News"Global Partnership in Science" Package: Baden-Württemberg welcomes foreign researchers and funds cooperation with Harvard

"Global Partnership in Science" Package: Baden-Württemberg welcomes foreign researchers and funds cooperation with Harvard

With its "Global Partnership in Science" package, the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg is promoting international scientific cooperation with a funding initiative totaling €24 million. Central to this is the first EU-wide unique partnership between the leading American university Harvard and the German University of Excellence Heidelberg. The initiative is also expanding opportunities to offer new prospects to top researchers and young scientists from abroad. The state is thus systematically expanding its strategy to strengthen innovation and research excellence.

The “Global Partnership in Science” package approved by the cabinet comprises the following three funding measures:

  • Global Institution Program: Ten million euros will support the expansion of the long-standing contacts between Heidelberg University and Harvard University into a permanent partnership. This structural and sustainable deepening of the cooperation makes an outstanding contribution to further enhancing the position of Baden-Württemberg as a center of science at the international level. The planned funding measures include research stays for up to 50 scientists from Harvard at Heidelberg University, as well as additional measures such as the establishment of a joint innovation hub.
  • Global Professorship Program: A further ten million euros will enable universities to quickly and flexibly make particularly attractive, individually tailored appointment offers to top international scientists. This initiative builds on existing funding programs from the Ministry of Science and further develops them.
  • Global Fellowship Program: 3.6 million euros will be invested in the program. It offers temporary research stays for young international scientists. The three internationally oriented Institutes for Advanced Studies (IAS) in Freiburg, Tübingen, and Konstanz offer guest stays/research positions of up to two years for up to 14 postdoctoral researchers from all fields of study. These are intended to enable outstanding research to be continued under the best conditions and to facilitate networking in Baden-Württemberg's excellent research environment.

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Source: Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg Editor by Tim Mörsch, VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH Countries / organization: USA Germany Global Topic: Higher Education Skilled Personnel Funding Strategic Issues and Framework
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