The Academy in Exile (AiE) project , funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation, is based at the Chair of Modern German Literature with a focus on heterogeneity research. It supports artists and scholars from the humanities, arts, social sciences and law who are at risk due to their academic work and/or their civil society commitment to human rights, democracy and academic freedom. AiE fellowships offer scholars the opportunity to continue their careers in Germany and work on a research project of their choice in a multidisciplinary environment. Further information can be found on the project website.

The NRWision project, which is funded by the Landesanstalt für Medien NRW, is based at the Chair of Television and Crossmedia Journalism at the Institute of Journalism Studies. Program responsibility lies with the Institute of Journalism Studies, which develops and operates the civic media platform and the learning and teaching channel under the direction of Prof. Michael Steinbrecher and Editor-in-Chief Leonie Krzistetzko. The teaching and learning channel NRWision has been on air since 2009 and is not only a state-wide TV station, but also Germany's largest community media platform. TV and audio producers from all over North Rhine-Westphalia take part in the program with their own productions - including budding media professionals, amateur filmmakers, citizens' editorial teams and numerous teaching editorial teams at various NRW universities and vocational colleges. The students get to know the work in a program editorial office, working closely with the "Media Designer Image and Sound" trainees at TU Dortmund University. The NRWision program can be viewed nationwide on the digital cable network and in the broadcaster's own media library. Further information can be found on the project page.

The project The Role of English in the Multilingual Ecology of Divided Cyprus, funded by the German Research Foundation, is based at the Chair of Linguistics of English (Multilingualism). The project investigates the role, status and functions of English within the multilingual ecology of Cyprus and the interaction of English with the many other languages in both parts of the divided island. Further information can be found on the DFG project page.