HafenCity University Hamburg (represented by the research group entitled Changing Metropolitan Regions [FGMW]/VP – Research division as well as head of the urban planning department at the Institute for Urban, Regional and Environmental Planning, Professor Jörg Knieling.
Institute for Critical Theory [InKriT], Berlin (CESS in legal succession to the HWP).
New School for Social Research, New York (represented by the head of the graduate school Dorothy Hart Hirshon and the Professor of Political and Social Theory, Professor Andrew Arato).
London School of Economics and Political Science (represented by the Development Studies Institute [DESTIN]/Crisis States Research Centre [CSRC]: Director of the CSRC: Professor James Putzel).
Ewha Women’s University, City South Korea/Humanities Korea Project (represented by the Diretor of the Trans-Humanities Research Team, Professor Jung-Hwa Oh).
Jönköping University/Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences School of Health Sciences, Sweden (represented by Associate Professor Dr. Cecilia Hennig).
DAAD/Vigoni academic exchange/cooperation with the Universities of Padua and Rome/Bari (proposal for 2009; represented by Professors Giovanni Fiaschi, Roberto Finelli and Franca Papa).