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In January 2009, the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg established a state excellence initiative to strenghten and promote research cooperation among Hamburg univerities and other universities, institutes and partners.
The initiative's goal is to strengthen the competitive edge of cooperative research efforts in Hamburg with academically excellent state graduate programs and state excellence clusters as well as to prepare for federal grant programs.
The Universität Hamburg successfully applied to establish 11 Projects. These include 6 State Excellence Clusters and 5
state graduate programs.
The fundamentally inter-disciplinary projects have been planned for a period of 3.5 years. They will be funded until the end of 2010 by the State Excellence Initiative and financed until 2012 by the Academic Foundation. Within this period, participating scholars and scientists will prepare for the Excellence Initiative's next round and/or third-party funding.
Would you like more information about the individual projects? An information brochure provides short portraits and basic information. Download here (PDF).
Further information about the background and funding decisions can be found on the pages of the Office of Science and Research.
| Name of the cluster |
Spokesperson |
|---|---|
| EC Connecting Particles with the Cosmos | Prof. Dr. Schleper |
| EC Frontiers in Quantum Photon Science | Prof. Dr. Sengstock |
| EC NANO-SPINTRONICS | Prof. Dr. Wiesendanger |
| EC Nanotechnology in Medicine (NAME) | Prof. Dr. Weller |
| EC Neurodapt! | Prof. Dr. Büchel |
| EC Linguistic Diversity Management in Urban Areas - LiMA | Prof. Dr. Siemund, Prof. Dr. Gogolin |
To support the State Excellence Initiative, the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg has supplied 15 million euros for two years. Another 20 million euros over a two-year period are currently planned for the research and scientific foundation. Furthermore, the Joachim Herz Foundation has agreed to act as the Initiative's private patron and partner.
