NAB XVIII 2019

Current Affairs
Cluster of Excellence:
Six research sections,
21 research projects
Text SABINE GREINER
In 2019, the Cluster’s six research
sections launched a
total number of 21 research
projects scrutinizing a considerably
wide range of topics and areas.
One of the paramount goals of the
Cluster of Excellence is to initiate and
support innovative research projects
contributing valuably to the Cluster’s
agenda. For this purpose, upon
its foundation the Cluster organized
six research sections providing a coherent
structure to six thematic fields:
■ Affiliations,
■ Arts and Aesthetics,
■ Knowledges,
■ Learning,
■ Mobilities and
■ Moralities
The Cluster’s principal investigators
and their colleagues work within these
research sections, developing specific
projects that all pursue an inter- and/
or transdisciplinary agenda and involve
close cooperation between researchers
from Bayreuth, Africa, and the global
Cluster network. In the first year of the
Cluster’s existence, a total number of 21
research projects have been launched.
Each project has a specific duration
ranging from one to four years, exploring
a very specific topic within the thematic
field of its research section.
Research Section:
Affiliations
Multiplicity in Decision-Making of Africa’s
Interacting Markets (MuDAIMa):
The Functioning of Community Law,
the Role of Market Participants, and
the Power of Regional Judges
Research Team: David Stadelmann,
Alexander Stroh-Steckelberg, Volker Wiese
Many African states are members of more
than one regional community, whose objectives
and declared aims are economic,
legal, and/or political integration. Thus, it
is commonplace that multiple, overlapping,
and potentially competing economic, legal,
and political affiliations influence the status
quo of regional integration. Due to the very
nature of regional integration, MuDAIMa
aims at a truly transdisciplinary analysis of
the entangled integration situation and its
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