German Council of Science and Humanities
In March 2019 an expert committee appointed by the German Council of Science and Humanities and headed by conducted an evaluation that found the Institute to be an ″important driving force for research in contemporary history and political science″ that has made ″valuable and indispensable contributions to both academic support of the remembrance of victims of the Nazi dictatorship and the SED regime and of political education in Saxony in general″.