Goals

• Establishment of research networks based on international standards through autonomous research concentration at a single university location
• Building up of extremely productive, tightly interconnected research establishments for long-term and interdisciplinary work on complex research topics

Requirements

• already available research potential
• the nucleus of the scientists / scholars placing the application must be sufficiently large and well qualified to be able to establish and run a research program of international standing within the scientific /scholarly profile of the participating research institution(s); a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 15 project part leaders including the speaker of the project; target quote of 30 % female scientists / scholars requested; at least 50% of the project part leaders have to be located at a single university location; commitment of all universities and research institutions participating