Research in Germany

Germany is a top destination for PhD students, postdocs, and senior scientists. The website "Research in Germany" helps you to find your way to Germany, to seek for PhD positions, research jobs or funding opportunities. It describes the German research landscape and helps you plan your career and life in Germany. Welcome to Germany - the Land of Ideas!

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There are many good reasons for doing research in Germany. It is one of the most innovative, stable and well endowed research nations and its universities and research institutions are among the best in the world. Values like freedom and diversity as well as social and ecological responsibility are considered important to ensure knowledge gain and societal progress.

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Here you will find a selection of the latest R&D news from German universities, non-university research institutes and industrial research facilities.

Among other things, researchers in the PhenoRob Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bonn are investigating the use of drones in agriculture.

AI to Make Crop Production More Sustainable

Drones monitoring fields for weeds and robots targeting and treating crop diseases may sound like science fiction but is actually happening already, at least on some experimental farms. Researchers from the PhenoRob Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bonn are working on driving forward the smart digitalization of agriculture and have now published a list of the research questions that will need to be tackled as a priority in the future. Their paper has appeared in the “European Journal of Agronomy.”

May 6, 2024, 6:30:50 PM

Psychologist Prof. Dr. Kai Sassenberg is director of the Leibniz Institute for Psychologie (ZPID) in Trier.

Contradictory thoughts lead to more moderate attitudes

Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) and the University of Hohenheim present rhetorical tools that can help to reduce the polarization of discussions.

May 6, 2024, 4:59:19 PM

A closer look: Do good lessons promote students' attention and behaviour?

Students are better able to regulate themselves in lessons that they consider to be particularly well implemented. This is the conclusion drawn from a study by the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, published in the journal "Learning and Instruction". The link between teaching quality and self-regulation tends to be particularly true for pupils who have problems controlling their behaviour and following lessons, for example due to ADHD symptoms.

May 6, 2024, 12:02:26 PM

Thanks to the English subtitles in the video interviews, the memories of Holocaust survivor Abba Naor can be understood all over the world and used e.g. in history lessons.

Giving Holocaust Survivors a Digital Voice in the World

Researchers at TU Chemnitz and LMU Munich have developed a chatbot that can be used to learn more about the Holocaust – the interactive online testimony of Abba Naor enables users to have individual digital conversations with a Holocaust survivor in English

May 6, 2024, 9:20:44 AM

Oldest genetically examined specimen: Nepalese sandwort (Arenaria globiflora). Herbarium specimen from Kew, collected in the Himalayas in 1829.

Largest family tree of flowering plants created

A large international research team including a scientist from the University of Bayreuth has created the most comprehensive family tree of flowering plants to date. This family tree is based on 15 times more data than all previous ones and also includes extinct and endangered species.

May 3, 2024, 3:34:13 PM

Reusable vs. portion packaging: Food lost must be taken into account.

Coffee milk in the catering industry: Reusable or portion packaging

A new EU regulation* provides for a ban on small individual packaging made from disposable plastic for coffee creamers. These consist of a polystyrene base film and an aluminum lid, both of which are usually incinerated after use. An alternative in the hospitality industry, e.g. in bakeries, cafés or in the travel sector, are reusable solutions. Fraunhofer UMSICHT carried out a life cycle assessment for the company frischli Milchwerke to investigate the advantages and disadvantages of reusable solutions such as ceramic jugs or thermos flasks compared to individual packaging.

May 3, 2024, 3:14:08 PM