Europe and our research

Owing to its excellent research and a tight-knit international network of partners, the University of Passau is a globally visible and highly respected academic and research institution in the heart of Europe. 'The University’s guiding principle is to foster excellence in research and establish outstanding working conditions, particularly for students and early career researchers. Among other things, the University of Passau supports researchers in making research proposals to European research programmes.

The quality of our research is also reflected in the fact that many of the third-party proposals for EU funding are successful.

EU-funded research projects

ERC Consolidator Grant RUSINFORM 2019 - 2024

ERC Consolidator Grant „The Consequences of the Internet for Russia's Informational Influence Abroad“ 2019 – 2024: The research group analyses how political elites in Moscow can influence media audiences in Germany, Belarus or Estonia via new internet-based technologies.

EU project RENergetic: IT solution from Passau for the energy revolution from the bottom up

A residential area in the Belgian city of Ghent, a university campus in Poznan, Poland, a hospital in Milan: at these three locations, the EU project RENergetic is investigating how citizen energy can be successful.

EU-Förderprojekt UPSURGE: Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung durch Nature-Based Solutions

Im Projekt „UPSURGE“ forscht das Institut CENTOURIS der Universität Passau zusammen mit Partnern aus 14 europäischen Ländern an der Entwicklung eines umfassenden Referenznetzwerks für zukünftige Stadtgestaltung und -entwicklung.

Research projects on topics with a strong European relevance

The University of Passau was founded in 1978 as a so-called borderland university in Passau, the City of Three Rivers. At the time, due to its proximity to both Austria and the Iron Curtain, the issue of Europe was tangible and real. This history is taken up by the research theme "Europe and Global Transformation".

Research on Europe and Global Transformation

In recent years, Europe's responsibility to respond to global challenges with appropriate strategies has increasingly prompted researchers at the University of Passau to make development questions a matter of academic enquiry. One result of this interdisciplinary engagement is the University's focus on "Migration, Sustainable Development and Just Order".

Research theme "Migration, Sustainable Development and Just Order"

Research institutions with a European relevance

The University's European orientation is also reflected in the fact that several of our research institutes are concerned with Europe and European issues.

IRIXYS: Trinational Research Centre on Big Data
Institute for International and Foreign Law
- European Law and European Economic Law Section
- European and International Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law Section
Research Centre for Human Rights in Criminal Proceedings (HRCP)
Centre for European Law at the University of Passau (CEP)
Institute of Eastern Bavaria Area Studies (IKON)
Research Unit for Political Communication