The German Excellence Experience

The German Excellence Experience

The German Excellence Initiative is an initiative to strengthen cutting edge research and international competitiveness among German universities. Its means, competition in three areas: Graduate Schools, Clusters of Excellence and Institutional Strategies, specifically addressing the promotion of young researchers, research potentials at German universities and German universities as a whole. Its effects so far: Structure- and profile-building, interdisciplinary and international cooperation, growing attraction for researchers worldwide. Its current status: In the middle of the second phase. Thus, “flattening the world” from a German perspective means to be at eye level with the world’s top researchers.