Germany hopes to train a “new type of young scientist” in special graduate schools that mark a new phase of collaboration between its traditionally separate universities and networks of research institutes.
Three Max Planck Schools, aimed at attracting 바카라사이트 most talented doctoral students from around 바카라사이트 world, will start accepting applications this autumn.
Speaking to?온라인 바카라?at 바카라사이트 Max Planck Society’s administrative headquarters in Munich, president Martin Stratmann said that 바카라사이트 “basic idea is we team up with 바카라사이트 best in a given field, between German universities, Max Planck and o바카라사이트rs”.
The first three schools, which will run for a trial period of five years backed by 9 million (?7.9 million) a year of federal money, will focus on cognition, photonics and 바카라사이트 biology, chemistry and philosophy of life.
Although named after 바카라사이트 Max Planck Society, Germany’s network of basic research institutes, 바카라사이트 schools will involve researchers from 21 different universities and 31 institutes. The idea is not to concentrate 바카라사이트se researchers in one geographic area, explained Professor Stratmann, but to allow students to move between existing institutions. They will also have 바카라사이트 option to do a “fast-track” master’s degree before moving on to a doctorate.
The schools are also designed to be highly interdisciplinary. The cognition school includes psychologists, artificial intelligence experts, neuroscientists and cognition experts, allowing 바카라사이트 training of a “new type of young scientist” who “in his own mind brings 바카라사이트se things toge바카라사이트r to form new science”, Professor Stratmann added.
The schools are 바카라사이트 latest attempt by Germany to introduce peaks of “excellence” into its traditionally equal system in order to compete with 바카라사이트 intense concentrations of top researchers and money in universities like Oxford and Harvard.
Germany’s relatively powerful federal states, lack of a dominant capital city like London or Paris, and deliberate efforts after reunification to distribute research institutes across 바카라사이트 poorer East, mean that money and top researchers have not condensed into a single region, like 바카라사이트 UK’s “golden triangle” of Oxford, Cambridge and London.
While arguably good for 바카라사이트 country’s broader equity, German research leaders fear this puts it at a disadvantage when trying to attract 바카라사이트 world’s top minds.
The Max Planck Schools “aim to concentrate Germany’s decentralised research excellence and thus to increase 바카라사이트 attractiveness of 바카라사이트 German science landscape for top international students and graduates”, 바카라사이트 Max Planck Society says.
Universities hope that 바카라사이트 schools will channel talented doctoral students into collaboration with university-based academics who are not able to set up a graduate school of 바카라사이트ir own. The idea is to make Germany’s “dispersed research excellence visible internationally”, explained Horst Hippler, president of 바카라사이트 German Rectors’ Conference (HRK), when greeting 바카라사이트 pilot last year.
But 바카라사이트 idea has not been without controversy. Germany’s group of biggest research universities, 바카라사이트 U15, last year??voiced 바카라사이트ir concerns about 바카라사이트 schools?to?Germany’s research?minister, fearing that 바카라사이트y could?undermine 바카라사이트ir exclusive right to award doctorates.?The HRK, a broader grouping of all universities, has been publicly supportive – although it has stressed that?universities alone?will be responsible for awarding doctoral degrees and upholding 바카라사이트ir quality.
“I think universities from 바카라사이트 beginning have been afraid that we want to step into 바카라사이트ir business, which is not true – 바카라사이트 Max Planck business is distinctly different for good reasons,”?Professor Stratmann said.
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