For example, there is close cooperation with the National Gallery in Prague, the Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies, and the Czech Academy of Sciences.

On this basis, the "Humanities Centre History and Culture of East-Central Europe" (Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Ostmitteleuropa, thus GWZO) was founded on 30 October 1995 as a non-profit registered association and began its work in January 1996.

[10] In 2010, the Institute moved from its location in suburban Lindenau to new premises right in the city centre, in the early 20th century shopping arcade Specks Hof.

[14] The German-Czech-Polish exhibition project Europa Jagellonica[15] presented the art and culture of Central Europe at the turn of the Late Middle Ages to the early modern period, grouped around the transnational Jagiellon dynasty.

It was jointly organized by four art museums and the GWZO in 2012/2013 and successfully shown in the cities of Kutná Hora, Warsaw and Potsdam.