Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research

Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Re­search is an interdisciplinary research institute of the Univer­sity of Duisburg-Essen. It is the youngest of ten Käte Hambur­ger Kolleg (International Research Collegia in the Humanities) supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. KHK / GCR21 recognises global cooperation as the key to solutions for urgent transnational problems. The Centre provides a framework for internationally renowned scholars from different disciplines to pursue research on the opportunities and challenges of global cooperation amidst political-cultural difference in the world society.

Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Re­search was co-founded by the German Development Institu­te / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), the Ins­titute for Development and Peace / Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden (INEF), and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen.