Germany asked to increase spending on universities
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The budget of the largest sponsor of German university research, the Deutsches Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), has fallen to the point where it could grant fewer than half the research applications in 1992. This has elicited a call from the Wissenschaftsrat, the national science council, to increase DFG funding. Much of the financial burden has resulted from the DFG's assignment to make research in universities of the former East Germany comparable with that of the West.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1993
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Germany revamps system to fund medical research
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German research minister Matthias Wissman reported that a major restructuring of medical research funding will lessen inefficiency and invigorate the link between clinical and medical research. Funding for research was deemed as too centralized and was not effectively allocated. The proposed plan will allot 1.4 billion Deutsche marks to national research centers and 750 million Deutsche marks for individual projects over the next three years.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1993
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