und Germanen" - Konfrontation und Integration" (Romans and Germans - Confrontation and Integration) he has received the Comenius EduMedia Award 2006. Since October 2012 Prof. Schäfer has been a Member of the Acaemia Europaea.
| 1999-2005 | Chairman of the "Association for History and computerised networks ("Arbeitsgemeinschaft Geschichte und EDV") AGE |
| 2004-2008 | Head of the working group on "Computing Methods for the History Department" ("Informatikmethoden für die Geschichtswissenschaften") of the Humanities Center in the Digital World (G-dig) of the University of Hamburg |
| 2004-2008 | Head of the working group on "Multimedia-Based Knowledge in the discipline of history ("Multimedialer Wissenstransfer im Fach Geschichte") of the Humanities Center in the Digital World (G-dig) of the University of Hamburg |
| since 2004 | Technical Editor in Digital Media for H-Soz-u-Kult |
| since 2009 | Deputy chairman of a collaborative research center entitled ""Foreignness and Poverty. Change of forms in Inclusion and Exclusion from Antiquity to the Present". Subproject B9: Support measures and euergetism as a cultural and social phenomenon in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor) and subproject Ö2: "Hellenes and Romans, Jews and Egyptians in the multicultural society of Egypt". An educational DVD production, sponsored by the DFG. ("SFB 600 - Fremdheit und Armut. Wandel von Inklusions- und Exklusionsformen von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart") |
| 2010-present | Chairman of the Varus-Gesellschaft in Osnabrück |