| Art/articulations: Art and the formation of Social Space in African Cities | SNF | 01.02.2015 | 31.01.2018 | Till Förster, Fiona Siegenthaler, Franziska Jenni, Frederik Unseld |
| Safeguarding Democracy: Contest of values and interests | SSAJRP/SNF | 01.04.2014 | 31.03.2018 | Brigit Obrist, Elisio Macamo, Doris Wastl-Walter, Sheila Meintjes, Noor Nieftagodien |
| Narratives of Identity, Multi-sited Biographies, and Transnational Life-Modes of Highly Qualified Migrants. Two Case Studies | SNF | 01.10.2015 | 31.03.2018 | Picard Jacques, Sarr Haddy, Oberlé Hélène |
| Safeguarding Democracy: Contests of Values and Interests | SNF | 01.04.2014 | 31.03.2018 | Elisio Macamo, Pascal Schmid, Jokela Maaret |
| Staatlichkeit im Wandel: Ghana, Äthiopien und Mosambik im Vergleich | foreign Governmental Research Agencies | 18.12.2014 | 30.04.2018 | Elisio Macamo |
| TEMPEA | | 14.09.2015 | 13.05.2018 | Monika Baumanova, Elisio Macamo, Paul Lane |
| The Mining Frontier under Construction: built environment, the body and sociality in the North-Western Province, Zambia | University of Basel | 01.02.2017 | 31.05.2018 | Rita Kesselring |
| Rural Liberia in the Age of Developmentalism: Policies, Politics, Imaginations and Constraints, c. 1950 to 1980 | SNF | 01.08.2016 | 31.07.2018 | Cassandra Thiesen-Mark |
| Valueworks: Effects of Financialization along the Copper Value Chain | | 01.01.2017 | 31.12.2018 | Rita Kesselring |
| CICHLID~X | Commission of the European Union | 01.03.2014 | 28.02.2019 | Walter Salzburg |
| Knowledge for peace. Understanding research, policy and practice synergies r4d | SNF | 01.04.2016 | 31.03.2019 | Laurent Goetschel |
| Making the City: Agency, Urbanity and Urbanisation in Ordinary Cities | SNF | 01.08.2016 | 31.07.2019 | Till Förster, Barbara Heer, Silke Oldenburg |
| Participation in Social Health Protection: An Anthropological Case Study in Tanzania | SNF | 01.01.2017 | 31.12.2019 | Brigit Obrist |
| Living the City: Stipendien der Humer-Stiftung für akademische Nachwuchskräfte | Foundations and associations | 06.10.2009 | 31.12.2019 | Manfred Bergman, Elisio Macamo, Brigit Obrist, Till Förster, Goetschel, |
| From Fragility to Resilience: Accounting for the Diversity of State-making Trajectories in Africa | SNF | 01.05.2017 | 30.04.2020 | Laurent Goetschel |
| Blurring the Blue Line: African Police, Emergency and the Struggle for Independence in Colonial Northern Matabeleland, 1959-1980 | SNF | 01.04.2017 | 31.03.2021 | Julia Tischler |
| Space in Time: Landscape narratives and land management changes in a Southern African cross-border region | SNF/SSAJRP | 01.06.2017 | 31.05.2021 | |
| Contribution of Pastoralism to One Health approaches in southeastern Ethiopia | | 01.09.2015 | 31.08.2025 | Nikolaus Kuhn |