Joint summer school with a university in South Korea, joint doctoral training with universities in Argentina and Venezuela, exchange programmes with universities in Belarus and Ukraine, Japan, Malaysia, Italy, and France; Specialization opportunities in the Master's degree programme on the causes and consequences of the formation and existence of collective identities in various regions of the world as well as the areas of Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe/Baltic Sea Region.

Department of Political Science, Universitet Aarhus, Dänemark; Institute of Higher European Studies, Hogeschool, Den Haag, Niederlande; Institut d'Études Politiques de Rennes, Frankreich; Institut d'Études Politiques de Lyon, Frankreich; Departamento de Ciencias Políticas y de la Administración, Universidad de Granada, Spanien; Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università di Catania, Italien; Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University, Türkei; Department of Comparative Politics, Universitet i Bergen, Norwegen; Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Technology Tallinn, Estland; Institute of Political Studies and International Relations, Jagiellonian University Kraków, Polen; Instytut Politologii i Europeistyki, Uniwersytet Szczecinski, Polen

Projectors in all seminar rooms and lecture halls, "stud.ip" learning platform, LS, modern, bright and well-equipped rooms, modern library with long opening hours (OPAC), WiFi in all university buildings.

Regional party competition and political culture; Women and politics in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern; Children of Reunification (Wendekinder) as a generation in the political system of the Federal Republic of Germany; International party associations and party-affiliated foundations in Latin America; University and politics (university anniversary 2019); Nature conservation and right-wing extremism; Pluralism and collective identities in the late modern age; Political symbolism and its theories; Transformation of religiousness and new forms of solidarity; Europe: economic expansion and political integration; USA: globalisation and security dilemmas; South Asia

The department has its own student organisation for students of the Teaching Qualification Social Studies. The institute has an active alumni association, to which students also belong. It also supports both student and academic courses at the Institute, organises an evening event each semester, as part of which graduates report on their career paths, awards an annual prize for the best doctoral theses, sponsors the journal "Politicum," published by the departmental student organisation.