Cash limits curb Max Planck Society's plans in the east
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The plans of Max Planck Society (MPS) to set up new research institutes in east Germany will suffer a setback due to lack of funds from the federal government. The federal government has allowed a 5% annual grant increase to MPS for three years rather than five due to economic recession. However, the funding level is still lower than MPS had expected because the government excluded some funding from its calculation. Earlier, the government's five-by-five agreement had assured MPS and the grant-giving agency, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, of a 5% increase in funding for five years from 1991-95.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1995
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Max Planck supports research in east as cost of reunification climbs
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Western Germany's Max Planck Society, by pledging financial support to over 30 research institutes, is helping to ensure the continuance of meritorious scientific research in what was once East Germany. The Society made its decision after an in-depth examination revealed that East German science was not as uniformly shoddy as it was reputed to be. In fact the Society found several groups conducting superb research that fully deserved monetary aid such as the Halle Institute for Solid State Physics and Electron Microscopy.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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Max Planck expands toward the east
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The German government is planning to fund five new Max Planck institutes in the former East Germany. It was decided in the meeting of the Max Planck Society (MPG) senate that three new institutes in the natural sciences and two in the social sciences would be set up in the new Lander. However, only two institutes, one in Berlin and the other at Halle, have been established due to financial restraints.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1993
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