Duration of the project: 2013-2016

Project summary

All universities  - participants of the project - are located in centers of political, cultural and scientific interest that attract scientific community by their national, cultural and linguistic diversity. The span of topics includes: the phenomenon of imperialism and nationalism, multilingualism and language contact, regionalism, history of cities and urbanization, cultural transfer and others. The project involves a wide range of research in the field of linguistics, literature, culture and history, as well as intensive scientific collaboration between graduate students, teachers, and young scientists from the partner universities.

Partner universities

Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen Center for Eastern European Studies, GiZo, (coordinating university), Coordinator of the project - Prof. Dr. Monika Wingender

Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung 

Belarusian State University, Belarus 

University of Lodz, Poland 

Universităţii Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Abylai-Khan Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages, Kazakhstan


Coordinators at KFU

Prof. Kamil Galiullin                                                                                                                   Head of the Department of Applied Linguistics, Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication

Dr. Tatyana Troshkina                                                                                                                 Associate Professor, Department of Russian as a Foreign Language

Participating institutes at KFU: 

Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication  

Institute of International Relations, History and Oriental Studies 

Institute of Philosophy, Social Sciences and Mass Communications 

Institute of Language