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Research policy

The organisation and funding of research at universities and non-university research institutions forms the framework in this field for systemic studies that address both the overall architecture of the German research system as well as individual sectors and their relationship to each other. Recurring topics deal with the development of individual science organisations, subjects or research fields as well as the institutional design and evaluation of core performance areas such as research, transfer and scientific infrastructure.

Head: Dr Rainer Lange

The Research Committee is assigned to the department:

Chair: Professor Dr Ferdi Schüth
Head office supervision: Dr Annette Barkhaus

The committee monitors the development of the organisation and funding of research and, in this context, also explores new topics for the German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat, WR). Similarly to the Tertiary Education Committee, which is set up in the same way, the Research Committee deals with permanently relevant topics and also issues policy papers at short notice to state its position on current topics. The chairperson of the Scientific Commission of the WR holds the chair by virtue of his or her office. 

The Research Department also oversees the Research Infrastructures (RI) project area. RI are defined as large and long-term facilities (such as instruments, laboratories and major scientific equipment) as well as research-based services and resources (such as data infrastructures, collections and archives) from all scientific areas. The research infrastructure committee mandated for this purpose carries out the science-driven assessment of large research infrastructure projects for the current national prioritisation process (2024, ongoing).

_ Chair: Professor Dr Wolfgang Wick
_ Head office supervision: Dr Jan Felix Engelhardt