International comparative research; Visible international journal publications; Internationally excellent networking; Cooperation with the GIGA, Hamburg; Cooperation with the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Madrid; Erasmus exchange with the University of Perugia; International conferences in which students can participate; International visiting professors who also support teaching.

University of Turku, Finnland; Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maitres de Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, Frankreich; St. Nicholas Montessori College Dublin, Irland; Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italien; University of Latvia, Riga, Lettland; Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, Mexiko; Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, Niederlande; Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea, Bilbao, Spanien; University of Gävle, Schweden; Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich, Schweiz

Extensive experience in the analysis of large online databases (meta- as well as content data); implementation of multi-year third-party funded projects (DFG, etc.): Projects of the research focus Politics and the Internet (including social media and protest movements; election campaign communication in social media); research projects in the field of migration policy, especially on municipal refugee and integration policy in Germany; DFG project Centres of Gravity of Authoritarian Rule, focus on Latin America and Eastern Europe.

University-wide project "Founders' Week", accompanying university-wide events, e.g. of the career service of the ZSB (action weeks, workshops on application, communication and negotiation training, training offers on life-work balance, mentoring and coaching programmes, competence workshop for entrepreneurship and transfer that can be used throughout the university (funding within the framework of the EXIST Potentials programme by the BMWi).