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Berlin Commits $250M for Star Faculty Recruitment at Research Institutions
Our German isn't what it should be and online translators weren't as helpful as we'd expected, but we wanted to make readers aware of the size of the investment Berlin is making over the next four years to recruit star faculty to its four research universities and the four local, private research institutions of Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Helmholtzgemeinschaft, Leibniz Community, and the Max Planck Society. Termed the Berlin International Forum for Excellence, the initiative is intended to strengthen the competitiveness of the region's scientific assets in promising fields of research.
To help put the size of the investment into perspective, Berlin had a population of 3.4 million in 2006.
Science covered the announcement briefly at: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/610/1
The original press release from Berlin's Science Senator and links to the memorandum of understanding among the institutions and government are available at: http://www.berlin.de/sen/bwf/presse/pressemitteilungen/anwendung/pressemitteilung.aspx?presseid=2395