The research cluster ,,Origins" wants to investigate the development of the universe. (Image: Cassiopeia A - Steward/O.Krause et al. / NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Research news - The Technical University of Munich (TUM) was successful in all subsidy lines in the first two rounds of the German Excellence Initiative, held in 2006 and 2012. Now TUM has set its sights for the third time on the highly endowed support program for leading German universities: TUM is participating in five initiatives for research clusters which were judged successful by an international expert panel in the pre-selection round and which are now being called on to submit complete applications. The draft versions of research collaboration with highly distinguished partners come from the fields neurology, imaging, energy conversion, quantum technologies and the investigation of the universe. "The topics of the successful draft proposals excellently reflect the diverse range of cutting-edge research at TUM," says Prof. Wolfgang A. Herrmann, President of TUM. "And what's more: The numerous cross-departmental partnerships in the draft proposals prove that we live and breathe interdisciplinarity. We fulfill the prerequisites to be completely convincing in the next round with the best combination of specialized brilliance, coherent research programming, interdisciplinary qualities and internationality." - The detailed proposals have to be formulated by February 2018. Only those universities which will be successful with at least two Excellence Clusters in the second selection round are eligible to compete for additional funding as a University of Excellence.
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