From 2016 to 2018, innovative individual projects from the field of gender studies were funded. The projects were selected in a competitive process by the Margherita von Brentano Center's research project team as part of a call for ideas. The projects served to prepare applications for external funding.

The funded projects were:

2018

• „Men on Boards – Change Agends for Equality?“ by Dr. Anja Kirsch, School of Business and Economics
• „Zeugenschaft und Geschlecht in digitalen Öffentlichkeiten“ by Dr. Saskia Sell, Institute of Media and Communication Studies

2016

• „Imaginaries of gender and sexuality on the move“ by  Yener Bayramoğlu M.A. (prom.), Institute of Media and Communication 
• „Bridging Environments: United by Food?“ by Dr. Renata Campos Motta, Institute for Latin American Studies
• „Family across cultures. Neue Perspektiven auf eine globale Frühe Neuzeit“ by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Claudia Jarzebowski, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut
• „‚Kranke Männer von Ostasien‘ – Männlichkeiten in China, Japan und Korea im 20. Jahrhundert“ by Dr. Nicolas Schillinger, Sinology – Chinese Studies