The Institute for European Cultural History, founded in 1990, is a central academic institution of the University of Augsburg. Its mission is to promote and conduct interdisciplinary research into European cultural history. On the one hand, the focus is on the rich historical sources in the libraries and archives in Augsburg and Swabia, but on the other hand, the Institute is also firmly committed to a European perspective. It is therefore always about the relationship between the local and the global, about embedding regional developments in larger European or even global contexts.