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Germany rates highly among talent from abroad, but survey shows concerns about paperwork

German institutes call for “balanced discussion” of existing constraints and safeguarding measures on animal experiments

This week: Fraunhofer’s next leader, fusion power ambitions and concerns about student poverty

Parliamentary hearing told that Germany’s health policymakers are ill prepared for pandemic health challenges
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Latest measures also include creation of 11 Collaborative Research Centres to boost German university research

This week: making Germany more international, a hospital merger and a lack of biodiversity knowledge

Academics across German-speaking territories team up to boost community participation and support early career colleagues

Science ministry assigns €41 million budget in bid to combat rise in resistant germs

This week: the HRK’s next president, diversity in Thuringia and imaging in North Rhine-Westphalia

Strategies to adapt to rising costs include heating controls and building closure, survey shows

President of Germany’s DFG underlines importance of research to meeting UN goals

This week: digital scholarships, lifelong learning and plans to occupy lecture halls across Germany

This week: dual studies, a low-enriched research reactor and AI among business administrators

Employment prospects, good study conditions and strong international reputation all attract students, survey finds

Government and science supporters team up to secure “place at the top” of future developments

WR urges restructuring to help Germany develop “socially acceptable” climate-friendly agriculture

Bavarian state coffers fund €120 million boost to intelligent-systems research

This week: a DAAD expansion, Saxony-Taiwan collaboration, and protests for better study conditions in Berlin

Structures within German academia enable exploitation of lower-ranking members of staff, letter warns

High-ranking academics should not be tempted “to mask politically motivated statements as being science-based”

This week: rising energy costs, support for a data law and a name-change in Münster

RPN Live: Chair of Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment targets countries as priorities for outreach

This week: HE spending up, microcredentials on the rise and more

Germany’s research minister says Square Kilometre Array telescope will “overcome borders of knowledge and countries”

DFG says the number of scientists’ careers ended by Covid cannot be quantified yet

European Research Council president “especially pleased” about increasing share won by women

Demonstrators in Berlin call on government to keep coalition promise and prevent “system failure”

Small improvement seen over time, as organisers highlight researchers’ obligations to patients

This week: a new medical facility, advice on artificial intelligence and more

Academic qualifications would matter more in Germany under plan to shorten postdoc phase

Germany’s universities must become greener and promote sustainable lifestyles, leaders say

This week: overspending at Fraunhofer, face-to-face teaching and a Middle East cooperation programme

This week: spending hike, patent drop and research on right-wing extremism

Study by legal experts at Ruhr-Universität Bochum steers away from banning use of artificial intelligence

Federal hardship fund will channel €500 million to energy-intensive facilities

Public funds primarily go to states and cities already doing well in R&D, report shows

Formal ties with Chinese institution cut as part of “re-orientation” effort