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About the Nordost-Institut
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The primary focus of the Nordost-Institut's work is research on the culture and history of north-eastern and eastern Europe as well as the various ways in which this area connects to German history, especially in modern and recent history.
Issues covered include regional, national and state developments as well as their interpretation in the context of wider political, economic and cultural European issues.
The regional focus of research on the history of the Germans and their "eastern" neighbours and the societies of north-eastern and eastern Europe is mainly in the historically Prussian provinces (East and West Prussia, Pommerania, Posen) and Poland as well as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, furthermore in Russia, the Soviet Union and its successor states.
The Nordost-Institut began its work on 1 January, 2002 with its main offices in Lüneburg and a department in Göttingen. The IKGN foundation, which supports the Nordost-Institut, came into being on 13 June, 2001. Since March, 2004 it has been associated with the University of Hamburg. The Nordost-Institut emerged from two previously independent institutions: the North German Culture Institute (Insitut Norddeutsches Kulturwerk) in Lüneburg and the Institute for Study of Germany and Eastern Europe (Institut für Deutschland- und Osteuropaforschung des Göttinger Arbeitskreises) in Göttingen.
The Institute cooperates on research and teaching with the University of Hamburg and other universities. It conducts research projects and hosts conferences, publishes scientific research in its annual journal, Nordost-Archiv, Zeitschrift für Regionalgeschichte, and in its series "Veröffentlichungen des Nordost-Instituts" with the Harrassowitz Publishing House in Wiesbaden, and hosts the library Nordost-Bibliothek, a special collection of literature on north-eastern European history.
The Nordost-Institut is financed by federal funds (the office of the federal representative for culture and media) as well as by third parties. The by-laws of the IKGN make up the legal, organizational foundation of its activity and guide the work of the various decision-making bodies.
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