The department cooperates in training, teaching and research work with similar workplaces in the Czech Republic and abroad. There is significant permanent cooperation with regional professional institutions (archives, museums, galleries, the National Heritage Institute and its branches), whose staff participate in teaching. Another result of this cooperation is the peer-reviewed periodical Fontes Nissae, published regularly since 2000.
Undergraduates can take part in a number of the department’s scientific research activities, be that within the framework of SVUČ, SGS and other projects, or the activities of the branch of the Association of Historians of the Czech Republic - Historical Club 1872 at the Department of History.
Ongoing projects include mapping the sites remembered by Liberec’s persecuted or marginalized inhabitants.
In cooperation with other institutions, the department organizes an annual, professional Czech-Slovak seminar in the second half of August; 29 have already taken place. The department organizes or takes part in organizing a number of professional conferences, seminars, workshops and lectures for the public. Recently, the department used the faculty to hold a conference dedicated to the founding of Czechoslovakia and the province of Deutschböhmen (2018). This was in cooperation with the State Regional Archives in Litoměřice. The result is a collective monograph. The Department of History, working with the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, also produces publications from the Czech-Slovak seminars. Among the projects the department has recently completed, we can mention, among others, the GACR grant project Uncertain Mandates. Elections and their Legitimization in the Czech Lands and Czechoslovakia 1848-1939 (principal researcher Jan Rychlík).
