1. Ethnicity in Motion (cooperation: Univ. Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro) Language and Culture of German, Italian, and Polish communities in Brazil
2. Lusophone Varieties in the Portuguese Seaborne Empire at early modern times (cooperation: Univ. of Ghana, Accra: School of Languages)
3. Brazilian Portuguese versus European Portuguese (use of pronouns; reorganization of verbal paradigm; politeness); Portuguese as heritage language (POLH)
4. German outside of Germany: German speaking communities in the Altai-Region (Barnaul)