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International Innovation Competition

INNOspace Masters competition is back for 2025

The INNOspace Masters competition is back for 2025, inviting innovators, researchers, and entrepreneurs from across industries to shape the future of space and beyond!

Call for Entries

Apply now for the interdisciplinary €350K Einstein Foundation Award

The Einstein Award for Promoting Quality in Research in cooperation with the QUEST Center for Responsible Research at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité honors researchers, institutions, and early career researchers around the globe whose work helps to fundamentally advance the quality, transparency, and reproducibility of science and research. The 2025 winners will be awarded €350,000.

News from the University of Cologne

Two ERC Starting Grants for Scientists at the University of Cologne

Two researchers at the University of Cologne each receive one of the most coveted European research grants for early-career researchers / a total of 3 million euros over five years.

News from New York University

Urban Future Forum 2024: Equity in Piloting Climate Solutions

In the spring of 2023, the ​Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering was awarded a grant from IN2 (the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator, co-founded and co-administered by NREL) to host an event bringing together community-based organizations (CBOs) focusing on climate and/or workforce, startups, investors, and channel to market partners. With this grant, they hosted their first ever Urban Future Forum on June 25, 2024, as an attempt to forge meaningful connections and enhance transparent communication between innovators and communities prior to deployment.

News from the Hasso Plattner Institute

Service to the Scientific Community

Prof. Felix Naumann, head of the “Information Systems” department at Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), is the new editor-in-chief of the “Journal of Data and Information Quality” (JDIQ). The HPI talked to him about his work as editor-in-chief and the focus of the journal.

News from the University of Cologne

University of Cologne Achieves Top Results in Two International Subject Rankings

The subject rankings of the Times Higher Education World University (THE) Rankings and the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) give subjects at the University of Cologne top scores: In the THE Ranking, the University is among the 10 best universities in Germany in more than half of the ranked subjects. In the ARWU Ranking, sociology in particular stands out, achieving first place nationally. Both rankings take different subjects into account and use different indicators.

News from UA Ruhr

New Emmy Noether Group Researches Interstellar Ice Mixtures

A team from the Chair of Organic Chemistry II at Ruhr University Bochum plans to explore exactly how chemical processes in ice mixtures contributed to the emergence of life on Earth. The research group has set out to gain insights into how the building blocks of life were created by recreating conditions from space on Earth.