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Ministry of Transport awards bicycle professorships

  

German government promotes bicycles as a serious matter for academic study

Federal transport minister Andreas Scheuer has presented seven universities with €8.3 million in funding to establish professorships that will help promote bicycles as a focus for public policy and research.

According to a Ministry of Transport statement, specialised master’s courses will be accredited at the selected universities. For a maximum of five years they will each receive up to €400,000 annually. A total of 33 universities had applied for the professorships which will be established later this year.

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