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Research in Germany

Germany is a top destination for PhD students, postdocs, and senior scientists. The website "Research in Germany" helps you to find your way to Germany, to seek for PhD positions, research jobs or funding opportunities. It describes the German research landscape and helps you plan your career and life in Germany. Welcome to Germany - the Land of Ideas!

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There are many good reasons for doing research in Germany. It is one of the most innovative, stable and well endowed research nations and its universities and research institutions are among the best in the world. Values like freedom and diversity as well as social and ecological responsibility are considered important to ensure knowledge gain and societal progress.

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Here you will find a selection of the latest R&D news from German universities, non-university research institutes and industrial research facilities.

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Cash grants are better for businesses in Burkina Faso - study by the University of Passau and the World Bank

Cash grants appear to be more promising than matching grants, especially if survival of small businesses rather than innovation is the key objective in fragile political contexts. This is the result of a study conducted by economists from the University of Passau and the World Bank in Washington D.C. and Burkina Faso.

Nov 21, 2024, 5:43:30 PM

Researchers have developed a new method for the novo protein design.

New method for designing artificial proteins

Protein design aims to create customized antibodies for therapies, biosensors for diagnostics, or enzymes for chemical reactions. An international research team has now developed a method for designing large new proteins better than before and producing them with the desired properties in the laboratory. Their approach involves a new way of using the capabilities of the AI-based software Alphafold2, for which the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in 2024.

Nov 21, 2024, 3:16:03 PM

Lead author and junior professor Dr Sebastian Sippel from Leipzig University

Less cold: Ocean cold period in the early 20th century less pronounced than previously thought

A new study in the journal Nature shows that the oceans were less cold in the early 20th century (1900–1930) than previously thought. During this period the ocean appears too cold due to the way some measurements were taken. This makes global ocean surface temperature measurements during this period inconsistent with both land air temperatures and palaeoclimatic data and the differences between land and ocean are larger than shown in climate models.

Nov 21, 2024, 3:16:02 PM

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Red squirrels adjust their diurnal activities very flexibly to humans, pets and wildlife in cities

Scientific investigations before and during the COVID-19 lockdown in Berlin in 2020 show that urban red squirrels are extremely flexible in adjusting their diurnal activities to the presence of humans, domestic dogs, domestic cats, and predators such as beech martens. With the help of wildlife cameras, scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) and citizen scientists recorded red squirrel activities in private gardens and properties over longer periods of time and compared them between the different times of day and seasons.

Nov 21, 2024, 3:07:23 PM

MCC: A concept for a heating transition free of hardship

A poorly insulated house with an oil heating system – this is the exemplary case that policymakers are struggling with these days. How can they protect people with such climate-unfriendly living spaces from being overburdened? They plan to make fossil heating more expensive via carbon pricing to accelerate the switch to heat pumps, for example, but they are deterred by the enormous heterogeneity of the building stock. A study now shows how the carbon price in the buildings sector can be fully offset, even in hardship cases. The study was conducted by the Berlin-based climate research institute MCC (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change).

Nov 21, 2024, 12:22:43 PM