Cooperation on research , Date: 2025.08.21, format: Article, area: Authority

To perform its tasks, the Research Centre works closely with research facilities and other institutions at home and abroad.

Ongoing cooperation projects

Improved representation of diversity in panel studies: Tailored recruitment strategies ("TaRec") (since 2025)

• German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM)
• German Centre for Gerontology (DZA)

Evaluation of the Law and the Ordinance on the Further Development of Skilled Labour Immigration (since 2025)

• Institute for Employment Research (IAB)

Gender-sensitive deradicalisation work with women and girls – follow-up project (since 2024)

• Bavarian State Criminal Police Office
• Munich Police Academy

Resettlement: Living situation in the country of first asylum and in Germany (since 2024)

• University of Bielefeld

Migration trajectories, natural experiments and effects of small-area contexts on health: A privacy-preserving linkage study of routine and primary data among resettlement refugees in Germany (INTERSECT) (since: 2024)

• Prof. Dr. Kayvan Bozorgmehr from Bielefeld University,
• International Organization for Migration (IOM),
• Technology and Methods Platform for Networked Medical Research (TMF),
• Research Data Center of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF-FDZ)

IAB-BAMF-SOEP survey among displaced persons (since 2015)

• Institute for Employment Research IAB, Nuremberg
• Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin

European Migration Network EMN (since 2004)

• National Contact Points of the EU Member States and Norway in the migration authorities
• IOM and research institutes, as well as the European Commission

Associated partnerships

WAKE - Migration-Related Knowledge Management for Civil Protection of the Future (2018-2021)
promoted by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

MAPEX - Mapping and Analysis of Prevention and Distancing Projects Dealing with Islamistic Radicalisation (2017-2020)
promoted by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Completed cooperations

Integration of ethnic German resettlers

• Expert Council on Integration and Migration (SVR)

RKI-SOEP-2-Study

• Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
• Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin
• Robert Koch Institute

IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP-Survey

• Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
• Federal Institute for Population Research (BIB) with the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA)
• Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)

Processes of distancing regarding the phenomenon of Islamist-based extremism from the perspective of advice practitioners (EPA-islEX)

• Centre for Technology and Society at the Technical University of Berlin

Processes of distancing from Salafist extremism

• Centre for Technology and Society at the Technical University of Berlin
• Centre of Excellence for Deradicalisation of the Bavarian Land Criminal Police Office

Forced Migration and Transnational Family Arrangements – Eritrean and Syrian Refugees in Germany (TransFAR)

• Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB)

Return and Reintegration with "StarthilfePlus" (since 2017)

• International Organisation for Migration (IOM)

Does the family make all the difference? Determinants of new employment-orientated immigrants’ intentions as to whether they intend to remain in Germany (2012-2013)

• Federal Institute for Population Research BiB, Wiesbaden

Bavarian "Knowledge and Migration" Research Association (formig) (2009-2013)

• european forum for migration studies (efms) e.v., Bamberg
• Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Chair for Eastern and Southeastern European History
• University of Bamberg, Chair for Sociology/Educational Inequality in the Life Course
• University of Bayreuth, Institute of African Studies/Ethnology
• University of Bayreuth, Chair for Culture and Sociology of Religion
• University of Bayreuth, Chair of Human Resource Management and Leadership
• University of Regensburg, Chair for Eastern and Southeastern European History
• University of Würzburg, Chair for Empirical Educational Research