Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management () - Identifies constructive procedures and models for dealing with ethnopolitical and socio-cultural conflicts in Europe, and provides scientific analysis of, and support for, the practical application of such methods.
European Centre for Minority Issues - Aims to promote interdisciplinary research on issues related to national minorities and majorities in a European perspective.
German Institute of Urban Affairs - Identifying long-term prospects for urban development and providing expert advice to municipal authorities to help them solve their problems.
Society for Ethnomedicine - Focuses on medical concepts and practices of specific ethnic groups, from the medical knowledge of lay people to the experience of traditional healers and doctors of the present and the past.