Interdisciplinary approach, link to professional practice, Medieval Studies Centre, interfaces between school/university, team teaching, electronic courses by Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern, specific methods training (e.g. statistics, corpus linguistics); Student conference; Contemporary orientation in modern German literary studies.

Intensive exchange programmes, international networking of the teaching staff; Organisation of conferences with international participants; High proportion of international students, special measures to ensure the academic success of international students

Modern multimedia equipment in all lecture theatres and seminar rooms, virtual courses by VHB (specialised didactics; Linguistics, modern German literature).

Thomas Mann research; Conferences on contemporary literature; perception of the Middle Ages; "Mittelalter macht Schule" (School in the Middle Ages) theatre and film project; Several projects on historical linguistics (e.g. online database projects in historical linguistics on the earliest German vocabulary; Development of capitalization); cooperation with "Literaturhaus Stuttgart" (Stuttgart Literature House) regarding literary writing; Student conference on German linguistics on topics currently debated in the public sphere and in research; Conferences on digital transformation and sustainable research data management in German studies

Currently in planning in cooperation with the newly founded ‘Office for Innovation and Start-ups (BIG)’ at the University of Bamberg

Collaborations with: International House of Artists Villa Concordia (Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia) Bamberg, ETA-Hoffmann-Theater Bamberg, Bamberg State Library, literature houses Munich, Stuttgart, Göttingen, Rostock.; Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts; Literary colloquium Berlin; Literary publishers (C.H. Beck, Hanser); Research and development network with the universities of Göttingen and Rostock; Career service as part of the ‘reingeGUKt!’ guest lecture series – Career prospects for graduates in linguistics and literary studies (focus on lectures by Bamberg alumni); Cooperation with QUST, University of Tehran.