Foundation activities and university memberships
| since 2021 | Founder and chairwoman of the Institute for Intercultural Communication at the Georg-August-University Göttingen e.V. (also 2005 – 2012) |
| since 2012 | Co-founder and member of the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, Georg-August-University Göttingen |
| since 2009 | Co-founder and member of the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Georg-August-University Göttingen |
| since 2005 | Co-founder and member of the Centre for Theory of Culture and Society, Georg-August-University Göttingen |
| 1993 – 2004 | Board member of the interdisciplinary Centre for Applied Linguistics and Language Research (ZALS), TU Braunschweig, TU Braunschweig |
Foundation activities and faculty memberships
| 2004 – 2009 | Founder and director of the German-Chinese Institute for Culture Comparison, Georg-August-University Göttingen (since Nov. 2005: German-Chinese Institute for Intercultural German Studies and Culture Comparison) |
| 2004 – 2009 | Head of the Germanistische Institutspartnerschaft (“Partnership of Institutes of German Studies”) (GIP) of the Georg-August-University Göttingen with the University of Chernivtsi, Ukraine |
Special university projects as vice president
| 2018 – 2019 | Application European Universities (Consortium leader University of Göttingen, project leader Casper-Hehne) |
| 2016 – 2021 | Welcome Centre of the Göttingen Campus and the region of Southern Lower Saxony |
| 2015 – 2017 | Internationalization of the curricula across the entire university |
| 2014 – 2017 | "Shaping Upheavals" - Mandatory language support in teacher training at universities in Lower Saxony |
| 2012 – 2014 | Establishment of an Academic Confucius Institute |
| 2012 – 2014 | Project "Internationalization 2012": Conception of a new internationalization strategy and corresponding measures as well as their implementation |
Other memberships
| 2000 – 2004 | Founding member and deputy chairwoman of the Förderverein Fremdsprache (“Foreign Language Development Association”), TU Braunschweig |
| 2000 – 2001 | Member of the Executive Board of the German-Ukrainian Society, Braunschweig |
| 1984 – 1986 | Member of the Working Group Reintegration for Foreign Students, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn |