The research project has been developed by the Marie Curie Fellow Dr Fabian Frenzel in cooperation with Professor Manfred Rolfes and the department of Human Geographie at the University of Potsdam.

Many more cooperations took place in the course of the project with partners in Rio de Janeiro, Mumbai and Johannesburg, expanding the existing  Slum Tourism Network.

In May 2014 the project culiminated in the second network conference of slum tourism research at the Univeristy of Potsdam.