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Funding Offer 17 April 2023

zukunft.niedersachsen: Lower Saxony Professorship

The "Lower Saxony Professorship" addresses exceptional academics who are professionally excellent and have several years of (management) experience in the science system. They are expected to have the capacity to shape the profile and structure of their university location and impact the research region at large.

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Funding Offer 09 February 2023

New funding offer: Circularity with recycled and biogenic resources

The funding line 'Collaborative projects' of this initiative is primarily targeted at the natural sciences and engineering. 

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Funding Offer 08 February 2023

Future agenda for science funding in Lower Saxony presented

The title of the new program for the promotion of research and education in Lower Saxony is "zukunft.niedersachsen". Thanks to additional funding of 580 million euros, three future fields are to be massively developed in order to make Lower Saxony visible as a research  location, also internationally.

Funding Offer 16 August 2022

Pioneering projects "Societal Transformations"

The funding offer was aimed at scientists from all disciplines who develop research projects that result in transformation knowledge.

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Funding Offer 12 April 2022

Data Reuse – Additional Funding for the Preparation and Storage of Research Data

In the context of its Open Science Policy, the Volkswagen Foundation supports Open Data. The foundation provides its grantees with additional funding for the preparation of research data for data reuse and for making generated data available as Open Data. Apply anytime

Stories

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Story 08 October 2025

Christina Roggatz: Science that makes waves

Marine scientist Dr Christina Roggatz from the University of Bremen is leading her own team for the first time – and through her work wants to arrive at a better understanding of climate change. Here she gives us an insight into her everyday life as leader of a junior research group.

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Story 09 July 2025

How does working with AI impact on research?

As a tool of science, artificial intelligence entails numerous risks, opportunities, and ambivalences. These need to be identified and classified. However, there is no revolution in sight, according to Jens Schröter.