One postdoctoral and three doctoral projects from the fields of history and political science are researching East-Central Europe in intra- and transregional comparison. The comparison is undertaken both within Europe and in relation to other regions of the world. The research adopts a transnational and transregional approach that opens up East Central Europe to both the West and the East by including neighbouring regions in the analysis. Additionally, the researchers pursue a collaborative reflection on regional processes from a global perspective. Central to this work are the concepts of migration and diaspora, global markets and the circulation of ideas, the transformation of social and political orders, and networks of different groups of actors.