Both the work plan and the intermediate-term institute program contain projects, which are developed by several groups together or by the administration as integrative projects for the entire institute. The general criteria for institute-wide research projects are scholarly quality, pressing societal problems and user interest. With longer-term projects, a distinct relationship to the institute’s agenda and the careful use of available resources are particularly important. The decision to develop and carry out a project as institute-wide is formed on the basis of at least one of the following criteria:

1. It is cross-thematic and therefore requires the expertise and competence of several work groups, that is, it combines the results of various – also partly external – projects;
2. It deals with topic areas for which there is currently not (yet) a research group;
3. The proposed design – such as in the case of large-sized EU-projects or combined projects – is so extensive that the resources of one research group alone do not suffice.

There are currently the following Institute-Wide Projects at the GEI:

1. Cross-Thematic Projects

• Information and Communications Platform Edumeres
  
• Internet Platform EurViews
• Virtual Data and Methodology Handbook Edudata
• Digitalization of Historical German Textbooks: GEI-Digital

 2. Projects Covering New Thematic Areas

• Empirical Studies on the Use of Textbooks in History Instruction
• Lost in Translation?

• Edumeres
• EurViews
• Edudata
• GEI-Digital
• Empirical Studies on the Use of Textbooks in History Instruction
  
• Lost in Translation?