• Deontic logic (2017–21): in this project, funded by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), Indologists at the IKGA cooperate with researchers from the Technical University of Vienna in order to develop computer-assissted methods for the analysis of deontic logic which are applied to selected texts of the Mīmaṃsā-school -- a current of Indian thought occupied with the theory of ritual that devoted considerable attention to prescriptions and prohibitions.
  • Global Eurasia – Comparison and Connectivity (2019–20):  "Global Eurasia – Comparison and Connectivity" is a joint project of several ÖAW-institutes. Three international and interdisciplinary conferences are held in 2019–2020, dealing with different topics from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. The development of these topics and questions is carried out in small groups consisting of staff from several institutes. The main focus is on the further development of the topics and the elaboration of comparative points of view, through which connections can be drawn between individual research activities conducted at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and which facilitate the development of future research lines and project applications in this field.
  • VISCOM – Visions of Community (SFB 2011–19): The FWF Special Research Area (SFB) VISCOM ("Visions of Community: Comparative Considerations of Ethnicity, Region and Empire in Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, 400–1600 CE") was an interdisciplinary project that brought together various institutes of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Vienna. Between 2011 and 2019, the IKGA carried out sub-projects in the field of Tibetan, South Asian and Buddhist Studies within this framework.
  • Hermeneutics of religion: (1991–2008):  Hermeneutics of religion, an approach developed by Gerhard Oberhammer, was the subject of several interdisciplinary symposia over a longer period of time. These were organized by the Institute as thematically related workshops involving the participation of Indologists, Buddhologists, and Protestant and Catholic theologians.