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03-02-2023 - A Boost for Earth System Science in Germany: New Volkswagen Foundation Programme Funds Junior Professorships
Volkswagen Foundation funds the establishment of new tenure-track junior professorships at German universities while also supporting strategic measures to foster system thinking within the research community as a whole.
Acknowledging the importance of systems approaches to the number of urgent challenges currently facing the Anthropocene, this funding programme by Volkswagen Foundation is designed to help establish the guiding principles of earth system science in research and higher education teaching in Germany through the strategic support of tenure-track junior professorships. The programme responds to findings by the report ‘Earth System Science - Discovery, Diagnosis, and Solutions in Times of Global Change’ by Leopoldina which advocates the development of earth system sciences as a conceptual and structural framework to provide new impetus for basic research and question traditional thinking patterns in teaching and research.
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