The German Academic Exchange Service promotes culture preservation and cultural sensitive tourism with special funding programmes.

With the programme German-Arab/Iranian Higher Education Dialogue the DAAD supports higher education partnership projects focusing the cultural dialogue with the Islamic world. Fundable are dialogue-oriented partnership projects between German institutions of higher education and its partners in Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa and Iran in all disciplines, from the arts, urban planning, to civil engineering and medicine.

Caravan Routes in Libya - cooperation projekt of the University of Freiburg with the Libyan Studies Centre in Tripoli,

the Arabic/Islamic town in comparison to the European town - dialogue-supporting cooperation in the area of urbanism between the academy for economy and environment in Nürtingen-Geislingen and the Syrian university of Damascus,

earthquake resistant houses in Iran - common project of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and the Isfahan University of Technology.