The annual volume of funds granted by the DFG alone amounts to 1.5 million marks. In short, the Faculty is a great deal more than the sum of its constituent parts. Thanks to its wide range of disciplines, topics of common interest can be approached from a variety of perspectives, both at subject level and on the basis of the near-ideal interdisciplinary scope afforded by the Faculty as a whole. Systematic attempts are made to secure long-term international cooperation agreements with other universities. A joint programme between Heidelberg and Strasbourg for postgraduate work in Turkish and Islamic studies is in the finalisation stage, while Tempus student exchange schemes already link the Faculty with the universities of Cracow, Udine and Turin.
Partnerships also exist with universities in Lyon, Budapest and Cambridge.
Extension courses in Chinese for managers are also provided. One focal aim of the latter project is establishing a Vulgar Latin database. Collections of Latin inscriptions at the Department of Ancient History and the Heidelberg papyrus collection are accessible on the Internet as databases. The Faculty has 25 professors and 70 non-professorial academic staff. At present the number of students majoring at the Facully is 840.