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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 Infrastructures Committee is also assigned to the department:
Chair: Professor Dr Wolfgang Wick
Head office supervision: Dr Jan Felix Engelhardt
The Research Infrastructures Committee is mandated to carry out the science-driven assessment of large research infrastructure projects as part of the BMBF's (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) current national prioritisation process.
Research infrastructures are 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.