German students to pay for funding boost...
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The funding for research as proposed in the Jul 1995 German budget will increase by 2.3%. However, only 0.6% of this will be in the form of cash while the rest will be from interest charged on students loans sponsored by the government. These changes in the students loans, known as BAfoG, have been criticized by universities. Jurgen Ruttgers has promised to maintain this increase for the next four years. The BAfoG bill will come before the Bundesrat after summer 1995 and if it is rejected the budget rise proposed by Ruttgers will be below inflation.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1995
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Germany to shift funding from physics to biology
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Germany's Ministry of Research (BMFT) is planning to finance centers of excellence in biological research and to reduce funding for physics-related projects such as accelerators. In making this change BMFT is following ideas of its advisory committee, chaired by physicist Siegfried Grossmann. The Grossmann report emphasized the likely growing importance of biomedical research in the coming years. Germany must increase its funding in biology and related fields if it is to keep pace with the US and other advanced countries.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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Germany's tight budget
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Germany's ministry for science research maintained its pre-inflation funding level of $5.9 billion in the 1994 budget. Energy research and marine and flight technology are hardest hit, and future contributions to international enterprises may shrink. Transport technology receives a pre-inflation 4% increase; health research, 3.3%; biotechnology, 2.3%; ecology, 2.2%; and climate research, 1.8%. The 'five-times-five' agreements ensuring 5% yearly growth in 1991-95 remain in effect.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1993
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