Universities across Germany will compete over the summer for the next round of funding from the multi-million excellence strategy fund, which was launched in 2019 to fund compelling research projects and strengthen the international standing of German science. Now midway through its first seven-year phase, the German Research Foundation (DFG) which manages the fund is sifting 143 proposals from 59 universities across all 16 federal states to decide which projects to back next.
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Germany has a problem: it is still strong in basic research, as recently demonstrated by the successful acquisition of a total of 61 ERC Advanced Grants, which secured the country first place in Europe. Twelve of these grants went to Max Planck researchers. But at the same time, Germany is not in a position to put this horsepower on the road and turn it into successful start-ups and companies, as Thomas Sattelberger, former State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, recently stated in an article in WirtschaftsWoche.
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