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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.

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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

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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.

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Story 22 May 2025

What fascinates young people about the far right?

Hostility towards democracy is on the rise in Germany. Yet politicians and academics pay little attention to the attitudes of a particularly important group: young voters. An interdisciplinary project in eastern Germany is determined to change that.

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