the nearby University. A professional infrastructure including library and indoor pool offers pleasant working and living conditions. References Further reading Sabine Maasen. "Introducing Interdisciplinarity: Irresistible Infliction? The Example of a Research Group at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld, Germany". In: Peter Weingart, Nico Stehr (eds): Practising Interdisciplinarity, University of Toronto Press 2000, pp. 173-194. . Helmut Schelsky. "Das Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung. Eine Denkschrift von Helmut Schelsky". In: Paul Mikat, Helmut Schelsky: Grundzüge einer neuen Universität. Zur Planung einer Hochschulgründung in Ostwestfalen. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh, 1966. Ipke Wachsmuth. "ZiF". In: Robert Frodeman, Julie Thompson Klein, Carl Mitcham (eds): The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010, pp. 292-293. . External links (German and English) Bielefeld University Pedagogy