Prof. Dr. phil. Ramona Kusche

Project Lead: Women Professors Programme

Duration: 2025–2030
Funding amount: €806,000 Funding bodies: Federal Government / State of Saxony (50/50%) 

Sub-project lead: ILEAS 

Duration: 2025–2029 Funding
amount: €615,000 Funding
body: Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education Teaching

NextGen Project Management

Duration: 2021–2027
Funding: €5.2 million

Sub-project lead for the FioKo Early-Career Research Group

Duration: 2023–2024
Funding: €1,312,012.76, of which €127,339.01 is for HSMW

EURECA-PRO Project Management

Duration: 2020–2023
Funding: €4,988,340.00, of which €667,680.00 is for HSMW

Sub-project lead for the GAP Early-Career

Researcher Group Duration: 2020–2022
Funding: €120,939.06

Kusche, R., Jacobs, L., Hagenmeier, C., & Neugebauer, A. (2025). Evaluating institutional internationalisation strategies: An appreciative inquiry case study. Internationalisation of Higher Education, 2025 (3), 225–251. https://doi.org/10.25162/INT-2025-0011

Khassenov, B.; Kusche, R. (2024): Digital skills in higher education: a comprehensive literature review using open-source sources – trends, challenges and the development of students’ digital skills, in: Kusche, Spranger (eds.), NextGen Scientific Review – Annual Perspectives on Next Generation Science – Vol. 2, Mittweida, Germany: Hochschulverlag Mittweida, pp. 32–39, ISSN 2940-0929, DOI 10.48446/opus-14966

Stauche, F.; Kusche, R. (2024): Disciplinary culture and the exclusion of women from engineering: Identifying disciplinary cultural barriers for women in STEM, in: Kusche, Spranger (eds.), NextGen Scientific Review – Annual Perspectives on Next Generation Science – Vol. 2, Mittweida, Germany: Hochschulverlag Mittweida, pp. 62–67, ISSN 2940-0929, DOI 10.48446/opus-14968

Kusche, R.; Strangfeld, K.; Freche, A.; Fuß, A. (2024): Peer learning as a professional development tool on the path to tenure eligibility: Evaluation of the accompanying studies in the NextGen project, in: Kusche, Spranger (eds.), NextGen Scientific Review – Annual Perspectives on Next Generation Science – Vol. 2, Mittweida, Germany: Hochschulverlag Mittweida, pp. 69–77, ISSN 2940-0929, DOI 10.48446/opus-14967

Kusche, R.; Spranger, M. (eds.) (2023): NextGen Scientific Review – Annual Perspectives on Next Generation Science – Vol. 1, Mittweida, Germany: Hochschulverlag Mittweida, ISSN 2940-0929.

Kusche, R.; Strangfeld, K.; Freche, A.; Fuß, A. (2023): The impact of peer learning on tenure eligibility in the NextGen qualification programme: Conceptual considerations and research design, in: Kusche, Spranger (eds.), NextGen Scientific Review – Annual Perspectives on Next Generation Science – Vol. 1, Mittweida, Germany: Hochschulverlag Mittweida, pp. 73–80, ISSN 2940-0929.

Heinrich, J.; Kusche, R. (2023): Tell the WHY. A model approach to implementing innovative communication methods in science and teaching, in: Kusche, Spranger (eds.), NextGen Scientific Review – Annual Perspectives on Next Generation Science – Vol. 1, Mittweida, Germany: Hochschulverlag Mittweida, pp. 29–35, ISSN 2940-0929.

Kusche, Ramona (2020). Studying at home? Or globally after all? The impact of digital transformation on intercultural teaching and learning scenarios. In: Mensch : Medien : Macher. Festschrift for Ludwig Hilmer. Edited by Andreas Wrobel-Leipold, Ramona Kusche and Helmut Hammer. Mittweida, Hochschulverlag Mittweida, 59–75.

Kusche, Ramona (2018): Digital literacy: a fourth cultural skill or a cross-disciplinary competence? – Implications for the design of teaching and learning concepts in General Studies (Studium Generale). In: Journal Scientific Reports 3/2018, Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, ISSN 1437-7624 – submitted as part of the 25th IWKM

Kusche, R. (2012), Intercultural Opening of Schools: Requirements for Intercultural Teacher Training Programmes in Saxony, PhD thesis, University of Jena, 2011, AVM, Munich.

Keynote presentation: Science Communication, UNESCO’s International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change (ICWRGC) (2023)

Workshop: ‘NextGen – Career Goal: professorship at a UoAS’, 37th Annual Conference of University Chancellors on the theme of ‘The World of Work 4.0’, Leipzig (2022)

Keynote: The Interrelationship between Science and Culture: Opportunities and Challenges, WASCAL Science Symposium (2022)

Conference paper: Preparing university staff for 21st-century intercultural communication; 25th Nordic Intercultural Communication Conference: Multiple Belongings and 21st-Century Intercultural Communication, Copenhagen, Denmark (2018)

Keynote: Challenges of digital communication in the media; #Hashtag – Digital Communication & Innovation Conference, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania (2018)

Keynote speech: Internationalisation strategy of Mittweida University of Applied Sciences and Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences, Jena (2018)

Conference paper: How to become a global citizen? A presentation of the Mittweida Certificate of Intercultural Competence; 24th Nordic Intercultural Communication Conference: Diversities, mobilities, and cultural identities in the balance, Jyväskylä, Finland (2017)

Poster: Targeted promotion of intercultural competence as a key competence at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, 14th Annual Conference of the Society for Key Competences, 2017, Hamburg