| Lake Ganau in the Rania Plain in Iraqi Kurdistan – a new limnic archive for palaeoenvironmental studies and the investigation of man-environment interaction | Prof. Manfred Rösch, Dr. Simone Mühl, Ludwig Maximilians, Dr. Annette Kadereit | | | |
| Underwater caves (Cenotes) on Yucatan | Prof. Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, heiLUM-Team | | | |
| The Shahrizor Survey Project | Dr. Simone Mühl, heiLUM-Team | | | |
| Holozäne Landschaftsentwicklung der Donauaue in der Umgebung des kupferzeitlichen Tells Pietrele, Rumänien | Prof. Jürgen Wunderlich, Dirk Novacki, heiLUM-Team | | | |
| Palaeoenvironment and fluvial history of the river Danube between the Neolithic settlement sites Vinca and Starcevo, Serbia | Prof. Josef Maran, Kristina Penezic, Prof. Heinrich Thiemeyer, heiLUM-Team | DAAD (Stipendium Kristina Penezic) | | |
| Wadi Sura II - Cave of the Beasts | Prof. Olaf Bubenzer, Dr. Rudolph Kuper, Dr. Heiko Riemer, heiLUM-Team | | | |