Appointment to national and international
functions, committees, expert groups
| Currently | |
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| since 2021 | Chair of the working group "Global Orientation Framework" of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) |
| since 2021 | Director of the network NEH21: New European Humanities in the 21st Century |
| since 2016 | Member of the Board of the German Academic Exchange Service, Bonn (reelected for 4 years in 2023) |
| since 2009 | Member of the Advisory Board of the Professional Association for German as a Foreign and Second Language, Göttingen |
| 2011 – 2026 | (2009 – 2021 Vice President) |
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| 2020 – 2026 | Member of the Executive Committee of ENLIGHT; Project Manager ENLIGHT Göttingen |
| 2018 – 2024 | Head of the “Regional Research Team Europe”, for the preparation of the World Humanities Report in cooperation with UNESCO-CIPSH |
| 2018 - 2020 | Member of the Ad-hoc Expert Group “European Universities”, EU Commission, Brussels |
| 2018 – 2020 | Chair of the Working Group “China Competence in Lower Saxony” of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture |
| 2018 | Member of the Steering Committee “Global Education”, British Council, London |
| 2015 – 2024 | Member of the Advisory Board of the “Society for Intercultural German Studies”, Bayreuth |
| 2015 - 2021 | Member of the “Language Advisory Board” of the Goethe-Institut, Munich |
| 2014 – 2021 | Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Academic Confucius Institute, Göttingen/Nanjing/Beijing |
| 2014 – 2018 | German chair of the Working Group on Intercultural German Studies in China, Beijing |
| 2014 – 2016 | Member of the Executive Board of COIMBRA Group, Brussels |
| 2014 | Chair of the Expert Group for the Development of a China Strategy of the BMBF, Berlin |
| 2013 – 2019 | Member of the Board of Directors of the U4 Network, Ghent, Groningen, Uppsala, Göttingen |
| 2012 – 2015 | Member of the Executive Board of HERA-Board (Humanities in the European Research Area), Brussels |
| 2012 | Advisor to the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research for Horizon 2020 in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Berlin |
| 2004 - 2010 | |
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| 2008 – 2010 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Research and Junior Research Network for Intercultural German Studies (IFNIG), Erfurt, Germany |
| 2008 – 2010 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the University of Pune, India, for the restructuring of German Studies programs |
| 2008 | Advisor to the Federal Ministry of Education and Science in the context of the FP7 Roadmap, Berlin |
| 2008 | Reviewer for the Federal Ministry of Education and Science, Berlin |
| 2005 – 2007 | Consultant for the Ministry of the Interior and Sport and the Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony for the Lower Saxony Integration Center Friedland, Hanover |
| 1998 - 2003 | |
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| 2002 – 2009 | Member of the “Advisory Board German as a Foreign Language”, Federal Office of Administration, Central Agency for German Schools Abroad |
| 2001 – 2009 | Chair of the Board of the nationwide “Fachverband Deutsch als Fremdsprache” (“Association of German as a Foreign Language”) (did not run for reelection) |
| 1999 – 2004 | Member of the Advisory Board “UNIcert” of the nationwide working group of language centers (AKS) |
| 1999 – 2001 | Member of the Board of Directors of the nationwide “Fachverband Deutsch als Fremdsprache” (“Association of German as a Foreign Language”) |
| 1998 – 2004 | Deputy member of the Standing Commission of the nationwide Working Group of Language Centers |