Current research projects
- BMBF-Project: Multiple risks management of extreme events in fast growing (mega)cities in Myanmar (2017-2027)
- DAAD-Project: SDG11+4 (2025-2028)
- DFG-Project: MiGeQua - Migrant understandings of health and their health related practices in diverse neighbourhoods (2023-2025)
- DFG-Project: Driving factors for and societal effects of sea-level rise and delta flooding in the Ayeyarwady Delta (Myanmar) - Lessons from the past for disaster governance in the future (2020-2025)
Completed research projects
- CYM+ Sustainable Internationalisation (2018-2021)
- DFG-Project: Das Städtesystem von Myanmar im Transformationsprozess (2012 - 2018)
- DFG-Project: THIMID – Transnationales Handeln indischer Migranten (2015 - 2018)
- DFG-Project: Urban Heritage and Cultural Governance in the South Asian Megacity Delhi/ India (2013 - 2018)
- DFG-Project: Patterns of Migrant Community Formation in China's Megaurban Pearl River Delta - Linking Informal Dynamics, Governability and Global Change (2011 - 2016)
- BMZ-Projekt: Wirtschaftsgeographische Potentialanalyse ausgewählter Regionalstädte in Myanmar (2013 - 2015)
- DFG-Project: Surviving the First 72 Hours – Megaurbane Disaster Response in Times of Limited Statehood (2013 - 2016)
- DFG-Project: Blueprint for an Effective Urban Health Monitoring System for the city of Pune (2012 - 2016)
- DFG-Priorityprogram Megacities - Megachallenge: Informal Dynamics of Global Change (2006 - 2016)
- giz-Project: Location-Atlas of Myanmar (2014 - 2015)
- DFG-Project: Regional agility in the wake of crisis: towards a new growth model in the Greater Pearl River Delta? (2011 - 2013)
- (Mega)urbane Gesundheit: Gesundheitliche Disparitäten und Zugang zu Gesundheitsdienstleistungen in Pune/Indien
- Geofaktoren und zivile Krisenprävention in Mumbai und Jakarta (MumJak)
- DFG-Project: Agile Firms – Informelle Dynamiken von „agiler Firmenorganisation“ im Greater Pearl River Delta (2007 - 2009)
- DFG-Project: Regional Agility and Upgrading in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta, China (2009 - 2011)
- DFG-Project: Internal and international migrant communities in the Pearl River Delta/ China – linking informal migration dynamics, global change and urban health(2009 - 2011)
- DFG-Project: Informal Migrant Communities and Health Strategies in Urban Villages of the Pearl River Delta, China (2007 - 2009)
- BMBF Governing emerging megacities: Water, health and housing in Pearl River Delta/China and Pune/India within the BMBF research programme "Megacities of Tomorrow"
- DFG-Project Vulnerability in MegaCities: New approaches to analyse the urban water system in Delhi / India
- DFG-Project Sozioökonomische Disparitäten in Südostasien (DFG-Project "Socioeconomic Disparities in Southeast Asia - SEDISEA")
Centre of Urban and Regional Development in Myanmar (CoE)
Networking activities
- TaskForce MegaCities of the International Geographical Union
- ForUm - Southeast Asian-German Network for Urban Future
- DGfG Arbeitskreis Südostasien (Working Group Southeast Asia)
- DGfG Arbeitskreis Südasien (Working Group South Asia)
- DGfG Arbeitskreis Medizinische Geographie und Geographische Gesundheitsforschung (Working Group Medical Geography and Geographical Health Research)
- VGDH - Verband für Geographie an deutschsprachigen Hochschule und Forschungseinrichtungen (Association for Geography at german-speaking universities and research institutions)
Media presences
Prof. Dr. Frauke Kraas:
- DFG ScienceTV series about the project "Die 5-Millionenstadt"
- ZDF contribution on the topic "Megastädte - Zukunft der Menschheit?"
- A recording of the lecture series 2008/2009 of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich on the topic:
"Die Welt wird Stadt - die Stadt wird Welt", Urbanisierung und Globalisierung der Lebenswelt im 21. Jahrhundert.
Prof. Dr. Frauke Kraas gives a lecture on this topic:
"Slums in Asien: Probleme und Chancen in mega-urbanen Randräumen"
PD Dr. Carsten Butsch:
- Radio interview at Detektor.fm on the subject "Mach dir die Stadt, wie sie dir gefällt"
- Twitter account with information and impressions of research projects: @butschc