Booster Unit as part of the MWK funding programme Strategically developing potential

Project leaders: Prof Dr Felicitas Macgilchrist, Prof Dr Mario Dunkel, Prof Dr Jorge Marx Gómez

Funding organisations: Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK) and Volkswagen Foundation

Duration: 2026-2029

Joint project in co-operation with the German National Library Leipzig

Project leaders: Prof. Dr Mario Dunkel and PD Dr Dr habil. Frédéric Döhl (German National Library)

Funded by: Volkswagen Foundation, funding line "Change! Fellowships" funding line

Duration: 2025-2030

Joint project Performance: A social practice in primary school. A German-Italian international comparative analysis

Project leader: Prof. Dr Michaela Kaiser in co-operation with Prof. Dr Simone Seitz (University of Bolzano)

Funded by: German Research Foundation (DFG) - project number 543490985

Duration: 2025-2028

Joint project to strengthen cooperation between the universities of Oldenburg and Bremen

Project leader: Prof Dr Michaela Kaiser and Prof Dr Alisha Heinemann (University of Bremen)

Funding organisation: Northwest Alliance, Now Advanced funding line

Duration: 2026-2027

Joint project within the framework of lernen:digital

Project leader: Prof. Dr Mario Dunkel
Co-operation with the University of Münster and Leuphana University Lüneburg

Funded by: BMBFSFJ(Competence centres for digital and digitally supported teaching in schools. Centre of Excellence for artistic-creative subjects and sport)

Duration: 2023-2026

Joint project within the framework of learning:digital

The DigiProSMK project network brings together ten colleges and universities whose representatives work in six Communities of Practice (CoPs) with different specialisms and focuses on the common, overarching project goals.

• CoP 4: Art education research on post-digital modes of perception in the Anthropocene: The social virtual reality space Ecological Disquiet (2023-2026), VR learning space, Prof. Dr Michaela Kaiser and Dr Ulrike Gerhardt, sub-project within the framework of DigiProSMK
• CoP 5: From image to platform (2023-2026), Prof. Dr Michaela Kaiser, Marion Seiler and Nina Ahokas, sub-project within the framework of DigiProSMK

Funded by: BMBFSFJ(Competence centres for digital and digitally supported teaching in schools. Centre of Excellence for artistic-creative subjects and sport )

Duration: 2023-2026

Joint project within the framework of lernen:digital

In the DigischuKuMPK project network, five universities from three different Federal States are cooperating with 30 selected project primary schools as partners.

Funded by: BMBFSFJ(Centre of Excellence for School Development )

Duration: 2023-2026

Dunkel, Mario (2026): "Diversity and intersectionality". Handbuch Musikpädagogik, edited by Michael Dartsch et al. Stuttgart: utb, 2026. 167-175.

Dunkel, Mario/Hardjowirogo, Sarah-Indriyati/Oberhaus, Lars/Pelleter, Malte/Rocker, Steffi/Siedenburg, Ilka/Tobis, Sophia/Vorst, Julian/Wachtmann, Arne (2026): "Producing in music lessons: reflection on the joint project 'Digitality - Diversity - Producing. Practices of popular music in schools and further education'". Discussion of Music Education 109 (2026): 14-21.

Huf, Christina/Idel, Till-Sebastian (eds.) (2025). School inclusive long form. Contributions from the scientific research accompanying the PRIMUS school trial. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Jungen, Thari/Nastold, Friederike (2025): Ambivalences of Care/Curare: Solidarity Networks and Curatorial Practices as a Form of Collective Resistance. In: Lina Michelkevičė et al. (eds.): The Art-Labour Relationship in Contemporary Art. Vilnius, online, pp. 78-97.

Kaiser, Michaela/Seiler, Marion/Ahokas, Nina (2025). Google Makes Art. Google Arts and Culture and the digital mediation of visual culture. In: Winkler, Antje/ Brenne, Andreas (eds.): Sharing is Caring in Art Education Research. Perspectives and Practices of an Art Education Critical of Discrimination and Power. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 249-262.

Nastold, Friederike (2025): Planetary Interdependencies. Between Mourning, Caring, and Repairing-Curatorial Strategies of Care for a Changing Planet", in: Zeszyty Artystyczne No. 2 (48), pp. 164-181.

Rabenstein, Kerstin/Macgilchrist, Felicitas/Wagener-Böck, Nadine (2025). Digitality and everyday teaching: Ethnographic case studies on the maintenance of change. Klinkhardt. doi.org/10.35468/6190

Bock, Annekatrin/ Macgilchrist, Felicitas/ Rabenstein, Kerstin/ Wagener-Böck, Nadine (2024): Hoping for Community in a Technologically Decelerated World - A Critical Utopian Approach. Futures, 163. doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2024.103434

Huf, Christina/Idel, Till-Sebastian (2024): "Caring for belonging". Caring relationships from the perspective of students in the PRIMUS school experiment. In: Hartmann, Anna/Windheuser, Jeannette (ed.): Care - Education - Upbringing. Weilerswist-Metternich: Velbrück Wissenschaft, pp. 123-138.

Seitz, Simone/Kaiser, Michaela (2023): Giftedness and Achievement within Discourses. In: Seitz, Simone/ Auer, Petra/ Bellacicco, Rosa (eds.). Inclusion in an international Perspective - Educational Justice in the Focus. Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich, pp. 67-88.