An international collaborative project on European military history under the direction of Professor Oliver Janz at Freie Universität Berlin was approved for funding by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area), the European network of research funders for the humanities. The research project entitled "Making War, Mapping Europe: Militarised Cultural Encounters, 1792–1920" is one of 18 projects selected from a total of 593 proposals submitted as part of the tender "Cultural Encounters." The project will start on October 1 and is being funded for three years with a total of one million euros. Researchers from Freie Universität will be working collaboratively with researchers from Trinity College Dublin and the universities of York and Swansea.