ICAS:MP launched collaborations with several other research initiatives, apart from the already established academic relations with German partners:
- Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
- Institute of Economic Growth (IEG)
- Leibniz Research Alliance Value of the Past of the Leibniz- Gesellschaft based on an LOI since 2021
- BMBF-Kompetenznetzwerk Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict (HIERARCHIES) through the Centre for Political Practices and Orders, University of Erfurt, along with two other Merian Centres, MIASA and MECAM
- DFG-funded Kollegforschungsgruppe (KFG) Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations (2779, MWK Erfurt)
- Newly founded SFB (TRR 294) Structural Change of Property, Strukturwandel des Eigentums (Universities of Erfurt and Jena)
- The Graduiertenkolleg (2571, Freiburg University) ‘Empires’ (Imperien)
- Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence
- O.P. Jindal Global University
