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Political pressure makes dent in Germany's cooperation opportunities, academic exchange body finds

DGB chief demands higher earning thresholds and budget boost to support more students

This week: Baden-Württemberg's life sciences campus, a controversial advert and the National Hydrogen Strategy

More mid-degree students choose German institutions as preferred study abroad destination
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Germany's early career talent feel pressure from lack of access to archives and project delays

This week: bigger science budget, Göttingen Covid-19 tests and the German Reproducibility Network

Weave initiative links 12 funders across Europe

Satellite office will ensure EU funds can flow to intergovernmental body despite Brexit

One in 10 could drop out over lack of part-time work and cheap loans

Funder opens online portal and issues reprimands to scientists over alleged plagiarism and false statements

This week: Volkswagen funding, Leibnitz Prize winners and permanent funding for medical universities network

Reforms proposed by state government would shift university funding towards economic gain and entrepreneurship

Guidelines to support German universities in determining risks versus rewards of international collaboration

This week: women dominate art schools, a new alliance and quantum computing funding

Universities upset over 1 per cent spending reduction as German science ministry receives €500m boost

This week: Hamburg’s donor secrets, academics denounce planned Iranian execution and Jago retires

Study that found little progress in improving academic career security fans flames of discontent

Survey reveals looming spectre of financial shortages and decline of academic cooperation

Germany's academic exchange leaders lament uncertainty about coming changes for students and researchers abroad

This week: Berlin reviews Giffey PhD, rectors slam EU budget deadlock, Hannover confronts Nazi past

Funds available to boost use of computing and online learning in German labs and classrooms

Franziska Giffey faces renewed investigation into her PhD

This week: freedom of information, record R&D spending and strong opinions among students

German academics are still too lax about work with military implications, report finds

Study applauds efforts in higher education to adapt to online learning during pandemic

This week: Belarus exchange, protests against online teaching and funds for FH professors

Germany involved in 18 of 34 new multidisciplinary European Research Council mega-grants

Guidelines intended to help institutions struggling with cultural change of online services

Rising Covid-19 cases mean that online teaching and services must be extended, says association

This week: student Covid-19 hardship, record number of internationals and a plea for less travel

Report slams experts who act in self-interest but praises good management of preprint access

DAAD picks 31 projects to improve student readiness for international labour market

This week: fire bombs in Berlin, student jobs and support for Bavarian university law

Four-year German deal includes the highly selective flagship journal Nature

Culture of ‘secrecy’ could put German R&D at a disadvantage, High-Tech Forum says

Guest researcher data show top destinations for international talent, with east Germany left behind

This week: more female professors, a university restructure and the end of an Arctic mission