Foundation activities and university memberships

since 2012 Co-founder and member of the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, Georg-August-University Göttingen
since 2009 Co-founder and member of the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Georg-August-University Göttingen
since 2005 Co-founder and member of the Centre for Theory of Culture and Society, Georg-August-University Göttingen
2005 – 2012 Founder and chairwoman of the Institute for Intercultural Communication at the Georg-August-University Göttingen e.V.
1993 – 2004 Board member of the interdisciplinary Centre for Applied Linguistics and Language Research (ZALS), TU Braunschweig, TU Braunschweig

Foundation activities and faculty memberships

since 2004 Founder and director of the German-Chinese Institute for Culture Comparison, Georg-August-University Göttingen (since Nov. 2005: German-Chinese Institute for Intercultural German Studies and Culture Comparison)
2004 - 2009 Head of the Germanistische Institutspartnerschaft (“Partnership of Institutes of German Studies”) (GIP) of the Georg-August-University Göttingen with the University of Chernivtsi, Ukraine
2018 - 2019 Application European Universities (Consortium leader University of Göttingen, project management Casper-Hehne)
since 2016 Welcome Centre of the Göttingen Campus and the region of Southern Lower Saxony
since 2015 Internationalization of the curricula across the entire university
2014 - 2017 “Shaping Upheavals” - Mandatory language support in teacher training at universities in Lower Saxony
2012 - 2014 Establishment of an Academic Confucius Institute
2012 - 2014 Project “Internationalization 2012”: Conception of a new internationalization strategy and corresponding measures as well as their implementation

Special university projects as vice president

2018 – 2019 Application European Universities
(Consortium leader University of Göttingen, project leader Casper-Hehne)
since 2016 Welcome Centre of the Göttingen Campus and the region of Southern Lower Saxony
since 2015 Internationalization of the curricula across the entire university
2014 – 2017 "Shaping Upheavals" - Mandatory language support in teacher training at universities in Lower Saxony
2012 – 2014 Establishment of an Academic Confucius Institute
2012 – 2014 Project "Internationalization 2012": Conception of a new internationalization strategy and corresponding measures as well as their implementation

Other memberships

2000 – 2001 Member of the Executive Board of the German-Ukrainian Society, Braunschweig
2000 – 2004 Founding member and deputy chairwoman of the Förderverein Fremdsprache (“Foreign Language Development Association”), TU Braunschweig
1984 – 1986 Member of the Working Group Reintegration for Foreign Students, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn