Prof. Dr. Mario Dunkel has been junior professor for music education at UOL since 2017. In 2018, he initiated a project in cooperation with the University of Groningen, which has been funded by the Volkswagen Foundation since 2019. The project explores connections between populism and popular music in Europe. While the project began as a pure research project, in the future it will seek to increase cooperation in seminars, thereby allowing students to participate. Further aims include the creation of a platform for cooperation between doctoral students from the universities involved in the project.