Research Network on Conflict and Cooperation in Eastern Europe to Receive Further Funding
The third-party funded project KonKoop is entering a second funding phase. The Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space has agreed to continue funding the research network coordinated by ZOiS until April 2028.
The project, whose full title is ‘Conflict and Cooperation in Eastern Europe: The Consequences of the Reconfiguration of Political, Economic and Social Spaces since the End of the Cold War’ has been working to further develop peace and conflict research on Eastern Europe (including Southeast Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia), raise the international profile of this field, and connect research institutions in Germany and beyond. KonKoop2 aims to continue the measures already initiated, building on the structures created in the first funding phase.
The KonKoop research network will continue to comprise six institutions across Germany: the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg, the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) in Leipzig, Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (FSU), Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE), and the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam.
In the second funding phase, the Multi-Method Data Laboratory (DataLab) and the Multi-Perspective Visualisation Laboratory (VisLab) will play an even more important role. In KonKoop2, they will be complemented by the new Early Career Lab. Working closely together, the three labs will develop modules for teaching important analytical methods, additional academic skills, and forms of research communication. In doing so, they will draw on the results, experiences, methods and data from the first KonKoop phase as well as other relevant data from the partner institutions. The Atlas of Peace and Conflict Cartography and the Interactive Conflict Research Map in Eastern Europe will also be expanded in the second funding phase.
More information about the project can be found on the KonKoop website.