Dossiers of the Forum Transregionale Studien are bundles of essays, texts, audio- or visual contributions that address a common theme or project. The contributions to Dossiers may have been published before in a preliminary version, in a thematic series on the TRAFO Blog, as an Essay, Working Paper of the Forum or elsewhere. 

Dossiers allow quick and open access publication of edited volumes. They are a flexible format that facilitates publications and re-publications of contributions with a collective-peer-review. Dossiers appear in a digital brochure format and are easily available via the open access platform perspectivia.net, and can be combined with a print-on-demand option.

Dossiers are a format that can be used for publications of groups of scholars, such as research programmes at the Forum or projects of its members and partners. The Forum uses the format of Dossiers for the re-publication of some of its blog series, for the publication of workshop-proceedings, or as an integral part of its Writing Workshops.