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Project DEAL

Germany Leads Shift Toward Open Science

The higher education and research institutions of Germany believe science should not be locked behind paywalls. Through nationwide agreements with two of the world’s largest academic publishers, they have joined forces in a consortium known as Project DEAL to enable open publication of German research and restructure the financial streams around scientific publishing.

The Lars Borchardt Group

A Paradigm Shift in Chemistry: Nanostructured Materials Without Waste

“It is not waste until it is wasted.” That’s Lars Borchardt’s motto. Together with his team of the Lars Borchardt Research Group at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Borchardt is trying to make chemistry more sustainable. Two of their major projects include conducting chemical reactions without solvent waste and using renewable resources and waste material to create energy storage.

Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Center

New Cancer Therapy Shows Success in Heidelberg

Founded in 2009, the Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Center (HIT), part of the Heidelberg University Hospital, is pioneering carbon-ion cancer treatment.

Germany to Strengthen 11 Universities to Elite Status

In the US there are Harvard, Stanford and MIT—the elite universities whose research and influence ranks them among the best worldwide. In Germany there are the “Universities of Excellence.”

Germany Pledges $3.1 Billion to University Research Groups

Part of the Excellence Strategy, Germany selected 57 research-based clusters in which to invest €385 million annually. Selected clusters represent Germany’s best university-based research.

Germany Races to Get Ahead in Electromobility

In 2018 the German government announced it would invest $1.1 billion in the production of battery cells for electric vehicles (EV).

Universities Collaborate on Quantum Computing Research

The new Cluster of Excellence “Matter and Light for Quantum Computing” (ML4Q) brings together the best researchers from four top institutions in western Germany to handle the multidisciplinary issue of quantum computing.