for political science.

We are very happy!

After three successful funding phases (2016ff), the DFG has fully approved our renewal proposal. This means that the FID Political Science will be funded for a further three years with a total of EUR 1.9 million.

Priorities of the fourth funding phase (2025-2028):

• Expansion of the Pollux research portal, which currently contains about 13 million documents, to include research data, grey literature, abstracts and citations
• Further development of the ‘PoliCorp’ analysis tool for structured political text data (text corpora)
• Expansion of open science activities, in particular open access
• Strengthening research data management for qualitative political science data
• Optimisation of internal work processes and quality assurance
• Increased public relations work to raise the visibility of the service in the community

The principles of Open Science are becoming increasingly important - also in political science. Open science stands for transparent, comprehensible and accessible research processes. It promotes the quality of scientific work and complies with the guidelines of good scientific practice of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Pollux now offers subject-specific webinars and online workshops on the open science topics of

The events are aimed at all political scientists. Participation is free of charge.