Almost exclusively seminar format; Intensive student support:; Use of business games, simulations and forums, among other things; Students supported by the institute's own teaching videos; Use of digital media.

The programme has various research contacts with political science and economic policy university institutions and research networks, especially in the USA, the UK, Germany and Austria.

Altinbas University, Türkei; Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spanien; Goethe Institut Madrid, Spanien; Zentrum für internationale Beziehungen der Universität für Bodenkultur, Wien, Österreich; Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Norwegen; Universidad de Valencia, Spanien; University of Nottingham, Großbritannien

The library at IPW houses around 40,000 books in addition an extensive range of professional journals and also provides access to a large number of electronic literature databases. In addition to stores of specialist books and professional journals, there are numerous workspaces as well as the opportunity to make copies, print and scan documents on site.

General: Challenges for present-day democracies. Diplomacy and the First World War; Politics of the "Holy See"; Africa in German and European Security Policy; German Schools Abroad; Media in the Teaching of Politics and History; Teaching Outside the Classroom; Visual History in Teaching; Supranationality and Democracy; Francophone Radical Democrats; Theory of Democracy; Democratic Symbolism; Critical Theory of Anti-Semitism; Culture of Remembrance; Hannah Arendt's Political Theory; Theory and Practice of the Political Power of Judgement.