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LHI members are successful in attracting competitive funding provided by science funds. Within the FNR funded project , Nina Janz and Sara Maya Vercruysse organised the international conference on the conscription of non-German men and women into the Wehrmacht and Reichsarbeitsdienst. Thanks to additional funding, the project was accompanied by an on the impact of war experiences of Ukrainian refugees caused by the Russian invasion.

Two PhD researchers receive FNR funding through the AFR funding line. Whereas Arnaud Sauer was writing up his research findings related to , Nicolas Arendt started to investigate through a transnational lens.

In addition, Machteld Venken leads a work package on the history of welfare within the Greater Region as part of the European Research Council Advanced Grant coordinated at the European 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ Institute of Florence. She was a Visiting Scholar at the 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Lorraine to conduct archival research on the cross-border welfare of Luxembourgish veterans after the First World War. As part of the DFG-FNR funded Research Unit on the , Veronique Faber unravels the past of the Luxembourg Funfair Schueberfouer, among others through interviewing and participant observation

In 2022, the LHI research group continued to carry out research on the request of Luxembourgish public and private stakeholders. The societal interest in the history of the Second World War is reflected in a significant number of projects. The research on the conducted by Inna Ganschow reached a thanks to the discovery of observation reports composed by the American army in 1944 and 1945, which are archived in the United States of America.

Ongoing research on the in the mid of the 20th Century was accompanied by a new public outreach project dedicated to the creation of a (both under the supervision of Denis Scuto).

Following the successful launch of a C²DH-created , Christoph Brüll launched a new project developing a virtual exhibition of the Second World War in Luxembourg. Through conducting research on the role of Luxembourgish historical actors in the , the LHI axis contributes to an ongoing debate in Luxembourgish society. In 2022, LHI members visited the temporary exhibition in the MNHA and exchanged ideas with the exhibition’s curator. Two postdoctoral researchers received access to the archives of respectively the Chambre of Employees (Estelle Berthereau) and the (Sam Klein) and prepare institutional histories.

As part of the network, Denis Scuto organised an international conference on in Dudelange. In cooperation with the 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of the Greater Region Centre for Border Studies and the Transfrontier Euro-Institute Network, LHI members hosted the international conference .

The LHI research group also organised the second workshop of an international will, among others including the Centre for Urban History in Lviv (Ukraine) and the Polish Academy of Sciences, collaborating on the . It welcomed archivists and digital humanists to discuss collections informing the in the Greater Region.

Flagship publications are peer-reviewed edited volumes on the and in Europe, one edited volume for a larger public with and one international peer-reviewed article on , among others based on inputs of students in the research-oriented MA course migration history.

In cooperation with the City of Dudelange and the Centre de Documentation sur les migrations humaines, the App was developed and launched.