Currently, the most important funding sources (apart from the Klaus Tschira Foundation) are the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the German Research Foundation (DFG), the European Union, and others.
2009-2012 – “Spatial and Temporal Scales and Mechanisms of Extreme Precipitation Events over Central Europe (STAMMEX)”, granted by German Research Foundation (DFG) (PN 50160119), principal investigator.
As early as 1987, Ette's work on Alexander von Humboldt earned him the "Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz" Award from the German Ministry of Culture and the German Research Association DFG.
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He has managed the National Plan Mathematics Programme (2001–2004) and directed and participated in various international panels belonging of the French CNRS, ANR, IUF, AERES and INRIA and the German DFG amongst other agencies.
In December 2008, Schröger was granted a Reinhart Koselleck Project by the German Research Council (DFG).
See also: Institute for Prehistory, Erlangen University; German Research Foundation/German Research Council (DFG); Dr. Ludwig Reisch; German Archaeological Society; University of Pune; Second World War; Bonn
He is a member in Committee of Drive Technology in the Association of German Engineers (VDI), a advisor of “Alexander von Humboldt Foundation” and German Research Foundation (DFG).
Until 1997 Orthmann was also responsible for work in the Alazani valley in eastern Georgia on behalf of the German Research Foundation (DFG) with the objective of completely excavating a large grave mound (kurgan originating in the last third of the third millennium BCE near the Alazani River.