The project management is located at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). Project leaders are Prof. Dr. Oliver Janz, historian at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut (FMI) of Freie Universität Berlin, and Prof. Dr. Nicolas Apostolopoulos, director of the Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS), also at Freie Universität Berlin. The third institution involved in administrating this project is the Bavarian State Library (BSB) in Munich. The German Historical Institutes in London, Moscow, Paris, Rome, and Warsaw, as well as the Orient Institute in Istanbul are also important contributors. Renowned international experts in historical scholarship write the articles for the encyclopedia. The Editorial Board, made up of around 90 well-known historians from 22 countries, is responsible for the assessment and quality management of the authors’ contributions. Under the programme "Scientific Library and Information Systems", the German Research Foundation (DFG) has supported the project with a grant of around 1 million Euros.